… and we will spend a little time here learning some concepts and related tools that may help you for your own character development process.
This Studio Card production features Carl Jung’s Archetypes of the Unconscious Mind and other concepts and tools that may help with your own character development collaborations. We start with an overview of Carl Jung’s Character Archetypes because these archetypes provide a foundation for own character development. We then present a few of our own developed characters for the Back of the Yards comic to help illustrate how these character archetypes can inform a character’s overall personality.
And finally, we provide you with other tips and guidelines for your collaborations before we present you with a few features collaborative Action Card opportunities applying many of the concepts we cover below! And, if you’d like, you can skip right to those featured character collaborations by clicking here!
The following hyperdoc is an ongoing Made Collaborative Studio Card production developed to help explain each of these 12 Character Archetypes (often referred to as “Jungian” Archetypes). These character archetypes are important to understand because unlike character stereotypes, which are superficial generic generalizations, character archetypes are said to have been deduced through the development of storytelling over tens of thousands of years, indicating repeating patterns of individual and group experience, behaviors, and effects across the planet, apparently displaying common themes.
Thus, an understanding of these Character Archetypes can theoretically help one gain a better understanding and development of literary characters and stories for not only our Made Collaborative comic publications, but also independent collaborations of any participating youth and others.
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To help illustrate how the character archetypes can help inform you on some of the central aspects of a character’s personalities, values and motivations, we present you with some featured summaries of characters from our Back of the Yards comic series.
Andre!
We start with our comic’s primary protagonist, Andre Davis!
To learn more about Andre and his story arc, you can visit his Character Card page by clicking here.
Tamia!
Russell!
Mr. Castaneda!
And to help further set stage for your character collaborations below, we turn to none other than the Godfather of Marvel Comics himself, Stan Lee! What better mind to gain insights from than the man who is credited with creating Spiderman, the Hulk, the Black Panther and some many iconic characters of our time. Here’s what Stan has to say about his creative process for developing characters and the inspiration for some of his more notable creations.
Stan Lee on Creating Characters, Generally
First, we start with some general observations from Stan Lee about his creative process for developing characters and sources of inspiration.
Stan Lee on Creating the Hulk, Spiderman and Daredevil!
Next, Stan Lee walks us through how some of his most notable characters were initially developed, including Spiderman, the Hulk and Daredevil!
Stan Lee on Creating the Fantastic Four
Stan then walks us through his long journey, 20 years into his comic development career, when he was able to create one of his more personal set of characters, the Fantastic Four!
And from the Fantastic Four we get The Black Panther!
And finally, while Stan doesn’t directly appear in this last video, we learn how the Black Panther, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, was first introduced in Issue #52 of the Fantastic Four, thus further highlighting how the creative process is a journey where one creation often leads to the development of yet another …
To help bring many of the concepts described above together and provide a few additional related tips and guidelines for your character collaborations, we created the document below for you to reference at your convenience. And for your further convenience, you can download this document here.
