What Makes A Good Character Design? 

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I mean you're not wrong. I've never seen a single episode, but just from memes and the occasional clip I know that Phineas is the "schemer" always coming up with some crazy idea for how to have fun over the Summer, and likewise Ferb is a bit of a stoic who's always there to see things through. Their designs sell who they are really well.

@@SingeScorcher the creator means it literally too; if u look at it phineas looks like a p and ferb looks like and f

We all remember how Phineas looks forward...

@@KazuhaEien W O/\O \-/

Yes. He's 17 in the pictures shown in the video

He's 27 in part 4 and 40 something in part 6 but he still looks the same.

@@salsachicken4206 fax

@Captain Zorc ikr he looks younger

To be fair, I was 6'4" and had a full beard at 17 so it's not that unlikely

LMAO

eggxactly

FineRNG- Eggcelent joke, bro

Genos can draw him in 20 seconds

Saw him at a store the other day.

*PROCEEDS TO TAKE OVER COMMENT SECTION*

YES

nice profile pic

@@DABUNGINATOR wholesome reunion

MOOD

Ambulance*

@@sketcher4362 lmao

Also Araki (probably) "When were they in morioh?"

Truly a beautiful duwang

@@sketcher4362 The hero doesn't always necessarily have to be the protagonist.

You mean Jojo?

@@siriusk1453 LMAOOOO

Giorno!

Bam perfect

GioGio

Iiiit's... Jotaro!

Yesss

"It's Voltorb" "Nope! It's Jigglypuff as seen from above"

You thought it was a pokemon, but it was I DIO

@@mr.sandman7339 ITS PIKACHU ITS CLEFAIRY FUUUUU-

To be fair, his ideas are kinda dangerous for a kid to be doing.

I mean he *IS* dangerous imagine if he is a villain with his ability to invent and build such a thing we never knew what je can do with it

Ramiel the 5th Angel: *silent anger*

That's why Ferbs head is rectangular, he's reliable at cleaning up Phineas messes.

I saw someone also say a triangle represents edge, so I thought “phineas do be do ba be making school shooting jokes”

1) Fatass 2) Badass

@@2350CST That moment when the reply is better than the comment

i love how it is just showing ceasar's headband just to subtly remind you of joseph's sins.

You mean 1) big fat shlong*

Jotaro: O R A

*laughs in Doritos*

@Señorita You cant do that! You created a *LAUGH PARADOX!!!* DONT MESS WITH THE COMEDY. You have to U N D E R S T A N D the comedy! ...*Laughs in Mario*

I mean they just serve to reinforce his points. Shapes of their heads can tell us quite a bit about their respective personalities.

*Laughs in laughs*

stevenazx *laughs in plain potato*

Man need two belt to contain his Ball of -Steel- Platinum.

@@w_ldan *Stardust of platinum

@@pavi-hd3xo i don't even know anymore

You mean his enormous Badassness

@@magentapurpleyap5566 You mean his ENORMOUS ...... *YOU FELL FOR IT, YOU FOOL!!!* *THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK!!!!!*

Well some of his hat is hair

No his hat comes of in one of the episodes and it shows it's ripped

Part 4: jotaro is the hat

Wow he really must take hours in the morning to brush his hair like that PD : i don't watch jojo, so i have no idea about that tall gentleman

@@Speed_Zamaa ,,Gentleman"

A Lonely Person I came to learn about character design I stayed for taiga

Damn wasn’t expecting to see best girl taiga , what a pleasant surprise

I clicked for jojo I stayed for jojo I was jojoed

@@reroman3950 same smh

Came for JoJo Stayed for JoJo JoJoed for JoJo JoJo? Jo-Jo

DeadMemes NeedToStayDead or gangstar Giorno

@G O D or crippled Johnny

@@igbinedion6410 or amnesiac josuke

Other than Giorno, Jotaro has the most iconic character design on JoJo. (And DIO of course)

@@heusant sure.

short answer: jotaro

I'm sorry, him? Characters can't be female anymore?

@@residentkane Its Jojo so Jolyne

Unpopular opinion: Stone Ocean not canon. Araki made all characters female just for rebuild our heterosexuality.

@@residentkane Its referencing Jotaro Kujo. In this case, no, Jotaro isn't female

WHO AAAAAAAAAAAAAASKKEEED?

@@peaceomolola9230 People who know me, unlike you who keeps replying to people who don't care about your existence because nobody loves you.

@@juanrodriguez9971 bruh if a simpson character were put in hollow knight format they'd look like shiz so....

