Hey all. I wanted to share the progress of my protagonist from my book from early concepts to final design.
The idea behind the story was to write something I could make a game or animated cartoon so Gina was created to fill this gap. My first designs were human and never made it off paper. I ended up drawing one of my dogs and realized that I could make the image work so I had a little play around with an image as a concept design for ideas mainly. I can not remember where I found the image but never intended on using it. It was purely for a proof of concept only.
Following up on how the character looked I had a play around with creating my own character for the first time using anime studio6
I had a play with this design creating many different adaptations of Gina's head and a set of heads for lip syncing.
The Design of her character however I never enjoyed and the software was a little touchy for PNG images although it does have some advantages.
Next was the first hand drawn concepts.
Finally I had something I liked. So onto the digital art.
I continued to work on Gina for another few months developing her as the story continued. Eventually I settled on a theme and the character really grew.
Gina and Kaida together for the first time for a size comparison between the two different races.
Finally I needed one redesign with lots of different angles and I needed consistency. So what better way then to rotor-scope. The Final design for Gina
The 3D model was one of the most interesting thing I have done and I was really happy with the results. The advantage is I can reuse the 3d assets to create all the other characters with some minor tweaking.
Thanks for taking the time to look over a few years of character development. .