Character Design
Character Design
Character Design: The Design Process and Cut Out Characters
Character Design
Time to dig into character design. Below in the download section you will find a wide variety of cut out character designs that you can download, print o! and build. Or you can design and create your own characters. Be sure to take a look at the designs below as the di!erent character designs will give you ideas about how to construct them. To build these cut out characters you will want to have a few things on hand.
Creating Cut Out Characters
Here is a list of the tools and materials you will want to have on hand for creating the included Cut Out Character designs (Listed Below)
Tools and Materials
- Card Stock (To print out your designs)
- Scissors
- Packing Tape
- Sticky Tack/Poster Putty (To join pieces of character together)
Bonus Video: Cut Out Character Construction
Download Section
Here you can download a variety of Cut Out style characters. Print them out on cardstock, then follow the instructions from the video above. Below are also diagrams of how the characters are assembled.
Instructions
- Cut out all the shapes.
- Place a small amount of the Sticky Tack on the puppet pieces where indicated by a yellow X. This is what will hold the pieces together.
- Assemble all the pieces as indicated below.
There are multiple versions of the arms and legs and eyes included to allow you to change the direction the cut out puppet character is facing, and to change his expression.
The Knight
Fish One
Fish Two
Fish Three
Ghost
Character Design: Creating Clay Characters
Clay Character Design
Designing characters in clay is an exciting challenge. For characters that you want to animate, use an oil based clay. The brand Van Akin is an excellent choice to use. Both the Plastalina and Claytoon clays shown are great.
Character Design: Set and Prop Design
Sculpey III: A polymer clay that hardens when baked in an oven.
