Amazing Character Designs: 75 Brilliant Examples
Character design refers to the appearance, abilities and personality of your virtual presence in any digital presentation. Design of character has been a major component of fiction and historical works predating even the Greek tragedies or “Beowulf”.
The most superficial design to a character is their appearance. Gender, race and build are very important and can mean the difference between a character that will result in a Duke Nukem or a Lara Croft.
In this Presentation below, you’ll find an amazing collection of character designs for your design inspiration which might help you learn a thing or two.
There is one important aspect in character design is a personality shift. As a character learns more about the world they exist in, they may change sides and even become a whole new being. Games such as the Final Fantasy series are very strong adherents of personality development.
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Amazing Character Designs
Many designers base their characters’ appearance on stereotypes and focus on their personalities to lend greater depth and familiarity. Character design has always been about keeping it simple. But aside from clean lines and easily readable features, what else are you going to need to know? Of course, There are many things you always need to know as character design can be a tricky beast to tackle, because although many of the classic characters familiar to us all through cartoons, entertainment and advertising look simple, that simplicity usually belies the many hours of work that have gone into their development.
01. Frankenstein
02. Iron Man
03. Pavlin
04. The Incredible Hulk
05. Captain Jack Sparrow
06. Art Ventura
07. Gangsta game character
08. Sgt. ROCK
09. Alien Vs Predator: Chess
10. Angelina Jolie
11. Wonded Ork
12. Spiderman 3
13. Dino Monsters
14. Don’t Feed the Plant
15. Tom Cruise
16. Cartoon Style
17. Gladiator
18. Obama
19. Pinokyo
20. Gollum
21. Skullhead Mobster
22. Young Chimp
23. Cowboy
24. Just What I Needed
25. Pixologic Superhero
26. Some Like it Cold
27. Mouse Love
28. Joker
29. Suzie
30. Benjamin Linus
31. Dark_Phoenix
32. Carlzon Portrait
33. Bernadette
34. KIKIYU
35. Gerard Butler
36. Bobby, The Little Octopus
37. Moe’s
38. Do you want fries with that?
39. Chef
40. Open Green
41. The Boxer
42. Sangyeng
43. Sergej, The False Clown
44. Old Guy Finished
45. Wolverine
46. Ingrid Bergman
47. Don Quixote de la Mancha
48. Commander
49. FATJON’s Performance
50. General Grievous
51. GOBLIN MECHANIC
52. The Last Move
53. John Locke
54. Fume
55. Grandma
56. Snake
57. Mistress Lili
58. Erasmo
59. THe Singularity
60. Al Pacino
61. Tarik the Axe Battler
62. The Great Flight
63. Captain America
64. Pelican
65. EVIL WITCH
66. Kookoo Bird
67. Young girl
68. TMNT
69. Charging Kudu
70. Bad To The Bone
71. Day of the tentacles
72. Robot – Octopus
73. Blood Elf
74. No-More-Wine!
75. White Teeth
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While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other great resources. Feel free to share it with us.
This is a great collection of amazing character designs.
I had to go through it twice to fully appreciate it.
Some terrific art work here!
Muy buen aporte, con una calidad super buena de trabajos. saludos desde mexico.
Wow, impressive list. Some are good, some are excellent, the rest is… anyway, my favorite is Ingrid Bergman!!!
Amazing Selection ! i love it !
Absolutely amazing art works.
Some of those are unbelievable that they’re actually computer-generated. My hats off to the guys and girls who can design this type of stuff. From what I’ve read, some of these graphics take weeks or even months to finish. Good job to all of the designers.
great :)
One word Awesome art works.
Excellent Collection
great collection of character designs
hoowow! amazing CG’s they are almost real
amazing, Bernadette it`s very realistic
Super amazing ones…
This is one AWESOME list !!
Many many many thanks ! :)
Brilliant character designs
Amazing collection! Thanks for sharing it! Especially Tom Cruise and Julie look as real ones .. fantastic work!!!
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very nice list….i love this characters
I bet characters # 29,40,42 will get the highest clicks :D
Really amazing seleciton of characters..
hahaha cool images :) EVIL WITCH was so ugly :))))
Nice..themes..!!!!!!!!
thanks
Really cool works ;)
Very funny especially grandma
Regarding the pic No.1 entitled ‘Frankenstein’. How is this Frankenstein ? This is the creation, the monster, if you prefer, which DR FRANKENSTEIN put together from various body parts. Whoever titled this pic is a fucking ignorant idiot.
All I can say is wowowowowo! AMAZING! I loved these! My favorite was the wolverine one :P
Really amazing seleciton of characters..
Amazing Selection
my favorite is Ingrid Bergman
Its a very nice art and great wow for this art.
Awesome and too Good! Amazing art.
weeww…
amazing art…
Goood Job !!!!!! :)
Wow, really amazing selection of character design! just what I needed for inspiration!!