Laura Pigott

PORTFOLIO

Alitonia

November 2012


The purpose of this project was to create a character which would be used in future projects, such as my Fairy Jigsaw Puzzle. This character design started on paper, and was then created in Adobe Illustrator CS6.

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Interesting Parts


  • The stripes on the fairy's sleeves are drawn within the arm, so they can be fully animated without breaking the exterior line of the sleeve.
  • I recently recreated the head of this Fairy in Java (through Processing), in order to better understand how the bezier() and bezierVertex() methods work.
  • This was built as a fully vector graphic, and so can be scaled to any size, without loss of quality.
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What I learned


  • I learned how to use the shape builder tool to combine and subtract shapes to create more complex graphics.
  • Creating symbols in Illustrator helped me to maintain consistency between repeating sections of the character e.g. eyelashes.
  • I gained great confidence in using the pen tool in Illustrator, along with the convert vertex tool, in order to outline specific shapes or sections of the character.
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