关键词: 动物拟人性, 角色造型设计, 虚拟数字人, 狮子王, 卡西莫多

Abstract:

As a typical symbolic method of art creation, animal personification can fire the spark of character modeling design. To be specific, the method inspires character design, expands art creators’ way of thinking, enriches the presentation forms of character modeling, precisely refines character traits, sublimates the ideological connotations of characters, and provides viewers with sensual appreciation. Although the remarkable indication and symbolic virtuality of animal personification can enlighten us with new ideas for design, the very method is liable to lead us into dogmatism. Designers are therefore expected to be holistic, grounded in the reality of the performance and rooted in the characters’ identity. They need to go through four steps to complete their modeling design, namely “character analysis → animal selection→ extracted features of personification→ character integration”. With the integration of “art technology, meta-universe and virtual digital human”, there is a wide range of possibilities as far as the intermingling and transmutation of “character modeling design and virtual digital human” is concerned. The intrinsic qualities of animal personification of “remarkable indication and symbolic virtuality” demonstrate the inheritance and innovation of design concept, and provides profound speculation, interplay and inspiration in aspects of image text generation, character setting, game modeling development, animation character design, virtual digital human modeling creation, NFT art design, etc.

Key words: Animal personification, Character design, virtual digital human modeling creation, The Lion King, Quasimodo