Tracing the hand drawn character

Pre-production phase

The designer traced the hand drawn characters in Adobe Illustrator before the production phase. Each parts of the body drawn in different layers so that it will easy to be work on each layers later in adobe After Effects and to create bones for hands and legs for the movement. The resolution for the animation is 1280 x 720. 

Tracing and addition of colours: 

Each of the parts of body are traced in different layers. Pen tool is used for tracing. In some of the parts like hand is drawn once and duplicated and reflected to get the balanced same-sized hand.

Figure 1: Tracing the man

Figure 2: Tracing the blind man face

Figure 3: Tracing the body (torso) in separate layers

Figure 4: Blind man and different layers in AI

Figure 5: Tracing of the rat demon

Designed characters:

Blind man:

Figure 6: Front position

Figure 7: Perspective position

Perspective position is normally used in animation most of the time.

Figure 8: Side position

Steven:

Figure 9: Front position

Figure 10: Perspective position

Figure 11: Side position

Rat demon:

Figure 12: Front position

From this activity, I learned to produce characters in Adobe Illustrator (digital way) by tracing for the animation later.