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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Introduction

Character Design for
Animation Characters are the most important part of a story. They are the key elements in a film and the audience identifies
themselves with them. Hence we need to keep in mind a few important things before designing a character.
Designing Process
by • The most important thing about “Characters” is knowing the WHO’s and WHAT’s of your character.
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia • All the information about your character will be derived out of your story.
IDC, IIT Bombay
The Character Designing process can be divided as follows:

1. Attributes and Proportions

2. Expressions
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1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Attributes and Proportions

Character Design for
Animation Apart from the story aspect of a character, the design aspect plays a very important role. The shapes & volumes
used while designing the character and the poses & expressions of a character; all this information helps us to
Designing Process create the right attitude for the character design.
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia An attribute of a character refers to its characteristics. One has to keep in mind how the character is going to
IDC, IIT Bombay perform in the film and its behavior in the story. Drawing a character, keeping the above things in mind; will add
more life to the character.

Some of the basic things that one needs to know about the characters are:
• Age,
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mation/attributes-and-proportions
Once we know about this information we can make the audience connect with our character.
Few reminders:
1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions • While drawing a character one of the most important aspects is its proportions.
What is the proportion of your character in comparison to the world that he belongs to?
3. Expressions • The silhouette of a character and the shapes used to draw the character defines the volumes of our character.
4. Model Sheet • Also the volumetric study of a character is very important from the animation point of view as well as it
5. Poses and Gestures becomes a reference for the animator to keep the consistency in his drawings while designing the character
6. Colors several times.
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/attributes-and-proportions

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/attributes-and-proportions

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/attributes-and-proportions

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Kindly refer to the video for a detailed process:

Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source: Attributes and Proportions Part 1 Attributes and Proportions Part 2

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mation/attributes-and-proportions

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example Attributes and Proportions Part 3
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Expressions

Character Design for
Animation A character’s face is an index of his personality. Facial expressions are the key to express emotions apart from
body language. Technically, the face has many numbers of muscles and combinations of these muscles make an
Designing Process expression.
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia When a character is happy, sad, cheerful, angry, scared or shocked the face literally morphs and creates those
IDC, IIT Bombay emotions using the combination of eyes and mouth shapes. In our face the three major elements that helps ex-
press an emotion effectively are eyes, eyebrows and mouth.

• While trying to draw a characters face we can accentuate the emotions by exaggerating the proportions and
going to the extremes of one’s face.
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mation/expressions

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Kindly refer to the video for a detailed process:

Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/expressions

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors Expressions
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Model Sheet

Character Design for
Animation A ‘Model Sheet’ is a reference sheet of a character in which we draw a front profile, side profile, 3/4th view and
a back view of the character. This chart helps us know the proportions, gestures, appearances and the way our
Designing Process character looks from various angles.
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia • It’s a character designer’s job to make a ‘cleaned up’ model sheet before it is given to the animator.
IDC, IIT Bombay
• This character chart will help the animator draw his character several times keeping the size, form and the
volume of the character consistent throughout the film.

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mation/model-sheet

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/model-sheet

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions Kindly refer to the video for a detailed process:
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details

Model Sheet
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Design Course Poses and Gestures

Character Design for
Animation To draw a character and make it act is the most important and exciting part of the animation process. Before
animating a character, one should know about the character’s behavior which generally comprises of:
Designing Process
by • How the character responds to various situations,
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia • How he poses himself and
IDC, IIT Bombay • What are the gestures he makes to convey an action.

While drawing the poses and gestures keeping the following things in mind will help:
1. The line of action that follows his body.
2. The arcs while he is doing an action.
Source: 3. The balance and weight shift that happens while he pauses or does a small change in his gestures.
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mation/poses-and-gestures It’s advisable always to act out the performance as it becomes a good reference for the posing.
• Knowing every detail of your character will help you spot small nuances while animating the character.
• A small change in gesture will speak a lot about the character’s actions.
1. Introduction • Keeping an action pose in mind while drawing will help in knowing the body dynamics and then it becomes
2. Attributes and Proportions easier for the animator to know how the body of the characters behaves.
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/poses-and-gestures

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/poses-and-gestures

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Kindly refer to the video for a detailed process:

Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/poses-and-gestures

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors Poses and Gestures
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Colors

Character Design for
Animation Colors add life to a visual and deciding upon a color scheme for a character will indirectly decide the mood of the
character and the scene.
Designing Process
by So when we start with coloring a character we need to keep the following things in mind:
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay • Our character’s skin tone:
Which will be derived from the place he belongs to.

• Color for clothes and accessories:

Situation dependent and also use reference for choosing the colors.
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mation/colors Once the colors for each element of the character are finalized a color swatch is made which is a palette of
colors of the character.

