Character Design and Art Style Development: Night Cell

The process of studying, replicating, and creating characters based on 1980/90s anime for my final major university project: Night Cell.

From my research I emulated the style using a character from the Disgaea series.

I also applied various filters.

In this I added blur to give it an aged look.

My research of several anime from the 80s and 90s, where I broke down how they handled facial features.

The first character designed for Night Cell, applying knowledge from my study. There is no blur, however a grain/noise has been applied.

2nd character I designed for Night Cell.