Create Original Characters: Inspiration

1. Intro: Hey everyone, welcome to how to create original characters, inspiration. This is part one of a two-part section every course. The second part coming out a little bit later. That's going to be how to write the original characters that you've created. And that'll be execution. This is inspiration, that'll be execution. Now, my name is MJ Clark. I've actually already previously done an actual three-part course on how to learn voice acting for beginner, intermediate and expert. And that's also on my page, if you would like to check those out. It's a great thing to learn. It's an incredible talent. I've been a voice actor for 8.59 years now. I've worked on Netflix who lived on video games, all sorts of things. I do a review channel over on YouTube. There's just a bunch of stuff that I do. And this is one thing I'm very passionate about is writing. I'm creating. There's something beautiful about that. In this lesson, we're going to be going through every process of how an idea forms and your head through inspiration. And how that ends up creating a fleshed out just tangible character, something that you can use and short story, a novel that you're writing, getting ideas for creating something for a film. If you are into filmmaking, which I am as well, you can have created characters that you've come up with for any medium that inspires you were or brings you some kind of outlet, things that you love to do. Writing being a big one if you're a script writer, if you are a screenplay writer, if you'd like to playwright, books, anything of that nature, this is definitely a good place to start because before you start writing your stories, you need to know how to create characters. And after you've created this character is you then need to know how to write those characters and understand how that comes about in the process of how to go about that in a way that is original. Originality is everything and inspiration breeds originality. So with that being said, this is going to be an eight video course. There is going to be on assignment as well that will be down below which you guys need to check out, and it will also be highlighted in the final video as well. Again, my name is MJ Clark. Welcome to the class. This is how to create original characters. Inspiration. Let's get into this guys. 2. Creation Inspiration: Creation, inspiration. What that is, is, what is the original thing that inspired you to create a character or a visual aid or something that you heard, a song that pop into your head. And as you were thinking about it, this character, this stranger, appears in your mind as you're daydreaming. And this character just starts to form two. Let's say the song, you're hearing the lyrics touch you so deeply that you're imagining this figure in your head in some kind of fantasized scene or sequence of events to the music, to the words. As you are, as you are just taken aback and your mind is drifting. And all of a sudden it starts forming this idea inside of your head. Maintaining the original inspiration that sparked that first created thought. The character in your head is so important. Let me give you an example. Years ago I wrote a book called red tile. I was listening to the song iris by the goo goo dolls. And in that song, as I was listening to the lyrics, and I don't want the world to see me because I don't think that they'd understand when everything's meant to be broken. I just want you to know who I am. I love that song. I love those lyrics. I love how it's written. I think it's beautiful. And as I was listening to that song originally, the idea that popped into my head was I had this thought of this Japanese woman standing on top of a building. And she was as the song playing, looking out over the horizon of this great skyscraper as the sun began to set. And I imagined or turning around, turning her back to the ledge of the skyscraper. And not in a perilous way. But in this sense of adventure, the sense of unknown, she falls backwards off the building in slow motion. And in my head, the way the camera setup was having her head down here and as she was upside down, she was falling upside down through the city as the camera panned this way and she went that way and it crossed or in slow motion, kinda like that scene that they wound up using for miles when he falls off the building and Spider-Man Into the Spider Verse, that slow motion upside down, just caught in the emotion of whatever is feeling as the music played on. And as she falls. She, it's just the sun in the background to her profile lighting up this side of her face or the other side is in complete darkness and shadow of the building. And all of a sudden I had this inspiration in my head. She became this Mr. this mystery woman. She became this unknown entity that I needed to create. So I got my sketch pad, I drew out what I thought she looked like, medium, height, she had black hair on one side, long, shaved on the other side. She had a face tattoo of a star right under her eye. She had black lipstick. She had one eye that she was blind and she had another eye that was clear blue. And she was physically fit, but she wore almost baggy jogger pants in running shoes, and she had a cutoff crop top that was modest, but she had tattoos, sleeves