Introduction to Unique and Appealing Character design - if Beauty & the Beast were mayflies
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This is my line up after doing the proportions study. I think in this version of the story, Maurice is Beauty's brother because her father would have died immediately after mating with her mother.
I found it helpful to prepare a template with the boxes for all the characters. Then I could do a bit at a time on my lunch breaks.
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Here are the last three. I'm pretty happy with them, but still hope to improve them.
I found it interesting how the shapes got simpler as I did the proportions task and then I didn't want to make them complicated again.
Gaston is perhaps too stereotypically villainous.
I really wanted to make Lumiere cute.
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@lucy_gow wow very thorough! This was a super fun class, you did very well I like the insect concept!
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@lucy_gow NOT silly, NOT weird. Original. I really like how you have created your own ideas and story and how you have researched everything, you have a good process.
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@PenAndrew Thank you! Actually, I just watched the Costume video, and Anna Daviscourt used insects as a reference too, so I guess it's not too weird.
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@Asyas_illos Thank you very much!
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@lucy_gow No not at all. I used bugs in my treehouse design. They often appear, like animals in children's books.
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These are my designs after adding details (and coloring them in).
I decided that Maurice travels around and sells some kind of green river stuff (algae?), from a discarded river snail shell backpack. He dotes on beauty and she decorates herself with excess stock. I'm not sure about the color of Gaston, but I wanted something different from the yellow for him.
Now it's time to leave them for a while and come back to it later. -
@lucy_gow I love this set.
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@PenAndrew Thank you.
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Nice post, thank you
