PROJECT GOALS Designing Characters for Gamification
Cognizant academy has something called Gamification where batches are divided into worrior teams like Mongols, Vikings, Assyrians, Spartans and Huns. I was asked to design avatars for each team, five of each, to make the experience more fun colorful and interactive.
Step 1 The Drawing-board
The first step to making this possible was to hit the drawing board. I brushed up my history and studied attires for each team and modelled my chibi avatars based on them. Then i hand sketched each character on paper tweeking them to perfection.
Step 2 Characters and Color Schemes
Colors brings a picture to life, in this case characters from ancient history. So deciding on the proper colors was the most important part of this process
Step 3 Tracing
Now comes another important and the most time taking part of the task. TRACING. All the twenty-five characters were properly traced in layers.
Step 4 Badges
As a side project, i also designed badges for each team, which could be awarded to students as souvenirs from cognizant academy
TECHNOLOGY STACK TOOLS TO BRING THE PROJECT TO LIFE
The softwares being used for this project were: Adobe Illustrator CC.