Getting a team of animation artists to all draw the same is a challenge. Aside from model sheets, a style guide can help with that. I saw excerpts from the King of the Hill style guide posted recently, and it reminded me of the Simpsons one I saw years ago.
Here are some links:
At the time I saw the Simpsons guide, we were looking at locking down character designs for our second Derf cartoon at Animatus. Inspired by all the”rights and wrongs” in the Simpsons doc, I made some similar notes for our Derf artists.
Here’s a doc I use to explain the steps we went through in revising Derf’s model sheets:
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