How anime is created. How to create your own anime or your own manga character

Whether you're working on creating your own character, and even if you just want to write fan fiction for your favorite anime, or you want to create a character that will be interesting and make people read your story (without turning into a Mary Sue!) WikiHow can teach you how to create interesting characters, as well as teaching you how to draw them! Start with Step 1 below or check the Table of Contents above for more detailed help.

Steps

Part 1

Search for personalities

Determine your blood type. Blood type is seen as a general indicator of personality in Japan. You can use this to determine what your character will be like. Blood types and associated personality traits:

O - confident, optimistic and strong-willed, but at the same time self-centered, unpredictable
A - creative, reserved, responsible, but also stubborn and intense
B - active and passionate, but also selfish and irresponsible
AB - adaptive and rational, but also absent-minded and critical

Select your date of birth. To define individuality, you can use both Western and Eastern Zodiac. You can use this to determine a character's age or date of birth.

Use the Mayer-Brigg indicator. If you are really passionate about the idea of creating full portrait your hero, you can take the Myer-Brigg test. Personality types based on the study of psychology can be useful to fully reflect your character.

Use the personality balancer. You will also want to personal qualities your hero were balanced. To create a convincing, believable image, you need a balance of positive and negative qualities. Count the bad ones and good features of your character and try to make it smaller negative qualities. At the end of your story, the hero evolves and gets rid of the couple bad qualities. Examples of negative aspects:
- Manipulator
- Lies often
- Disappoints others
- Doesn't think about relationships with others
- Focuses only on own goals
- Poor control of emotions
- Often touchy, even to minor or accidental slights
- Often careless and impulsive
Give the hero a great name. Many people believe that a name can influence one's personality. Studies have shown that people with incompatible names often get sick and suffer from personality disorders as a result of these illnesses. Some even believe that a name can completely define a person’s essence. True or not, this will help you determine the name.
- Try to avoid using unusual names that are inconsistent with reality. This makes your character irrelevant.
Part 2
Creation interesting story
1. Determine your hero's final goal. Where do you want your character's story to end? What is the lesson from this story? What would you like to teach the hero, what to change? You can show a comparison of your hero at the end and at the beginning of the story.
  
  Think about where it all began. Knowing how it all ended, you need to determine where it all began. This should be a logical start to the result at the end. If you want to show a hero who learns to value others, you must accordingly show at the beginning of the story how he does not value others.
  
  Decide how the hero came to change. Think about when you want to make the beginning and end of the story. In particular, what contributed to such changes in the character of the hero? It is in these reflections that you can find brilliant idea for your story, because what led to the changes in the character's character can become a great plot or even an entire storyline.
  
