Character Design

Payton Grady Professor Heagney GAM-3432-01 29 August 2021    Blog 1: Gesture and the Uncanny Valley Gesture      This week in class, we discussed drawing gesture, which is "the movement that connects the contours, the forms, and the tones" (Proko). In this assignment we sketched basic gestures taken off of the QuickPoses website in the form of a line and scribbled mass afterward to show what it would look like on a different type of character. My sketches are not perfect, but I feel like they show the concept well enough. Out of these three poses, the first one was meant to look almost seductive, the second was meant to be a character holding a gun, and the third was somebody holding a sword. By drawing their gesture and scribble in mass, the poses were the same but the appearance was different and there was less context to the pose, almost changing its meaning. I learned that so many complex character poses are all built on a simple flowing line, and that the ...