Character Development

Character Model Sheet for “Abe” Sheldon FrenchAssignment 4, ANIM 321

Character Model Sheet for “Abe”Oct. 3 2011

Basic Statistics

Born in a backwoods cabin on February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky. Honest Abe’s accomplishments as the 16th president of the United States included roles in preserving the Union during the American Civil War, and in the emancipation of the slaves. President Lincoln’s life was unexpectedly cut short by assassination at the hands of John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 6’ 4’’

Weight: 180 lbs

Race: Caucasian

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Black

Glasses or contact lenses? None

Skin color: Apercote

Shape of Face: elongated rectangle

Distinguishing features: Nose and Beard

Personality

Among American heroes, Lincoln continues to have a unique appeal for his fellow countrymen and also for people of other lands. This charm derives from his remarkable life story—the rise from humble origins, the dramatic death—and from his distinctively human and humane personality as well as from his historical role as savior of the Union and emancipator of the slaves. His relevance endures and grows especially because of his abilitites as a spokesman for democracy. In his view, the Union was worth saving not only for its own sake but because it embodied an ideal, the ideal of self-government

Sheldon FrenchAssignment 4, ANIM 321


Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes

and Attitudes

Educational Background: Law degree

Intelligence Level: Very Intelligent

Any Mental Illnesses? No

What motivates this character? The ensure prosperity of the nation

Is the character generally polite or rude? Polite

Spiritual Characteristics

Does the character believe in God? Yes

What are the character’s spiritual beliefs? Christian

Emotional Characteristics

Strengths/Weaknesses: Very intuitive

Introvert or Extrovert? Introvert










































































Character Model Sheet for “The Wanderer”Nov. 15 2011

Name: The Wanderer

Age: Unknown

Current Residence: The Ruins of Estera

Occupation: Monk

Talents/Skills: Telepathy, Extraterrestrial powers, skilled hand to hand combat

Birth order: Only child

Relationship skills: Very low key doesn’t like to make relationships with other individuals due to the fact that he loses all that are close to him as long as he is the protector of the mystic energy.



Weight: 135

Race: Terasidian (apart of the monk culture)

Eye Color: A mixed blue and purple shade that is highly reflective like glass

Hair Color: None

Skin color: A blue hue mixed with light green blue

Shape of Face: Like that of a pterodactyl

Distinguishing features: Eyes, arms, back spike, poncho

Personality

How does he/she dress? Wears a western style that is magically enchanted to hide the glow the extraterrestrial energy within him

Mannerisms: Slight sterness

Health: Slowly failing due to the energy within him beginning to disperse free from his body

Speech patterns: archaic English (much like yoda’s speech patterns)

Greatest flaw: He knows that the energy within him isn’t meant for no one of this world but little does he know the impact that will occur once the energy finally dispels from his body



Best quality: Very insightful

Learning Experiences: Learned the arts of Telepathy and the sacred scriptures of the Gods of Tera

Character’s short-term goals in life: Find out the true nature of the sacred energy

Character’s long-term goals in life: Live a tranquil life

How does Character believe he/she is

perceived by others? To be distant and always excluding himself from contact with others

Does the character seem ruled by emotion

or logic or some combination thereof? A combination of both but more so logic

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background:

Intelligence Level: High

What would the character like to change in his/her life? Getting the sacred energy within him out of himself

What motivates this character? The continuation of his kind and others from this sacred energy

What frightens this character? Not knowing the true nature of the sacred energy

Is the character generous or stingy? Generous



Does the character believe in God?

What are the character’s spiritual beliefs?

Is religion or spirituality a part of this

character’s life? Yes

If so, what role does it play? His kind is polytheistic culture believing in the Gods of Tera who created this sacred energy that tip the fact of existence. They be-lieved one of their kind would be chosen one to protect this energy until the fatal day the energy fully dispersed.





How does the character deal with anger? Represses his anger to stay calm in all situations

With loss? Believes that individuals are never really gone they have instead joined the Gods of Tera

What does the character want out of life? To not only protect the sacred energy but to ensure the continuation of his culture and of others free from the fate of the sacred energy


















































































Character Model Sheet for “Tupek”Sept. 28 2011

Name: Tupek

Age: 8

Hometown: Thule Village in Greenland, (200 miles north of Nuuk)

Current Residence: Thule

Occupation: Student, Sage in Training

Talents/Skills: Soap Sculpting, Spirit Whispering, Fishing, Hunting

Birth Order: Only Child

Grandparents: Grandmother Agloo

Parents: Dead

Relationship Skills: Outgoing, Sharing, Creative


Height: 3’4”

Weight: 68lbs

Race: Inuit

Eye Color: Left eye is White, Right eye is Black

Skin Color: Beige

Shape of Face: Seed

Personality

Habits: Playing with spirit rabbits, turtle surfing, laughing, sculpting

How does he dress?: Wears wool long johns with drawstrings on the back. When out-side, Tupek wears a thick coat and pants made from wolf pelt. His shoes are made from dear skin. Tupek wears bells around his neck and on his shoes to attract young fledgling spirits. Tupek lets his grandmother dress him.

