Since my animated series is not very character orientated, it is mainly centring around the situations within driving conditions and rules of the road, in the beginning I was very hesitant about what characters I wanted. I knew that they would be 2D and animated both in After Effects and Photoshop, but I still didn't know where to begin.
I started however with pencil and then fine liner, until finally adding colour with pencil crayons. I wanted my characters to be very rounded and family friendly, but also colourful so that they would peak interest and not want audiences to avoid them. I decided to draw four characters for a 'family', so that I can reuse them in the different scenarios and series. That way, there will still be some familiarity within them.
I then went into Photoshop to draw them digitally, which is my favourite way to draw characters and I am much happier with them. I think that I will refine them more before I animate them as I think that they could look more inviting and could do with more colour variation, but I am happy to put this design progress into my artbook and present them at the exhibition. I have also made each component (arm, leg, eyes, etc) on a different layer for easy access to rig in After Effects.
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