  Avoid cliches. His girlfriend was killed. He has been an orphan since childhood. He grows up to be an immortal boy. All these cliches will jump over the stage of the beginning of character development. And since these are stamps, they will only get in the way. Try to avoid them. The originality of your work lies precisely in the development of your hero. This is what will make people more interested in your character and make them want to do the same as the hero of your story.
Part 3
Drawing a hero
Part 4
Bringing your skills to life
1. Keep training! The more practice you have, the better you get.
- Try to draw your character over and over again to get a feel for what works and what doesn't. The more you get used to drawing a hero, the easier it will be for you to depict him in a given situation. It will even improve your artistic ability over time, so don't worry if the hero looks a little awkward or weird at first. Also try to draw your character from different angles.
- If the hero seems too bland, that's okay! Get some criticism from experts or people who are also interested in this. If you create a public character, you will receive feedback from the target audience.
- When creating an image, do not overdo it with special effects. You don’t want to see 3 cool belts, 5 attractive bracelets and 8 machine guns on your hero! Keep it simple. Remember that a small person must first go a long way!
- Check these blood types and values:
  - O - cheerful, open, caring, energetic
  - A - even-tempered, cool, caring, positive
  - B - even-tempered, cool, negative with occasional expressions of joy
  - AB - prone to exaggeration, cheerful, positive thinker, cool, great personality!
- The shade can make your character more attractive. Shadows should be applied so that it is clear where the light is coming from. Shadows under the hair, between the strands, at the bottom of the neck and in clothes. Make the shadows lighter in the inner recesses and darker on the external elements. Don't overdo it with shadows either.
  - Here's how to draw an eye - draw a circle and then make two curved lines - one above, covering a small part of the circle, and the second similar below. Add a small circle in the center of the circle and add a couple of bubbles in big circle. Make small lines coming out of the small circle. The length of the lines is equal to half the distance between the smaller and big circles. Add shadows and you're done.
- You can make your character special by adding marks or scars.
- If you find it difficult to come up with something new, remember what you have seen in anime/manga before. Then connect or select features for your hero.
- Observe the people around you. You can use someone as a character.
- Practice drawing as much as you can. You will be rewarded for this later with compliments on your drawings.
Warnings
- Be careful not to plagiarize other anime or manga.
- Draw your line sketches lightly, otherwise you won't be able to erase them.
- Don't draw their weapons as huge! You don't want your hero to carry a five-foot sword! Simplify. Just make the sword big enough for the hero to defend himself
- Don't draw too big eyes.
- We plunge into the world of fantasy, as a rule, in order to get away from problems in real life and from from real social interaction. If you decide to contribute to the anime or manga world, try to join a club to make sure you still keep in touch with reality

How to create own anime or your manga character

If you're working on creating your own character, and even if you just want to write fanfiction for your favorite anime, or you want to create a character that will be interesting and make people read your story (without turning into a Mary Sue!)

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Part 1 of 4: Search for personalities.

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_I. Determine your blood type._

Blood type is seen as a general indicator of personality in Japan. You can use this to determine what your character will be like. Blood types and associated personality traits:

O - confident, optimistic and strong-willed, but at the same time self-centered and unpredictable.

A - creative, reserved, responsible, but also stubborn and intense.

B is active and passionate, but also selfish and irresponsible.

AB is adaptive and rational, but also absent-minded and critical.

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II. Select your date of birth._

To determine individuality, you can use both the Western and Eastern Zodiac. You can use this to determine a character's age or date of birth.

III. Use the Mayer-Brigg indicator._

If you are really passionate about creating a full portrait of your hero, you can take the Myer-Brigg test. Personality types based on the study of psychology can be useful to fully reflect your character.

IV. Use the personality balancer._

You'll also want your character's personality traits to be balanced. To create a convincing, believable image, you need a balance of positive and negative qualities. Count the bad and good traits of your character and try to make fewer negative traits. At the end of your story, the hero develops and gets rid of a couple of bad qualities. Examples of negative aspects:

Manipulator;

Lies often;

Disappoints others;

Does not think about relationships with others;

Focuses only on one's own goals;

Poor control of emotions;

Often touchy, even to minor or accidental insults;

Often careless and impulsive;

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V. Give the hero a great name._

Many people believe that a name can influence one's personality. Studies have shown that people with incompatible names often get sick and suffer from personality disorders as a result of these illnesses. Some even believe that a name can completely define a person’s essence. True or not, this will help you determine the name.

P.S. Try to avoid using unusual names that are inconsistent with reality. This makes your character irrelevant).

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Part 2 of 4: Creating an interesting story.

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_I. Determine your hero's final goal._

Where do you want your character's story to end? What is the lesson from this story? What would you like to teach the hero, what to change? You can show a comparison of your hero at the end and at the beginning of the story.

_______________________________________

II. Think about how it all began._

Knowing how it all ended, you need to determine where it all began. This should be a logical start to the result at the end. If you want to show a hero who learns to value others, you must accordingly show at the beginning of the story how he does not value others.

_______________________________________

III. Decide how the hero came to change._

Think about when you want to make the beginning and end of the story. In particular, what contributed to such changes in the character of the hero? It is in these reflections that you can find a brilliant idea for your story, because what led to the changes in the character's character can become a great plot or even an entire storyline.