all the way down, cherry blossoms with a dragon wrapped around it, and black fingernail polish in this visual just kept coming into my head. And next thing you know, I started looking for a name and I came up with aka water, which literally means red tile. Then all of a sudden, I've got this idea. Her personality, she's a smoker, she's she's distance. She doesn't like talking to people, but she's an absolute badass. She wields a katana. She's not an assassin, but she's a counter assassins. She takes down assassins. And in my head, she's a part of a team of a bunch of People of all different backgrounds and their culture that have been attacked by the Japanese mafia that you cuz them than in my head, I thought. What if if she's red tile, all their names are literally a color association and Japanese aka being read, being tile. And what if all of their names were a Japanese color like coudl a Khawarij, which is black tile. And they were members of their organization. But they all carried an ancient piece of tile out of a special shrine deepen the Japanese forest. And, and they were passed down generation to generation. Then this whole story becomes reality, right? I start writing it all from that inspiration of listening to a song and creating this character in my head, then spark of inspiration. And all of a sudden I've gotten myself, my character, I've got her personality, I've got hurt, corks the things that make her who she is. And then I realize, okay, well, now I've got these other characters. Now I can create them and they'll have counter conflict. Their personalities don't gel, they don't mesh there. Their oil and water, right? And next thing you know, every time I'm literally drawing out the character, started writing chapters before I did, I would remember the original idea that sparked the inspiration, the song iris by the goo goo dolls. And next thing you know, I'm putting it in my ears or I'm blasting it over my speakers. I'm listening to the song to three times, closing my eyes and just read, picturing that same first image that popped into my head when I imagined her. When I created her. Then I would start drawing. I would start writing. I would start thinking, daydreaming, fantasizing situations, everything about her. Everything. I had my main character, but I didn't just have a character. She became a part of me for eight months while I wrote the story, while I created her from scratch in my brain. And I I had a whole journal filled with her thoughts, the things she liked everything down to how she liked to eat toothpaste. She used TV show, she would watch how old she was, her birthday, her exact birthday, her year. All that parents, siblings. I got so deeply creative process that she became real to me. And now I know her as well as I know myself. It's the beauty of creation and it all stems from maintaining the original key point of inspiration and remembering to constantly re-introduce yourself to that first spark that created that initial inspiration. That is the start of creating a character that is flushed out from scratch. Everything down to their shoes and their socks. A lot of that stuff may seem irrelevant. But the more you paint a character into reality in your head, the more and more honest and genuine and real and tangible that character becomes. And that's less than number one guys, you need to maintain that original inspiration, whatever it is, a song you heard a scene in a TV show that just pulled at your heartstrings, something, someone said poetry, whatever it is could be how beautiful the clouds look today. Maintain that original inspiration. And remember the re-introduce yourself constantly to that original spark that started the creation. And that's the beginning. Alright, let's go to the next one. 3. The Beauty In Daydreaming: Hey guys, lesson number two. The beauty in daydreaming. Daydreaming is probably the most integral part to anybody's creative process. You can't have new cars, new buildings. You can't have new movies, you can't have new video games without somebody in the beginning stages, literally daydreaming about how it would all come to be. Daydreaming about the creation itself. The things that are going to add in the things they want to change, the things that they think are going to matter to somebody who's receiving that creative process on the other end, when it's complete. Even you, when you were a daydreaming, you were literally giving yourself this beautiful ability to allow your mind open up and be the most vulnerable. It's going to be in any kind of creative process. All the thoughts and the things that you'd never say out loud. They're free flowing around, running around inside your head, and they're up for grabs, up for the taking. Any thought is not unavailable. And I think that's so important because when you daydream, especially when it comes to creating a character, you're daydreaming about that character in instances and situations in their life, their childhood, the things they like, the things they don't like. Traumatic experiences, revelations, celebrations, heartbreak, anything like that. Creating a character from scratch like that. You must spend time in your head with that character in those daydreams are the most pertinent part of that because it's going to allow you to truly get to know your character beyond just writing down personality traits. This is where you're mentally and emotionally connecting with that character's very existence, their essence. You mean to fantasize about your character, fantasize about their life. Fantasize about moments in their lives. You may never write them down later when it comes to putting that character into use. But it will help you better utilize that character for whatever you might wind up using them for in a book and a short story, in a screenplay, in a skit. Maybe it's a comedy character. Maybe you like to do things on another video platform. And this character is the main character and all your little stories and skits and whatnot. That's okay. It doesn't matter how small a project or how big a project. The thing is that does that, it's important to you. And if it's important to have this character must be important to you. This character must be something that you feel this innate need to protect and make sure that the honest nature of this character stays true to how you envisioned them while envisioning them. These day dreams are allowing you to put up certain barriers and blocks on this character that keep them honest and keep them true to their original necessity, to their original need or requirement of which you created them. When Bob Kane created Batman, he had in his head what Batman would be the cody would have dreamed about. Batman is childhood losing his parents, the trauma that would do to him. He daydreaming about his former years when he would be traveling the world, when he left Gotham before he came back and became Batman. He emotionally connected with that character. To understand the true mental torture and emotional depth of Bruce Wayne as a person, as a symbol later as Batman. What he believed in his values, his personality has coldness, is bitterness, his anger, his rage, but even more than that, his silent pain. That is why batman has been a compelling character since 1939. Because someone took the time, Bob Kane took the time to truly emotionally connect with Bruce Wayne on every single level that he could. Therefore, when anybody else would help him writing or creating a new version of the character, they would daydream about what they knew Batman to be, but they would take their liberties with it, staying true to the original vision to Bob Kane had, but constantly making sure that they had their creative outlet on the daydreams. They always thought about Bruce Wayne on it. Daydreaming is so important. They fantasize these different stories. That's why there's thousands of them, is comic books in different stories iterations all across the last 75 to 80 years. It's so important that the daydreaming process be a process that you spend time on that you don't take for granted. Fantasizing is such a beautiful thing. It allows you to truly creatively free yourself from something like reality. When you need something higher than reality, something more than reality to get this character's creation across. Just remember, daydreaming should always be something you are willing to do or take time to do. Specifically, when it comes to being a creator. All right guys, let's go to lesson three. Thank you for watching. 4. Backstory: This is backstory. Now I know backstory is generally going to be in the writing process, which is the next course. However, you can still have a backstory for a character even when you are initially creating them. How else are you going to actually fully create them unless you're, you're mentally or putting a visual in your head of who this person is. Now because of who they were. Backstory is so important, you need to make notations of exactly why this person is the way they are now, why they look the way they look now versus how they were then how they looked then, what changed them? What experiences happened to them? I explained in less than one, my character, aka kawa, from red tile. She has a blind eye and a clear blue sky. What's the backstory that created that visual story going on with her other eye that's blind. Why is that I blind? What happened? Backstory is important because when you are creating a character, when you are visualizing, when you're drawing them out. The characteristics that create that visual representation, that character, there's a backstory to y, half her hair shaved off. Why does she like to wear joggers? Why does she like to wear running shoes? Why Does she have those cherry blossom tattoos with the dragons wrapping around them? Why does she have a star tattooed under her cheek? There is always an answer to that question. You'd need to create that reasoning, that answer, you need to create that backstory. These are all characteristics, but at 1 in her life, she didn't have any of that. She had a full sided, had a hair, she had both eyes. She didn't have tattoos. She might've dressed a lot differently. What happened in her life that brought her to the visual you're seeing or reading now? Why does she look the way she does now? That's what the backstory is for when you are drafting a character. I would often, whenever I have an adult character, I will draw a version of them as a child. I'll draw a version of them as a teenager and then I'll draw them as they are now. Sometimes I'll even draw them when they're older and they're in their later years. Just so I know who this person looks like to me from beginning to ending stages of their life. It may not always come into use, but again, it's letting me come closer to this idea. It's allowing me to fully dive in to this person. Because fictional characters are still real people. You created this person. They may not truly exist in the real physical world that you can see. But they might. You're creating a person, every idea that you have, someone may at some point have had some kind of correlated idea or a similar vision at some point in history. Think of how many people are on the planet right now, 7.5 billion. And think of all the people that are no longer here, billions more. To think that every idea is 100% original, is a bit farfetched. You aren't in someone else's brain, so you don't know what someone's actually thought ever created, Correct? In that instance, if you are creating a character, somebody has experienced, usually nine times out of ten, the situation that this backstory is bringing this person two in the forefront of your stories, in the forefront of this character. Aka is not the only person in the world with one blind die. I doubt she's the only person in the world with a star tattoo under her cheek. I doubt she's the only Japanese woman that prefers to where joggers and running shoes and dress like a tomboy. I doubt that there is no one else in this planet that has a tattoo of cherry blossom with a dragon? There has to be. But I don't know them. I know my character. She is fictional. But fictional characters are still real. People understand because somewhere in the world, somewhere in history, somewhere in time, that might have been a person or it might have been multiple people. And I'm just squeezing all of that into one. You got to remember that every idea is original in your head, yes. But it always comes from some point of inspiration, some point or cause of something that's actually existing or has existed. And that's okay, That's another form of inspiration, whether you know it or not. This character is informed by these other things that are in existence, that are true, that are real. And they, their existence, their reality is informing your character in some way or another. Which leads us to the next point. It's making that character relatable. Because those characteristics are characteristics that other people may maintain or have. Whether that'd be physically, emotionally, life relating, anything like that, that in their experiences in form, this character is existence, and this character is existence than reinforce that relate ability to those people that already exist. It's a circle. It's a give-and-take creatively. Life inspires art. Okay, that's, that's a big thing. Their life literally inspires art and art gives back to life. It's a beautiful thing. It's symbiotic. Just remember that. All right guys, thanks for watching. Next lesson. 5. Personality: Alright guys, personality. Now experiences change and shape people. I think we can all agree on that. When it comes to a character, any character, when it comes to a person, what you have gone through, what you've been through, completely rewrites who you are little by little, who you are now, who you are today may not be who you've been a year ago today. Anything can happen. A lot happens in a day, let alone a year. Now imagine you cross the course of several years. Personality is changed, shaped, formed, re molded, torn down, and completely rebuilt from the ground up. Based on your experiences. When you're writing a character. When you're drawing a character, when you're creating a character, what changes that character's perspective? What formed their personality? Are they happy or sad or the angular, the narcissistic sociopath like are they shy or they kind of a gentle or they outlandish? Do they talk a lot? What is their personality when you're creating a character? A lot of times people, when they draw a character, the personality comes from the actual visual that you've put on paper. You see a person with glasses and freckles and short red hair. And they've got a button up collared shirt. A lot of times people will generalize that as nerdy. Their personality is nerdy. They're smart, they're appointed extra. Maybe they talk too much, but they're not good at social cues. They're not good with the ladies. And I go to talking to people. That is of course a stereotype. But notice how throughout history of media characters, they always kind of go a certain way when they make that nerdy character's personality. His look determines how they think he is. So with that being said, what is your character's personality? It's honestly a very unfair way that they generalize characters throughout media. The tall, blue eyes, green eyes, filled out. Girl with the dark or blonde hair as the main character. She's the high-school popular girl. She's the pretty heroine, she's a Mary Sue, whatever. I think that's so wrong that we have so many stereotypical ideologies on what these characters are and how they represent people in society. Especially when you're trying to create a character. It puts you in a box of okay, well, I guess it's not a realistic character if it doesn't fit the way that everybody else believes it to be in the problem with things looking the way that they believed to be is it's not how they are. That's how somebody along the way. So this is how it's going to be. This is what makes sense because this is what I see. And because this is what I see, this is how everybody has to see it from now on. Then for the next a 100 years. That's how every single character was described in their niche. The nerdy kid was skinny, scrawny, weak looking, freckled glasses. Popular guy is square jawed, tall, blonde hair, dark hair, beautiful eyes, muscular. He's the main character, the hero, whatever. Okay, but why can't that square jawed, good-looking guy? Why can't he be a nerd? Why can't he be the smart one? Why, why can't the skinny, scrawny kid be the popular one? Personalities are different and vary from person to person. So why are we generalizing them? It doesn't make any sense. If I go to a convention like megacolon or Comic-Con, if you've ever been to one, you walk into that room. What's the overall consensus that media shows you that nerdy people who go to conventions and dress up in characters look like they're 35 to 45, middle-age guys with receding hair lines, deep sideburns, cheese breath, protruding stomachs, and they have no love life and they live with their mothers, right? Well, I can tell you from experience, go into these conventions for years that you walk in there and half the people in there and cost and we're running around buying toys, getting autographs, having the time of their lives dressed up in costumes. They spent over a year working on and building from crafting and everything. These people look like they belong on the cover of maximum Playboy, that they should be on Bay Watch. Okay? It's not a realistic thing to sit there and say that those people can't be nerdy, that they can't be into animation and cartoons. And they can't love creating and drawing. And it's not a realistic mindset to try to put into the general public's point of view. It may be what we've had for so long, but that doesn't mean that That's a right personality. It means that someone was lazy. They didn't take the time to form a personality for a character, create what they believed was original. They went with what they thought is the overall consensus of what it should be. Instead of trying to think of how people truly are and that people are different and they vary. When you're creating a character with a personality, you need to be varied. You need to make a character seem relatable to any walk of life, not just a specific niche or a specific set of people, because that set of people isn't actually like this one. General personality trait. Everybody is different and your characters should be different. They shouldn't be a copy and paste. They should be original, they should be from the heart. They should be a reminder of things you actually know, things you've actually encountered over and over again in different people, not in the same set of people. That's how you get compelling characters, that's how you make them somewhat memorable. Which leads us to our next lesson. I will see you there. 6. Character Quirks: Character corks, quirks. What does a quirk? It's an identifiable thing that a person has that sets them apart. That is a thing that is specific to their own personality, who they are. Corks. Some, a cork could be someone being super talkative. A cork is someone has a chain smoker. A cork is someone has a stutter when they talk. A cork is anything that is individually identifiable to a person, to a character, something that sets them apart. When we're talking about a quirk, I'll give you an example. Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight. His cork was that every time he talked, he'd speak so very methodically. And they take a breath, deep breathing thing, this tongue or you want to I got these scars. And that was his cork. He was he had quirks, he was quirky, he was memorable. Anytime you see somebody impersonating him like I just did you see a street performer doing it? You see it on a video platform, you see it at a convention, a costume party. Someone's always try and remember how he smoke. Its quirks, sticks. The things that set him apart. And that's why he's so memorable. Memorability and a character is as simple as a defining trait that the audience picks out and goes. That's his trait, that, that's his thing. Tony Stark in The Avengers, his cork is a fast talking clap backer. Basically, he talks fast. He's super witty and if anybody has anything to say, he always has a witty response on the dime, on the money collapse back with an insult, with a snarky comment, with an I'm smarter than you retort anything like that. That's his thing. It's a cork and it makes a memorable and it makes him lovable. Because every time he does that you go, That's Tony and Tony. And you never forget it. That's, that's what you want when you're creating a character, something that someone's gonna go. This is why I love that character, Ron Weasley, great character. He's known for being a wimp, sometimes a little bit of a coward, and only ever being brave when it comes to saving his friends and when he's gotten no choice to be his cork is that he's a bit of a dork and he's a bit of a klutz. And that makes them lovable Because he does it in such a way that it's relatable to you and you go. That's Ronnie got to love Ron, Hermione, she's a know it all. But she's always save and Ron and Harry's, but all the time with her brains, with her ability to know things ahead of time that they don't hurt cork is that she's intelligent, but she knows she's intelligent. Therefore, she makes you aware that she's intelligent because he's not afraid to say it. That's a cork. She's a no at all. Those are things that make characters memorable, lovable. If you want, a lovable character, makes something about them that stands out. It can be subtle. It can be on the nose, but it's gotta be something that a person, when seeing your character, reading your character can look at and go, Oh, I like that about that or I don't like that about them because quirks don't always have to be something likable. If you get somebody to remember something about a character than you've already won, the character is now in their head. They've now visualized and internalized that person's trait. Because even villains, great villains that you can write that you can create the people will outwardly dislike, have corks that make a person or reader go, Oh, I can't stand that person. Corks that. Make a character iconic, like a villain like Darth Vader, the breathing. That is an iconic cork. Look throughout history. Every medium has tried to parody or make some example of the, it's his thing. It makes him memorable from the first time he's onscreen and you hear it every time you hear in any movie or TV show sense, you go, oh my God, and you jump out of your seat because, you know, stuff's about to go down. Or he's about to say something. Just unforgettable. Quirks are huge because it sets a character from being a generic, one note, one-dimensional character to now you're adding depth. Now you're adding something interesting. Now you're adding something that a reader is going to go. Or they're going to watch it on TV and go, Oh, you don't want a character to just sit there and be the bully character, right? There's all in medium forever. Whenever someone's created a bully character, what do you remember about the bully? Okay. He's taller. He's got a better body said he's got a nice jaw usually. Or they make them the other way. He's tall kid but he's got a shaved head. He's little heavy set and he's just beat you up because he hates the way he is about himself. It's the same thing, but that there can be a nuance to a bully. There can be a nuance to even a hated character like that. They don't have to be a OneNote, one-dimensional character. Adding dimensions to characters make them not only memorable, that makes them relatable, it can make some lovable, it makes them hateful, detestable. The lower is umbrage from Harry Potter. Her cork was that she would always work pink and everything was pink. And she was very passive aggressive and she was always turning her knows about you and rolling your eyes those corks, they you internalize that and it reminds you of somebody that you know, that you can't stand. And then every time you see her, It brings back to the forefront of your mind. The thing you don't like about that person or that type of person that is like that. And you detest that person, that character, which is why that character is written and was created so well, you are meant to hate her. That is the mark of creating a great character, getting the audience to do or feel, or the reader to do and feel exactly as you intended, without even having to question how they feel about it. It's an immediate reaction, gut or heart reaction in some way and that's what you're looking for, that's what you want. So remember, quirks must be something you try to internalize and outwardly project onto a character. It's going to add depth. It's going to add nuance to your characters. All right, guys. See you in the next lesson. 7. Illustrate Your Vision: The final lesson before the wrap-up in the final video. This one's a quick one, but I've slightly covered it, but it's important to reiterate. I mentioned how I would draw out my characters. Now you don't need to have any kind of artistic ability. If you've got a pencil and paper and you have a visual, just a mental image in your head of what the characters should look like. Try to draw them out. This lesson is about illustrating your vision. It's important that when you're creating a character, you're creating a character. And you're writing down notes, which is highly important. Writing down everything about them, everything that we've already covered, start to finish down to their favorite cereal for Christ's sake. It doesn't matter because it brings you closer to the character. What really brings you close to a character is not only reading about how you wrote character from start to finish, ends and outs. Actually seeing them on a paper, on a piece of paper. You don't need artistic ability to try to doodle out their hair, their face, their eyes, their nose, their chin, their height. Whatever you can do on a piece of paper. So you can see everything you're thinking about is great. Because it's also a great aid to help you figure out what you might want to change about that character. There are instances where I have had a full idea for a character, wrote it all out. I went to draw it. When I drew it, I looked back at what I wrote, my thought. You know what, Maybe I'm not feeling that particular thing as much as I thought when I wrote it. What if I changed it to this? If you've ever seen behind the scenes of film productions or cartoon productions, and they show you the drafts that the artists have done of the different versions of the characters and costumes. And they're different at tires, the things they would wear to them in different clothes. And you see the rough draft illustrations. The concept art is what it's called. Of all the different variations of that character. They have all these conceptual ideas where the artist was like, Well, I thought of him this way, or she goes, I thought of character that way. I imagined them looking like this. Instead, I imagine them looking like this, but with a slight twist on the hair here, slight twist on the close here. And that's important because it's really helping the creator go. Okay, well, I like this but this doesn't work. But what if we took all this? We got rid of this and we added it, this one. And then now you've taken these different, different concepts and you've squeezed them together and you've compress them. And then you have your final idea of something that you truly believe works for you. It's so important to illustrate your vision because it's really going to help you finalize that idea. It all comes together. When you truly go. You look at all the things, all the pieces of your puzzle. And then finally, you're able to mentally go this here, this here. I'll forget about this for now. And there it is. And then you go. Okay. Now I've got the full picture and it becomes finalized and you go, It all makes sense. Illustrate your vision guys. Doesn't matter. If you can draw or not. Get a pen and get a pencil, gets some paper, get a friend who's an artist, sit down next to them, describe to them what is in your head and see what happens. There is no wrong idea on the process to creation. There's just what works better for you here than what was working for you over here. And that's okay. It's a part of the process to crumble up the paper, throw it away, start again. You'll do it a million times before you get to that actual finished mental product. And that's the best kind of creation immediately rushed. It means you truly cared enough to take all that time. Illustrate your vision. Illustrate your vision. Now we're on to the wrap-up guys, and I will see you over there. Thank you so much for watching. 8. The Wrap-Up: Hey guys, thanks for making it to the end of the actual course. Where at the wrap-up now, where I'm also going to give you your assignment. Now the assignment everybody is, I want you to create an original character. I want you to find something that inspires you. It doesn't matter if it's today, tomorrow a week from now, post it back to the class. And in that assignment that you have created, I want you to make a character. Okay? I want a rough sketch of the character, whatever you believe the character to look like. I want a one-to-two paragraph backstory of this character, write it out, or it can be a synopsis, one to two paragraphs, okay, three to four sentences each doesn't matter. Then I want descriptors described to me this character. I want you to tell me about this character. I want you to really get into this and not be afraid to tell me and your classmates. Specifically. This is why his hair is this way. This is his legs, this is his hair. This is the reason his shirt. He always wears this shirt or she always wears those shoes. I want descriptors folks. And I want I want a 123 paragraph describing the character to the class. I want you to describe the character to everybody in three paragraphs, not just the backstory, but I want you to describe how they are, their personality. I want you to tell us about their quirks. I want you to tell us about their age. Let us know if they are orphaned, if they are a big family, if they're a leader, if they own a business, whatever it is. I'm going to put all the information down below of what the actual assignment is. But I want you guys to go ahead and do that. I want you to get into this. This is fun. This is supposed to be fun. Creating stuff is fun. Making stuff is so fun. And this way, I want your classmates to be able to see your assignments and comment and share ideas with each other. And you guys, it's a togetherness thing creation. It's gonna be fun and it's a good thing. And you guys are to be kind to each other. Give kind. Constructive criticism. Do not bully. There is not to be any type or form of innate rudeness or meanness. And if there is, you will be kicked out from the course and you will be reported by me. If you treat anybody with disrespect, these are all creative ideas and they are meant to be beautiful. Thank you guys so much for making it to the end of this course. The next one will be posted in the next few weeks. And that's gonna be how to write characters execution. So basically, after you've created, then you're going to come back to the next course and you're going to learn how to write those characters. All right, guys, thank you so much. You enjoy the rest of your day. Don't forget to do your assignments and please be kind to each other in the replies and comments. Take it easy and enjoy the rest of your month. Alright, bye.