Bringing Adrian to 3D

Following our previous tutorial with Mr.Muzamir, he suggested us to model Adrian in 3D instead.

I've never actually tried modelling a character before (I'm okay with objects, but not an actual finished 3D character), so I went to Youtube and look for a video tutorial.

Since Adrian is of a chibi proportion, I had to be specific and look for a chibi modelling tutorial :D

And here's what I've done so far!

I'm not exactly finished with the tutorial, I've only done the topology of the head. Now I need to import an image of Adrian so I can tweak it as close as how Adrian originally looks like.

Stay tuned!

Sample Animation

I manage to complete the first animation, which is for the letter 'A'! 

The feedbacks given were;

• For the lower third, have more considerations for the colours that would attract the children to read it
• Take note of the fonts used, maybe 'Arial Black Rounded' for instance
• Think about how the lower third can help the children to read, since it is targeted to children aged between 3-4, research on how much they can read
  

Other Characters

The characters/objects that are going to be in the animations are;
A - Adrian, Apple and Ant
B - Boo, Ball and Book
C - Chair, Cat and Cow

Mr.Muzamir suggested that the rest of the characters should have the same style as Adrian. Now that we've broken down the list, we narrowed down our characters to the Ant, Cat and Cow that would require the same style as Adrian.

Here are the tryouts for the character designs :D

Behold... The apple.

 The rest of the objects would probably appear in the next post. Stay tuned!

Angie & Amirah

Simple Tryout

I did a simple animation of Adrian waving to the screen using Flash. Although I'm not sure why the quality of the image is so .. pixelated. It could be because of the setting that I used when I exported it as a .gif format.

Angie.

Character re-design

For the previous character design, we received feedbacks from Mr Muzamir:

- Character has no root.

- Needs more stylization on colors, cartoons style and strokes.

- Clean up the strokes.

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Therefore I have done a few research on cartoon characters and the style. 

What I wanted was a character that has a human feature but at the same time cartoon-ish and stylized. 

The main character, Adrian also has a cheeky and playful nature, therefore it should reflect on its face. 

Some good examples can be seen below:

Cheeky boy characters are usually with a cap and has a mischievous look, that can be achieved through the eyes and mouth.

The style that I am interested in which has a cartoon element but also has a human feature which is noticeable.

Cartoon from "Calvin and Hobbes" is also used as reference and is my favorite style among others. 

A style that Lai Yenn was interested in is known as the chibi style which plays with proportion. It has a big head and a small body and usually comes with big eyes. 

 Characters that inspired Lai Yenn are chibi characters like Ni Hao, Kai Lan and Pucca.

 Both of us re-designed Adrian, of different styles, but the same colour scheme that we've come up with earlier. 

Left: Designed by Amirah, Right: Designed by Lai Yenn.

Amirah & Angie. 

Introduction on Adrian

"Nice to meet you! My name is Adrian!"

"Do you know what your alphabet stands for?"

"Let's find out together!" 

-Amirah & Angie