How do you picture the characters?

Started by Tiria Wildlough, July 29, 2011, 11:20:29 AM

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Tiria Wildlough

I usually don't picture the animals unless I try, and it doesn't work when you've watched the movie, but I just wondered if anyone else did.
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Gonff

Sometimes I do, but it's not like a real picture. It doesn't really make any sense, but it's not feasible like I can't tell you exactly what they look like. It's just a slight image. I picture other things a lot more like places, rivers, and items.
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Lutra

Thinking back to when I had just read the books, never watched the tv series, I attempted to illustrate what I thought it would look like, sometimes I would do so as I worked along with the story.  I actually have stuff illustrated somewhere with colored pencils if I can find it from the late 90s.  I believe most of what I did at that time was relatively close to as the people at Nelvana saw it.
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daskar666

I just imagine them as people. Works every time.

Nightfire

I usually get very vivid images in my head. I've had a very big imagination since I was three, so it's not really a problem for me to visualize squirrels walking upright and carrying weapons.
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Taggerung_of_Redwall

Quote from: Lady Amber on July 29, 2011, 05:19:40 PM
I usually get very vivid images in my head. I've had a very big imagination since I was three, so it's not really a problem for me to visualize squirrels walking upright and carrying weapons.

Same here. I find it as easy to visualize Redwall as visualizing people
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Captain Tammo

I usually have that movie playing in my head when I read a book. The characters are usually pretty detailed
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Dotti

I usually have a movie of what I'm reading sort of playing out in my head as I read, but with Redwall, the characters are rather vague and based on the illustrations in the book.  I found the TV versions of Redwall characters too cartoon-y. :/
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Folgrimeo

I was enamored enough with the TV show that my visions of the characters took on the Nelvana TV series style (before that I imagined Matthias as a generic mouse, Mordalfus as a fat doofy mouse, and Cluny as a buff bruiser). It's somewhat between that and a more realistic style. I always have it play out in my head like a 20-hour cartoon episode. Has the look and structure of a cartoon, but without the we'll-be-right-back cliffhangers. I almost never draw inspiration from the illustrations... except for Taggerung.

Tiria Wildlough

I actually draw some of the characters as humans. :P
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Osu

I've never had a problem picturing the characters, like a "movie" of sorts, as others have said. I see them like real-life animals that wear clothes (when clothes are mentioned, anyway.) ;D
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Log-a-Log

I can picture the vermin easily, but I have more trouble picturing the good creatures
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Matthias720

I find it difficult to visualize people, but I don't have a problem doing it with the animals from Redwall. Go figure. ::)

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Quote from: Captain Tammo on July 29, 2011, 07:12:53 PM
I usually have that movie playing in my head when I read a book. The characters are usually pretty detailed

Me too.
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Gonff

Quote from: Matthias720 on July 31, 2011, 04:11:33 PM
I find it difficult to visualize people, but I don't have a problem doing it with the animals from Redwall. Go figure. ::)

It's easier for me to picture Redwall animals then people too.
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