Robert Bradbrook (born 1965) is an English filmmaker and animator. He began his career as a cartographer before turning to making films. He received a Masters in Art degree in Electronics and Graphics from Coventry University. His films include Home Road Movies, which is said to be largely autobiographical. Home Road Movies was nominated as Best Animated Short at the 55th British Academy Film Awards and received the Grand Prize at the 2002 Ottawa International Animation Festival. Between personal films Robert runs his own company, and provides animation for film, television and new media. Recently he has produced animated scenes, title sequences and visual effects for the feature length documentary about Tony Benn – Will and Testament.
We had a lecture from Robert Bradbrook, where he talked about animation and character design. He mentioned how important it is to ask questions about your character to give it more life and make it more real. He also talked about how, what the character wants, or is afraid of losing, makes the film. For example, if the character is poor they want the financial freedom so they will be looking for that through the film.
Some character traits samples: