Character Design

A new blog called Character Design features interviews with animation designers, including Steve Gordon of X-Men: Evolution and Ultimate Avengers fame.

Gordon talks about his work process:

I'll give you an example of how I work. When I was designing Captain America for "the Ultimate Avengers" I spent a lot of time looking through Captain America comics and especially the specific comics that we were adapting the story from and trying to determine what made the character and the art unique and try and what aspects of Brian Hitch's (the Ultimates' comic artist) drawing would work or not work in animation. Hitch's drawings were VERY realistic and almost photographic. So I knew that to approximate this look I would have to stay away from my graphic style of straights against curves and exaggerated proportions that I used in X-M:E.

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