Character research and anaylsis

Contemporary character research 

 

 Motomichi Nakamura

a presentational music video displayed at 2011 pictoplasma. It is a music video with the 2d animation being created after the music. Meaning that the animation was post audio and specifically created for it. I always enjoy Motomichi's work as its quirky yet very simple at the same time. The colour of the animations is simple too. Characters are kept in a black silhouette and the background is a lighter colour, often reflecting the theme and atmosphere of the animation such as the blue reflecting the calm tranquil state.

J. G. Quintel Regular Show

A recent children’s animation. The main focus of the show is the two lead characters Rigby and Mordecai. Both characters feature anthropomorphic features and live what we would consider normal human student lives. The animation is very pleasant and has many classic animation features such as hand drawn characters and scenes with new cgi technology implemented into it. I wanted to look into this animation series because it relates to my characters design and I wanted to see an already animated anthropomorphic character do what my character was meant to do.

Dreamworks – Rise of the guardians

A recent cgi animation created by dreamworks. The story retells the story’s of old holiday fables and the characters linked to them. I wanted to look at this animation because it takes a contemporary restyle on old classic fables and folk lore. Also because it redesigns characters to suit the era they are in which is what I have to do to my own character. It takes an interesting spin on the well known characters that have been in many people's lives old and young and its interesting how their personalities have been portrayed so that they seems more interesting to the younger audiences of the current era. Its a sharp dynamic change to what older people think of these characters.

The adventures of TinTin – Weta digital

After looking at characters that had been remade I decided to look at an animation that had been remade instead. Looking at the character design of the 3d cgi model of the new TinTin we can see that even though the form of animation is different the old 2d character designs and presentation is the same. The character has the same face shape, hair, clothes and characteristics. This shows that a characters design doesn’t have to be altered to be in a different form of animation and that the designs can carry through different media.

Adventure time – cartoon network - Frederator Studios

in contrast to classic disney or warner brothers animtions we have new childrens programs such as adventure time. The character designs are bizarre and totally different to old cartoons. Old carttons had chaarcters that were recognisable as a certain object or animal, however characters in this show are any shape, any size and any colour. It shows that anything you think of can be a character aslong as you give it a personality.