Character Design

Original Ideas of Archie the Archaeologist

Character Design 

The image above were the original designs of my character, Archie the Archaeologist. The art style of the game is cartoon like, so I had to make the character look like a cartoon, I did this by emphasising the different features of the character. The first design was of an old looking archaeologist, I made the character quite short because most old people are hunched over and quite short, I also added wrinkles on to the character’s face this emphasised that the character was quite old. The second design was of a middle aged archaeologist, I made the character tall with quite a large and strong build, this was to give off an assertive personality. The third design was of a quite young archaeologist, I made the character average height, with a thin body, this was was to emphasise the fact that the archaeologist was only young and still growing up. With all the characters I used a stereotypical archaeologist outfit, this included a light brown shirt, dark brown shorts, white socks, black boots and an explorer hat, which was also brown.

Archie the Archaeologist’s face

The image on the left was the face of the actual design of the archaeologist, I wanted to make the character look middle aged and quite smug, the way I did this was I made the character have a smug looking grin and making the character’s hair a sort of dark grey.

Character Movement

The image on the right is how my character is designed to walk and the final bit is the final colour of the character.