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2023 ANIM 300 Story & Structure F002

Week 2 Assignment: Characters

Assigned: Week 2, Sept 11


Due: Week 3, Sept 18, start of class
Delivery 1: Post in your Story Portfolio as a PDF or into a folder as a collection of files (label: week 3_Characters)
Delivery 2: Have this material be available for sharing in a small group (sketchbook, laptop, pad, NOT phone)

Characters: Using last week’s work as a starting point, establish 2 characters that most resonate for you, based on the
inventorying and profiling work you put together. Consider choosing characters that you might enjoy working with in stories
as we go through the semester, but follow these simple requirements:
1 Character that you might be familiar with, having spent time considering them before now
1 Character that would be less developed and established for you, not having pre-existing “baggage”

PART 1
Character Profiles
Using writing and sketching, build a Character Profile for each of these characters by using the provided Profile Guide.
Keep answers relatively short unless prompted otherwise. This process will involve some writing and some sketching.

Profile Guide, Writing (please include the list’s topics so we know what the quality relates to)
Profile
a. Name (change their real name), age, any other base level profile info that’s helpful to know
b. Visual description: what is their overall look? What about their face, hair, hands, the way they stand, how
they dress, the attitude they express, etc
c. What do they care about, what’s important to them
d. Something that they believe about themselves that affects how they engage
e. Something that they believe about the world that affects how they engage
f. What or who (not nec 1 person) do they need to protect and support
g. What do they want out of life
h. What do they need out of life, but may not know it
i. A strength that helps them get along
j. A flaw or weakness that hinders them
k. Unusual quality, or special skill
l. Do they have a secret?

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2023 ANIM 300 Story & Structure F002

Week 2 Assignment: Characters

2. Profile Description
Write a brief personality profile description of 3-4 sentences for each these Character Profiles. This is creating a
summary of who they are in the world, bringing it into a summarizing, narrative form. Don’t try to capture every
distinct quality, but instead, fold it in together and find a defining way to define that profile.

3. Create a visual sketch of each character. If this is a pre-existing character, you can choose to depict them as they
have been and are, but it’s suggested to explore a character design that improves and has grown with their newly
crafted profile. Perhaps you know something more about them now? Additionally, you are a creative artist. Aim for
pushing your own creative goals with designs that are not reproductions of what you see produced by many others,
or you become a copy machine. Find resonance within your own voice as this creative artist.
Add some sketches of them expressing emotion (think about animation model sheets)
You can include some elements of environment and/or atmosphere, which can help support world building with
characters.
These sketches are not expected to be fully illustrated artwork. Rough, but clear drawings are fine!

PART 2
Read this week’s assigned reading. It’s topic is DEFAMILIARIZATION. This is about creating opportunities for
inserting unusual perspectives that allow you to review your creative work with “fresh eyes”, and therefore ideas.
Use this reading to inform you of what creative story crafters can do to “shake things up” by trying out some
challenges that have you step beyond your initial impulses. See how far you can creatively push yourself to see tour
character with a new perspective, and this character might just become more interesting to you.
• You can do this work with one of your characters, or both.
• For each of the following 4 steps, note what your choice for each change was, and make a brief note about
how the character was adjusted, and/or your expectations of them.
1. Create a JUXTAPOSITION challenge by changing something associated with the character that causes you to
have to re-think something about them.
2. Create a SHIFT in PERSEPCTIVE that creates a significant change in way they approach their life / world.
3. You choose 2 more defamiliarization methods from the reading, using them as prompts in the same way these
previous 2 function. Write down what the prompt is
4. You can apply these in writing and/or sketch methods.
5. The GOAL is to PUSH your character out of your own familiar space and to twist and stretch them a bit to se
what plays out.

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