3D Foundations: Character design concepts

The Robber Kitten 1935

http://animationresources.org/inbetweens-the-robber-kitten-disney1935/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xWATTczMsQ
http://www.disneyshorts.org/shorts.aspx?shortID=222
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=1557

three little wolves 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTdgNqxpU8I


I have chosen The Robber Kitten (1935) as my chosen historical film to study and base my character off. I chose this lil dude because of his unique, cheeky character and attire. I liked his Puss in Boots look, and how he is cute and a brat. I think this character would be a fun challenge.





I was originally going to study the Three Little Wolves (1936) as I really liked their character designs and attitudes. But it had next to no information about it, so I moved on to the Robber Kitten. Which I now like a lot more. Even though I've chosen my film, I'm still using their designs as references for my character design.





Another person I'm looking at for reference for my character is Chris Sanders, who works on designing a lot of Disney character. His work heavily influenced Lilo and Stitch.



Stitch is a great reference, I think. Especially since I need to think about how it will look in 3D. Stitch has a jellybean body, a circular head, thick short legs... all the basic construction of The Robber Kitten and the Three Little Wolves. So, I will be relying heavily on this basic construction.



I'm still struggling with how round or what animal I should use. My teacher mentioned had I should stick with my cat character, as a elongated snout for a dog character would be too difficult. Also I have grown to like the simple cat look.

Now that I think I'm sticking with a cat character, I'm rethinking the roundness of his head. I'm thinking that I should have it kind of flat, like Stitch's. But with that, I struggled a bit with the side view. A classmate suggested that I should look at Tigress' design off Kungfu Panda. 

Her head is round, yet flat. She has long eyes like my character so far, so this alone will help with my side view struggles.