Fiction Adaptation - The Characters

The first thing I did after creating my story, was developing and creating my characters. I knew that I wanted two people, a guy and a girl, from which the girl was gonna be shown in real life and the animation when the guy was just to be seen in the animation. The idea was to develop the characters a little and know exactly how I wanted them to look like.

The Girl

The girl for the video was meant to be someone young, small, skinny and with dark hair. My idea was to have someone that looked cute and sad and for some reason that was exactly what I wanted. I happened to know someone exactly like that who was willing to help and act in my film, her name Sophie Moore. She is quite what I had in mind and fitted perfectly my character and what I wanted, which is why I got quite excited when she said she was up for it. The idea in real world part is for her to be sad but exaggerated as it has been a while since he died. I don't want to see her crying like he just died, but more like remembering him in a happy way, like he is the one she will never replace. Sophie has that cute face that I needed and I believe it will work out. I decided to keep her name for the character in the video. I tried to create a character that looked as much as possible as her which was quite touch in my opinion. Here are the images of her:

The Guy

As my male character is not to be seen in real life, I could play up a bit more with his design and create him more the way I pictured him. I imagined him being handsome, taller than her, usually with a suit, in his 20's, hair color similar to hers and skinny. He is a nice and very outgoing person, falling in love first sight with Sophie, Dave is the kind of person that would try all attempts to be with her. After trying different designs, this was the final version of Dave with his suit: