Character: Design Bible

Character: Turnarounds and Poses

Character: Expression sheet and prop sheet

I completed the Codfathers expression sheet.

I also added a quiver to Flo's prop sheet, I realised it wasn't there when I was working on her turnaround!

Character: Environment

Here's the city environment. I didn't think the flat colours did it justice so I tried something that would work with the colouring I'm attempting with my characters. I might still go back into this and work over it yet but for now I think it shows what I want. 

Character: Bios and Prop sheet progress

Name: Flo

Gender: Female

Role: Protagonist

Background: Flo values family and was close to the family that she had, her mother and her brother. When her mother passed away Flo’s Brother Fletcher took it upon himself to look after Flo. Fletcher became increasingly worried about Flo’s safety as the city fell into chaos and taught Flo how to defend herself. Her bow was a gift from Fletcher and he taught her how to make her own arrows. Flo joined the resistance against The Codfather along with her brother in the hopes that they could make the city a safer place to live. When her brother went missing she was worried and contacted Fletchers friend Lucas to help.

Personality Strengths: Caring, Disciplined, Honest, Perfectionist,

Personality Weaknesses: Assertive, Naïve

Skills: leadership, planning, combat

Equipment: Bow and Arrows, darts and smoke grenades

Name: Lucas

Gender: Male

Role: Protagonist

Background: Lucas had little stability in his life, with no parents he had no one to teach him about morality and at first he was a criminal. He changed this path however when he met Fletcher who convinced him that crime was not the right path. At first he refused to join the resistance, thinking that it was a waste of time. Due to his crush on Flo he joined when she asked to impress her and to help find his friend.

Personality Strengths: Adaptable, Daring, Cunning, Loyal, Persuasive,

Personality Weaknesses: Careless, Conceited,

Skills: social, combat, lockpicking

Equipment: Quarterstaff, throwing knives, Lockpicks

Name: The Codfather (Bruno Sloane)

Gender: Male

Role: Villain.

Background: Leading a life of crime since he was young, the Codfather is experienced in running his mafia. Always wanting more, he is power hungry and slowly bribed his way to leader of the city. He is ruthless and will kill anyone who will stand in his way. It is his fault that the city had fallen into chaos.

Personality Strengths: Confident, Strong

Personality Weaknesses: Power-hungry, Pompous, Criminal, Demanding, Cruel

Skills: firearms, leadership

Equipment: Gun, Cigar

Codfather Props

Flo Props

Lucas Props

Character: Expression sheets progress

Here's what I have in terms of expressions so far. I think I'm on the right track in terms of the expressions being characterful but I'm not sure about some of the structure, this was something that I was struggling with as I created the sheets. 

Character: Progress on turnarounds and logo

The Codfather Turnaround

Flo Turnaround

Lucas Turnaround

Here are the outlines so far of my turnarounds, there's still some lines, etc to fix but I just wanted to show what I have so far.

Logo ideas

Here's also the progress for my logo.

Character: Logos

I spent some time starting to consider logos and branding. 

I considered the games title logo and it's possible text and shapes.

My favourite text was 5.

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2

3

4

5

6

Using text 5 I tried to consider the rough shape of the logo. I think the text within fishes could be smaller but I quite like 3, 4 and 5. I think 3 could maybe be turned into a fishcan? 

I also did some logo work for the resistance symbol. I'm thinking of working into 7 as it represents the animals and shows the anger from the resistance.

Character: City thumbnails

Here are some thumbnails for the city environment of my game. These still need work but I like 1,2 and 5. 

Character Project OGR

Character: Characters so far

I correlated what I have done so far to show what direction I'm heading in so far.

Character: Colour Testing

I refined my characters again and started testing colours on them. I still think some of the structure could still be fixed but I think they're looking better. 

Character: Refined Drawings

Today I worked on refining my original sketches, I considered clothes more and took more not to shape. 

The Codfather

Fox Protagonist 

Raccoon Protagonist 

I think these are getting better but could be pushed more. 

Character: Character sketches

Here are some of the sketches produced for my characters. I will refine and work with these in photoshop.

The "Codfather"

In terms of these sketches I feel that 3 or 5 captures best what I was trying to portray in terms of a mafia boss. 

 Fox Protagonist 

I'm struggling in terms of interesting clothes with my protagonists but this is something I will look more into while refining characters. I'm liking the shape of 1 but I feel he should be a little more muscular like 4.

Raccoon Protagonist 

I think my closest representation of my character here is 4. I think some of the shape could be improved but I like her hood and jacket. 

I also need to make sure all these characters look like these fit in the same world, I think some changes to the Fox protagonist would help him look more coherent with my Raccoon.

Character Workshop: 27/10/15

In todays character lesson we focused on environments for characters. 

Our first task was to design a building for a video game character. I got given a 'Lady of the Night' from Fable 2.

After looking at my first design Justin suggested to try out some more feminine and circular shapes. 

We then got given the task to design a place with a certain atmosphere. Mine was 'Hazardous Arena'.

 

Character Workshop: 20/10/15

In this weeks character lesson we were put into a group of 3 and given a video game scenario.

"1950s America is suddenly invaded by a host of B-Movie creatures, as cinematic monstrosities escape from their celluloid worlds. Characters will be drawn from the archetypes of B-Movie films from the 1950s, either the plucky heroes, or the monstrous creations."

I decided to design a possible damsel on distress/love interest stereotypical character found in those movies. The 50's reminded me of diners and I based her off a 1950's waitress.