Craft Your Character's Relationships! - Story Hearth
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. Let that phrase relate to whomever you want, but one thing is certain: we need other humans to survive. The people in our life, affect our life! And the same is true for your character.
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Character relationships are probably just as important as the main story tbh.
If you ask me the Characters and the Plot are the most vital parts of any good story.
Of course things like Theme ,Worldbuilding ,Consistency ,Pacing ,Composition, Intend, Visual design, Acoustic design and Reversals are important aswell.
But they are more of a secondary aspect.
(Maybe not Theme but you catch my drift)
When it comes to secondary characters, a big favorite of mine is the rival character. Someone who can be, a friend, an antagonist, or neither; but there always someone who can challenge your protagonist to work on themselves to finally be able to surpass their rival.
Two of my favorite rival characters that I've created have completely different personalities. One is hard headed and stubborn. While the other one is rational and cautious. Yet even though both characters have different morals, their both working toward the same goal, and that gives them a reason to push forward.
I hope that doesn't sound weird but her Avatar looks so adorable☺
Not weird at all! So dang cute! 🥺
It's one of the more unique characters I've seen
Not weird. Its cuter than I am as a real person and would love for it to take all my selfies for me😆
You should be ashamed of finding a cute character cute. How DARE, sir
0:45
I was about to make a loner character joke but she beat me to it. Haha.
I'm having a hard time setting up my stories deuteragonist. I want them to be very similar, except this one is much older and acts like a mentor figure with added regret and baggage. The main character learning about that character's past is also going to be a point of conflict.
this might be really helpful for me. I usually try to apply these videos to game design, as i want to be a game designer. In this instance even in games that dont have a massive story, its still important for characters to have relationships as a driving motivation. Take the first Mario game for example, there's Mario, and he has a relationship with Peach in that shes his princess and a damsel in distress. Mario also has a relationship with Bowser in that they are rivals, bowser is being bad kidnapping his princess, and so he doesn't like bowser.
Its not much but it is a small story based almost entirely around relationships.
Thank you so much for your gift! I will love it and cherish it to death until I buy the book!!!
Also I see a new bird in the outro!
Thank you!
My take on writing secondary or side characters is to not think of them as side characters. As the author / writer every character is like son or daughter to you. That being said it is equally important to know when to prioritize a characters personal story vs the ENTIRE story. I tend to write out short 3 act personal Arcs for each character I write, a sort of "Road Map" for their portion of the story. I love the template you made, If I didn't already have a dozen plus books on writing this would likely be an instant buy for me. I wish you the best of luck!
I love that Tay's avatar has her expressive eyebrow!
👍👍 Thanks for more excellent takes on core story elements
My eyebrow is a character in it of itself. Cant ever control the dang thing😂
yay, more guest appearances!! will be definitely checking out the worksheet and writing some notes down. Thanks, guys!!
thanks for the worksheet, especially cause I struggle on creating characters
Glad I got to this one. As much as I put my characters In particular situations, I've never laid out their relationships so i could see the web of connectivity. Awesome work Tay. 👌👌😂
Aw wow thank you so much thats great!
yay another vid
Yay!
Question: Can I pay for the book with beskar?
If you got em I aint denyin em
This channel consistently produces top quality content full of great advice to help artist develop. What I love so much is that the content really explores how to get heart and soul into your art. The honest and open discussions feel very genuine.
Thank you to both Brooks and Tay for sharing your perspective. I've been playing these videos in the background pretty much nonstop while drawing the past few days.
Aw your spoiling us! This advice and that worksheet are going to be so helpful! And While I cant pre order, I’ll probably try to get the book later on. Thank you so much for helping us all!
Thanks for the worksheet!
I love this channel. It's so helpful! I'm definately getting this book since I'll be jumping into an animation course next month - and I love creating characters!!
Wonderful! Thank you!
