AI Character Turnaround Sheet
Flat views of the front, side and back on one ground line, tied together by guide lines that run across the sheet
“Design a sky-pirate engineer for my action RPG, then make a character turnaround sheet for our 3D modeler.”
Five views on shared guide lines, including a rear three-quarter for the wing-pack on the back. The callouts cover the wing-pack, the wrench and the boot, the parts a modeler would otherwise guess at.
“Make a character turnaround sheet of a stout dwarven blacksmith for my strategy game: front, three-quarter, side and back.”
The dwarf stands four and a half heads tall in every view, and the beard, apron and hammer land on the same guide lines from front to back.
Hand a 3D modeler a hero pose and they start guessing. The camera hides the back of the coat, foreshortens the arm that reaches toward you and changes scale from the boots to the hat. Drawing a proper turnaround by hand takes a concept artist hours of lining up the same belt across four views.
Describe the character and add "turnaround sheet for our 3D modeler", or attach a design you have already approved. You do not specify the views, the pose or the guide lines. Layer draws flat views on one ground line at one scale and runs the guides across the whole sheet.
One ground line Every view stands on the same line at the same height, so nothing drifts in scale.
Guides across the sheet Crown, eye line, chin, shoulders, waist and knees run as horizontal lines through every view.
Arms clear of the body A relaxed A-pose keeps the silhouette readable from the side and from behind.
Proportions are stated in heads and held in every view, which is what keeps a four-and-a-half-head dwarf from growing taller in profile. Where the back matters, as with a wing-pack or a cape, the sheet gets a rear three-quarter view too.
Start from nothing and Layer designs the character and its turnaround in the same conversation. Start from art your team has signed off and the sheet follows that design. Ask for callouts when the gear is complicated, such as a pack that folds or armor that overlaps, and the sheet adds close-ups beside the views.
Download the sheet as a high-resolution PNG for your modeler, or take the design straight to 3D: see 3D models from four views. For the character's face in every mood, see expression sheets.
Make an expression sheet for a mascot or a visual novel cast, with six moods where the face, hair and outfit hold and only the expression changes.
Faction Uniforms With Rank and Role in the SilhouetteDesign a navy's uniforms by rank or a desert culture's wardrobe by role. Every member shares one costume language and gets an outline players can tell apart.
3D Models Built from Four Views, Back IncludedDescribe a character or vehicle and get a 3D model whose back matches its front. Layer draws four matched views, checks them, then builds from all four.
Because a modeler measures them. Perspective foreshortens limbs and shifts scale across the figure. Flat views on one ground line keep every size true, and the eye line, chin, shoulders, belt and knees land on the same guides in every view.
Front, three-quarter, side and back. Layer adds a rear three-quarter when the back carries detail, such as a wing-pack or a cape, and drops the second side view when the design is symmetric.
A relaxed A-pose with the arms clear of the body, so the silhouette holds up from every side. Action and personality poses belong on a separate pose sheet.
Yes, measured in heads. The dwarf on this page is four and a half heads tall in every view. If your roster uses a set head count, name it, and every sheet you make uses the same measure.
Yes. Attach the approved design and ask for its turnaround. For engine import you can ask for each angle as its own file instead, but separate files do not share guide lines the way views on one sheet do.
Yes. Ask for callouts and Layer adds close-ups of the gear a modeler needs to understand, such as buckles, tools and armor plates.
Create a free Layer account and describe the character your modeler is waiting on.