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Break down your cartoon into basic but interesting shapes.

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Exaggerate your eyes! They tell the soul of your character.

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Think about layering your shapes in front or behind other shapes.

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Create interesting, unusual 3-D structures by laying basic shapes on top of each other.

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Your cartoon will look more life-like if you use 2 colors to make 1 color.

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This rather complex nose shape is just 3 ovals on top of each other.

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This could be a guy or a gal depending on the hair you add.

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If you want to animate your cartoon, you will need to redraw it in different positions. Try copying it to a new slide and then reposition, rotate and scale the shapes.

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Goofy

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Stupid

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Mean

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Cute

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Happy

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Measures of success:
The soul is in your eyes!
Exaggerate!
Think 3D (layers and gradated colors)
Break your solution into groups that can be interchanged.

17. Wow … This is a lot of WORK!!!
Brace yourself there, rookie. If you want to be a hot shot game designer or animator, you better be prepared to put in some long hours.
Usually, good things don’t come easy.
Choose and Use Trick #1:
Collect and sort materials.
Who will find the needed parts first?
Builder # or Builder #2

18. No intelligent life down here!
Beam me up Scotty.
No intelligent life down here!

19. Hard work, work! Do’in my job!

20. Be cool …

21. Make love, not war!

22. Dance ‘til the sun comes up …

23. Don’t worry, be happy!

24. Let’s try it … Goal for paper airplane alien pilot.
You want to see your pilot from both sides
of the paper airplane.

25. Draw circle or ellipse.

26. Color and then layer a pupil circle.

27. Layer a highlight circle and group.

28. Copy and mirror and rotate.

29. Add head using curved line tool.

30. Bring to back and gradiate color.

31. Use scribble tool to add hair.

32. Use curved line tool to make mouth.

33. Group and shrink.

34. Add trapazoid, bring to back and experiment.