For developing 3-dimensional characters, there are all kinds of charts and sheets and personality tests, so I'm assembling a few here for order's sake:
Color code personality test (of four types--seems similar to 4 Temperaments)
Myers-Briggs 16 Personalities test
and this more general list of traits (including background, social, physical, etc--pretty extensive).
http://faculty.trinity.edu/sgilliam/principles/COSTUMEUNIT/karjala.html
And the list given by Lajos Egri in his The Art of Dramatic Writing (great book, even if you're not writing a play), and which I have saved as document somewhere shareable:
Lajos Egri Character chart
Physiology:
1.
Sex:
2.
Age:
3.
Height & Weight:
4.
Color of hair, eyes, skin:
5.
Posture:
6.
Appearance (good-looking, over- or
underweight, clean, neat, pleasant, untidy. Shape of head, face, limbs.
7.
Defects: (deformities, abnormalities,
birthmarks. Diseases.
8.
Heredity:
SOCIOLOGY
1.
Class: (lower, middle, upper)
2.
Occupation: (type of work, hours of work,
income, condition of work, union or non-union, attitude toward organization,
suitability for work).
3.
Education: (Amount, kind of schools,
marks/grades, favorite subjects, poorest subjects, aptitudes)
4.
Home life: (parents living, earning
power; orphan; parents separated or divorced, parents’ habits, parents’ mental
development, parents’ vices, neglect. Character’s marital status).
5.
Religion
6.
Race, nationality
7.
Place in community: leader among friends,
clubs, sports.
8.
Political affiliations
9.
Amusements, hobbies:
(books/newspapers/magazines they read)
PSYCHOLOGY
1.
Sex life, moral standards:
2.
Personal premise, ambition
3.
Frustrations, chief disappointments
4.
Temperament: (choleric, phlegmatic/easygoing,
pessimistic/melancholic, optimistic/sanguine)
5.
Attitude toward life: (resigned,
militant, defeatist)
6.
Complexes: (obsessions, inhibitions,
superstitions, phobias)
7.
Extrovert, introvert, ambivert
8.
Abilities: (languages, talents)
9.
Qualities: (imagination, judgment, taste,
poise).
10.
I.Q.
