Design Workshops

Character Design Workshop

B.Voc (Dept. of Animation and Graphic Design), Sualkuchi Budram Madhab Satradhikar College, Kamrup Distt, Assam.

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Class: 4th Semester, B.Voc. |  Participants: 14 Students |  Time Durations: 2 Days​

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Project Brief

The course aimed to teach the process of character design and explore various possibilities of materials handlings which will help participants with their clay animation projects.

 

This module helps to study a person in person, his/her behaviours, lifestyles, physical and emotional attributes, and these parameters help to create an exaggeration of that person. Also, practices of character design enhance to create fun & creativities, develops observation skills etc.

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The Process

Asked participants to find any people from the college campus or outside of the campus and find some unique 

characteristics of their findings (people) and create a character with exaggeration.

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Participants started to observe & study people with different characters and sketched them out. After that, participants explored the exaggeration of their models and detailed them out with sketches. Once characters were finalized from sketches, participants started to design it by different materials like plastic clay, cloths, wools, papers etc. 

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They first learned how to make armatures from aluminium wires and how to use plastic clay on it. They also learned how to handle tools and techniques of different materials which helped them to design characters for their various clay animation courses.