03:23

Character design: ideas for props


02:43

Character Design: Hero


23:41

Character design: Villain



23:11

Character design: sidekick


20:42

Character Design: Villain

I decided to reference a rat, as one of the Chinese horoscopes. I put an armor influenced by ancient Chinese soldiers.

01:03
16:07

Character designs

I was struggling with the shapes of my characters. They needed something more interesting in terms of their personality. I decided to take a look at Chinese horoscopes and still give them features of elements.
I decided  to use tiger for my hero, rat for villain and ox for sidekick.  
17:34

Character design: Ideas for hero



00:30

Villain: sketch


13:05

Experiment

I took some photos of a lighter fire, so I would imagine how would it look like if fire would shoot as water from the geyser


12:38

Hero

I research fashion pieces to get influence for my hero as well



this is one of the sketches that were influences by fashion


12:25

shetch of the character: villain


12:24

Influences for Villain

I did some research on fire and related things, such as volcanoes and lava. I was inspired by Iceland nature the most, it has wonderful colour palet, as well as absolutely different nature than any other countries have.



I tried to find similar shapes to smoke, geyser and volcano holes that were used in art. Iris Van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer referencing nature and architecture. I find these to garments the most influential