I love how u have 2 baby yoda figurines
Two... that you know of...🤣😉
Taylor Eggleston
Haha
I like to also add nicknames that they might have for each other, i feel like it makes it seem more intimate and realistic as most people dont call their friends by their full name (specially if its a long one)
Thanks! This is pretty helpful.
Really nice content you bring out Brookes, keep it up man👌🏾💯💯
I'm not in this at all! 😅
@@CharacterDesignForge I know I meant in general 🤣🤣
More Tay 🙌🙌🙌
Character relationships are just about my favorite aspects of making characters tbh, so I know ill have a ton of fun with the worksheet (and all the others when the book comes out!!)
I love these videos, they’ll really help with my characters and story
And I also noticed Hollow Knight stuff in the background :0
I love you guys so much
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Me: why did I decide to write a character dynamic on hard mode?
Have grace on yourself, characters are hard. Nuance in human emotion and personality can take time to craft into a great character. So relax, take the character crafting one day at a time, and try to really write down a lot of your character likes, dislikes, beliefs, pet peeves, political alignment, parental upbringing, parent’s beliefs, etc., etc., etc., 90% of what you come up with for your character probably won’t show up in your story but it will round your character into an more real, tangible character in your head. The more info you write now, the easier it will be to write him when you’re writing your story.
Also don’t write out these facts like you’re coming up with it out of the blue. Imagine your interviewing your character and come up with how they would respond. This way it’s a bit more real, like your getting to know someone rather than coming up with them.
Hmm... I have a couple of stories for games that I'm working on, one with 3 characters... and another with 7... I guess the 3 one will be first...
Yeye
Oh? When did that new character pop up in your outlook? Anyway, Tay, thanks for your work!
Can you do a video on balancing antagonists and protagonists?
man i want to make a relationship/family tree layout, anyone know of an app or program that works like the notes app but has folders and an option to make a family tree like board?
Ngl im just going through these character design videos and comparing all of the characters in my animated series to the stuff in these videos-
Going to write it here bc i want to & im bored (Btw trauma, dark themes, s**cide & death warnings-)
It’s edgy badass furry time /hj
Cam
Friend ig
Sort of complicated, they’re very good friends (and they each want to be more) but very very stressed out which strains their relationship a lot.
10, he’d probably end up dying without her (wether by lack of self care or s💔cide) He’s already lost pretty much everyone he’s known so she’s all he has keeping him going
Cam was selling little paintings in the mouth of an alleyway like she does everyday and Salt is distracted by one as he and his traveling companion walk by. It’s a little painting of a small flower with blood on it, i haven’t decided what kind yet though. It reminds him of when he had seen his mother after she had died- there was a flower (of the same kind in the painting) that had fallen out of a (now broken) flower-pot and been splattered with blood. Cam sees that this is important to him so she gives him a discount. He’s very quiet and looks a bit shell shocked. Later when him and his companion need to settle down for the night before moving on, they find a random alley to sleep in. It’s on the other side of the small town but because it’s my story and i make the rules they by chance picked the one where Cam usually stays. She walks in & sees Salt curled up, but he’s not asleep. He’s sobbing because hE’S JUST BEEN REMINDED OF SEEING HIS MOTHER’S TORN APART CORPSE WHAT DID YALL EXPECT HIM TO DO
Cam sits down next to this complete stranger out of pity & then decides to go with him bc. She’s not exactly living the life, homeless and selling paintings for a meager living. And also stealing she has no qualms about stealing
wOw um, love interest, she keeps him living when he’s in a bad place, she protects him, she gives him something to live for, she needs protecting at one point so he goes apeshit and realizes ‘wow i just killed a man’ and feels not as bad as he expected, also i could name a million things. It sounds cheesy and corny asf but she is his happy ending.
And their eventual husband. Poly cats poly cats poly cats poly cats
why wont the link send me to the pdf? it just redirects me to the main page
Scroll down to the worksheet section on the page 🙂
What is the point of a story without a secondary character?