Context of Practice Character Design Development

When developing character designs for my Context of Practice Visual Response, I looked to other animations for inspiration; for example, Hanna-Barbera and The Ricky Gervais Show. As I've said before I wanted my visual response to be in a recognizable style but I did not want to go with a style I felt would be a more obvious choice, for example Disney. That is when I decided on creating my animation in a kind of Hanna-Barbera cartoons style.

The male characters in the above and below images are the interviewers in my animation and the female character (below) is the actress auditioning for a role in an animated television series. I didn't want the designs of each character to be too complicated as I felt what was more important was the message the animation would try to communicate. I felt it necessary to have the two male characters look physically very different (to highlight that when you watch cartoons, the male characters often look very diverse). But then I wanted the female character's character design to look entirely uninspired and hardly original. This is entirely intended as I wanted to highlight the idea that to me anyways I feel like the male characters in cartoons such as Hanna-Barbera cartoons the female characters often seem less thought out than the male characters.

Overall, I am pretty happy with how the character designs worked out. I kind of wish I had made each character look a bit more original looking but I worry if I did that it might distract attention away from the main message of the animation.