Mannikins

If you are planning to make a visual novel or an RPG, or if you're already working on one, and you have no placeholder assets for your characters, then Mannikins is ideal for you, especially if you're in a game jam.

These assets are simple character parts to mix and match in order to use them as portraits/pictures for RPG dialogue sequences or Visual Novels. You can create placeholder characters by mixing Glyphs, Accesories and colors for the body, and then export the character with multiple mouth gestures.

The current version contains:

• 6 Accesories (4 for the front, and 2 for the back).
• 8 Glyphs for the Face and their 8 Body equivalents.
• 8 Expressions.
• 11 Mouth Gestures (6 Closed, 5 Opened).
• 1 Body with 1 Variation (For now).

The .zip contains an original 2090x2530 .clip file with organized named layers in groups, a .psd copy of the same file, a headshot version of both files, and a folder structure with all of the current building blocks for the mannequin in organized folders, all with the same dimension in order to easily mix them in any game engine or drawing software. 

The .clip is organized in a way that's easy to edit different parts of the mannequin individually or to add color to the whole body in one go. In order to properly use the .clip file you should have a basic understanding of layers, and changing their visibility and opacity.

You can use these assets for commercial projects. Attribution is appreciated but not required. Keep in mind these are meant to be use for prototyping and/or as placeholders but if you want to use them as final assets you can do so too. 

Consider Mannikins in a soft launch or early access. I plan to expand it, even if it's just for myself, but I really hope the amount of time I dedicate to this become justifiable in the long run. If you get these assets and you have any sort of issue or suggestion, please let me know! I can't stress enough how much I need feedback for these, as I want to make a good asset pack, but my own imagination can only get me so far.

I'm already looking to expand in the following ways:

1. Adding new pose variations.
2. Adding new accesories. 
3. Adding new mouth expressions.

Note: Keep in mind the Faceglyphs are not meant to be used alongside the Mouth gestures. If you want to use the Mouth gestures, use the Bodyglyphs instead.

Thanks to my Ko-Fi patrons for allowing me to make things like this. This project was inspired by the game jams I joined with some of them. 

Alco • Skelly • Astraea • A Beast of Prey • Jordan • Jack Petty • NeZerra • Midas • PizzaMozart • Grim • ChaosWolfe