This course aims at equipping students with the principles and skills to develop engaging characters to drive animation story with dramatic and emotional impacts. The course will focus on the bipedal character creation process to reflect the complexity of characters' personalities in animation. Students will learn the visual aspects of character design covering facial features, body proportion, anatomical structure, posing, and custom styles and evolve the creative decisions based on the research and development of the characters' profiles and personalities. In addition to the conceptual and visual development, students will model, rig and texture the characters.