UNIVERSAL APPROACH TO CHARACTER DESIGN


Published: Jan 1, 2026
Keywords:
Character design Observation art forms
ARISTOMENIS CHATZIPAPAS
KONSTANTINOS TILIGADIS
Abstract

This paper serves as an introduction to the field of character design and is the first part of an ongoing exploration of this topic. It follows the approach of practice-led research and proposes the strategy of visual observation as a method for data collection. Through this approach, the "character map" was developed, which records the variety of visual characters and the mediums in which they are presented, providing a comprehensive overview of the field of character design. The characters are not limited to the conventional mediums such as animation, comics, and video games, but extend to other forms of visual arts and visual communication. Overall, the paper concludes that character design is a multidimensional and multifunctional field that, due to its breadth, can be considered an autonomous artistic domain with a variety of applications.

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Author Biography
KONSTANTINOS TILIGADIS, Ionian University

He was born in Athens on (19/02/1967). He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1990-99) at the
(E) painting workshop of Nikos Kessanlis and a transcript with G. Ziakas. IKY Scholarship (1994-95)
to complete in the Academy of Fine Arts of Seville the workshops, painting, sculpture, applications in
each and use. The problem (2000-03) is due to the Postgraduate Interdepartmental Program Digital Art
Forms of ASKT in application with the Technical University of Patras. The Visual Arts project is
basically in the search for Art Technology as an expressive use of Narrative Language Aesthetic and
Philosophical Effort from the moment they interact with the various viewer videos and designs, the
new new television images of image and information. He finds his tools in thematic exhibitions by
Curators / exhibitions on celebrities in timepieces and in art with judges. Program awarded
International Approaches Award in (2004) λυμπOlympic Painting ΄ Damascus, Syria. His works are in
private collections, Museums in Greece and Abroad.
He has experience of Interdisciplinary Cooperation and Research for the creation of a threedimensional
medium-length film entitled "Journey Without End" for the canopy on the Planetarium
(Eugenidou Foundation) as part of its Cultural Olympiad (2004).
Since (2007) he has been collaborating with the internationally renowned Animation Festival niAniμa
Syros΄, he is a founding member of the ASIFA HELLAS organization for Greek Animation. (2019)
Artistic Director at the International Animation Festival ΄ICONA΄ in Corfu. Member of the organizing
committee of the University Festival of Digital Arts - Department of Sound and Image Arts (2009 to
date).
He taught "Digital Media" from (1998-2000) Α.Σ.Κ.Τ., (2003-2009) "Hybrid Media" in the
Undergraduate of Α.Σ.Κ.Τ., (2006-2016) "3D Graphics Synthetic Movement "in the Postgraduate
Program of PSMT of ASKT, (2007-2016) TEI Athens "3D Animation" at the Department of Graphic
Design, (2017) She teaches "Digital Applications" at the Postgraduate School of the Department of
Interior Architecture, Decoration and Object Design of the School of Art Studies of PADA. Of Athens.
He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sound & Image Arts at the Ionian University, (2015)
a member of the founding team, organizing the Department's Postgraduate Program entitled
"Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age" and its (2019) director. Deputy Director of the Research
Laboratory of Interactive Arts - In.Arts (2015) whose main purpose is to contribute to the
"Development of Audiovisual Media Research in the context of the wider Artistic Creation". He has
supervised more than (100) graduation and thesis at the Academic Institutions where he has worked.
He has participated with announcements in several Proceedings of Scientific Conferences with
Research Content of Academic and Interdisciplinary Art Research Technology. He has also passed on
the experience through many University Summer Workshops (Workshops) mainly in Greece and
Abroad. At the same time (1988-94) he has worked for the advertising company K.A.P.A. for the
production of commercials for Animation for Television and Cinema, (1995) until today he is a
freelancer in this field with a similar expanded course of spectacle creation. such as cartographic
projection, set design with analog and digital media with the latest stage creations on the Lyric Stage
and the Foundation ΄ Major Hellenism ΄ (2019-20). Painter lovers of team spirit for innovative
collaborations of Artistic Creation exchange of views for the expansion of Artistic Language as a
Cultural Culture!

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