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Creative Character Design
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Creative Character Design

by Bryan Tillman
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
257 pages
4h 13m
English
Focal Press
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Chapter 3The Most Important Part of Character Design

 

 

Did you do your homework assignment? Great! Now it′s time for a pop quiz! (Bet you didn′t see that coming.)

Define the following archetypes:

The hero

The shadow

The mentor

The fool

The trickster

The anima/animus

Hopefully, you were able to define these archetypes without referring back to Chapter 2. Now that you have committed that information to memory, let′s move on.

It is now time to talk about the most important part of character design: story and storytelling. You probably are tired of hearing that, but it is very important and essential to good character design! Everything can and will always point back to the story. No matter what character you look at, you must try to figure out ...

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