Random 1 – CHOW Team

[skorpi]

Team Random 1 is AhChu, ¿Dubious?, Lostlimeturtle and me, skorpi

Lostlimeturtle worked out our time magement:

DEADLINES

Monday April 6th: Preliminaries: Theme, setting and era set up. Characters divided amongst team members and sub teams made for the collaborations.

Individual character
Wednesday April 8th: Visual presentation: Mood boards, references for the world and characters.
Tuesday April 14th: First sketches and idea’s: First sketches, thumbnails, research for your own character.
Wednesday April 15th: Start final drawing: Take the first sketches and idea’s into a final sketch.
Monday April 20th: Start color: Scan the sketch and start adding colors and complete the character.

Collaboration character
Wednesday April 15th: First sketches and idea’s: First sketches, thumbnails, research for the collaboration character. (Together)
Thursday April 16th: Start final drawing: Take the first sketches and idea’s into a final sketch. (Sketcher)
Wednesday April 22nd: Start color: Scan the sketch and start adding colors and complete the character. (Color applicator)

Tuesday April 28th: Completion: Have every character complete and send to Lostlimeturtle.

Presentation
Wednesday April 29th: Present characters: Make every character presentable and submit to the FINAL thread. (Lostlimeturtle)

Thursday April 30th: DEADLINE.--


STETTING

We write the Year 2209. It's raining all the time but people don't have to go out. Technology is important, nothing works without. Big skycraper citys, a worldwide digital world you can visit every real place and may new ones. Big long cable hang aroud overall to make it possible. In exchange, people dont travel often in real. (they are boring, so I think, our protagonists wouldn't be like them)
On the other side a lot of poor people travelling around, seraching for jobs, food and a place, they can stay. They are branded by the settled people as lazy thiefs, scalawags and terrorists.

So the Outsides building groups. Reined by a few Magicans called "the hidden ones" because they stay behind drapery. Nobody exept the samurais (loyal fighters) know how they look like. In reality they are full body cyborgs with only the brain left. Able to do magic because thex can use the energy a normal body needs for magic (not so important, how it really works)
They all have a lot of guardians called samurai, strong fighters with a suicide mechanism controlling they didn't betray their master.

Ordinary traveller are under protection of a "hidden one" and pay for it.



CHARACTERS:
Who made wich and Colaboration teams:

The Hero Lostlimeturtle and skorpi

The Shadow AhChu

The Protector AhChu and ¿Dubious?

The Sage ¿Dubious?

The Technician Lostlimeturtle

The Rabble Rouser skorpi


REFERENCE

http://www.archangel-studios.com/comics/redstar/

[¿Dubious?]

WOOP WOOP
I swear there's a reason we're number 1.

[skorpi]

Lostlimeturtle made our time management. I hope it's ok to everyone.

[AhChu]

Hey guys sorry Ive been away in wellington for the weekend so just catching up now, just adding you guys to msn now. just gonna have a quick read of the brief and get uptodate then will post some thoughts. Great to be working with ya's on this

[AhChu]

Hey guys, really sorry for the late reply Ive bee naway for the weekend so that meant no CA will make it up to ya's.
Just a brief intro my name is Jayson and I work full time at a advertising agency doing graphic design and over the last 2yrs getting back into my drawing.
I work digital in Photoshop and have a Wacom, I think since Im the bung one for timezones Ill be using the team sketch book heaps for communication ( awesome in setting it up by the way) but will also have msn going if you want to abuse me

Im totally down with sci-Fi theme, I think if the is a preferable character ya wanna do let us know, and from there we can divy the sub group characters up.

Just reading the ideas you have come up with already sounds good, I get an overall feel like ghost in the shell / blade runner thing going on

Ideas -

Hero - Could of been a courier or mobile safe for the Cartel. Dumping memories for storage space. Containing top secret infomation ( KFC secret herbs and spicies etc.) imbued with a few advance cybernetics abilities

Shadow - Comes across as her bodyguard, purhaps worked for another cartel and is helping her in her journey to retrieve the lost infomation which he also needs for whatever reason
Advanced cybernetics

Protector - Found Hero after her meltdown, and is trying trying to help the poor girl out..maybe reminds him/her of a sister they had lost earlier in their life.
samuri like character, know alot of the world. proberly an old character in the late 40's purhaps

sage could fit in with your HIDDEN ONE idea, could be cool

Thats all ive got so far bout characters stories
as far as setting I'm loving the raining all the time
purhaps cities are over polluted and its always dark and raining, no plants and the like.

