{"id":5060,"date":"2020-05-20T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:28:27","slug":"good-vs-bad-character-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/good-vs-bad-character-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Good vs. bad character design: Tips and tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"Professional industry artists Brent Noll and Maximus Pauson, of the popular YouTube channel <a title=\"BaM Animation YouTube channel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@BaMAnimation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BaM Animation<\/a> break down good and bad character designs using the <strong>three fundamentals of clarity<\/strong>: <strong>silhouette<\/strong>, <strong>palette<\/strong>, and <strong>exaggeration<\/strong>. Characters that are clear in these three principles are easily recognizable in any art style.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5068\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/05\/BAM-Clarity-1024x524.png\" alt=\"BAM character design clarity\" width=\"1024\" height=\"524\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/05\/BAM-Clarity-1024x524.png 1024w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/05\/BAM-Clarity-980x501.png 980w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/05\/BAM-Clarity-480x245.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/>\n\nIn the informative and entertaining video below, Brent and Maximus examine iconic characters and redraw user-submitted works to demonstrate how making a few simple tweaks to a character can make a big improvement in visual communication.\n\nLearn how shape language, color language and exaggeration relate to character design and see how you can make improvements in your own characters. Need more help? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentandmax.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentandmax.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ubmit your own original art to BaM animation<\/a> and perhaps they'll feature it in an upcoming episode.\n\n<iframe title=\"GOOD vs BAD Character Design: Tips and Tricks!\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wm9ti-gzLM?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<h1>About BaM Animation<\/h1>\nBrent Noll and Maximus Pauson are artists working in the television animation industry, Together they have worked at most of the major studios. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentandmax.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And they want you to send them your own original art so they we can feature it on their show<\/a>. Learn more on their&nbsp;<a title=\"BaM Animation YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@BaMAnimation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/brentnoll.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brent Noll's website<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/maximusjpausontumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maximus Pauson's website.<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional industry artists Brent Noll and Maximus Pauson, of the popular YouTube channel BaM Animation break down good and bad character designs using the three fundamentals of clarity: silhouette, palette, and exaggeration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2326,2325,2318,2317,2338,6124,2550],"tags":[643,644,56,648],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","category-back-to-school","category-creative-inspiration","category-digital-drawing-painting","category-how-to","category-learn-character-design","category-learn-to-draw-with-wacom","tag-bam-animation","tag-brent-noll","tag-character-design","tag-maximus-pauson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}