Character Design Study

In this Project I focused on different kinds of character design styles. The goal was to create a unique video gamer character in different art styles.

I started off with a few sketches on paper and turned that into a digital drawing in Photoshop.

I tried to make the character as cute as possible, by making large, dark eyes and features such as hanging ears. For reference and inspiration I used different cat pictures and various images of armor sets, as well as images from existing character designs.

After establishing the key features of the character, I want on to experiment with a pixel art style. The challenging part was to preserve the most important details using only a limited amount of pixels. Here, the character is still recognizable, even with only 16 by 16 Pixels.

64 x 64 Pixels 16x 16 Pixels

For the final version of the character I used the 3D software Blender. I wanted to achieve a low-poly cartoon style. Like with pixel art, the important thing here was to include only the most important details, while keeping it as simple as possible with very little polygons.

A viewport screenshot to showcase the topology

Viewport screenshot. I used a rig from Mixamo to position the character for the final render.

The final render.