1. Introduction • Time of the Day:

2. Attributes and Proportions The color palette will vary according to the time of the day or lighting of the scene. Hence, separate color
swatches should be made according to the time and space of the shot.
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet Once this is done a color reference model is made which is basically a character completely filled with flat color
5. Poses and Gestures tones. Also, there are three aspects in tonal values:
6. Colors
• Midtones,
7. Exercies • Shadows and
8. Example • Highlights.
9. Video
So while deciding the color reference model, the colors for the highlights (lighter areas) and shadows (darker ar-
10. Contact Details
eas) are defined. Usually for cartoon animation two shades (Midtones and Highlights) are easier to work on while
coloring.
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Design Course The more detailed the coloring is, the tedious the process of ink and paint becomes. Once the color model is
Character Design for ready it is sent to the ink and paint department for coloring the cleaned up shots.

Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/colors

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors Kindly refer to the video for a detailed process:
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details

Colors
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Design Course Exercies

Character Design for
Animation Design the following characters on the basis of the given situations.
(One can illustrate the scene as well).
Designing Process
by Reference information is provided for each character’s trait.
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay Characters:
1. A BOSS
2. SECURITY GUARD
3. PET DOG
4. TEENAGER
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mation/exercies 1. Boss:
An office scene. A meeting is going on and the Boss is shouting loud at the people around.

1. Introduction Boss Characteristics: Angry, Arrogant, Scary, Dominant, Irritated, Clumsy.

2. Attributes and Proportions References:
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/exercies

Collin Farrell- Movie –“Horrible Bosses”.

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details

J. K. Simmons - Movie: “Spiderman”.

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Design Course 2. Security Guard:

Character Design for A scene outside a bank. A security guard sleeping on duty as the robbers sneak out looting the bank.

Animation Security Guard Characteristics: Lazy, Drunk, Sleepy, Clumsy, Dumb, Uncertain.
For Attitude Reference:
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/exercies

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean).
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details

Saurabh Shukla (Oh My God).

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Design Course 3. Pet Dog:

Character Design for A dog peeing on the roadside near a pole.
A dog barking hard on another dog.
Animation
Designing Process Dog Characteristics: Cute, smart, proud and lovable.
by Reference:
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/exercies

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions Milo from movie “The Mask”.
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details

Marley from “Marley and Me”.

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Design Course 4. Teenager:

Character Design for A teenager standing near a bus stand listening to an I pod and blowing a chewing gum bubble.

Animation Teenager Characteristics: Sporty, street smart, cool, Tec savvy and energetic.
Designing Process Reference:
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/exercies

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
Eminem from Movie ”8 Miles”.
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Example

Character Design for
Animation Character Design Explorations:
Done by students of First Year Animation, Batch 2011-2012 at IDC as a part of Animation Scripting and Methods
Designing Process course.
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia Faculty Incharge: Prof. Phani Tetali
IDC, IIT Bombay
Student Name : Character
1. Pranisha Shrestha : Drunkard - Ganpat Patil
2. Suraj Prasad : Music Teacher - Sharada Devi
3. Neha Kulkarni : Businessman - Shivkumar Swamy
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mation/example 6. Cibi Chakrobarty : Housewife - Vasanthi Kamambedkar
7. Praveen Jude Brown : Politician - Mr. Jagass
8. Anaroopkerketta : Tapori - Hero
1. Introduction 9. Gaurav Borse : Don - Bagga
2. Attributes and Proportions 10. Rahul Arya : Pickpocketer - Monty
3. Expressions Examples:
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures 1. Pranisha Shrestha: Drunkard - Ganpat Patil
6. Colors GANPAT is a 45 year old overweight drunkard who is always jobless and disturbing the peace. This clumsy ‘Be-
wadaa’ (hindi word for drunkard) doesn’t care for the family, living off his wife’s earning.
7. Exercies
8. Example He is mostly seen on the streets during traffic jam creating more disturbances. He is not arrogant, but into his
9. Video own world. Almost all the time he is dazed and high on alcohol.
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Ganpat Patil:

Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course 2. Suraj Prasad: Music Teacher - Sharada Devi

Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course 3. Neha Kulkarni: Businessman - Shivkumar Swamy

Character Design for Swamy is from Kerala is 55 yrs old and a corporate businessman in an Multi National Company having experience
of many years. He is brand conscious. He is selfish, clumsy, funny guy and he extremely is short tempered.
Animation
Designing Process Shivkumar Swamy:
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course 4. Hemant Chappekar : Cashier - Mr. Shubhanand R. Joshi

