Desenvolvimento de uma personagem para um projeto de jogo digital de terror utilizando a abordagem the silver way

Abstract

Character design is an important process in the creation of works for cinema, animation and,mainly, games, whose market is in economic growth, making room for the existence of characters designed with the aim of generating empathy with the player. In this context, this work aims to develop a product: a character for the digital and original horror game project called Domus through The Silver Way approach, which proposes to be applicable to the creation of characters in different projects. The process to fulfill this purpose is based on the five phases of The Silver Way approach (story, gesture, design, form, and details), to carry out the following steps: developing a backstory for the character; generate initial concept sketches based on the story; develop one of the sketches based on choosing a concept; expand character concept development by applying action poses and facial expressions; and formalize the entire process of creating the character in a model sheet, aiming to use this document for the animation of sprites in 2D. Further details about the process are described in the technical report of this work. As a theoretical framework, the concepts of character design, concept art are explained, a more detailed explanation of The Silver Way approach is also given, in addition to showing a brief overview of horror games, and examples of character creation for that game genre. It is hoped that this work can serve as a basis for other future work by students or professionals who are interested in the subject.