Celine had already posted a hell of a lot of resources to you guys! So I'm just going to add the video resources and a few links to some of the images she posted and extras.
Look through your Tuesday Tips book before your start your characters!
Quick reminders (these are pulled out of last class for students).
Straight vs Curve / Complex vs Simple / Big. Medium. Small
Balance your characters with their CENTER OF GRAVITY.
Always establish your LINE OF ACTION
Try thinking of which actors and actresses could play the role of your personally designed characters.
These are explorations of Thumbelina and Mr. Toad from Victoria Ying.
Briony Tallis (Actress Saoirse Ronan) from the movie Atonement was the reference for Thumbelina. She was young, naive, perhaps too young to understand aspects of the world, carried a bit of an outrageous imagination which would potentially get her into trouble. She decided to take advantage of her small mouth, short trimmed hair that wraps around her face, and exposing her forehead.
Now the actor Willem Dafoe wasn't referred to because of a specific character he portrayed. He does often play the villain type of character, a bit of a sleazycharacter sometimes, but he does look a bit like a toad doesn't he? The expressions he pulls have such a stretched feature he would work perfectly as Mr. Toad. A bit maniacal.
The warning for this tip is to make sure you aren't making copies of the actor/actress of reference. Don't just caricaturize the reference, but design it to suit the character that you are designing. Use what is necessary to help flesh out the person you are creating.
Links to artists and other character design lectures below.
http://shoomlah.tumblr.com/
http://mayonose.tumblr.com/
http://shiyoonkim.tumblr.com/
http://shiyoonkim.tumblr.com/
http://jigokuen.tumblr.com/
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