Head Rotations - Locking Down the Look of each of the 14 main characters.

With fourteen main characters, it seems each time I draw each one of them they look like a completely different person !   So having modelled 14 plasticene heads, and now creating 14 model sheets of photographs of these heads of the characters, I have begun to draw head rotations.  Hopefully this will enable me to draw each of them consistently.

Cast Rotations - Locking Down the Look of each of the 14 main characters.

With fourteen main characters, it seems each time I draw each one of them they look like a completely different person !   So having modelled 14 plasticene heads, and now creating 14 model sheets of photographs of these heads of the characters, I have begun to draw head rotations.  Hopefully this will enable me to draw each of them consistently.

As well, I have begun to draw all 14 (15) characters in the same head position on ONE PAGE, and I am calling these Cast Rotations.  As can be seen from the first one, these really help to lock down the characters in my imagination.  It is a real learning experience.

This posting begins with the technical references.

Reference Sheets

This shows the multitude of head positions, with reference numbers, that can be drawn.

This will serve as a reference for each of the Cast Rotation sheets, and as a guide for ensuring every position is attempted.

It is important that each of the 14 ( 15 ) characters is recognizable in every position.

At least drawing all these will establish a weekly drawing discipline that I can put toward animation of this monster of a project !

*** Note that  D-6-4 is in the place of D-5-4, and vice versa.  Mistakes like this are all too easy to make, and even easier to make when laying out the ellipses while drawing the animation.

25 Graphically Calculated Head Rotations - inward 25, outward 25

These 25 head positions, from D-2-4 all the way down to H-6-8, create a panorama of sorts that can be drawn "outward" as below, or instead, "inward" by reversing the positions' locations on the sheet of paper. Other than the same positions showing instead the back of the head, all the other positions, 34 of them, as well as the level positions included in these 25, are really very straightforward to draw.  These 25, or at least 16 of these 25, are the most challenging, being prone to the "wandering features" problem when animated.

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