Sunday, March 28, 2010

Character Design - Original Characters

It's been a while since I last updated this blog. Had quite a few things going on in my life, including deciding to take a break from SCAD until the fall. Rest assure, I will be back and I won't be inactive during my break.

Anyway, some work from my classes, starting with Character Design. For the final, we had to come up with two original characters, make model sheets for them, and have an original story and script to translate that into our storyboard, and make a maquette of one of our characters. I'll post my craptastic maquette soon, but until then, here's some model sheets.


First up, Riley, my Tasmanian Tiger female pilot. I know she doesn't look much like the Thylacine, but as I draw more of her in the future, you'll really tell. Ironically, she was an actual one when I first thought her up years ago. I just hadn't used her until now. I'll get into more of her character when I upload some concept sketches of her later on, but to quickly summarize her personality, she's very bubbly, outgoing, and adventurous.


My second character, Commander Dunstan, the German Shepherd air commander in charge of Riley's little group (who we'll see later on). He's more sterner, gruffer, and protective when it comes to the young squad. Unlike Riley, he was a very recent addition to my little cast of characters I did for the assignment. Of course, like Riley, I plan on using him again in the future.