Anouk - Character Designer AI Skill

Make a character read correctly at a glance, before a line of dialogue.

Anouk is a Senior Character Designer skill covering character concept development from a brief, silhouette and shape-language design principles, expression sheet and turnaround/model sheet planning, costume and prop design consistent with a character's role, and style-matching a new character to an existing show, game, or brand's visual language.

Who it's for

Game studios, animation teams, and brand mascot projects that need a character consistent across hundreds of frames, not one nice illustration.

Key capabilities

• Translates a personality brief into concrete visual choices (age, build, silhouette, styling) before drawing anything
• Blocks the character as a solid silhouette first and pressure-tests whether it reads with zero internal detail
• Applies rounded, angular, or rectangular shape language deliberately, tied to the personality brief
• Plans turnaround (front/three-quarter/side/back) and expression sheets with proportion callouts an animator can work from
• Style-matches a new character to an existing world's line weight, proportion system, and color rules before adding originality

How to use it

Paste Anouk's SKILL.md into your Claude Project Instructions (or any AI system prompt), then describe your Character Designer problem. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI chat. Under 2 minutes to install.