(Ahem:grin: :fire:)

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IV. Avoid cliches._

His girlfriend was killed. He has been an orphan since childhood. He grows up to be an immortal boy. All these cliches will jump over the stage of the beginning of character development. And since these are stamps, they will only get in the way.

Try to avoid them. The originality of your work lies precisely in the development of your hero. This is what will make people more interested in your character and make them want to do the same as the hero of your story.

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Part 3 of 4: Drawing a hero.

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I. Select a style._

Different types anime and manga are often drawn in different styles. You can use both your own style and the look of classic artists for various genres. Shoyo and Shonen anime, as well as manga, are the two closest genres.

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II. Draw a hero._

Remember that cute characters are usually drawn with big eyes, while cool characters have small, narrowed eyes. Check out the tools on how to draw your character:

Here's how to draw an anime character:

**Anime guy;

**Anime face;

**Anime eyes.

Here's how to draw a manga character:

**Manga head;

**Girl manga;

**Manga girl face;

**Manga hair.

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III. Take design cues from the character's personality and history._

Add clothes and accessories. Your choices should highlight the character's personality and history. For example, if your character is a girl who loves practicality in everything, depict her in comfortable, flat shoes, and not in heels. If you want to highlight your hero’s past, come up with something that he will wear on himself or with him as a reminder of something important. Be creative!

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Part 4 of 4: Bringing Your Skills to Life.

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Study human anatomy._

Creating a character that looks great starts with basic knowledge of anatomy. You wouldn't want your character to have too many or too few muscles, too many or few joints, a disproportionate body, etc. Get a good anatomy book and study the arrangement of bones and muscles, where they bend and extend.

(Study anatomy correctly. :ok_hand: :sparkles:)

Thanks for reading this. I hope you found something useful and I helped you a little. :purple_heart:

Every anime lover has at least once wondered how his favorite anime films and TV series are created. It may seem only at first glance that creating an anime is very simple. In fact, this entire labor-intensive process can be divided into several stages.

The first and most main stage– search for an idea and money for its implementation. Long before drawing the first frame, the creators come up with their own plot or take a certain manga or game as a basis. By the way, money plays a fundamental role in anime production, so the initiator of the creation of a series or film is usually a studio or company promoting its product. For example, it takes an average of 150-300 thousand dollars to create one episode lasting twenty-five minutes.

After the money to create the anime has been found, the second stage begins - writing a script and working out all the details of the plot. The plot must be coherent and logical. The script is usually handled by either one screenwriter or the whole team of people. If the original source (manga or game) is taken as a basis, then the opinion of its author has heaviest weight in solving all problems that arise during the work process creative issues, such as the color of the main character's clothing or the twist in the storyline.

After a long (or not so long) discussion of the script and its approval, specialists begin storyboarding. This is a rather lengthy process during which the anime looks more like the manga. The main director or the director of a certain episode sequentially draws scenes on a regular A4 sheet as they will look directly in the anime. A storyboard is a rough sketch that focuses on the main characters, camera positions, and main objects on screen. It is noteworthy that each series can include three hundred or more scenes, the drawing of which takes about three weeks. By the way, this moment is very comically and clearly depicted in the anime called “White Box”: when the team did not meet the schedule, the director had to be locked in a cage so that he could draw storyboards for the last episodes of the series all day long.

Before drawing a storyboard, it is very important to create images of the characters suitable for animation. Therefore, designers are faced with a non-trivial task: to preserve appearance characters depicted in the original source, but simplify it so much that the animation of each frame does not turn into a real nightmare for the artist.

When the design and storyboarding are done, the team starts drawing layouts. Layout is an image of a certain scene, taken from a storyboard, but already drawn on large sheet paper. Layout artists, under the supervision of directors, note different colors places that are the background, and then emphasize the animated parts of the picture, called “cels”. As a rule, here the character is depicted on a transparent sheet of paper separately from the background. Artists then write down camera movement instructions and other details that the animators will need to complete their work. The finished drawings are scanned, and then one copy is given to the background artists and the other to the keyframe animators.

