Creating a Stylized Character Turnaround from Concept

by Tim Von Rueden

Hello Everyone and welcome to Creating a Character Turnaround from a Concept Piece tutorial!

In this tutorial I am taking you through the process of creating a character turnaround, the front,side and back, based on a concept art piece. Earlier this week I got back into working on a character concept for my illustrated novel and I decided that this would be a great opportunity to show you guys how to create a modeling turnaround sheet based of a single concept. While I was in school, I had to do this many times to help me see the different details and form while I was modeling. So this tutorial covers the stages of how I went about creating a turnaround for each of my character concepts.

DOWNLOAD PILOT TURNAROUND SHEETS

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Original Time: 1 hour, 10 min

Software: Photoshop

Below are some key frames from the tutorial highlighting the different stages of the turnaround creation!

1. I start out by creating guidelines to help keep his proportions in perspective. I focus on creating the shapes of the stylized character, so for this one, the body and head shape were the focus.

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2. After a sketchy initial layout, I work up the clean line work on top

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3. For the back view I can copy the front view over and erase the inside of the character and fill it in with the back details.

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4. For the side view I bring the front view up close and work with keeping everything lined up with each other.

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5. After all around clean up work, here is the final turnaround.

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If you would like to create a turnaround from more of an atomically correct concept piece, checkout this tutorial post about creating a male turnaround from a concept piece: HERE

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Thanks for watching! If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them in the section below!

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Discussion

8 Responses to “Creating a Stylized Character Turnaround from Concept”
  1. Jeff Bessette
    Posts: 101

    The movie file in the download is an old video from when you did the turnaround for the “guy with a shovel” concept. The video in the post is the correct one though.

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     Feb 7, 2013 at 6:42 pm
    • Tim Von Rueden
      Posts: 635

      Thanks for the bump, the correct turnaround is now in the download source files!

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       Feb 12, 2013 at 10:39 am
  2. Shane
    Posts: 4

    +1 nudge on the wrong download

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     Feb 8, 2013 at 10:13 pm
  3. RufioStill
    Posts: 1

    That’s awesome! What hardware did you use to draw it?

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     Feb 18, 2013 at 4:10 am
    • Tim Von Rueden
      Posts: 635

      I am using an iMac with Photoshop CS6 and using a wacom intuos 4 tablet =]

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       Feb 18, 2013 at 10:49 am
  4. alec farai
    Posts: 6

    can i have that picture for 3d ref

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     Feb 26, 2013 at 6:10 pm
  5. anshul verma
    Posts: 1

    hiiii.
    Can u tel me the script so that i can move my man character which have armature.

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     Mar 23, 2013 at 12:26 am

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