Topic: Do You Think the Most Important Part of a Character Design is the Head?

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Posted at July 3, 2006, 7:51 am:

I've noted these preliminary sketches of silhouettes of body designs and then the head seems to be neglected.

Sometimes the character design falls flat because the head was not concepted, because usually the character will be devoid of 'character'.

Do you find you'll concept the head just as much as you'll concept the body?

Doesn't your eye go to the head first anyway?

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Replies:

It depends on the situation.

I'm guilty of doing the opposite, only doing heads, heads and heads.

I would say.

nope, i think the most important is the character design.

Its important, but you can't define it as the most important.

Recursive_End and Magic Man said it best, I think.

To me, the most important things are the face, hands, and the posture.

It depends how abstract your designs are, silouhettes (sp?) are DAMN i...

Like almost every other question you ask, the answer is "it depen...

When you look at a character design, you're automatically drawn to the...

its all important.

I think that when we talk about concepts, the most important part is t...

Aye, it depends.


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