That’s extremely helpful, thanks Jonathan. The rigging part makes complete sense to me. I’ve messed with enough rigs to know what features I would like to have implemented and what they are commonly called. Its the part of describing a character to a concept artist or modeler that I get stuck the most. How do I best transfer a character idea from my head, to somebody else’s pen? Should I have some kind of back story; or something more descriptive like body type, hair color/style, height?
I’ve tried talking to a concept artist before and it felt a lot like this. I was asked to describe the character. It felt like no matter the description I gave it was met with, “That’s great….but describe the character to me.” In the end it was frustration on both sides, because I didn’t know how to answer and the artist wasn’t getting the answers they were looking for.
Maybe I can write that off as a bad experience but with this project I really want to do my homework. It would be great to know what I can do to best “describe my character”.
