Character Designs- Continued

This is one of the character designs after more development. I took a good look at the British Gas adverts and realised how the characters are in an obvious caricature style therefore the heads are purposely made disproportionate to the rest of the body. I took that into account and made sure that Katies head was bigger compared to her body.

To make sure that the body was a bit more life like than before; but not too realistic, I used images of different textures from the Internet. From these images I cut out various shapes depending on what type of clothing I wanted Katie to wear. I tried to make sure that the legs were quite thin as well as the inclusion of pointy feet. I think this technique worked well as the textures complimented that shapes they were cut into and the character designs were beginning to look more impressive. for the hands and skin around the neck area I used a cube with a specific colour for the skin and cut out a hand shape using the "Lasso Tool".

Continuing with the same technique I made another "Katie" this time with a different costume, With this costume I played around with the affects trying to see how I could make the body stand out along with the face.

 I made seperate layers for things such as buttons, pockets and a scarf and then applied Layer Effects to all of these. I did this by double clicking on a layer and a dialogue box labelled "Layer Style" This allowed me to apply different effects such as: Bevel and Emboss, Contour, Drop Shadow and Satin.

These effects made parts of the clothing such as the Coat to look rippled and creased and the Pocket and buttons looked raised. I even applied the Bevel and Emboss effect to the hands of Katies character. I thought that it looked good as it gave the hands a "3D feel" whilst also maintaining a cartoon style. Overall I was very pleased with these designs. I can continue to make these using various effects and a variety of different clothing/costumes.