Module - Script to Screen

These are the turnarounds, poses and expressions I’ve managed to create for my characters, displaying their final line art designs.

This is the design for my robot, “R.O.N.”. I managed to effectively break down this character into basic shapes, which I feel will allow other people to be able to recreate my design with minimal effort, effective for animation production teams. I’ve also drawn up poses and expressions that give a general idea of how the character carries itself, and how it chooses to express itself. I recently showed my work to none animation students. The feedback I received was that “I would say you just gotta find you own flare. Every artist has their own flavour of art. So just keep at what you are doing.And overall it is good but you have a lot to learn” and that “The best part is that the entire drawing is proportioned well and has decent cohesion with its self.Hopefully this was helpful”. Other, less mature people, told me that, and I paraphrase heavily here, “It lacks sex appeal”. Given that I don’t plan on giving R.O.N. a specific gender, I feel that based on this feedback I have conveyed this successfully through my design. I showed these designs to a couple of third-year animation students, one describing my robot design as “stylish”, while another said that my design has a lot of appeal.

My design for the factory boss was a little less complex than R.O.N.’s in terms of smaller details and overall body shape. I combined the drawing of the back with the shapes used to build the character, as it saved time and because the back of this character isn’t very detailed. This character has less expressions and poses, being a character that isn’t seen as much on screen and is less expressive by some degree compared to the robot; he has a smaller range of emotions.

I quickly edited together this sheet, in order to establish the heights of the two characters, when compared to each other. The factory boss is meant to be an imposing, threatening figure, while still having some air of respectability to him, being a well-respected industry figure.