Inspiration around characters and ideas

Currently we have been developing an image for our characters based on their appearance, the decision is to make the characters look cubed and basic. The idea is to re-design our chosen politicians, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin as cubed characters similar to the ones found in the video game called Minecraft. This style of design has been chosen because of its simplicity, the forms are very straight forward to design and there will not been any complication making the characters when in Maya because they are made up of basic Polygons such as ; Cubes, Spheres, rectangles. This factor of designs beens that the characters will have only one form of movement similar to the function of lego characters e.g. the legs or arms not having any knee of elbow joints meaning they can only move back and forth.

Vladimir Putin and Barak Obama

I think this idea will not present any problems in the up and coming weeks, when it comes to developing character it  should be straight forward. There should be no problems if the character design and scenery is kept simple are easy to move, I should avoid putting too much detail into based on the face, skin or any where else on my characters body because this form of work is said to be really time consuming  and a high level of professionalism will be need to work up a really clean design of this quality. So we are just keeping the design simple based on our skill level with Maya, I am wanting to learn to use Maya Professional but I realise that my skills are at a very basic level and I need more practice with this package.

If the character is too complicated to work with due to movement or design, I will have to re-think the shapes the shapes used and probably look to work with more pivotable shapes that work with movement e.g. spheres. I am not entirely sure on what will happen if the design goes wrong for the future and will gradually work to make sure these key points I have personally highlighted will be noted and reflected on when making my animation.

Rough idea for characters

Lego

 

Minecraft