Comment my 2 characters? PLZ

I wouldn't enjoy watching these characters very much. The design needs some more motivation from the backstory. M. is a farmboy? Make him look like one. I dunno, straw hat or something, you dig?

But in answer to your Q, yes I can see them being animated : ]

They look the same as they did a few weeks ago. Should I be looking for something different?

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That's quite amusing.

"Laura Howell is mostly responsible for the appearance of my cast. I am very much in her debt!"

Laura herself might have a few people to thank...

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Plain and simple; you have to learn how to draw. While your personal cartoons have an unaffected school newspaper charm, to sustain any kind of animation your designs have to be appealing easy on the eyes. Even if it's limited flash animation; what you loose in movement you have to make up for in solid drawing, following anime's example. As it is, your characters are made of line only with no understanding of structure. The girl's ear should be behind the jaw, the boy's eyes are crooked for one. Even though you are drawing you have to construct and understand as though they are 3 dimensional.

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Anyway, I just noticed there's 2 versions of this thread. :confused:

And, rats, I just posted on the other one. Well, hopefully, Echi will be checking both... Grrrrrr...

Can anyone comment these 2 characters Merick and Amy?

Not bad, I could see them (and the stuff on your site) done in Flash.

What do these characters look like from the side, the back, from above, when they're shocked, angry, day-dreaming, screaming.

http://www.vickifox.com/vf_cast_laura.php

Go with Saj on this one. If this is for animation or not, it's always good to have a full-scale turnaround, and an expression sheet. This way each viewer knows exactly what your characters look like- and most importantly, so do you.

As for Merrick and Amy- what's their deal? How old are they? Are they students? Ninjas? I can't really tell...

Both are all teenages. Merick is a stable-boy from the Kingdom of Merivale and Amy is a ninja from the Shaolin Temple.
u know what? heres the brief sysnopis of the first series

So you wont to know if your drawnings match up with the character profile you have built up?

Hello, Echi.

Those are very clear, neat drawings. Do your characters' outward appearances reflect their personalities? Do you feel comfortable drawing these characters from different angles and in different poses? I think the best way to refine and test characters is by doing this. Any style of animation (anime or otherwise) requires solid characters. I generally would advise that you keep refining your characters until you're absolutely in love with them!

If you were looking for more direct advice, here's my suggestion: try diversifying your characters some... meaning, make them look less alike. Or, make their alikeness part of their character traits (Distant cousins? Twins with severely contrasting personalities?)

How about posting some background info on Merick and Amy? I'd love to hear more.

Pooryorik

Yorik's post from the other post.

Aloha,
the Ape

The cheekbones (zygoma) need to be higher, and probably blunter.

And don't start a new thread each time you revise your characters. Keep it all in one thread. Maybe start a "daily sketch" thread.

Thanks, Ape.

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