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How To Make Good Flaws vs Bad Flaws for Likable Characters

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How To Make Good Flaws vs Bad Flaws for Likable Characters

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Whether you’re drawing or writing characters, we’ve talked in the past about how, if you want a character to be likable, it’s a good idea to make them flawed. To give them flaws. Usually a pristine, perfect character repels us, it has the opposite effect we would hope.

Ok, cool. Good. Make them flawed. Give them flaws. Seems simple enough. A robot arm is a flaw, right? A disadvantage is a flaw, right? In this video, we'll take a closer look.

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Brookes Eggleston - Character Design Forge published this 7:46 video tutorial on February 25, 2020. It has been watched 223,915 times on YouTube.

Channel: Brookes Eggleston - Character Design Forge
Category: Education
Duration: 7:46
Published: February 25, 2020
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