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Character exploration for a new portfolio project.

WARM UPS

Just a few warm up sketches to start the day, nothing fancy.

Happy weekend!

COLORED UP

My entry for the ImagineFX Bobby Chiu challenge.

This original tale by Hans Christian Anderson revolved around the relationship between a toy tin soldier and paper ballerina in a child's room. The soldier, who is tossed out a window must undergo many adventures to get back to his beloved. One of these adventures involves the tin soldier on paper boat, having to pay a toll to a rat for safe passage through a storm drain.

My take on this is a little different. The relationship is still about love but more about family and protection. I updated the tin soldier to more of a mech/robot and made the ballerina more of an adventurous child. The rats, well, as you can see they have multiplied are are trying to stop our two heros from escaping their domain.

I will post some studies and process shots later. Time for sleep!

ON THE DRAWING BOARD

What I am working on right now. Will post progress shots and some studies in a bit.

MECHS

These mechs are iterations of the same design. So in the world I was creating here zombies have overrun the planet, fortunately, the tides are turning and we are slowly getting back our cities and towns. In an effort to avoid dropping nuclear bombs and causing more damage or killing innocents still in hiding the military has developed the Zombie Extermination Unit or Z.E.D. for short. This unit is specially trained and equipped to hand the zombie plague.

The mech above is basically a bait mech. It squirts out fresh blood and plays loud music to draw out any zombies. The cockpit has small openings to allow for the scent of a human to travel through the air. Zombies have gotten a little smaller and do not respond to corpses. As the zombies come out and the surround the mech net guns shoot and capture some of them for experimentation, the others it just saws through or deploys thermite bombs and walks away for remote detonation.

I will post some of the iterations later as well as the vehicle that accompanies this unit. Hope you like!

-Patrick