{"id":1562,"date":"2025-02-28T01:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T01:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2025-05-10T23:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T23:19:33","slug":"character-design-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2025\/02\/28\/character-design-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Design Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After I had completed looking at the responsibilities of a character designer, I decided to do research on a character designers pipeline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">But why do research on character pipeline?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am looking into how a pipeline serves a character designer and why it is such a great tool for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <strong>pipeline <\/strong>(in the context of games design) is something that refers to the structure of leading up to creating something in a video game, from concept to finalisation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I looked a 3D character design video by Edgeloop who has experience in the games design industry and I have taken notes of the steps a character design must take to get to the final product. Although I am not doing a 3D character, it\u2019s something that I may have to do something much later down the line in my career.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Character art pipeline in video game industry Part01\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZ8xfVyfvAY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-13-729x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-13-729x1024.jpeg 729w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-13-213x300.jpeg 213w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-13-768x1079.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-13-1093x1536.jpeg 1093w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-13-1457x2048.jpeg 1457w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-13.jpeg 1463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-14-640x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1565\" style=\"width:674px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-14-640x1024.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-14-187x300.jpeg 187w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-14-768x1229.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-14-960x1536.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-14.jpeg 1261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of these steps I have taken notes of, I will only do the first two. But as I have experience with making characters in a team, I made my own pipeline of how I plan on completing this role:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-46.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-46.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-46-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/02\/image-46-768x227.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How I applied this Pipeline into my work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have used this pipeline mainly for Yami, please check out the development of his design. It can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/category\/yami-development\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"67\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I had completed looking at the responsibilities of a character designer, I decided to do research on a character designers pipeline.&nbsp; But why do research on character pipeline? I am looking into how a pipeline serves a character designer and why it is such a great tool for them. A pipeline (in the context &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2025\/02\/28\/character-design-pipeline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Character Design Pipeline&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}