This is a blog post written by Anamaria Weston for students on the BSc Computer Animation and VFX course at Manchester Metropolitan University. The aim is to encourage students to render their characters and props on turntables, using beauty, wireframe and ambient occlusion renders. Hugsy the squirrel is an Animation Mentor rig, and Anamation does now own the rights to it.

This is a document on creating characters for animation. It covers the overlapping topics that help create animation (eg. psychology, writing, theatre etc). Then some writing and improv methods are given to help start your character creation. 

Learn how to manipulate a cartoony butterfly character using Python coding. You’ll also learn how to create a simple rig for the character, to enable cusomizing your control over it. Resources will be available in EBook format, as well as video format. Watch this space!