Character Design

For my Animation class we have to make a stop-motion based on a story the teacher gave us.
It must have 2 characters... briefly, the story is: one is eating, the other one distracts him and gets his food, the first one gets angry and hits him and manages to get the food back.

The idea is to work on the expressions and in the animation itself, and not so much about extending the story.
We are going to have a king and a jester :)
Here are the character designs that I did, for my group to work on (we are now in the process of building the puppets, so more on that later!)


The first sketch for the king


More sketches for the king: expressions, chewing...


Adding the jester


Sizes, interaction




it's easier to draw than to make that in stopmotion!


testing colours (not the final ones)


First sculptures of the heads



changing the nose...


more on the noses, and aproaching the final designs


sitting at the table


final jester in a standing position and with the final size, so that we can measure it and build the armature
(actually we altered a little bit these drawings after)

and final king: