Cute Shapes in Illustrator

    Today we looked at how you can use basic shapes to create cute and interesting characters. By manipulating shapes and putting these shapes together, I was able to create the three characters below.

These cute little guys are just simple shapes, manipulated in Adobe Illustrator

    I can see how these techniques could be used for game development, particularly for creating art assets for a 2D game. These techniques allow you to create a very cute and unique art style for a game, and the possibilities are limited only by imagination.

    Some of the tools I used were the various shape tools to create basic shapes that gives a framework for the character, the pathfinder tools to manipulate and combine these shapes into more complex combinations, and snap to grid to put together symmetrical and balanced characters. Also looked at combinations of shapes to create certain effects, such as a 'starry eyed' or a lense flare kind of effect in the middle character.