Character Design for Cashier by profession in a government bank. Age 42 year.
Special Skill - Counts Money very fast. Very precise about his work. Likes cleanliness a lot. Unmarried and little
Animation moody. Hobby is cooking and gardening. When things do not go well, he gets angry and shouts on his colleagues.
Designing Process but peaceful by nature. Always in his own world.
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia Mr. Shubhanand R. Joshi:
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course 5. Ali Hussainy: Waiter - SADDU

Character Design for Saddu is a 25 year old man from a small village near the Maharashtra-Karnataka Border. His distant cousin is liv-
ing in the city, running an ‘Udipi’ restaurant in a run-down locality and Saddu is working as a waiter in restaurant.
Animation
Designing Process Because of work he is dirty, energy efficient, but very agile. He hates lousy tippers, now that he knows what tip-
by ping means. Occasionally one may find him digging into his nose and an unaware victim may have to taste some
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia booger. He loves flicking his mundu up in style and folding it in half!
IDC, IIT Bombay
SADDU:

Source:
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mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course 6. Cibi Chakrobarty: Housewife - Vasanthi Kamambedkar

Character Design for Mumbai Housewife, Age 32, Children 2. Chintu (9yrs) and mintu (7yrs).
Husband- Ganesh Kamambedkar
Animation
Designing Process Vasanthi Kamambedkar:
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course 7. Praveen Jude Brown : Politician - Mr. Jagass

Character Design for Mr.Jagass is an abrupt Politician from the south who has this north Indian habit of chewing over Pan. He hates to
be interrupted from anything that he does particularly his speeches.
Animation
Designing Process Chubby and quick with his size but blast fully angry when interrupted . While the masses of people from the
by Town gather their ears to listen to what he has to stay, All he cares about is how well he chews his Pan and while
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia the crowd glares in shock at his mouth in full swing with a 360 degree Pan rolling mouth.The World is “ Meetha
Pan “ and he doesn’t care how the crowds glare at him when he rotates his jaws chewing over it like a cow.
IDC, IIT Bombay
Mr. Jagass:

Source:
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mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course 8. Anaroopkerketta: Tapori - Hero

Character Design for Hero is a tapoori fro, Dharavi He is tall dark and very stylish, very much inspired from Bollywood. Peaple n friends
call him hero not because of his dids but because of the way he does thing. His idle place is a pan shop where he
Animation spends major part of his day. he is basically known for his style.
Designing Process
by Tapori - Hero:
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
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mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course 9. Gaurav Borse: Don - Bagga

Character Design for Age-45 skin color-Dark Hight- 5.5 feet habite- aangryness..always watching bollywood movie lives like filmy char-
acter.. hence he wear pant banian type-tipical south indian don...(mind it). He is femouse about his different style.
Animation different way to talk, walk and smile.
Designing Process
by Bagga:
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course 10. Rahul Arya: Pickpocketer - Monty

Character Design for Monty is a young boy, trieds to look like college boy, Always dressed up normal T-Shirt, Jeans n Shoes.
Skills: Brilliant Pick Pocketing skills have long fingers to fetch into others pocket easily,
Animation Smartly steals mobile phones and wallets. Do not Run after stealing but tries to behave normal
Designing Process Favourite Spot: Buses
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia Monty:
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/example

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Video:

Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/video
Attributes and Proportions Part 1 Attributes and Proportions Part 2

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video Attributes and Proportions Part 3 Expressions
10. Contact Details
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Design Course
Character Design for
Animation
Designing Process
by
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia
IDC, IIT Bombay

Model Sheet Poses and Gestures

Source:
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani-
mation/video

1. Introduction
2. Attributes and Proportions
3. Expressions
4. Model Sheet
5. Poses and Gestures
6. Colors
7. Exercies Colors
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details
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Design Course Contact Details:

Character Design for
Animation This documentation for the course was done by
Vajra Pancharia at IDC, IIT Bombay.
Designing Process
by You can get in touch with Vajra Pancharia at
Prof. Phani Tetali and Vajra Pancharia Email: pvajra[at]gmail.com
IDC, IIT Bombay
You could write to the following address regarding
suggestions and clarifications:

Helpdesk Details:
Source: Co-ordinator
http://www.dsource.in/course/character-design-ani- Project e-kalpa
mation/contact-details Industrial Design Centre
IIT Bombay
Powai
1. Introduction Mumbai 400076
2. Attributes and Proportions India
3. Expressions Phone: 091-22-25767820/ 7801/ 7802
4. Model Sheet Fax: 091-22-25767803
5. Poses and Gestures Email: dsource.in[at]gmail.com
6. Colors
7. Exercies
8. Example
9. Video
10. Contact Details