Character Design Final Project

We had to design 4 characters and have a background/motivations for each.

The Show

The characters that I have designed are to be the main characters of a television or internet cartoon program. The show takes place mostly in a library where two of the characters work, one lives, and one loves.  The show will be one that all ages can enjoy.  Everything will be very “cartoony”.  This is a world where anything can and does happen.  The show revolves around the four main characters working/living/hanging out in the library.

The Characters

Jack:  Jack is a man/boy (his age isn't known) who loves the library.  He sees Fat Cat as his very best friend.  He spends his days hanging out in the library reading books, comics, magazines; watching movies; surfing the web; and always talking to Fat Cat. He is a very curious person who isn't afraid to take risks.

Fat Cat: Fat Cat is a cat who works as a librarian in the library.  He runs the main/help desk.  He is one of the people in charge of checking out books for people.  His main responsibility is to help people find with library problems.  Fat Cat only speaks in meows.  When asked a question he meows and the person asking the question completely understands what he said.  Everyone in the show understands his meows.   The audience is the only one who will not know what he said without context clues from the other characters.  Fat Cat is best friends with Jack.  He tires of Jack easily, as Jack is always around.

Jean-Pierre:  Jean-Pierre is a depressed monster.  His parents are French so he has a slight french accent.  He is depressed because his wife left him for a scarier monster, he lost his job at the cheese processing plant to an automated assembly line, and he lost a word search competition that he had been training for his entire life.  He is easily startled, a “scaredy cat”, and somewhat frightened of Jack (though still his friend) because Jack is so full of energetic and a risk taker.  Jean-Pierre works in the library with Fat Cat as the “Media Re-shelving Technician/Janitor”.  Jean-Pierre is afraid of spiders.

Pider: Pider is a small spider who has made the library his home.  He is always hanging around Jean-Pierre as Jean-Pierre works, because the monster is always dusting away Pider's webs.  He hates Jean-Pierre for this and is constantly pulling books to upset the monster who has to put them all away.  Nobody ever sees Pider, so they don't know why things are always getting unorganized in the library.

We also had to do 56 sketchbook drawings. Here are some of mine.