Visual Language- Study Task 2 - Captain Character- Character Design & Professional Practice -Character Traits

Character Design & Professional Practice- Character Traits

How to Train Your Dragon had a lot of character design in the Dreamworks book i have been reading. They manage to show so much character within each person that other animators struggle to show.

Here you can see Astrid who was supposed to be an angry teenager who was a girl trying to prove herself to be as good as the male characters around her. You can tell this by her sarcastic slightly angry expression and strong stance.

Hiccup was the main character in this movie so his design really needed to show what his personality was. In these designs bellow, you can see from his expressions, that he is awkward. This can be seen by his quirky wobbly stance and face showing uncertainty.  This is why he was such a success, as he was the underdog that normally wouldn't play the lead in a movie so this was a good design for the character designers to come up with.

This is clearly a bad character as he is made with sharp lines, spikes and a white grey colour scheme so he is not warm. This is fairly simple to do as he is a cold colour who looks like a very obvious evil character so Dreamworks clearly wanted it to come across as him being bad from the first glance.