[LostFayth]

I like your idea's Jayson. I've also sent you all a PM with some thought how to get started and such. I think this is really gonna be good

[AhChu]

Heya guys im linking the Shadow at the mo, seems like a cool, but if anyone else wantes to do it let me know coz all of them seem funky...but the main character freaks me out
character...actually all of them seem pretty sweet. as far sa the "Magic" is in the topic have a look at www.theredstar they have these characters that cast through technology..its pretty cool. will start looking for mood images to compile for ideas and refs on character and enviro

[AhChu]

http://www.archangel-studios.com/comics/redstar/

here is that website

[skorpi]

Hi AhChu

I like your ideas and thanks for the link. I like the style of the artwork.
I post the setting later, if nobody want to change it.

[LostFayth]

Just a small summary:

The Characters
The Hero - No designer
The Shadow - AhChu
The Protector - No designer
The Sage - No designer
The Technician - Lostlimeturtle
The Rabble Rouser - skorpi

Collaboration teams (Due to timezone)
Team A: AhChu and ¿Dubious?
Team B: skorpi and Lostlimeturtle

If you're okay with it and all, we can start looking for some references for the characters we picked. You can post them here if you want to. It also would be nice to search for visual material of the world we're designing the characters into. The official deadline is Wednesday, but forgive me on being so picky. I just want to get started soon! xD

[skorpi]

Update in the first post.
Pherhaps one of the native speaker can correct my mistakes.

Now, I'm going to think about my character

[AhChu]

sounds good, will be posting up references tonight after work

[AhChu]

Here are some of my mood board images for inspiration plus a lttle speed paint that I did tonight, just playing with their enviro Ive been looking at Katsuhiro Otomo for a style of characters ( He did Akira and Steamboy etc.) its really nice and might render at well. Let me know what you guys think..if im not on the right track someone please bitch slap me

[AhChu]

try agian >

[AhChu]

Giant Power station in the middle of a city

[LostFayth]

Great second post of the reactor It really sets the right mood. I'm looking for good images as we speak and I'll post up my mood boards today or tomorrow.

[grenappels]

i see what you did there, for that rain effect... clever it looks really nice. and the composition and mood are spot on. good job!

[¿Dubious?]

Yeah I like what you guys have going so far. Personally I dont think establishing a setting is soooooo important to character design, I just need an aesthetic to work with. So whatever overarching settings you guys wanna come up with is fine with me. Id like to take the Sage if you guys are down with me taking it in a different direction, Im not so big on the "hidden ones" thing. Let me know if you guys are all right with that and Ill start sketching. Initially I was gonna go really colorful with this but seeing the setting we've created Im thinking something more muted? All right guys good stuff so far anyway. Also I wouldnt mind doing some sketching and or pencils for the protector. I forgot who Im working with on the double one but whoever it is if you wanna do colors? Or we could work something else out I dont mind. Oh and one last thing I was thinking we could incorporate a number 1 into all our characters and that might be cool. Just like the number one in a circle or something. I guess itll be easier to explain when i get some images going.

[LostFayth]

Another Update:

The Characters
The Hero - Team B: skorpi and Lostlimeturtle
The Shadow - AhChu
The Protector - Team A: AhChu and ¿Dubious?
The Sage - ¿Dubious?
The Technician - Lostlimeturtle
The Rabble Rouser - skorpi

Collaboration teams (Due to timezone)
Team A: AhChu and ¿Dubious?
Team B: skorpi and Lostlimeturtle

Skorpi, would you be so kind to change that in the first post.

Well then, with that done, let's make some reference sheets if you want to and get started on the sketches for the next deadline.

I've prepared some reference sheets for the world. I mainly looked at the characters:




And I also made some reference sheets for my character: The Technician to show to you. I'm gonna make it a mechanic sort of character.





Let us begin then Maybe we could post some sketches to give and get some feedback on those before the deadline is there. So we could design also with the ideas of the rest of the team.

[skorpi]

@AhChu: Yeah, Akira and Ghost in the shell

@¿Dubious?: I think it's different. I need al setting, because I'm a story teller and need to know, the world the character lives in. Perhaps it would be better do do it more visual, because it's what we show
I still like the Nr. 1 idea. Do you like to design the logo or shall we do it different?

There are already some good references.
The one I serached:

... I would post it, when my connection would allow it.

[AhChu]

¿Dubious? Yea man go for it, try different colours the painting I did of the generator was just to get the image out of my head and just playing with our theme. I'm ya buddy for the colab will do some roughs and see if we can tie in some ideas. Like the 1 logo idea

Lostlimeturtle Nice refs, love the samurai pics

Yay long weekend this weekend, should be able to get alot of drawing done...time to go spy on some of the other teams...muhahhahaa

[LostFayth]

Yeah, the number one idea. Why not right? It shows that we're number one xD.
I also have a long weekend thanks to the holidays. I'll do my best to come up with lots of sketches for my own character and the collab.

[¿Dubious?]

Lostlimeturtle good call on the reffs some of those technician ones are pretty much exactly what I was thinking for the setting. The samurai armor ones are really cool too. good stuff guys cant wait to see some sketches.

