Week 1: Assignment 1--Character Profiles

 Week 1: Assignment 1--Character Profiles

( Due: Sun, 06 Feb | Status: Not Completed )

Character Development Assignment: Two Character Profiles

Assignment Goal:

The goal of this assignment is to develop two characters for animation. Get to know your characters so that they have strengths, weaknesses, fears, loves, and desires. Discover what motivates and drives your characters. Once you know this, conflict and story follow. Use the Character Profile in Wright as the starting point for this assignment, but you also want to learn to use your own personal experiences, observations, and imaginations to create and develop characters.

Instructions:

Write a Character Profile for two animated characters using the questions on pages 62-65 in Wright. These should be new characters. They should not be characters you are using in your Thesis Project or that you have developed for previous courses.

You don’t have to answer every question, but you must tell us what the character wants, fears, loves, biggest secret, voice tag and pattern and some unexpected character trait. Your profile should be 400 words for each character. Write it in the first person, as if the character is telling us about herself.

Or you can also simply answer the character profile questions, but do so in complete sentences and be sure to develop the characters traits in sufficient detail as to make them understandable and convincing.

Be sure you tell me what your character loves, fears, and desires-- both physically and psychologically.

You will then use these characters to write springboards and a premise in the next assignments.

Due Sunday 11:59 EST