More reference material for a main protagonist. The idea of the whole story is based on a game idea of being a first person puzzle game in which you explore the wreckage of the crash. I believe the main protagonist would be a character people can aspire to be, having the benefits of good complexion and a strong body. This “ideal” character theory is represented in many games and films, its not often you get a fat and ugly hero. Either way we are thinking of perhaps changing slightly for the character to be half cast or black just to change things from the normal slightly.
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Disaster Characters: Looking at the tv series LOST
11 Oct
Being set in a plane disaster setting I remembered a TV series called LOST which I once watched a bit of. The characters in the series were very well linked having different types of race and having different body shapes from a hugely obese man to a muscularly toned white American. The biggest part of creating characters than can be easily recognized and memorable is to have a changes in shape and sizes. As the human eye recognizes people in real life at distance from silhouettes it works the same for characters both for games and for film. To show this and also help me see the differences I blocked out the silhouettes of the lost characters.
Another use of this silhouette technique that I have seen and played is Team Fortress 2. Reading design interviews, the designers purposely created largely different body types and shapes so the characters stood out amongst others.
Focus and Back Story
11 OctWith this brief It is a different type of working as although I am not particularly working side by side with other students on their project, I am working along their idea. As I am working with concept art on another persons idea I need information and reference to work on. Today they decided on an airline, Phoenix Airlines which has crashed flying from Phoenix Arizona to a unknown location. I am going to use this as a guide to construct my characters around. It is important to have information on this as it helps me focus my search and refinement of characters as I can narrow my ideas down disregarding religions, races and styles not based around the story basis.
I am also going to play strongly on stereotyping and look at obesity as it is America. I will hopefully apply to this to create a fat character or two with typical American stereotypical values.
I am building my images still as reference material to work off.
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