eli5 what is a character model in a video game or animation?

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eli5 what is a character model in a video game or animation?

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Answer 1

A model is a 3d structure of polygons that a game can use to render an object.

Something like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon_mesh#/media/File%3ADolphin_triangle_mesh.png

A character model is just the model that the player will controll.