@@peaceomolola9230 Bro wtf

@@shi-chan5779 ? Im spitting facts

Jet Jenkins your profile picture is fabulous

I remember an image with the typical anime school class labeled "guess the main character" All of them could qualify.

Nice profile pic

Never next to the door, sometimes in the middle-front, almost always somewhere in the back next to the window

Sometimes she could be the best girl but we barely get to see her.

Joven Sanchez for some odd reason stand users seem to be drawn to each other

This must be the work of an enemy stand.

Okay so what’s wrong?

^Found the fan who feels concerned. As you're looking for a "bad" reason, imo, it somehow casts shadow on potential pieces of advice or interesting comments. But hey, "iS iT a JoJo ReFeReNcE ?"

200+50=250% ? Which is more than 100%? Are you stupid or something?

I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream

Kono Giorno Giovanna ni wa yume ga aru

@@rymaix ho mukatte kuru no ka

Ah yes Ladybug is an animal

@@nibieodude7689 Can you tell me what do you think they are before being sarcastic? Plants? Fungi?

You're right. Animes like JJBA, One Piece, Demon slayer, etc has one of the best character designs in anime. Because the designs defines it personality traits while still maintaining it's distinct look.

There are also character designs that have this same face syndrome but can be depicted through their hair, which is possible to differentiate personality in a glance if done properly

Great opinion

The eyes. The eyes can totally make or break a character design. You can’t really put cute baby eyes on a reserved, introverted, cold guy and make it make sense.

@@fabriceghazi2118 no not demon slayer the characters have eyes bigger then half there head with a 1 cm nose and no chin

Step 3: ??? Step 4: *P R O F I T*

Yes Yes Yes Yes

@@shishimaakaao663 YES

Step 2 was scraped away by ZA HANDO

Step 6: more JOJO

I want to watch it now. I've seen many videos about it and it looks cool

@yeetmaster 123 alrighty

SAMEE

yeetmaster 123 what kind of a degenerate says part 1 is boring?

ew

Mans has to destroy one every single time he wants to see something

Even Dio has a better version of Hermit Purple

Lmao

Considering how Araki also takes very liberal influences from high fashion and artists like Paul Gauguin and Antonio Lopez to generate his character designs I'd say you're spot on

You know why?

@@ramonzapato1350 why is it 8 heads? Well there's no concrete reason why. Some theorise that the "ideal" height for showing clothi g is 5"8 at the time or it helps with pattern making of the garment

@@Bonovasitch Araki literally collaberated with Gucci in a clothing line, and is the only manga artist to date to be featured in the Louvre. Man is part of high fashion, and he earned that place

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That's part of what makes him so great. He's not a stylized or over the top character like most anime protagonists. He's just a kid in way over his head and everything about him reflects that. His lack of visual flair makes him stand out against the more vibrant designs of characters like Misato, Rei, Asuka and even Gendo with his iconic pose. He looks like a normal person surrounded by anime characters. Even comparing him to someone like Light from Death Note, Shinji never gets those moments of visual flair and stylization that accompany Light's more powerful moments. Both look like normal people but Shinji is treated as mundane visually. The story wouldn't work if he was anything else.

matching him to the fucking nuts environment of Evangelion in world full of colour he is black and white :)

Same with Akame ga kill

That's a sign of a great design. The Persona series has some really great design, especially in 5, where everyone can simultaneously blend into a crowd, yet unique enough to easily stand out to us.

notice how his shirt tucks in sliming his waist, which gives him a femanine look, along with his lanky limbs and shy smile it suggest a fragile but kind hearted being. Its incredible how somthing so small can make such a huge impact on the character.

yup lol

Dis not the Clones. They are cool

Facts

but even the clones have good character design. a rigidness that tells us that they are uniform, with the same shapes for every trooper, symbolizing an almost hive mind of perfect structure, with the square frames of their bodies showing that even within their ranks they are orderly without fail. The only difference between each trooper is the color of their armor, all leading up with stronger colors until black, signifying rank at first glance.

Someone hasn't watched The Clone Wars.

Why getting spoiled about a character's personality by his character design is good ?

@@user-hq4iv9we1t because it makes them incredibly recognizable

Well, it depends on what type of show you are going for. If you are going for much action, characters with standing out design work, because you can't really mix them and you get to know them even in fight scenes

@@Parrooo But why something easily recognizable is necessarily good ? That means if a charadesign doesn't reflect the character personality is bad ?

@@user-hq4iv9we1t because if you don't have a good visual memory, you may confuse with who the characters are, especially if there are two of them that look similar. Also, a good design makes the character more "special", along with their personality. Cuz while the personality makes the character's decisions, the design, as we said, makes their recognizability.