Mannerisms: Clumsy, Runs fast but trips, speaks quickly, great listener.

Health: Perfect Health, not very chubby.

Hobbies: Soap Carving, Hiking, climbing, surfing

Speech Patterns: Speaks informal english with grandmother and friends. Speaks formal english with villagers and teachers.

Style: Shabby, Well Equipped. Wears bells, fangs, and backpack with spirit whispering and sculpting supplies.

Best Quality: Young

Learning Experiences: Tupek goes to a Tribal school that teaches him about the ancient Inuit religion and history. Tupek is special because he possesses the inherited abili-ties to whisper with spirits using soap carving. Tupek has seen spirits, small and large, graceful and monstrous, life giving and disastrous.

Self Perception: Tupek knows he’s special. He’s disciplined enough to believe he’s not very acquainted with the older spirits.

Other’s Perception: Tupek’s grandmother loves him like he was her last bit of happiness in the world. His teachers are hard on him. Tupek only has a few friends. They call him Bean Sprout and treat him like a baby. The spirits on the other hand see Tupek as a very unusual person and either treat him with respect or disgust.

Self-Confident: Tupek is very confident in himself but he doesn’t flaunt it.

Tupek is ruled by emotion.

Tupek would be most embarrassed by telling others what the spirits tell him.



Educational Background: Elementary School academics. Knowledgable of Inuit Religion, Etymology, Mysticism

Intelligence Level: Smart for his age.

Tupek just wants to have fun right now, but he is aware that he has responsibilities. He wants to learn and protect his grandmother and the forest from harm.

Tupek is motivated by the mystery behind the reflections of spirits in the ice and the Aurora Borealis.

Tupek is frightened by the inhuman spirits who feed on small spirits. He’s most afraid of their faces that have no consistent structure.

Tupek is happy when he’s having fun. He has more fun with animals than humans.

Tupek is judgmental of others because his friends may try to use him.

Tupek is both generous and stingy. If he really likes something, he’ll easily want to eat it all himself.

Tupek is very polite.

Tupek believes in the Ancient Spirits of the Arctic. He

Tupek is very traditional with his spirituality and follows all of the customs.

Tupek can pray and commune with spirits, young and old, in his waking and sleeping state. Still, he must sculpt the most ancient of animal spirits and pray in order to commune with them. In order to summon them properly, he must first learn the ancient scripture that inspires the original symbol behind the character. Tupek keeps a pad with him his bag that he still studies. Sometimes these spirits will have very circumstantial situations that will require Tupek’s aid.

Tupek is very loyal to the people he loves the most and will drop everything to take care of them first. No questions asked.

In order to conquer conflict, Tupek is great at communicating his feelings and thoughts. He isn’t smart, but he is a great listener and can learn the situa-tion quickly.

Tupek would have a very hard time dealing with loss.

At this age, Tupek wants to be a very powerful whisperer. He wants to be the circle of protection for his tribe, grandmother, and the forest.

Tupek is curious and goes on nature walks by himself. His grandmother doesn’t seem to mind, possibly because he’s too much for her to keep up with. Tupek and his grandmother both know that if Tupek is in danger, he has the spirits to protect him.






































Character Model Sheet for “Collin David”Sept. 21 2011

Basic Statistics

Collin David, a 34 year old, high school psychology teacher practicing in New Hampshire lived a very solemn life in the town of Chichester. Being youngest of five children in his family Collin kept to himself being a very introspective individual. Being such an introvert Collin found himself always thinking of concepts of various natures, this consistent mind probing made him a yearly winner at the science fair as a child. This mild mannered scholar continued his success studying at Yale receiving his graduate degree in social/personality. Such a reserved closed in individual he was as a child carried over into his adult life an educator, being able to construct a class course but personally dissociated from his students and colleagues. Until he meets a free-lance artist by the name of Myra, her expressiveness and booming personality slowly got Collin of his personal bubble. The two married three year later, with a child fast approach-ing in the winter of the following year. Yet, a home invasion while Collin was at work lead to the death of his wife and child and authorities unable to find the suspect led to Collin’s psychotic episode. Such a tragedy made him lose all value for life and began killing throughout the U.S. his killings made him infamous throughout the nation. As a child he had a fascination for rag dolls and soon made it a hobby of making his own becoming a talent of his. This same talent is what he did to his victims when he killed him.



