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Character Design Workshop
B.Voc (Dept. of Animation and Graphic Design),
Sualkuchi Budram Madhab Satradhikar College,
Kamrup Distt, Assam, 2019.
Class- 4th Semester, B.Voc.
Participants- 14 Students
Time Durations- 2 Days
Visiting Faculty- Parag Sarma
The Brief
The course aimed to teach the process of Character Design and explore various possibilities of materials handlings which will help participants with their Clay Animation Projects.
This module helps to study a Person in Person, his/her behaviors, lifestyles, physical and emotional attributes, and these parameters help to create an Exaggeration of that person. Also, practices of Character Design enhance to create fun & creativities, develops observation skills etc.
The Process
Asked participants to find any people from the college campus or outside of the campus and find some unique
characteristics of their findings (people) and create a character with exaggeration.
Participants started to observe & study people with different characters and sketched them out. After that, participants explored the exaggeration of their models and detailed them out with sketches. Once characters were finalized from sketches, participants started to Design it by different materials like plastic clay, cloths, wools, papers etc.
They first learned how to make Armatures from Aluminium wires and how to use plastic clay on it. They also learned how to handle tools and techniques of different materials which helped them to Design characters for their various clay animation courses.
A Glimpse of the Workshop
DOLL MAKING CRAFT
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT & SKILL UPGRADATION,
Agartala, Tripura
Sponsored By-
Conducted By-
Participants-
Time Durations-
My Role-
North Eastern Development Finance
Corporation Ltd (NEDFi), Assam
National Institute of Design (NID)
25 Women
20 Days
Senior Lead Designer (Trainer/Expert)
The Brief
Design Development & Skill Upgradation Workshop on Doll Making Craft was proposed to seek better livelihood opportunities for the women in Agartala, Tripura through design intervention in the Doll Making Craft, since doll making is emerging as a major fascination for many women who are keenly interested in taking it up as a lucrative profession. Additionally the objective was also to analyse the potential of doll making as a craft, so that it could be developed in a cluster.
A Glimpse of the Workshop
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