Minor Project: Few Character Designs

Here are a few character designs of one of the pigeons I've done just to visually get a better idea of the characters personality to help me write the dialogue.

Adaptation B: Wine character updated

Marcel Hill

Adaptation B: Colour Tests

Adaptation B: Colour Tests

Adaptation B: Mr Jacks Orthographic

Whisky character - Mr Daniel. Jacks

Adaptation B: Mr Jacks

Adaptation B: Marcel Orthographic

Adaptation B: Marcel

To make my character designs even more interesting I made my wine character who was originally meant to be a female, an overtly feminine male. One of his characteristics will be a play on the word wine, not wine but whine. He will be a complainer and although he is not a female character anymore he still has the classy trait, attractiveness which will be shown through big blue eyes and double-sided.

Adaptation B: Stella Orthographic

Beer character - Stella

Adaptation B: Stella

Also, with this new style I decided that to make the character more interesting I'd change the beer character to a female. I figured instead of Becks I could use Stella as they both have similar colour schemes. The initial shape is a triangle to represent the bitterness of the taste and therefore her character however I also made sure I rounded some parts of her body as her character isn't all bad.

Adaptation B: Glen Orthographic

Vodka character - Glen

Adaptation B: New style

After reviewing the new style I started thinking of shapes to use to remake my initial character designs. For Glen I chose a square to represent his power and strength but ensured that I rounded his arms and shoulders to depict his friendliness.

Adaptation B: Initial character design

Beer character: Becks/ Stella

Beer character design

These are some designs of the Beer character. So far, the characteristics from the beverage I've incorporated are

• the rough taste, making all the designs seem like rough and streetwise individuals
• The bitterness, shown by the harsh and sarcastic look on the characters faces
• Its a casual and Low class drink, shown by their clothes and the types of social groups they seem to belong to
• and the fact it was first found in egypt, apart from the second character all the others have tanned skin.

Also, all the characters have a similar green colour scheme in relation to the alcoholic beer they represent.

I still feel something is missing from this character to make it interesting but after all the initial designs are done I will revisit it

Adaptation B: Influence map

Beer character's Influence map

To further help me with designing the next character I've done another additional influence map for just the beer character using the words that were associated with the drink in the brainstorm. This will hopefully give me a better sense of direction I will be taking this character down.

Adaptation B: Initial character designs

Vodka Character's companion: Red

Red Character design

To make my project more creative and less conventional I came up with the idea of Glen (the vodka character) having a companion which has turned out to be imaginary friend Red which is the smart-mouthed ghost of his families old Bull-mastiff . The idea behind this was taken from the fact that vodka is usually accompanied by or mixed with Red bull so I will be using Red as a direct representation of the drink . As it is an energy drink the character will be very lively and troublesome and in the first two designs I've incorporated the wings and halo as reference to the Red bull slogan "red bull gives you wings". In the third I've added bull horns as a play on words with the name "Red - Bull".

Adaptation B: Initial character design

Vodka character: Glen's/Smirnoff

Vodka character design

These are the first few designs of the Vodka character that for now I'll be calling Glen. I had a number of characteristics of the drink whilst designing the character, for instance;

 His extravagantly muscular physique is a result of the drink being a typically 'strong' alcohol

His extroverted and carefree persona demonstrated by his dancing pose is an adaptation of the drinks popularity and use in social environments

And his ethnicity and middle costume is a direct adaptation of the beverages Russian/Polish origin

After words with Alan on looking for a less obvious characteristic of the drink to adapt to my character I came up with the idea of the last outfit from the left which is the character but in warm and thermal clothing. The idea behind this is to create a character who has an increased sensitivity to cold as vodka is an alcoholic drink usually served with ice. This could be depicted further through condensation from his mouth when he talks.

Adaptation A: Further character design

 I've added items or merely just edited the design of these characters to add more personality to them and to bring in context through this detail.

I've made the Christopher Reeve rendition of Superman have smaller pants to suit how they dressed in the 70's/80's. They some how saw a man in speedo's as masculine and he-manish but hey, whatever floats their boat.

The 1950's Superman I've done the opposite and made his pants bigger and Simon Cowell-ish, which is the way he would have worn them in that time period.

For Marlon Brando's character Jor-El I've made his outfit glow like it did in the movie because of his omnipotent persona.

Richard Pryor's character Gus would stereotypically have a pen in his pocket, being a computer programmer. And his actual persona as a comedian would stereotypically have a 'rolled up something' as Alan suggested.

Margot Kidder's character Lois Lane was a 70's character so I added the oversized 70/80's collars and added a pen and notebook as she would stereo typically be seen with this as a reporter.

Adaptation A: Infographic Characters

Christopher Reeve - Superman 1978

George Reeves - Superman 1952

Marlon Brando - Jor-El 1978

Richard Pryor - Gus 1983

Margot Kidder - Louis Lane 1978

Character Design: Gamestarter pitch

Game Starter

Character Design: Making of

Making of