Cartoon Drawing for Digital Animation

This is the place to find all kinds of extra information required for ARTDM 165-166

Pages

Character Page

Character Page:

1. Once you have the final design for your self character, you need to create a character page. The character page is a way to show anyone who works on your animation what your character should look like from multiple angles.
2. Follow the directions below using individual pieces of 81/2" x 11" copy paper. 




3. Once you have drawn the body in all 5 poses, you can add facial features and clothing using pencil only.



4. Do not ink the drawings, create a spin cycle pencil animatic. 




5. If it looks ok, you may ink and color your work and create a final version of the spin. You will turn in the character page to the discussion board.




6. Here is a video on how to color in animate



7. Final color spin, upload mp4. of spin to discussion board.



7. Below are character pages from both television and feature productions.









From Stephen Silvers book The Silver way

*Note how the costumed character is in the same pose for all of the photos.
Reference lines help you to keep all parts of the body consistent.








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