Weight: 165

Race: Caucasian

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: None

Glasses or contact lenses? Glasses

Skin color: Pale

Shape of Face: elongated rectangle

Distinguishing features: mouth

Personality

Collin was a typical blue collar individual very conservative and neat in his wardrobe. He tends to talk to himself in the third person when alone and frustrated while in public he can appear absent minded due to his introverted personality. In conversations he is appears bland in his speech usually speaking in broad undertones that make individuals question his position on subjects. Being such a closed in person Collin allows his frustrations and tribulations build up in his mind never finding other methods to transfer his issues. Before the death of his wife and child he had hoped to start a family and stray away from being so con-servative and more expressive but with their untimely death brought him only agony. His motivation to kill is to find peace and in some fashion being surrounded by death or being the cause of it now is how he feels close to his family.



Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes

and Attitudes

Educational Background: Master’s in social/personality psychology

Intelligence Level: Very Intelligent

Any Mental Illnesses? Speaks himself in the third person

What would the character like to change in

his/her life? To have his wife and child back

What motivates this character? Making peace with himself and being connected to his family

What makes this character happy? Knowing one day he will be reunited with his wife and child



Does the character believe in God? At one point he did before losing his family

What are the character’s spiritual beliefs? Christian

Is religion or spirituality a part of this

character’s life? Not anymore


Strengths/Weaknesses: Very intuitive


How does the character deal with anger? Talks to himself in the third person

With loss? Has become a serial killer after the death of his family

























Character Model Sheet for “Zar” Sheldon FrenchAssignment 3, ANIM 321

Character Model Sheet for “Zar”Nov. 15 2011

Basic Statistics

Name: Zar

Age: Unknown

Nationality: Zarian

Socioeconomic Level as a child: Trained like a soldier in boot camp style environment

Socioeconomic Level as an adult: Have to past an initiation stage in order to be consider a soldier. Other positions require more thorough testing

Hometown: Planet Alkaline/ Sector B/ Metalorian System

Occupation: Assassin

Talents/Skills: Shapershifter, super strength, agile

Birth order: One of numerous breeds of soldiers



Weight: 167 lbs

Race: Zarian

Skin color: Multicolored

Shape of Face: Ski mask

Distinguishing features: Lack of eyes, long arms, claw-like hands



Personality

Mannerisms: Stone cold killer always focused on the assignment

Health: Highbred species fully equipped to handle deep space

Best quality: Once they take the form of another person it is very difficult to distinguish them from the original host

Learning Experiences:

Character’s long-term goals in life: Carry out its orders and serve the Zarian nation proudly

How self-confident is the character? Having a 99% successful kill rating has created a high self-confidence in most assassins of this race

What would most embarrass this character? Not carrying out his assignment
























Character Model Sheet for “Shane Lui”Sept. 15 2011

Basic Statistics

Raised in Hong Kong, Shane Lui was the only child of a wealthy tycoon father and housewife mother. The Han Chinese (Hakka Han) Shane enjoyed his lei-surely life of high class attention and appeal. Being an only child Shane’s high class, workless lifestyle would soon be geared to following into the footsteps of his tycoon father though Shane enjoyed creating minature wood minarets, a skill picked up and perfected in his pastime. The death of his father and mother by the yakuza brought an end to his lavish lifestyle due to the father’s under dealings in his shipping business. With no source of income and taking the road of becoming a tycoon like his father seeming to dangerous Shane lived on the streets as a wanderer.



Weight: 145lbs

Race: Han Chinese (Hakka Han)

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: None

Glasses or contact lenses? None

Skin color: Purple and blue

Shape of Face: Kangaroo Head

Distinguishing features: Eye brows and eyes

Personality

Shane tends to lose focus if talked to for a long period of time and will begin to start sculpting a wood minaret in individual’s presence if he finds the con-versation boring. Shane is a very low key guy but looking at him you can tell he’s a piece of work. Due to his sudden lifestyle change Shane care less of his immediate and distant future he sees himself only wandering doing whatever he pleases. He isn’t fazed by how his is viewed by others he still feels like he rules his own world even with the circumstance he is in being a wanderer. Yet even with all that confidence he is embarrassed when you find a flaw in his minarets he creates.



Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background: Private Schooling

Intelligence Level: Average

Any Mental Illnesses? None

What would the character like to change in

his/her life? His current wanderer lifestyle

What motivates this character? none

What frightens this character? none

What makes this character happy? Making his minarets

Is the character judgmental of others? Yes

Is the character generous or stingy? stingy

Is the character generally polite or rude? Rude


Does the character believe in God? No


How does the character deal with anger? Punches people randomely

With sadness? Makes his minarets

With conflict? Rude humor

What does the character want out of life? For life to leave him be



















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