[skorpi]

So, finally refs

Cables (fascinating)



Metropolis (I never saw the whole movie but ome pics are impressive)



a pic from the movie renaissance (love this /w style)



Alita, I already mentioned her



and shadowrun, same here.

[LostFayth]

So....Tuesday. Here are the sketches I made and two pages from my sketchbook. I studied my references.

I started doing some thumbnails of ideas I had and using the reference roughly.



There was one idea I really loved and I was afraid to continue because I could ruin it. (The robotic arm). After that I studied the reference on form and the design.



From the studies I made a generic turnaround pose and drew the designs on it and here they are:

Classical outfit:


Bodysuited:


Robotic arm: (I like this design the most)
v1.

v2.


I think I'll go for the second version with some alterations since not everything looks good.

Unfortunately I couldn't do any studies for the hero. Skorpi, did you did some? Maybe we could chat again to see if we can come up with some idea's for the hero.

Please comment the designs and tell me if you have any ideas or alterations for either the Technician or the Hero. I'm curious what the rest you made

[skorpi]

Lostlimeturtle: Interesting sketches

I like the robotic arm design v2 more, but the tatoo from version 1 is really cool
Pherharps you can add some little bags on her clothes for other tools. Or something like a robot assistent who gives her all she needs.

I didn't do something on the hero, I think, I make some sketches this evening.


The Ruble Rouser:

I had really difficulties to serach for references, because I hadn't an idea, how he should look like.
So I thougt about his character(story)

Clive is a gipsi. Means, his ancestors were and he's still proud of them.
He has no regular job, but always a way to make money (of curse not always the legal way). He's a talented gabler with (to) much luck. And if not, he has his katana + a gun.
He meet the group flying over their table in a takeaway restauraut. The guys he was fighting with had no intent to continue. And Clive (he can be rally charming if he want to) make a big excuse.

I mixed elements, something against the rain, samurai, gipsy and a little bit cyberpunk.
Critic and ideas are welcome

[¿Dubious?]

good work so far guys
Im not going to lie school is getting really crazy right now so I might be a little late on the early sketches stage of our deadlines. Dont worry though Ill bag some stuff out to show you guys as soon as possible. I promise I wont let you down.
Lostlimeturtle I think v1 with the robot arm is your strongest design
Skorpi I like what youve got going. Right now his poncho/shawl thing is screaming wild west to me though so I might make that a little more scarf-ish or something. Good work so far though I like the straw he's chewing on and the instrument is a nice touch.

[AhChu]

Lostlimeturtle Nice work, I'm digging the look of the fourth version of the techy aswell, maybe be some added accessories like Hard hat or Rench..hmm maybe that is abit stero-typical.

Skorpi Nice sketches, I like the poncho character on the 2pg top left and the head on pg3 top right and grenades are a must

Ill have mine ones up later today, got one more sketch that I want to put into mine to tie my idea off

[AhChu]

Mmmkay this is what Ive played round with, had him with some sort of body armour but then went more high tech with a suit that can absord of minor impact and energy damage that he can wear under his everyday clothes while he is out snooping around. Ditched the robot arm so his eyes while be his main feature that pops him out in a crowd. Armament still on the guards maybe some sort of pistol or some kind...any ideas...let me know what ya think

[LostFayth]

Thanks for the comments and inputs. I like the idea of a robot assistent. I'm gonna work some more on the design.


As for my input on your characters:

Skorpi: I like the character you created in the fourth page. He's a Rabble Rouser. That means he's always putting the team in trouble because he can't shut up or he can't stop touching thing or something like that. Since you're a storyteller I know you can incorporate this in his design. Maybe you can do this with his pose or maybe make his face look childish-er. I like the poncho. You can follow ¿Dubious?'s comment and make it look more scarf-ish. But I already like the design now. Maybe you could do some more with the fact that he causes trouble. Maybe an inside pocket (steals stuff) or make it look a bit torn. I know you'll be able to do it

¿Dubious?: Don't worry too much about being too late with the sketches. I made these deadlines so we were able to talk about the characters and help each other out. Everything should be ready on the 28th. Just make sure everything is ready by then. You have my trust.

AhChu: If I'm correct the chacters are good. I'm a hundred per cent sure about 'one' and I think 'number' is correct too. First of all I like your presentation xD. I like your interpretation of the character. The hoody makes it look mysterious and spooky. Take note, don't go to mysterious with him, he may end up looking like a villan. We're designing the good guys. I like your thumbnails too. Maybe you could combine the hoody with the first of five designs. And maybe make it a long matrix looking coat? This will make him look mysterious and like he has more knowledge than he lets us show. And thus more to the brief. Whatch out with the glowing eyes. It's too villan-ish. Otherwise great go at the character.


Maybe an idea, are we doing something with characters? Since they are the good guys in a world of evil and such?