Characters
More than once we met different colorful characters everywhere. These are cartoon characters, and various monsters \ men \ robots \ incomprehensible_that on websites, booklets and business cards.
When developing the site, it was often the case for the designer to invent a “company hero”, but most often it happens that imagination and creativity ends in drawing a standard man.
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Half a year ago, an idea came to my mind, which then came, then flew out of my head and finally I had free time and I decided to implement it. To begin, I studied and analyzed what already exists. I found several books and a couple of rollers about characters.
Pictoplasma [2001]
The first book that published the Pictoplasma community.
Buy at Amazone.com
Pictoplasma 2 [2003]
The second book, which was published once after 3 years
Buy at Amazone.com
Pictoplasma: The Character Encyclopaedia [2006]
Encyclopedia of characters. In excellent leather binding and two bookmarks.
Buy at Amazone.com
Box: The Evolution of Character Design
Buy at Amazone.com
Books indicated not everything that I found, but if more is interesting, then you can always find them yourself.
Pictoplasma has also released several DVDs http://publishing.pictoplasma.com/category/dvd
Here is a small trailer for Pictoplasma Characters in Motion
I want to make an online encyclopedia of characters. As I see it.
Further development:
I myself am a Ruby on Rails developer, but I am also never a designer. Why am I interested then? Yes, because I am a designer in my heart, and "I studied as a programmer."
Therefore, if among you there are people who would like to help with this project, then you are welcome. I will be glad to designers, layout designers, other rubists, as well as just good people.
UPD: I found a group on flickr in which more than 20,000 pictures with characters were published.
When developing the site, it was often the case for the designer to invent a “company hero”, but most often it happens that imagination and creativity ends in drawing a standard man.
')
Half a year ago, an idea came to my mind, which then came, then flew out of my head and finally I had free time and I decided to implement it. To begin, I studied and analyzed what already exists. I found several books and a couple of rollers about characters.
Pictoplasma [2001]
The first book that published the Pictoplasma community.
Buy at Amazone.com
Pictoplasma 2 [2003]
The second book, which was published once after 3 years
Buy at Amazone.com
Pictoplasma: The Character Encyclopaedia [2006]
Encyclopedia of characters. In excellent leather binding and two bookmarks.
Buy at Amazone.com
Box: The Evolution of Character Design
Buy at Amazone.com
Books indicated not everything that I found, but if more is interesting, then you can always find them yourself.
Pictoplasma has also released several DVDs http://publishing.pictoplasma.com/category/dvd
Here is a small trailer for Pictoplasma Characters in Motion
And now the idea itself
I want to make an online encyclopedia of characters. As I see it.
- Any user can register on the site and upload their image with the character. When downloading, he chooses the type of license for the image (BY, BY-SA, BY-ND, BY-NC, BY-NC-SA, BY-NC-ND
- Search the site for the name of the characters
- Alphabet Search
- Character drawing lessons
Further development:
- If you liked the image, then you can always contact the author and order his work
- Contests! And what about without it?
- Integration of different social buns.
I myself am a Ruby on Rails developer, but I am also never a designer. Why am I interested then? Yes, because I am a designer in my heart, and "I studied as a programmer."
Therefore, if among you there are people who would like to help with this project, then you are welcome. I will be glad to designers, layout designers, other rubists, as well as just good people.
UPD: I found a group on flickr in which more than 20,000 pictures with characters were published.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/80251/
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