The use of Silhouettes in Concept Design

Silhouette thumbnails are among the most helpful and productive methods of design when it's necessary to produce a large quantity of variations of concepts within a short period of time. It's not a method used by all concept artist and it's certainly not a necessity to design a creature or a character purely based off of a silhouette shape. That doesn't go to say that all designers don't subconsciously focus on shapes and designs that make a strong impact on the viewer. We often refer to a silhouette as a black outlined shape, much like a shadow. Whether consciously or subconsciously we are always designing through the use of interesting dominate shapes that work well together. Typically the use of this type of design is a pre-production phase of concept art that is generally only seen by the artist or art director if working on set or in-house. (Note: Designs by Ben Mauro, copyright Sony Pictures Animation) Ben's work can be found at The Art of Ben Mauro

Drawing, Sketch, Art & design AG Artworks | Ahmed Gamal's artistic portfolio FZD School of Design ANIMATION LESSONS MAIN PAGE With never before seen production work on some of your favorite KC cartoons including Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys, AAAHH!!! Real Monsters, Santo Bugito and more! Part 1: Creating Characters Out of Basic Shapes Part 2: Determining Height and Basic Details Part 3: Turnarounds Part 4: Movement Sketches Part 5: Off Model/On Model Part 6: Advanced Animation Drawing Part 7: Backgrounds Part 8: Coloring and Props Eat Your Greens So we've all decided to take a character each and have a final(ish) design. Suzanne - Hipster Tom P- The Captain Kat - Burly Man Lynsey - Drunk Girl Tom G - Boy and Mum We've all mixed and matched coming up with designs for a few of the characters so swapping sketchbooks and ideas towards the final designs is definitely helping. Here is a couple of Lynsey's lovely sketches... At first it was difficult for me to change anything cos I loved the design so much, but have managed to take the sketches I'd done earlier on and put them together. There was something in this sketch that I liked below.. Some more sketches later... Here I started to look at the way he might run. Started a rough model sheet.

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