Proto-Human - Fallen King
polycounter lvl 9
So my beast will likely be a hard sell, but I want to try him out anyway.
He's a proto-humanoid, alive during a period of prehistory long forgotten. A once great ruler, he and his people fell to the onslaught of the imperialistic human nations. While he survived the genocide of his race, he lives on as a slave, disfigured and beaten. He is a symbol of human dominion over lesser beasts; he's a surviving relic of a species gone extinct, out of place in a world no longer suited for him.
I want to focus on portraying his despair and the tragedy of his past. I look to italian renaissance sculpture and painting for his final pose and feel. He'll be clothed; his kingly attire will be faded and scrapped, with baubles and elements that point back to his lineage and prior stature. In terms of costume design, since it's set in a fictional ancient prehistoric era, I want to pull from Egyptian/Babylonian BC shapes and colors, with the flowing style from renaissance/middle-age european fashion. He'll also have a staff or some element that he leans on.
Hopefully this concept doesn't sound completely off the wall. Please let me know if it does.
I have some renders from a really rough concept bust of the character, testing out overall anatomy/design and possible hair styles. I'll be going with alpha cards, and textures generated from fibermesh clumps.
Let me know what you think so far.
He's a proto-humanoid, alive during a period of prehistory long forgotten. A once great ruler, he and his people fell to the onslaught of the imperialistic human nations. While he survived the genocide of his race, he lives on as a slave, disfigured and beaten. He is a symbol of human dominion over lesser beasts; he's a surviving relic of a species gone extinct, out of place in a world no longer suited for him.
I want to focus on portraying his despair and the tragedy of his past. I look to italian renaissance sculpture and painting for his final pose and feel. He'll be clothed; his kingly attire will be faded and scrapped, with baubles and elements that point back to his lineage and prior stature. In terms of costume design, since it's set in a fictional ancient prehistoric era, I want to pull from Egyptian/Babylonian BC shapes and colors, with the flowing style from renaissance/middle-age european fashion. He'll also have a staff or some element that he leans on.
Hopefully this concept doesn't sound completely off the wall. Please let me know if it does.
I have some renders from a really rough concept bust of the character, testing out overall anatomy/design and possible hair styles. I'll be going with alpha cards, and textures generated from fibermesh clumps.
Let me know what you think so far.