Character Concept Study: Demon Prince

BoBo_the_seal

This was a concept created for the Demon Prince Thunder Dome over at conceptart.org



Iron Lore (the company I work for) recently purchased the entire run of analog DVD's from Gnomon Workshop http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com. I just made it through the Iain McCaig set and wanted to create a character study in the same composition he demonstrates in the DVD's.
As far as any other influence with the direction I took, just over a year ago I turned down an offer to work on Prince of Persia Warrior Within. This was extremely hard for me to do because it’s been a dream of mine to work on a game like that. I just wanted to give him a bit of a feel of that series.

I also got off my ass and updated my website

- BoBo

Showster

pretty damn sweet, something bugs me with the lower legs + feet, dunno why can't decide whether it should be bandages or actual flesh. I dig the arm! Cool as always

b1ll

omg saweet,
SHAME u turn down POp2, we could of work together and acctualy produce sweeet stuff Lol

Its a nice concept, I realy dig the face, the colors and feeling in it are great, Color scheme are great to, I'd model it AHAH.

b1ll

shotgun

hey bobo,
ye it deffinately stood out techniqually among the t-dome entries. like a friend of mine said it screams "yo im a texture artist", typically superior in the pixel level.

maybe thats where the weakest part is imo - overall its a bunch of cool stuff put together, stitched with good pixel control. as a character concept, its dead. for the design to work, things need to be attached one to another. why does he have this monster arm? why are those shiny bubbles there? why chicken legs? why the belt-pad thing? there's nothing tying things together. its visually striking and appealing on first look, but then what? things could make more sense if you placed him in an environment, but you have left too much for the viewer to fill in.

Asherr

very nice. though as shotgun suggest it seems a combination of characters than a single character. divided as head/body/below-the-knee.

some suggestions: i think the legs might look better if the pants were ripped/tattered above the knee like a pair of shorts and we could see the transition from human leg to demon feet.
the demon arm seems a little off. maybe if the transistion between human/demon was more smooth or intergrated (ala Resident Evil type creatures like the demon part ripped through the human arm.).
also he seems a little too thick in the waist/hip region. his face suggests a slimmer overall body type.

Ramucho

The face is uber-awesome may be there is too much contrast between its soft and smooth shading and the wrinkles of the neck. The "weird" arm could be blended more to the skin as right now, I personally don't get the feeling that it's part of the body as Asherr said.
Other than that that's a nice and very cool execution.
As for your website ...*cough* make more tuts *cough*

Weiser_Cain

I gotta' say I like the drawing more than the design, not that the design is bad, it's just the rendering is so damn beautiful what you actually drew pales in comparison.
That said I really like the symbiont arm, and I kinda wished you'd have done something similar with the legs while making the human bits of him as soft and attractive/elegant as his face.

killingpeople

very nice bro, you're insanely good. i love this stuff.

Vorge

Bobo, Im begging for a painting tutorial. You truly are god.

-Dredg

Slainean

Awesome work. The corrupted-arm reminds me of Nightmare from Soul Calibur.

moose

awesome, i love the texture on the torso, just wish a little more of that was shown on the face.

kickass stuff sir.

peanut™

Great work Bobo, i can't wait to see this one textured, please kickass

Lee3dee

I second Dredg's post for a tutorial from you on painting. heh, when u have time

snemmy

a painting of Soul.. how sweet of you

Ruz

lovely, apart from the chin is lacking any form. seems to suddenly go flat here.

Fuse

veery cool

motives

i second whats already been said in the thread.. very nice indeed. Im wondering how much time/sessions you spend on a piece like this?

Darksun

Freeking awesome Bobo.. the texture and color is gorgeous. But I have to agre with Shotgun. Character wise it's lacking. I'm more for simplicity, and the legs and arm feel tacked on. The outfit is also going in several differernt directions. I'd love to see a more subtle version, but this looks very nice too.

spider2cool

it looks cool. only thing i can suggest it the face. i know he is suppose to look young and princely and all...but he looks kinda feminin...give hime more of a chin and less pouty lips. consept is a good idea though

adam

I like it all but the face. This demon's been using Oil of Olay, twice a day. The different in skin texture is very drastic... seems off.

Good stuff Bobo.

Asherr

i really like the face. it has an FinalFantasy/anime-ish feel but do agree that it doesn't fit with the rest.

Crash

i like everything but the feet. horrible is what they are. :P

/me clubs BoBo and makes a pair of seal skin boots.

killingpeople

ya right! those feet are rad.

/me wants a pair of magical seal skin boots of the BoBo.

Crash

KP: THEYRE ALL MINE! HAHAHA

Sith Happens.

Hey Bobo, those are some pretty impressive textures on those ghost recon heads, excellent work man!
Hope your keeping well