What Makes A Good Character Design?

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Lets Fight a Boss video game podcast Ep 45:

Song List:

Fork in the Wall - No More Heroes ost
Skyline - VA-11-Hall-A Ost
A Neon Glow Lights The Way- VA-11-Hall-A Ost
Paul Ending- Tekken 4 OST

[adrianpaul]

using shapes to define a character?

yeah phineas and ferb did that to the extreme.

[gregjayonnaise]

“It shows that Jotaro, despite how he looks, is still of school age”

Me, whose never watched JoJo: I’m sorry, he’s *what*

[Spectacular_Insanity]

"Who's that Pokemon?" is basically character silhouette design in a nutshell.

[danielwu]

_sees jotaro in thumbnail_
Jojo fans: *_I've seen enough, I'm satisfied._*

[SuperMissigNo]

Bruh, Araki gave personality to a frickin city just by character design.
Morioh is the main character in part 4

[kayagorzan]

"Two belts" slang meaning
1) Fat

2)Jotaro Kujo

[TheAfro]

How to make a character:

Step 1: Think of a Muscular Greek Statue
Step 2: Put gangster clothes on them

[Hvy_Mgm]

"Triangle means danger"

Phineas: I just had the best idea!

[JetJenkins]

"background-chan" is an amazing term.

[CrazyBorisProduction]

Dang, I wish I'd watched this earlier before designing a bunch of characters. My character design strategy was 'Make the cool guys look cool'.

[alonelyperson]

I clicked for Jojo.
Stayed to understand the meaning of character design.
Wasn't disappointed.

[chingchenghanjisuperidol]

Saitama is so easy to recognize, he literally just an egg bro

[AnakinFury]

“Iconic character designs..”
*Laughs in Phineas and Ferb*

[zaweelafnaan]

Me: how many comment sections are you going to take over?!

JoJo fans: how many slice of bread have you eaten in your life?

[thebananamelon]

I've never watched Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, but I never forgot his design once I first saw him

[juanrodriguez]

One thing I would like to add, a good character design works in basically EVERY art style, not only in a single one, using that certain color palette, those clothes, that body type, and even the size comparison with other character in the universe, just watch at some The Simpsons intros, they change the art in a lot of them to things completely different and redesigning all character for fit in that art style, but even then that base for the character is still recognisable and tell what you need to know about the character.

[BeyondBaito]

I think it's funny in the case for Evangelion where Shinji's design is very simple but he manages to stick out perfectly.

[edwardvasquezlowe]

i’m gonna admit, seeing joseph old in part 4 almost made me cry

[linjun]

Chooses Jotaro for a good character design, man of culture

[HeckinRyan]

my man jotaro needs two belts to contain his audacity