Building a convincing persona for my character.

I need to build up a convincing persona for my character nod the ninja. i need to create a personality and physical attributes which can aid me in expressing his feelings and emotions through animation on the screen.

I have created some illustrations which show the true traits of a stereotypical ninja and the persona i want my character to have. this is a great visual way of explaining this persona creation process.

this is the stereo typical persona a ninja has, being all of the below...

And this is how i want nod to behave and to carry himself (His personality and traits)...

when i came up with an idea for a character, a ninja was one of the first ideas i had, but i wanted to do the opposite of a ninja and that is how i came up with nod the ninja. basically taking all the traits of a ninja and then reversing them to make him lazy, slow and clumbsy. I think these will be good traits to express on screen and aid in the character expression process. when i was thinking of a name Nod popped into my head and was the perfect example of his personality, and it also rhymes which is always a bonus when coming up with a character.

Expressing his persona through his physical appearance...

If you look at the way i have designed nod it is to gain maximum personality not only through his movements and behaviors but his Physical appearance too.

He is quite small and fat, this helps in aiding his lazy personality. i also made his limbs quite small and stubby to create a cute and funny aspect to his looks. the addition of small eyes and overall small and stumpy appearance helps in giving a cartoony comedy feel to him but keeping the cartoony ninja appearance. one of the key factors is his oversized head, everyone loves a cartoon character with a massive head its great for the cute, comedy factor and really helps express his overall personality visually.

overall i am pleased with the persona i have created for nod and i think it should work really well on screen, as just as a static illustration he already says allot about himself so its a really good start and should prove to be interesting.