2D Traditional Animation. Character Design 2: Primer. What makes good character designs for animation? This is a difficult subject. The real answer is a talented character designer who understands character. No amount of abstract ingredients can make an artist into a designer if he doesn't have the gift. You can learn technical skills in art, but some talents are so rare that you just either have them or you don't. Not every great animator is a good designer. In fact, hardly any are. Many cartoon characters just evolved into designs from generic beginnings.
If, however you do have the rare gift of design, and you are an animator who understands character then you might be aided in having a discussion started. Design itself - in any medium requires purely an aesthetic sense of balance of pleasing shapes or forms. An architect doesn't set out to make a building that has a distinct funny personality. 1 Functional Form - construction:An animated cartoon character benefits the animator greatly if it has an understandable, mostly logical form.
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