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Title: Cold Heart - The Eveloution of Gina Eleta
Post by: DazWizzle on April 23, 2017, 08:09:51 am
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.
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(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15826826_581127455419650_5893095163180548124_n.jpg?oh=9d1846fb322a90382c689d4b5dc11633&oe=599AAF13)

Following up on how the character looked I had a play around with creating my own character for the first time using anime studio6
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(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15823011_579339148931814_2182828549681506844_n.png?oh=887a530f97b561816ef95ade443bd221&oe=59891172)

I had a play with this design creating many different adaptations of Gina's head and a set of heads for lip syncing.
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(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15781440_579339638931765_5128685308317953499_n.png?oh=8d3f88a1f9b20fe6719e59bab98aedbc&oe=59907A4E)
(https://www.facebook.com/coldheartgame/photos/a.576255925906803.1073741828.573196059546123/579339632265099/?type=3&theater)
(https://www.facebook.com/coldheartgame/photos/a.576255925906803.1073741828.573196059546123/579339518931777/?type=3&theater)

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.
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(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15822847_581126942086368_8607824175420013268_n.jpg?oh=d53b54ed114fe87ff3d798e1cd63fd1f&oe=598A91FF)
(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15826489_581126905419705_7551111512255803920_n.jpg?oh=e1778123c8723fddab3506dac01e504f&oe=59971C29)
(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15873187_581126915419704_7247118563066796796_n.jpg?oh=af8e5b79a62e91b36e73426d64b8cde8&oe=59907B61)
(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15871536_581126952086367_7323754083873684710_n.jpg?oh=d543eab0b3d1733f4e557140fd80514c&oe=597EE584)


Finally I had something I liked. So onto the digital art.
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(http://orig05.deviantart.net/89bc/f/2015/124/6/9/sitting_by_dazwizzle-d8s4oid.png)
(http://orig13.deviantart.net/6236/f/2015/128/1/0/gina_and_darnell_photo_by_dazwizzle-d8slgot.png)
Early images of Darnell who later became Kolin.
(http://orig08.deviantart.net/4e5a/f/2015/128/9/9/on_the_bed_by_dazwizzle-d8soes9.png)


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.

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(http://orig12.deviantart.net/423a/f/2016/297/a/c/archer_gina_by_dazwizzle-dam2hdx.png)
(http://orig13.deviantart.net/9d54/f/2017/002/2/a/kaida_gina2_by_dazwizzle-datxohd.png)
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
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(https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17352534_614603572072038_609603981581447180_n.jpg?oh=b4904211edf3911e85274072bf0e2724&oe=5976FB09)

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. .
Title: Re: Cold Heart - The Eveloution of the Canidae's
Post by: DazWizzle on June 04, 2017, 04:29:51 am
So I am finally up to the final part of the book, Its due to hit the editor early to mid July for a final edit before publishing. So finally its time to work on the final parts cover design and I decided to add a new character that appears in Part 5, Ellie Alvey.

Doing a little more research into what type of Canid I wanted her to be I settled on a Mesomelas (black-backed jackal) Still early days with her character design. I hope to get something done in flash tonight for the new cover. I think her nose is a little too large compared to the other species of canidae's but I will see how it looks when I give her some colour.
(https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-0/q85/p526x296/18839529_649181668614228_6124334521815628609_o.jpg?oh=67237e61fdd5bc31069afebe10fa9cf7&oe=59A2B07C)