Nice lol

😭😭😭😭😭😭lmfaoooo

Lmaooo

YES! YES! YES!

OH MY GOOWWD!

*NICEU NICEU* *_VERY NICEU CAT LAMPUH CHAN_*

HOOORRRY SHIT

Not to be rude but I wasnt a very big fan of his design, I think jotaro or even Jonothan looks better

Meowdy

Yeah, me too

same i just cant stand seeing him like that :(

I love Joseph I NEVER want him to die

You're not alone

all the jotaros presented by the stonks man part 3 jotaro:angery part 4 jotaro:Kalm part 5 jotaro:.. Part 6 jotaro:NOT STONKS part 8 jotaro:flert

@@Musicalquest part 8 jotaro: female

This just in: your character cannot be a literal furry.

Werewolves: Are we a joke to you?

Does anyone know this anine 2:13

@@cyberpunkfashionblyawesome it's Please Tell Me! Galko-chan

noelle deltarune

Dammit he knows

slices of bread 5, entire bread i dunno

Eh, 12.

JO JO

GULH-DEN-WEEND

Crazy Boris Productions There are two kinds of people; the people who do this, and liars.

Some of the designs I've seen of yours sort of actually fit what's described here, even if not intentionally. Take, say, Ocho and Apophis from Dungeon Dynamite. Ocho (is that how it's spelt?) looks like he'd be confident, care about his appearance and try to be the star of the show. Apophis fits the shape geometry decently as well, being very square to suggest the reliability and rounded edges, which fit to his more quiet and supporting role. This shape logic could be applied to Euler as well. In short, claim credit for good character design and run for the hills.

i've got no complaints about the characters, soo.... yeah. You keep doing you

Yours do communicate. The mark of good character designers is when you can convey the messages without intended to. If your mind can just feel the characters as they are, your doing it right

I was thinking to make the characters looks good, have possibly good persenality, and fit when placed together

I will be interested of what your career in the future takes you.

How's It going?

We'll be watching your career with great interest

lol

16. Doing this with my best friend. I have a looot more work to do but i hope i can make it in the future.

This must be the work of an enemy stand! ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ

lol

We have a group stand yes

@@loisrabies8713 I'm guessing Remote Romance

fuck off

Yeah, they designs reflect their personalities and ocupations as mercenaries

@@ingenieromanarchive7631 tf2 designs are actually amazing considering how basic they are

@@Dr.JonathanCrane you are right dude

@@Dr.JonathanCrane simple but effective literally put a silhouette on them and easily distinguishable

MEDIC

*mirror vomits*

How dare you insult the great Robert E O Speedwagon.

@@SainanAnimates I Think You Spelled *Mirror Blushes* Wrong.

@@Kiwiii00450 "pwease kwill me uwu" -mirror

@@SainanAnimates The Fuck? Oh It Makes Sense Now, I Get You're a Fucking Furry. Furry Furry Go Away 🙂

I know the 2. [REDACTED] give me dios bone

SpeeedwaGGGOOOOONnnn

Speedwaifu

JOESTAR SAN

You misspelt YOU FOOL! THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK!

god of door haha I saw this coming

Ya was about to say

SHIIIIZZZAAAAAAAAA

@@doppled ✝

Apparently, in Japan, it's considered "cool" to wear a lot of unnecessary belts. His fashion is more of a cultural statement than anything.

@@xviinaichi3793 el il HD n hm nook uh fig br 7p

I study there 🙂

@@JustFrogy-ux9od lol

@@JustFrogy-ux9od s s and s

Boi!!! Ya speaking facts!!!

Step 1: *failes*

Step 2: forget

Step 3: do jojo references

step 4. make a character named kishibe rohan just to have an oc you kin

Just A Random Guy same

Jojo in thumbnail is basically clickbait

Same

Same

I clicked from those 3 characters in the thumbnail Theyre all from animes i like

And a fashion-worthy design.

Giorno, Joelyne ,Jhonny and Gappy🙂

@@chadano4209 But they have muscles, just not humongously huge like Jonathan.

@@chadano4209 they are all ripped but not as ripped as parts 1-3 characters since from parts 1-3 araki modeled the characters after greek statues and after 4 he decided to make the characters less buff to look more normal

Isn't it Bruno bucciarati

How to make a good character design: Take a Sonic character then change its color. YEAH! THIS IS HAPPENIN'!

