Character Design

Today i designed a brief series of characters today using photoshop, i have taken in mind the design of the same trying to make it both simple, cartoon like and bold. To help with the design i looked at some imagery from the web to see how others have designed clouds and other aspects i like that might include.

I firstly looked at cartoon clouds on the web, i already had a pre-visualized idea of what the character might look like shown here:


Using this i then narrowed my search to similar designs in which i found a couple of images that i thought were interesting. These are the images:

http://www.drawingcoach.com/image-files/cartoon_clouds_1.gif

http://www.drawingstep.com/image-files/white-cartoon-cloud.gif

These twp images are thecartoony version of clouds that are simple but yet something that i need to be similar designing to to create my cloud character. While looking at clouds i remembered about the 'Flying Nimbus' in the popular series Dragonball z. This was a animated character of a cloud that would fly characters from location to location but had a slight personality but had no face or features. The cloud was able to move and fly to depict its emotion and was fairly popular on screen during its short time in the series.

Image:


I also spent some time looking at real clouds dispite knowing i wanting a cartoon style, i though if i were to look at real clouds there might be a shape or something i might like about an image or two. here are a couple of images i looked at while designing my character:



http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/clouds_and_bird.jpg


http://www.carlwozniak.com/clouds/Graphics/New%20Pix/clouds13.jpg

Using these images as reference it helped influence a couple of ideas of characters, this lead to a few designs that i thought might be right for the part of the game. The designs i made: