♡ Diseño de Personajes ♡

In visual arts, character design is the full creation of a character’s aesthetic, personality, behavior, and overall visual appearance. Character designers create characters as a vehicle for storytelling. This means that every aspect of a character such as shapes, color palettes, and details are chosen for a specific reason. The details of a character’s personality often inform character designers on the visual attributes of a character. Principles such as color theory, shape language, and even general psychology all help an artist create an effective character design:

Video games, animated television shows, and movies are all driven by story. And stories are driven by character. Character design aims to make these characters engaging, visually stimulating, and memorable. In the world of visual arts and animation, artists have the opportunity to create characters from absolute scratch. This allows them to use every aspect of design to create a unique character. Check out the video below to better understand how character design is geared more toward storytelling rather than solely creating a great drawing, as well as the oversaturation in certain styles can can lead to many characters looking almost identical in certain ways, just like how it happens with the Calarts Style, to learn more about that topic, here's and in-depth post about it: What is "Calarts" style?.

Video games, animated television shows, and movies are all driven by story. And stories are driven by character. Character design aims to make these characters engaging, visually stimulating, and memorable. In the world of visual arts and animation, artists have the opportunity to create characters from absolute scratch. This allows them to use every aspect of design to create a unique character. Check out the video below to better understand how character design is geared more toward storytelling rather than solely creating a great drawing, as well as the oversaturation in certain styles can can lead to many characters looking almost identical in certain ways, just like how it happens with the Calarts Style, to learn more about that topic, here's and in-depth post about.

Good character design is all about clarity. This means not only having a stimulating design, but one that is distinct no matter how we see the character. Here are the three components to good character design. Silhouette To put it simply, a silhouette of a character is what is left when you remove all colors and details and fill the outline of the character shape solely with black. A sign of good character design is a character being recognizable solely from their silhouette. For example, take a look at all of the silhouettes below. How many characters can you name just from their silhouette?

Video games, animated television shows, and movies are all driven by story. And stories are driven by character. Character design aims to make these characters engaging, visually stimulating, and memorable. In the world of visual arts and animation, artists have the opportunity to create characters from absolute scratch. This allows them to use every aspect of design to create a unique character. Check out the video below to better understand how character design is geared more toward storytelling rather than solely creating a great drawing, as well as the oversaturation in certain styles can can lead to many characters looking almost identical in certain ways, just like how it happens with the Calarts Style, to learn more about that topic, here's and in-depth post about.