Character design

Now for the little Flashdevil Rescue cartoon we’ve go here, the first thing I did was come up with a design. I wanted to use the flashdevils.com mascot as the main character but revamped to be as simple and practical as possible while retaining the essence of the original (meaning cool and friendly with a pointy tail).So what I did at this stage is grab a pencil, take an hour to draw as many webdevils as possible. Progressing and regressing as I went along until I reach my final design... The thing to keep in mind when designing a character for limited animation is that he’s gotta be as simple as possible (proportions should be easy to reproduce and body parts should be constructed so that pivot points fit nicely into each others therefore won’t have to be redrawn all the time - hide the neck for example). Be careful ‘cos simple characters can easily be boring. Make sure he’s got a “little something” special, use thick’n thin (thick lines vs. thin lines that is), be stylish...