Character Design - Character Influences

The show's based in a world heavily influenced by Africa...in the early stages, the show was going to be as close to the real tribes the influences came from, but I decided against it, in order to have some creative freedom...having a lots of cultures and styles to play with seemed more interesting than study a particular one...

Character Design - Villain (Brief Research and Influence Map )

The Villain of my story is no longer the chief of a village, but he's a Witch Doctor who is also the brother of the African God of thunder, he was casted down to earth to live as a mortal after going against his father's will. Now the Villain plots through the first season of the show to capture our Hero and retrieve his powers for himself

Witch Doctor

Character Design: Show Logline and Hero Influences (Rough)

Fantastic Voyage - Initial Influence Map

Secret Lair - Character Profile

Character Profile

Character Influence Map #2

The 2nd Influence Map I created shows most of the characters that inspired my character's story and his visual appearance. I imagine my "Kung-Fu thief" having very similar mannerisms to Sherlock Holmes, and being very odd and calculating as "L" from the death note anime.

As for the story, the idea of the Mountain with monkeys was inspired by the Journey to the West's Mount Huaguo(Mountian of flowers and fruit) where The Monkey King was born.

Secret Lair - Influence Maps

The purpose of the Secret Lair project is to create a lair for a main protagonist, and I'll be working on a lair for a Thief with Kung-Fu attributes

Influence Map 1 - Character

Even though this isn't a character based project, I thought it'd be essential to have a clear understanding of the character. Above is my initial Influence Map for my character, I started to think about what type of thief he was...what were his motives, was he stealing for survival? or for justice? when I got the two keywords for my character, I initially wanted him to be alone in a rundown, tight environment, but open reflection and after conversations with my tutor and pairs I decided to think of my character as more of a Leader, someone who's responsible for a lot of people and from then I started thinking along the lines of Robin Hood and Assassins Creed, where the character is at a forefront of something big, like a revolt....nothing about my character is set in stone at the moment.

Influence Map 2 - Character's Secret Lair

...So with a vague idea of what and who my character would be, I started to look to films and real life locations for inspiration, and I looked into Chinese architecture to understand how to display Asian influences within a space, after looking at real life locations and buildings in china I decided to look elsewhere for inspiration and the idea of the "bat cave" stood out to me, the idea of having this big  wide open space concealed and out of sight of the civilians started to be ideal I was chasing visually for my characters lair.  

Influence Maps

These are the Influence Maps I was going by on the week of the OGR, and the purpose for each image.

Image 1

The Purpose of the first image was to portray the beginning of the characters journey 

Image 2

Image 2 is towards is the end of Chapter 8 showing the rich environments described in the book

Image 3

..and my aim for the final image is to be able to portray fear and foreshadow the dangerous dinosaurs they later see in the book.

First Influence Map

These are a couple images and films that came to mind after reading the extracts from The Lost World, my first couple concept images would get visual inspiration from this board.