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Character Design - Task 1: Personification

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25.04.2024 - 16.05.2024 / Week 01 - Week 04 Ilhan Rayan bin Khairul Anwar / 0361205 Character Design / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media Task 1 - Personification LECTURES   Lecture Notes INSTRUCTIONS PRACTICAL The main project for this module is to create an original character design for the video game Genshin Impact. As someone who has played this game since it first came out, I am quite familiar with it and have already had many ideas about original characters, but I have never had the time to truly flesh them out. For Task 1, we had to start by creating and coming up with the concepts for our character. I decided to make my character be an Eremite commando and respected warrior inspired by the Fremen from the Dune series as I was obsessed with the franchise at the time. From there I started collecting reference photos for what I wanted to have in my character's design. Figure 1.1: Character References I also wanted for my character to have some connections to one of...

Character Design - Lecture Notes

25.04.2024 - DD.MM.YYYY / Week 01 - Week ?? Ilhan Rayan bin Khairul Anwar / 0361205 Character Design / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media Lecture Notes Week 1: Module Introduction No Notes Week 2:   Conceptual World Building World Building World building is a fictional place where the characters will live, work, and play.  All pieces of fictional media starts off with world building. Draws heavy inspiration from our own world. There are two main approaches to world building: Approach 1: You have a story but no world There should be one or two key functions that the character must fulfill. Work out these functions then craft the remaining elements of our wolrd by paying special attention to how the key functions affetc one another, Approach 2: You have a world but no characters Create increasingly specifric details for the world. Boundaries become territories, become countries, become governments and cultures and so on. Authors who use this technique make their wor...