Brian's lesson- different character styles

Greg the Lion- The many faces by ~GregTheLion on deviantART

During our new animation project, we were assigned to experiment with character design, so I took one of my ideas and generated it into six different styles with official copyright.

Illustrators of said styles taken (top left-bottom right)

Yuji Uekawa (Sonic The hedgehog)

I remeber it being Yuji's style of cartooning that got me into drawing in the first place. It looked fun and exciting. Of course I'm very fond of this style, and always will be. I made a note on the comparison to the head, hands and torso.

Takaya Imamura (Star Fox)

keeping with the human-animal anatomy, or Furry (Anthro) style, I looked up this design because the comparison looks more realistic, and the style was slightly more lifelike. I'm happy with this designs clothing, however the facial design is difficult to pick up and so could be a but tedious when animating.

Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse)

This design's alright, but it's not what I would want to stick with. othing really seems to fit with it and it's just not the style i'm looking for. It doesn't look alive, it doesn't look like it's gonna jump out of the screen and do a hand stand.

Masaki Kajishima (Tenchi muyo!)

Ever since it first aired in the UK, I fell in love with this show. It was funny, exciting, and at times pretty cheeky. The Style itself is also pretty fun to experiment with. This has to be the second favourite style I used. The only thing im not happy with are the arms and legs. The feet are a good design though.

Preston Blair (Disney, MGM, Hanna-Barbera)

This style of animation was aided by an animation book, written by Preston. In a sense, his tyle is somewhat Disney, with a hint of Tex Avery. Unfortunatly, it doesnt exactly fit with the design I needed, It just seems too child friendly. the head is especialy the let down.

Matt Groening (The Simpsons)

Matt's style of design is all about circles. Almost every character created in The Simpsons and Futurama has started as a circle, or a similarly round object, and always have corcular eyes, and round teeth. Much like Preston Blair's style, this is just too child-freindly for the design im looking for.

With all these pros and cons in mind, I am now ready to mix and match different parts of these styles and come up with a final charcter style I am happy with.