@@yousufahmed5627 no read the manga it's buccelati in the manga. i think because of copyright they changed it in the anime

@@parhammhss4848 it depends on the translator it seems, on the JoJo wiki is says bucciarati but in brackets (buccialati)

Freefork You charlatan. A true artist draws SHADOW in a different color.

Smug Megumin In the end of part 4 Araki said Joseph became healthy (like part 3) again. Yay!

Sapphiresoul really? I didn’t know that

I guess he goes back to his hamon training

@@sapphiresoul6655 oh, really?? omg omg omg.. but what about Suzie Q?

He’s just more huggable

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Polnareff is probably the back donut on Giorno's braid. Wait I just realized Giorno has F*ur Donuts...

Or the donuts are just the donut deaths of part 5, because of Polnareff.

@I dont let mista find out 👀

I-

John McDaniel interesting observation

A principal of cartoons is the centre of mass line, if you look at Tom and Jerry the line was used to communicate motion however the same principle can be applied to stature and gravitas which is why Griffith always appears regal.

John McDaniel this is actually a very important aspect in my opinion. When space dandy was still airing (mind you this was my first anime) and I saw the way he walked and stood I knew his personality was in relation to Spike from cowboy bebop DESPITE not having not seen bebop at that time and only knowing of it from other media, and I was spot on in thinking so. Posture conveys the character's personality more so than things like clothes in my opinion, similar to real people. Someone can wear the same clothes but their posture will still distinguish their characteristics.

And Guts will almost exclusively stand, or sit, in either an aggressive or defensive stance. He can stand tall, with a massive sword across his back, ready to beat down demons and men alike. Or he can take up a stance devoted to shielding Casca. Another example is probably most prominent in the Golden Age arc as Guts sleeps with his sword, often perched against an object, seemingly protecting it.

I sit inside playing video games and drawing useless stuff all day and my posture is perfect come at me

how is it clickbait he does talk about jojo in the vid what

@@rezi_evil He's just saying everyone loves JoJo so everyone is obligated to click lol

@@williamjacobik7966 anime fans make up about 10% of my year group at school but none of them even like Jojo. It's sad

It's not clickbait if he spent more than half the video talking about something in his thumbnail

Yes

Piss off Mha fan

Kakarotto Kakashi I don't like MHA, but he's right. MHA's characters designs are iconic and you can tell what show they're from without even watching it.

@@dollettebuni yikes

Kakarotto Kakashi ?

Isn’t the creator a big fan of marvel?

Who doesn't? 😔

same

Basically 80% of these comments are JoJo, So yes

God damnit u caught me.

he got me there with that thumbnail-😔

Agreed. How can a pretty Fashion Model like Kawashima stand out when the other girls all look above-average in terms of looks.

melody from hxh looks pretty atrocious

Tomoko looks pretty ragged from watamote

Isaac Argesmith She's adorable tho

well looks like a certain someone needs to check out Hajime no Ippo

yinny I love AOT

Now that you mention it, AOT does have very distinct characters

AoT is good at making variations of body shapes and faces. for examples, Annie and Hanji have aquiline noses which is quite rare in anime, and i find them appealing and unique at the same time

But then we have Nifa, but nobody talks about Nifa...

That was one of the first things I noticed in AoT! In so much anime the characters have the exact same faces, and their hair and eye color are the only way you can tell them apart. In Attack on Titan, the characters all have unique features

Looks more like Rodrick, which actually fits better

Sad Kakyoin noises*

That made me laugh more than it should've.

@Captain Tuko Its more like *OOOOOHHHHH MY GOD!!!!*

Damn you're right!

Shit you're right

giorno is the gayest looking jojo tbh

@@itstoshii1685 *Laughs in Josuke Part 8*

@@yarnhatter1632 *laughs in Josuke part 4*

DiGiorno nah Josuke part 4 looks bi lmao

I came for JoJo

Jojo

99% commenting about jojo fans 1% jojo fan

@Matix 777 you broke the jojo chain

Speedwagon was your 1000th like. Maybe fortune bless you.

This is good advice.

80/20 for main characters and a 70/30 for side characters. 👍

Ya

Piiiizza mozarela

Weird way to spell Speedwagon.

@@eddiedombrowski1960 Stroheim*

Did you mean speedwagon, or maybe Stroheim? Maybe you meant kakyoin, doppio.. jee idk

@@justaguy6224 Hol horse wants to know your location

What's with his *sleeves*, though..? Why are they so colourful lol

Because the crocodile pants were sold out.

iSultan Sultangaliev Exactly

Yare yare...

What cap? He's decorating his hair....

