Anna Denison is designing the last two of my characters. I asked Anna to design them because I love her style. She designs very nice, slightly old fashioned looking characters that would suit the style of my animation and set very well and she is a very talented drawer.
I didn't have as much contact with Anna while she was designing these characters as I did with Cara. This still worked well though and I am happy with what we ended up with. She first sent me a selection of ideas she had been working on (above) and then let me choose the elements that I preferred from each character. I said that I preferred the one on the far right, as her long straight hair looked really nice and I preferred her outfit. I thought that the one second to the right looked too old and too regal or too wealthy, which wouldn't suit the poor miller's daughter character, and the one second to the left also looked a little bit too old. I quite liked the one on the left too but her outfit and hairstyle looked a bit too intricate for me to make and animate. We decided that we would go for the hair and outfit of the girl on the far right, but the face of the one on the far left as this would make her look quite young and pretty. I also decided to try her with darker hair.
This is the final design for the character. She kept the colours quite neutral as this would fit with her coming from a poor background. I really like the ginger hair, I think it suits the character better than blonde hair and will fit well with my style of animation. I will need to work out how to create the chest and neck, I might have to make a chest plate in silicone and fit it on underneath the clothes. It might be easier to make the whole character in silicone though. I will need to do some testing.
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