Assignment - Assemble Your Cast of Characters
Assignment - Assemble Your Cast of Characters
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Character Design Monster Lab

Assignment - Assemble Your Cast of Characters

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Assignment - Assemble Your Cast of Characters

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Using some of the characters you've created throughout the Monster Lab process, assemble a cohesive character lineup! 

Try to choose characters with forms that complement each other and look good together. You might encounter opportunities to add characters from other parts of the ideation process as you see fit, so keep your mind open as you work through this assignment. Submissions are due by June 21st for a chance to be featured in an upcoming video critique.


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Richard Featherstone
Thieum
6mo
Great job!
James Connolly
Trying to team these up got awkward! Sorry about that
James Connolly
well, this got awkward
Blaise Chambers
After not touching this project for some time, I gotta say it was so much fun coming back to it with fresh ideas. For my next project, I think I’ll give myself tighter constraints on exactly what type of character I’m making.
Andre Camargo
Hi Blaise, maybe you want to post your line-up in the assingment section. Then your post will be marked as "Requested help/feedback". :) The fishermann folly seems like a fun and crazy troop. I liked your ideas. Andre
Will David
3yr
Hey everyone, here's my line-up. In the critique video of the last assignment, my page of character drawings, which incorporated my thematic ideas, was missed. I've decided to use those characters as they were for this assignment. I will apply Scott's feedback from this assignment and the last critique, with some of my own changes, in the next digital/shapecarving stage. By the way Scott, your livestream the other day was great. I'm glad I watched it live though, as the recording is blocked in my region due to copyright of the music content.
Andre Camargo
Hi @Scott Flanders and fellow students, here is my current line-up. I updated the characters from the development stage with the exploration for the focal points. After the last feedback video (focal points), I did some more sketches and finally I merged two weaker characters (the leader and the tinker) into a new one. I had way more fun with the farmer and reduced the samurai theme to a point where I think it is acceptable.. Even though I preferred 5 characters in the line-up in terms of odd numbers, I had to admit that the material was not good enough. I scanned them and did some digital corrections. The blocked color in the background helps me to identify the shapes a bit better with the sketches. For the upcoming shapecarving I would like to change some details along the way. Some proportions, some gesture... this is really hard for me with the pencil. I am so used to flipping canvas and doing cmd-Z, especially when it comes to making final decisions. The Pumpkin Brigade is my thrown together mercenary troop, which gets the job done for the right amount of coin. Best wishes from my desk to all, Andre
James Connolly
Love the smoke and the vine wrap around hank’s weapon, each character feel unique in personality as well
Xun
3yr
they are great!
Andre Camargo
Hopefully the resolution of the image divided in two parts is better. Proko seems to reduce the quality drastically for very wide images...
Andre Camargo
Yes!!! I will do some iterations on my characters based on your latest critique video. This is gonna be great :)
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