In class we got to do a fun activity where every person designed a different part of a character to create a completely different and weird type of one that no one would really simply think of. I think it was a great exercise for a starting point with the creation of our characters and probably a great tool to make a character without having to really think about it too much or if you have absolutely no idea what you want to do; kind of like me at this moment. Although, I do have a very rough idea, I am still at the stage of exploring what my character will actually be and look like and I feel it will take me longer than it should. I can also use the exercise we did do in class but by the end of the day of the activity the characters and the stories we made for them ended up being really complicated to explain let alone draw or animate them.
However, I did learn quite a few things from this exercise, the most important being that the story is driven by the character rather than the opposite much like Mary and Max. That is why I think I will be spending a lot more time on my actual character than anything else, and once I am happy with the final version I will start working on the rest of the story and it's elements.
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