Borja Montoro

Whilst i was carrying out research for character design inspiration I came across the work of Borja Montoro. Montorohas worked on numerous animated films over the years, including Tarzan, Zootopia and The Emperor's New Groove. As well as being an animator, he has done a lot of design work and visual development, and is therefore very skilled when it comes to producing dynamic character poses.

I came across countless examples of work that I found so interesting, and I found myself studying them and how they are drawn.

I even found myself wanting to trace some of the character poses, just so I could understand how they piece together and how they are drawn. In my opinion that is one of the best ways to figure out how a character is constructed, because I don't think looking at it is enough. Very similarly to some of the character designers I had come across previously, Montoro has the ability to create and work with characters that vary in almost every way. Weather it is an animal character, a child, an elderly person or a villain, all of the designs I have come across are all so different to one another.

This reinforced to me the importance of being adaptable as a designer. Also, whilst looking through the internet I also noticed that the designs had really good colour palettes that worked fantastically with the characters. This is something that stuck with me, because I think it is very easily to potentially spoil a design by using colours that do not do it justice. 

Once again after researching this work all I wanted to do was draw, because there was just so much inspirational content in front of me. It also made me embrace the fact that i don't have a singular set style of work.