Key frames are a kind of framework for the entire animation, which can subsequently be further developed and ultimately becomes exactly what viewers see on the screen. This is the name of the main positions in which the characters and the objects surrounding them are located during movement.

Keyframe animators draw a set number of frames per second of time. Speed usually depends on the task at hand and the scene itself. Drawing keyframes is quite difficult and really creative process. The quality of animation depends on these animators, because it is very important to show vivid emotions and correctly convey the dynamics of the characters’ actions.

Most often, not one, but several key animators are involved in the work. Therefore, there may be a risk of mismatched patterns and inconsistency with each other. Animation directors usually deal with this problem. They check the drawings of all the key animators and may even redraw some fragments.

The finished animation and drawn backgrounds are scanned and painted in special program on the computer. The animated frames are then superimposed onto the background. Management team The studio reviews the finished material and either sends it for revision or approves it, and then sits down to work on the next scene. When all the scenes in the episode are ready, the material is transferred to the recording studio, where the characters get their voices.

After all the work done, the anime is ready!

Content:

Whether you're working on creating your own character, and even if you just want to write fan fiction for your favorite anime, or you want to create a character that will be interesting and make people read your story (without turning into a Mary Sue!) WikiHow can teach you how to create interesting characters, as well as teach you how to draw them! Start with Step 1 below or check the Table of Contents above for more detailed help.

Steps

Part 1 Search for personalities

1 Determine your blood type. Blood type is seen as a general indicator of personality in Japan. You can use this to determine what your character will be like. Blood types and associated personality traits:
- O - confident, optimistic and strong-willed, but at the same time self-centered, unpredictable
- A - creative, reserved, responsible, but also stubborn and intense
- B - active and passionate, but also selfish and irresponsible
- AB - adaptive and rational, but also absent-minded and critical
2 Select your date of birth. To determine individuality, you can use both the Western and Eastern Zodiac. You can use this to determine a character's age or date of birth.
3 Use the Mayer-Brigg indicator. If you are really passionate about creating a full portrait of your hero, you can take the Myer-Brigg test. Personality types based on the study of psychology can be useful to fully reflect your character.
4 Use the personality balancer. You'll also want your character's personality traits to be balanced. To create a convincing, believable image, you need a balance of positive and negative qualities. Count the bad and good traits of your character and try to make fewer negative traits. At the end of your story, the hero develops and gets rid of a couple of bad qualities. Examples of negative aspects:
- Manipulator
- Lies often
- Disappoints others
- Doesn't think about relationships with others
- Focuses only on own goals
- Poor control of emotions
- Often touchy, even to minor or accidental slights
- Often careless and impulsive
5 Give the hero a great name. Many people believe that a name can influence one's personality. Studies have shown that people with incompatible names often get sick and suffer from personality disorders as a result of these illnesses. Some even believe that a name can completely define a person’s essence. True or not, this will help you determine the name.
- Try to avoid using unusual names that are inconsistent with reality. This makes your character irrelevant.

Part 2 Creating an interesting story

1 Determine your hero's final goal. Where do you want your character's story to end? What is the lesson from this story? What would you like to teach the hero, what to change? You can show a comparison of your hero at the end and at the beginning of the story.
2 Think about where it all began. Knowing how it all ended, you need to determine where it all began. This should be a logical start to the result at the end. If you want to show a hero who learns to value others, you must accordingly show at the beginning of the story how he does not value others.
3 Decide how the hero came to change. Think about when you want to make the beginning and end of the story. In particular, what contributed to such changes in the character of the hero? It is in these reflections that you can find a brilliant idea for your story, because what led to the changes in the character's character can become a great plot or even an entire storyline.
4 Avoid cliches. His girlfriend was killed. He has been an orphan since childhood. He grows up to be an immortal boy. All these cliches will jump over the stage of the beginning of character development. And since these are stamps, they will only get in the way. Try to avoid them. The originality of your work lies precisely in the development of your hero. This is what will make people more interested in your character and make them want to do the same as the hero of your story.

