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Nele Noppe

Differentiating faces in manga: the case of 'Nana' - 0 views

  • even some highly-acclaimed artists have only a limited number of facial types. Creating a hfully-realized human face from scratch is very hard work, and it's not surprising that artists tend to resort to either shortcuts or other ways of distinguishing characters from each other. So what other ways are there to distinguish characters? The most obvious methods are hair and clothing, body type, and body language.
  • creating a unique posture and body language for them.
  • Hair and clothing are tricky because they're very changeable. What a character really needs is an overall sense of style that enables you to identify who they are regardless of what they're currently wearing.
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  • I suppose the point of this is that we deride artists all the time for not being able to draw different faces, but the real goal is not to create different faces but to be able to create memorable and distinguishable character designs, of which the face is only one element. As long as you can tell the characters apart at a glance, who cares if they have the same face?
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