Amazing Character Designs: 75 Brilliant Examples

Posted in Inspiration September 8th, 2009 By DKumar M. 62 Comments

Character design refers to the appearance, abilities and personality of your virtual presence in any digital presentation. Design of character has been a major component of fiction and historical works predating even the Greek tragedies or “Beowulf”.

The most superficial design to a character is their appearance. Gender, race and build are very important and can mean the difference between a character that will result in a Duke Nukem or a Lara Croft.

In this Presentation below, you’ll find an amazing collection of character designs for your design inspiration which might help you learn a thing or two.

There is one important aspect in character design is a personality shift. As a character learns more about the world they exist in, they may change sides and even become a whole new being. Games such as the Final Fantasy series are very strong adherents of personality development.

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Amazing Character Designs

Many designers base their characters’ appearance on stereotypes and focus on their personalities to lend greater depth and familiarity. Character design has always been about keeping it simple. But aside from clean lines and easily readable features, what else are you going to need to know? Of course, There are many things you always need to know as character design can be a tricky beast to tackle, because although many of the classic characters familiar to us all through cartoons, entertainment and advertising look simple, that simplicity usually belies the many hours of work that have gone into their development.

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Amazing Character Designs: 75 Brilliant Examples

Amazing Character Designs

01. Frankenstein

02. Iron Man

03. Pavlin

04. The Incredible Hulk

05. Captain Jack Sparrow

06. Art Ventura

07. Gangsta game character

08. Sgt. ROCK

09. Alien Vs Predator: Chess

10. Angelina Jolie

11. Wonded Ork

12. Spiderman 3

13. Dino Monsters

14. Don’t Feed the Plant

15. Tom Cruise

16. Cartoon Style

17. Gladiator

18. Obama

19. Pinokyo

20. Gollum

21. Skullhead Mobster

22. Young Chimp

23. Cowboy

24. Just What I Needed

25. Pixologic Superhero

26. Some Like it Cold

27. Mouse Love

28. Joker

29. Suzie

30. Benjamin Linus

31. Dark_Phoenix

32. Carlzon Portrait

33. Bernadette

34. KIKIYU

35. Gerard Butler

36. Bobby, The Little Octopus

37. Moe’s

38. Do you want fries with that?

39. Chef

40. Open Green

41. The Boxer

42. Sangyeng

43. Sergej, The False Clown

44. Old Guy Finished

45. Wolverine

46. Ingrid Bergman

47. Don Quixote de la Mancha

48. Commander

49. FATJON’s Performance

50. General Grievous

51. GOBLIN MECHANIC

52. The Last Move

53. John Locke

54. Fume

55. Grandma

56. Snake

57. Mistress Lili

58. Erasmo

59. THe Singularity

60. Al Pacino

61. Tarik the Axe Battler

62. The Great Flight

63. Captain America

64. Pelican

65. EVIL WITCH

66. Kookoo Bird

67. Young girl

68. TMNT

69. Charging Kudu

70. Bad To The Bone

71. Day of the tentacles

72. Robot – Octopus

73. Blood Elf

74. No-More-Wine!

75. White Teeth

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