LoliRock Characters Construction Model sheets and the “Do & Don’t” sheets

On previous post (from Bertrand), you could see a fraction of the main pack, with turns, expressions and posing.These are the basic everyone needs in order to draw the character in the style of the show. However, on LoliRock, Bertrand went further.

We all knew our characters were very difficult to draw. Even very skilled designers such as Bertrand, Benedicte and Galou had trouble with them, during the whole production. So Bertrand created the construction model sheets above, in order to help everybody : the construction sheets are giving rules, while the “Do & Don’t” sheets help to avoid the most current mistakes… and as you can see, it’s easy to do most of them. 

I’ll be honest, we don’t do this on every production, especially in France where budget are very limited. There is, most of the time, some “Do & Don’t”, but they’re created by the director or animation supervisor, and just before / while doing the animation. Now, putting it in right the main pack, and this much ? Well, some might consider that “overkill”, yet I’m sure most of our designers and animators would disagree and were glad to have all these details right from the start. It helped them to avoid many “off model” retakes, so it was definitely worth it.  (Edit : after reading this post, I had a message from Julien Maret, one of our animation supervisor, who confirms he uses these sheets every day. ^_^)

Iris’s construction sheets were the first one Bertrand created, because you know, she’s the main character and we weren’t sure we’d have the time to create these sheets for other characters. Then, we did, and then he repeated his process for Talia, Auriana… and other to come very soon ! ;) 

Lecteurs francophones ? Voici la version française du texte ci-dessous.

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