Character Design: Rise of the Guardians

Source: Rise of the Guardians Character Design

The main characters in the Rise of the Guardians were designed based on basic shapes. It is a unique way to approach character designing, in which the character designers focused on getting the character to have silhouettes similar to these shapes. The character's proportion remains the most important to achieve such effect. For instance, as the Tooth Fairy is based on diamond shape, there needs to be some body parts that protrudes, and the character designers chose to protrude her thigh. The process does not look as complicated because the character designers only needs to make the body of the character to follow the shape while still keeping in mind of believable proportions. Also, the basic shapes can be useful in the construction of the 3D model of the characters