I see Jotaro every time I hear it. I hear it every time I hear the word daze. That catchphrase will never leave me.

With Joseph; it's either OH MAH GAAHD, SANADA BEEETCH, or SHIIIIIZAAAAA

MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA WRYYYYYYY

And musical themes. Like "Stardust Crusaders" is plaing in my head when Jotaro is doing something badass or saying "Yare yare".

YES YES YES Y E S

So... Joey Wheeler?

Rofl

JoJo in any anime tier list is the amount of breads you've eaten

It used to be Danganronpa... Now I only watch JoJo...

I have the exact same taste for facial design, but instead of being reductivist I've looked for other anime to tickle my fancy. Here's a list: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Cowboy Bebop Last Exile Fullmetal Alchemist (a few REALLY strong chins, lookin at you Armstrong) Baki (chin game all over the place, but consistently good eyes) Anything from Studio Ghibli really Hajime no Ippo (except for Ippo...) Ergo Proxy (top tier eyes, even among this list) Trigun Megalo Box It's not anime, but The Crimson Chin from Fairly Oddparents gets an honorable mention for having a literal brick as a chin Looking back at it, seems like I have a much higher tolerance for pointy chins than I do for big eyes. I can definitely name more but that's off the top of my head, anyone else have suggestions?

I guess you must not have seen Jonathan's croptop lol

@@blokvader8283 or Joseph’s. Or the pillar men who literally only wear underwear.

*proceeds to kill characters who don't show enough skin*

@@Clovercoin*cries in diego brando*

E

only character that actually ages

He’s the only one who actually gets old, yet he’s still not f*cking dead.

You know what actually doesn't get old? Kayoin, Avdol, etc.

He got vampire blood

Lol but he is the only one that li- nothing nothing

Less torn?

@@wafflies8790 at this point his hat just merged with his hair

@@CardZed he dyed it to fuse with his hair

@@CardZed he's bald and his hat is a wig hat

h i s p a r t 5 a p p e a r a n c e

Grey Gaming70 lol

1 word. Speedwagon. If you think otherwise, you are objectively wrong. Speedwagon is law.

Al I'd go with Tequila Joseph myself.

1: she must be something more than eye candy or a gimmick (tsundere) 2: character development. 3: her goal and motivations must be apart from the MC (mikasa is horrible, mikasa:eren, eren, eren, eren, eren.) 4:she must be memorable even without super powers or fan service 5 let her be a character instead of a plot device or something for the MC to save over and over.

Grey Gaming70 i'll handle this 1. Needs to be pitou from hxh

Natsume Natsume *ocean man*

Natsume Natsume And then part 6 messed it all up! (Seriously STARS!? Shouldn’t young Jotaro wear that type of stuff?)

Not to mention that his new hat is his actual wedding ring, as he’s married a dolphin.

Not_Sleepy is this seriously canon?

PersonMan Productions I wish it was.

I mean, you *could* mistake Speedweed for the main character if you haven't seen the show. I know my friend did.

i want to mistake speedwagon for a protag because *he is*

Jotaro isn't the protagonist, Polnareff is

Kobe Sedg actually most people who see him at first glance would assume he is just a brute or bad guy so probably not

Kobe Sedg Unless if Yugi is involved. He could win literally any game of who's the protagonist with that hair.

well oda is a design genius , onepiece has the most diverse cartoon character lineup of every existing comic

ulf ulf ulf One Piece is a mastetpiece

It's rare to have a protagonist that's so visually _unappealing_ -- I mean Luffy's dressed in rags, he's skinny as a twig, and he always has that goofy grin on his face. He looks ridiculous, but that's what makes him so unique. Saitama is the same.

but luffy also looks adorable in a way like a child, with lots of charisma and sympathy , that like out of a text book for animated characters

Yeah, but those "good" traits personality-wise are paired with "bad" (or ugly) traits appearance-wise. But that's what makes him such a memorable character.

The worst part is, if he knew he was in a cartoon he would acctually say that.

Good for you

@Kurogane -sensei basically the same just makes it look smoother

@@no-sparringholloway But he doesnt fight anymore. I mean he probably does but its just him bullying his opponent. Theres no way someone couldve torn his hat

Fuck jotaros hat what about jolynes boots

but it doesn't explain his hat in part 4

@@legionmaniac-9202 like Father like daughter

Wtf man, you are everywhere.

I, Josuke Higashikata, have beautiful hai- NANI!?

It looks like a soggy steak that has been stepped by a boot

i honestly want to bite his hair o

Boi the guy without a mustache.