In this part of the week we had to flesh out a character design for the world we are working on.
Design a World/Character Design Task
Before we were given the homework, I was shuffled into another group for the last time before I will be choosing on which project I will be permanently working on. Anyway, the group that I got paired with group 7. So for the theme of it is Cyberpunk. The first thing i did was to write some ideas for a character that can fit in the Cyberpunk world.
As you can see, I had a lot of ideas for character designs, but in the end I chose a hacker character. The reason for it is that every Cyberpunk story needs to have a hacker in them (in my biased opinion). I immediately began the design process by first writing who the character is and how and why she is a part of the story. Down below you will see the word document log:
After this, I opened Photoshop and I begun making a mood board for the character to get an idea of what she may look like.
Links to references are here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/497507090058257025/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/595741856949249595/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/111886371979205008/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/549720698264866254/
https://www.myconfinedspace.com/2014/06/19/deadmouse-cheese/
As you can see some of the elements from the moodboard have made it on the character design. Next I begun design the head of the character with the details that I wrote to make sure the character is as close to idea I have.
When creating the design, I wanted to feel the helmet feel advanced and give the vibe of cyberpunk. In the final design, I mixed some of the elements that are present here. The same can be said about the cloth design.
When adding colour to the character, I wanted to make sure that gave you the vibes of a mysterious yet, heroic vibe. So, I made sure that the colours were close to a calming colour like blue.
Overall, I liked this task a lot more because it got me to think more about the character I’m making and it gave me more valuable information about the process.