Hello and welcome!
I’m looking forward to having you all in class and designing using the awesomeness of Dungeons and Dragons. We will be creating characters, environments, props and designing stories using an industrial design process mixed in with the sensibilities of table top role playing games. Check back here often because I will be constantly updating it with resources for you to use!

Your first homework assignment is to design 3 characters! Here’s a quick rundown of what is expected:

Design your heroes!

Decide on the details of your character
- Name
- Species/Culture/Background
- Class or occupations, Employer, and Tools
- Ability scored (STR, DEX, WIS, INT, CON, CHA)
- Write at least 1 page about your character. Tell me what they like and don’t like, what motivates them, what they fear, what they want, what they need, what their flaws are and where they come from. Feel free to add anything else to the mix. Try to make the paragraphs imaginative and compelling. Remember the 3 levels of Identity:
  - Name, Species, Job, etc.
  - Wants, needs, flaws, affinities, cultures they belong to.
  - What does ___ mean to you (happiness, success, fear, etc.)
Reference Pages (aka mood boards
- 2 pages of design reference (1 page of look/costume; 1 page of emotion)
2 - 5 pages of initial design sketches for your character(s)

This assignment is due by the next class meeting. Please submit them to the dropbox using the submission link and on the Miro Board. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at fernando.olmedo@artcenter.edu

Peace
-Fernando Olmedo

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