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THE EXPERIMENTTHE EXPERIMENT
RESULTSRESULTS
Is COLOUR the only salient indicator of personality?
Or can OTHER VISUAL ASPECTSalso indicate a character's
personality/attitude?
QUESTIONQUESTION
OBSERVATIONOBSERVATION
1
Outward-looking;aims to capture OUTER REALITY
Inward-looking;aims to capture INNER REALITY
The EXPRESSIVE Aspects The EXPRESSIVE Aspects
CHARACTER DESIGNCHARACTER DESIGN
INTRODUCTION and OBSERVATIONSINTRODUCTION and OBSERVATIONSA character's PERSONALITY is
often reflected by their COLOUR schemeeg., ENERGETIC/FIERY vs CALM
ofby MODEL STUDENT (###, Chocolate)
This is an example of an EXPRESSIVEEXPRESSIVE, as opposed to REPRESENTATIONALREPRESENTATIONAL use of colour.
eg., nature, societyhuman form/action
eg., moods, emotions, attitudes
(eg., size, position in composition,
symmetry)
An ASYMMETRICAL character design can also convey an ENERGETIC
personality/attitude
HYPOTHESISHYPOTHESIS
In the Baroque Era, ASYMMETRICAL compositions were used to convey
a sense of energy and motion.
This contrasts with the Renaissance era, where SYMMETRICAL compositions
were used to convey balance and harmony.
We designed 8 characters; 4 had asymmetrical designs and poses,
4 had symmetrical designs and poses
2 We designed a survey asking participants to guess how energetic the characters were on a scale of 1-7scale of 1-7
3 We administered the survey to50 university-students and tabulated the results
The character designs withASYMMETRICAL DESIGNS AND POSES
were ranked (on average) withHIGHER ENERGY SCORES
As predicted,
A1 S1 A2 S2 A3 S3 A4 S40
2
4
6
86.76.7
55 4.74.7 4.34.3 4.54.5 4.24.2 3.73.72.92.9
Character Design
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ENERGY SCORESENERGY SCORESASYMMETRICAL SYMMETRICAL
6.76.7 4.74.7 4.54.5 3.73.7 5.05.0 4.34.3 4.24.2 2.92.9A1 A2 A3 A4
4.94.9 4.14.1
S1 S2 S3 S4
DISCUSSIONDISCUSSION
REFERENCESREFERENCES
SteckerStecker 20102010
SteckerStecker 20102010
Stecker, R. 2010. Aesthetics and the philosophy of art: An introduction. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ● Stokstad, M., & Cothren, M. W. 2011. Art History. Vol. 2. Prentice Hall.
The results to our study suggest that symmetry/asymmetry can be used in
character design to express a character's personality.
They further suggest that HEIGHT may be a factor in expressing ENERGY as a personality trait;
short charactersshort characters were ranked, on average, with were ranked, on average, with higher energy scoreshigher energy scores