Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Character's Creation Tools 1 : Doppel Me

Doppel me <http://www.doppelme.com/> is a very simple character's creation engine, where you could create your own character in 12 basic steps.
The drawing are very simple in one dimension, just in frontal view with simple traces and forms. In the first step you select the gender, skin color (8 options) and eyes color (8 options). Next you have the option of face expressions that changes at the same time eyes, mouth and eyebrows where you have 16 different options. The following option is the hair with 65 different types and more than 30 colors to choice. Then eyewear with 12 types of glasses in a lot of colors. In the hats where more than 60 different options including headphones, masks, balloons, veils and burqa. The next 3 steps are tops (the shirts),  the bottoms (panths and shorts) and shoes. As extras, the next step, you have moustaches and beard. In accessories there are cups, goblets, balls and baseball bats. And the last stage you have the backgrounds as cityscapes, field, sky, hearts, space, beach or in a football stadium.
This is a basic tool, with some nice and creative options where was used simple line drawings, but with it all together, you can get reasonable results.



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