Character Design Line up: Tano Bonfanti

 

Character line up notes

Its one thing to look at the individual designs of each character but a totally different thing to see them next to one another in a line up. Character designers often design the characters to contrast with one another not just in terms of function of what each character does but also as a team you should carry certain design elements through all the characters. 

We see across all characters a similar aesthetic, there are a lot of dye cut like lines that cut across pieces of armor and circular gears, holes or rivets that are used across the characters armor, robotic arms and legs..etc. 

We see also that each character has its proper role, the girl on the right seems to be a healer like character with the next two feeling closer to soldier type characters since both of them have strong triangular shapes that point outward from the character like a airplane or a jet. The words that come to my mind when I see these designs are things like Valkyrie and that sort of thing. 

The engineer type character seems to be fourth and fifth in line, they both look as if they are dressed and suited to be the role of a mechanic or in the case of the robot in the background he looks like hes a chemical engineer of some sort. The last figure is the tank obviously because hes built like a brick shit house. 

As far as color goes we can see all the colors are very muted and its interesting to speculate how the colors are organized. I notice for instance that only 3 of the characters have purple with the support figure in the background having the most, perhaps the characters are organized in this way to show support type characters?

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