The first day of our Final year was sorting out our Major Project and choosing what idea we can use for our project. First we had to get sorted into our groups. I chose to form a two person group with my friend Cor and wanted to work on a project using an idea I had for years now, about a fun loving but unambitious boy named Brent Sawyer who encounters a performer at a circus who inspires him to follow a passion.
I created designs for both characters in Photoshop, and also looked at potential inspirations for the art style of the project.
One of the inspirations I found was Persona 5, which had a striking but realistic art style with characters shaded in black. Other inspirations included the Azure Striker Gunvolt series, which had thicker line art around the eyes to draw the viewers eyes, and Dramatical Murder, which in terms of proportions was similar to Persona 5.
Brent Sawyer is actually a much older original character I created for an novel I had in mind which I never actually drafted. My main inspirations for the character were inspired by skateboarders, and in personality is similar to Ulysses, a character from Chasing Rats Games’ Struggling. His first designs were very different when he was first created in 2020.
His newest design was heavily inspired more by characters by characters like Sans and Gabriel Garcia from walking dead, characters who wear an unzipped hoodie. The unzipped hoodie adds to his easy going nature and his hat was made red to compliment the orange and blues of his design, with green trainers to compliment that.
Javier is a character I had an idea for a very long time, but never actually looked into his personality or design until I started this project with Cor. He was inspired by several different characters, such as Meowscarada and Blacephalon from Pokemon, Fizzarolli from Helluva Boss, and Javier Garcia from the Walking Dead. I used an early draft version of him as part of my last years project, Race against Time, where he appeared in billboards that appeared in the future level.