Before starting to design any character you must know the characteristics of that character. What is the character's age? What background are they coming from? What is their objective? So before I started to design my character I defined some of these characteristics and because my style is cartoony I decided I wanted my character to be totally childlike. So I wrote down "childlike, lovely, brave and oppressed" in my notes. I think this step is a very important part of creating a character, because it affects the whole characterization.

This is my basic concept of the character (Fig.01).


I used 3ds Max, Mudbox, VRay and Photoshop to create this character in 3D. After importing the character design to 3D space I started everything from a simple sphere. I set the segments of the sphere to a couple of numbers (12) and after adjusting the primary parameters I converted the sphere to editable poly and started the modeling (Fig.02 – 03).



I used a cylinder to model the body, hands and feet. After some primary parameter adjustments to the object, I converted that to editable poly as well (Fig.04 – 06).