Part 3 Drawing a hero

1 Choose a style. Different types of anime and manga are often drawn in different styles. You can use both your own style and the look of classic artists for various genres. Shoyo and Shonen anime, as well as manga, are the two closest genres.
2 Draw a hero. Remember that cute characters are usually drawn with large eyes, while cool characters are usually drawn with small, narrowed eyes. Check out the tools on how to draw your character:
- Here's how to draw an anime character:
  - anime guy
  - Anime face
  - Anime eyes
- Here's how to draw a manga character:
  - Manga head
  - Manga girl
  - Manga girl face
  - manga hair
3 Take design cues from the character's personality and history.

Part 4 Bringing Your Skills to Life

1 Study human anatomy. Creating a character that looks great starts with basic knowledge of anatomy. You wouldn't want your character to have too many or too few muscles, too many or few joints, a disproportionate body, etc. Get a good anatomy book and study the arrangement of bones and muscles, where they bend and extend.
2 Draw from life. Creating a manga character requires basic knowledge of the human body structure. The easier it is for you to draw a person, the easier it will be to draw manga. So start by drawing (for experience) your friends and even yourself while sitting in front of the mirror.
3 Use different, dynamic poses. To draw your character in a certain pose, take a photo of yourself in that pose and try to draw your character as well. You can also use the companion site PoseManiacs.
- As you draw these poses, try to keep a picture of the anatomy in mind. You don't want your character to end up looking like Rob Liefeld's drawings.
4 Keep training! The more practice you have, the better you get.

Try to draw your character over and over again to get a feel for what works and what doesn't. The more you get used to drawing a hero, the easier it will be for you to depict him in a given situation. It will even improve your artistic abilities over time, so don't worry if the hero looks a little awkward or weird at first. Also try to draw your character from different angles.
If the hero seems too bland, that's okay! Get some criticism from experts or people who are also interested in this. If you are creating a public character, get feedback from your target audience.
When creating an image, do not overdo it with special effects. You don’t want to see 3 cool belts, 5 attractive bracelets and 8 machine guns on your hero! Keep it simple. Remember that a small person must first go a long way!
Check these blood types and values:
- O - cheerful, open, caring, energetic
- A - even-tempered, cool, caring, positive
- B - even-tempered, cool, negative with occasional expressions of joy
- AB - prone to exaggeration, cheerful, positive thinker, cool, great personality!
The shade can make your character more attractive. Shadows should be applied so that it is clear where the light is coming from. Shadows under the hair, between the strands, at the bottom of the neck and in clothes. Make the shadows lighter in the inner recesses and darker on the outer elements. Don't overdo it with shadows either.
- Here's how to draw an eye - draw a circle and then make two curved lines - one above, covering a small part of the circle, and the second similar below. Add a small circle in the center of the circle and add a couple of bubbles in the larger circle. Make small lines coming out of the small circle. The length of the lines is equal to half the distance between the smaller and larger circles. Add shadows and you're done.
You can make your character special by adding marks or scars.
If you find it difficult to come up with something new, remember what you have seen in anime/manga before. Then connect or select features for your hero.
Observe the people around you. You can use someone as a character.
Practice drawing as much as you can. You will be rewarded for this later with compliments on your drawings.

Warnings

Be careful not to plagiarize other anime or manga.
Draw your line sketches lightly, otherwise you won't be able to erase them.
Don't draw their weapons as huge! You don't want your hero to carry a five-foot sword! Simplify. Just make the sword big enough for the hero to defend himself
Don't draw too big eyes.
We immerse ourselves in the world of fantasy, usually in order to escape from problems in real life and from real social interaction. If you decide to contribute to the anime or manga world, try to join a club to make sure you still keep in touch with reality