What does a Character Designer do?

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What Does a Character Designer Do?
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Index

• What Does a Character Designer Do?
• Job Responsibilities Of A Character Designer
• Why Become A Character Designer

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Character Design
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What Does a Character Designer Do?

• Character Designer creates the look and feels of
  animated characters.
• Character Designers are only found in some
  instances where the character are complex and
  important enough to merit specific attention.
• In this role, you work mainly in animation, video
  games and illustration.

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What Does a Character Designer Do?

• Character Designer creates the look and feels of
  animated characters.
• Character Designers are only found in some
  instances where the character are complex and
  important enough to merit specific attention.
• In this role, you work mainly in animation, video
  games and illustration.

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• You are an Illustrator, Animator, Concept Artist
  and Game Artist meaning that you design your
  characters, bring them to life, then flesh out
  their look.
• In the beginning stage, the animator works on
  imagines and sketch out the first draft of
  characters.

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• If the animator is working on a virtual
  character, they use computer graphics and 3D
  modeling to design and animate by adding in
  color, molding its movements and adding its
  sounds.
• Animator continues refining the characters
  throughout the game, making sure the way it roars
  and flips it mane is perfect.

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• To work in this field as an animator, you must be
  very creative and imaginative and have the
  excellent knowledge to make your creation come to
  life.
• Animator responsible for a character from
  conception to death, so animator must be well
  versed in all technical proficiencies that are
  generally split between several fields.

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Job Responsibilities
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Job Responsibilities Of A Character Designer

• Job Responsibilities of a character designer
  include
• Character designers are responsible for
  conceptualizing and creating characters for
  various platforms, including tv, games and new
  media.
• 1. Reading the provided script to build character
  models or image that fit into the story.

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2. Gathering inspiration and research when
designing a new character to ensure correct
anatomy and costuming that fits the setting. 3.
Meetings with clients, game designers or
directors to further develop and change the
character design.
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4. Creating different versions of the same
character so that team can choose the most
representative features. 5. Most importantly
they must meet deadlines and see to it that they
deliver their work on assigned time.
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Why Become A Character Designer
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• One of the important reasons to become a graphic
  designer is to have a passion for making unique
  characters.
• In this highly-specialised field, character
  designers combine the tasks of a game designer,
  illustrator and animator into one role in the
  search for that special character that will
  define the video game or animation
  post-production.
• Character designers are also paid well.

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