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Ideation is a creative process where you generate ideas through sessions such as Brainstorming, Sketching, Worst Possible Idea, and a wealth of other ideation techniques.
Before starting to look for ideas, you need a clearly defined problem to tackle – a focused problem statement or point of view (POV) to inspire and guide everyone. “How might we…?”
Ideation is about Finding New Angles and you need to remember that there are no bad ideas. It's not about coming up with the right ideas, it's about generating the broadest range of possibilities.
“How might you create a CHARACTER?”
1. Research Task
Spend 5 minutes having a look of what is already existing and what direction you would like to take.
Try searching :
Ugly Dolls
Monster Plush toys
Mr Men & Little Miss
Cute Kawaii Characters
Emoji Dolls
Plush Toys
Follow the idea of a book/movie series like Bad Guys, Monsters Inc, Minions etc
A robot like theme - search Robotime for ideas using the laser cutter
It could be based off your pet animal
anything really......
2. Ideation Task
On an A4/A3 page you are to sketch a range of ideas for your character design
Include design notes explaining a little about your designs and what was influencing them.
If you have a theme you might like to include that on the page - in this example the theme was robots.
If you need help getting started just draw shapes. Does it have legs, arms, antenna, headphones, holding an item? Is it influenced by your favourite things like pandas, dinosaurs, flowers, crosses etc
3. Final Idea Task
Grab a new A4/A3 piece, pick a couple of ideas that you like and develop these into your refined character idea.
In the middle draw your final idea
Include design notes about your character and what influenced your decisions.
Render your drawing. Some help on how to do this is below.
Remember this is just to take through to making into a vector graphic. You will more than likely need to adjust your design again when we develop into 3D.
