LIACast 71 - Making Your Characters Ring True

Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 9:40PM
Lean Into Art in Podcast, characters, design, liacast, quests, writing

In this episode of the Lean Into Art Cast, Jerzy and Rob delve into exploring the conceptual and visual design attributes of great characters. Jerzy's recent quest provides a great catalyst for our conversation in how much it helps us explore the importance of villains in storytelling.

We Reflected on LIA Quest 3: Evil or Just a Jerk

• Lee’s Quest
• Lukas’ Quest
• Rob’s Quest
• Jerzy’s Quest

And, We Introduce a New Quest: Smell of Funny

Deadline to have your quest materials mentioned on the next LIA Cast: March 13!

Links Mentioned in this Episode

• Mac OS X Console
• A Theory of Fun for Game Design
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
• Tenjho Tenge
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians
• Daniel H. Pink: To Sell is Human
• Nadalie Goldberg: Writing Down the Bones
• Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
• Joeseph Campbell: writing characters with perfect love
• Comics Are Great 73 with Kris Straub
• Rashamon
• Sonic Adventure One
• What Dreams May Come
• Brian Raph Character Design
• Project Rooftop
• Krishna's Art Blog
• GURPS
• TPD 06 - Argue for Your Theme
• Lean Into Art Workshops

Take These Great Character Design Workshops

• Krishna Sadasivam's Creating Crazy Characters
• Tyler James's Creating Compelling Characters

Connect with Jerzy and Rob

• Lean Into Art Google+ Page
• Jerzy on Twitter
• Rob on Twitter
• Lean Into Art on Twitter

Article originally appeared on Lean Into Art (http://leanintoart.squarespace.com/).