Design Course
Character Design for Animation
Designing Process
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Example
Character Design Explorations:
Done by students of First Year Animation, Batch 2011-2012 at IDC as a part of Animation Scripting and Methods course.
Faculty Incharge: Prof. Phani Tetali
| Student Name: | Character |
| 1. Pranisha Shrestha: | Drunkard - Ganpat Patil |
| 2. Suraj Prasad: | Music Teacher - Sharada Devi |
| 3. Neha Kulkarni: | Businessman - Shivkumar Swamy |
| 4. Hemant Chappekar: | Cashier - Mr. Shubhanand R. Joshi |
| 5. Ali Hussainy: | Waiter - SADDU |
| 6. Cibi Chakrobarty: | Housewife - Vasanthi Kamambedkar |
| 7. Praveen Jude Brown: | Politician - Mr. Jagass |
| 8. Anaroopkerketta: | Tapori - Hero |
| 9. Gaurav Borse: | Don - Bagga |
| 10. Rahul Arya : | Pickpocketer - Monty |
Examples:
1. Pranisha Shrestha: Drunkard - Ganpat Patil
GANPAT is a 45 year old overweight drunkard who is always jobless and disturbing the peace. This clumsy 'Bewadaa' (hindi word for drunkard) doesn’t care for the family, living off his wife’s earning.
He is mostly seen on the streets during traffic jam creating more disturbances. He is not arrogant, but into his own world. Almost all the time he is dazed and high on alcohol.
Ganpat Patil:
2. Suraj Prasad: Music Teacher - Sharada Devi
3. Neha Kulkarni: Businessman - Shivkumar Swamy
Swamy is from Kerala is 55 yrs old and a corporate businessman in an Multi National Company having experience of many years. He is brand conscious. He is selfish, clumsy, funny guy and he extremely is short tempered.
Shivkumar Swamy:
4. Hemant Chappekar : Cashier - Mr. Shubhanand R. Joshi
Cashier by profession in a government bank. Age 42 year.
Special Skill - Counts Money very fast. Very precise about his work. Likes cleanliness a lot. Unmarried and little moody. Hobby is cooking and gardening. When things do not go well, he gets angry and shouts on his colleagues. but peaceful by nature. Always in his own world.
Mr. Shubhanand R. Joshi:
5. Ali Hussainy: Waiter - SADDU
Saddu is a 25 year old man from a small village near the Maharashtra-Karnataka Border. His distant cousin is living in the city, running an ‘Udipi’ restaurant in a run-down locality and Saddu is working as a waiter in restaurant.
Because of work he is dirty, energy efficient, but very agile. He hates lousy tippers, now that he knows what tipping means. Occasionally one may find him digging into his nose and an unaware victim may have to taste some booger. He loves flicking his mundu up in style and folding it in half!
SADDU:
6. Cibi Chakrobarty: Housewife - Vasanthi Kamambedkar
Mumbai Housewife, Age 32, Children 2. Chintu (9yrs) and mintu (7yrs).
Husband- Ganesh Kamambedkar
Vasanthi Kamambedkar:
7. Praveen Jude Brown : Politician - Mr. Jagass
Mr.Jagass is an abrupt Politician from the south who has this north Indian habit of chewing over Pan. He hates to be interrupted from anything that he does particularly his speeches.
Chubby and quick with his size but blast fully angry when interrupted . While the masses of people from the Town gather their ears to listen to what he has to stay, All he cares about is how well he chews his Pan and while the crowd glares in shock at his mouth in full swing with a 360 degree Pan rolling mouth.The World is " Meetha Pan " and he doesn't care how the crowds glare at him when he rotates his jaws chewing over it like a cow.
Mr. Jagass:
8. Anaroopkerketta: Tapori - Hero
Hero is a tapoori fro, Dharavi He is tall dark and very stylish, very much inspired from Bollywood. Peaple n friends call him hero not because of his dids but because of the way he does thing. His idle place is a pan shop where he spends major part of his day. he is basically known for his style.
Tapori - Hero:
9. Gaurav Borse: Don - Bagga
Age-45 skin color-Dark Hight- 5.5 feet habite- aangryness..always watching bollywood movie lives like filmy character.. hence he wear pant banian type-tipical south indian don...(mind it). He is femouse about his different style. different way to talk, walk and smile.
Bagga:
10. Rahul Arya: Pickpocketer - Monty
Monty is a young boy, trieds to look like college boy, Always dressed up normal T-Shirt, Jeans n Shoes.
Skills: Brilliant Pick Pocketing skills have long fingers to fetch into others pocket easily,
Smartly steals mobile phones and wallets. Do not Run after stealing but tries to behave normal
Favourite Spot: Buses
Monty:
