The Creation and Research of “HERO” on Character Design

• Main Author: 詹廸然
• Other Authors: 宋璽德
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32jk39

碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 視覺傳達設計學系碩士班 === 98 === People live in an age of digital technique in 21st century, and they speed up to receive information and pass messages. People create their idol characters in their mind through the virtual world. Many people worship the characters and fantastic plot in the animation and comics. They live in the virtual world through the characters, and rely on the spiritual fulfillment of their wishes. Nowadays character design is a trend. It’s used for all industries such as comics, animation movies, cartoon, video games, toys, illustration, Internet videos, commercial products and enterprises. Character is like an image that can quickly becomes the bridge of communication between people. Animation and comics are many people’s memory of their childhood and accompany many people to grow up, increase joy during the process of live. The content of animation and comics could be from reality or surreal, and it satisfies people’s imagination. Before, animation and comics are considered as low literary, simple imagery subculture. However, as time went by, they are gradually approved to be a kind of art and have positive function. They delight our life and educate us at the same time. Also, they are helpful in expressing feelings. It’s a way of artistic creation. The creative issue of this study is “Hero Character”. A Hero is an idol that everyone worships, and it also means a person with the perfect figure under collective conscious of psychology. When a person cannot be a hero in reality, he/she starts to create a hero character in his/her creation and feel emotionally content, fulfill the desire of being a hero that people worship. With the progress of computer technique, many 2D heroes characters become so real, and play a role in movies such as Superman, Batman, Ironman in USA; and Kamen Rider, Ultraman in Japan. These heroes awake people’s attention with their charm under the computer technique. I created the “Hero Character” in my mind by character design. The study concludes the elements of character design by collecting data, which can be used in the process of creating characters in the field of character design. It can also apply to the analysis of the shape of the hero character in animation and comics, and order the design elements that fit a hero figure, to be the basis and reference of the way to create hero characters.