Charon - New god concept for SMITE
Concepts for the new god in Smite, Charon! The assignment was making a skeleton feel really thick... and a boat. While also feeling like he belonged with the other Greek pantheon gods while also being visually distinct. Challenge accepted!
Learned a lot about shape language and what makes a character actually feel 'big.'
Loved how he turned out and the cinematic is amazing!
Full final turnaround with mat callouts. Had so much fun incorporating little details into his design. The candles and coins are my favorite
His weapon and boat! I had way more fun designing a boat than I thought I would :D
the boat was going to be a pain in 2D for turnarounds, so I just modeled it out! The ol 3DS modeling skills might be a little dusty, but they still work
Boat sketchies! Had fun adding lots of little character details to it, while keeping the rig simple and open for animation to have fun
1st sketch pass trying to figure out how best to represent Charon and the boat!
Round 2. Trying to get weird with him and his boat. Sometimes finding what NOT to do is just as important as figuring out what we should do :D
Round 3, fight! Hinting at a boat, instead of a literal boat
Still super early. Exploring how we incorporate coins, flames, and souls into his visuals
Trying to figure out his lower half. Gotta keep his total bone count in mind with his weapon and boat too. This skelle boy is beefy!
Really rough pass at what the whole presentation might look like
Refining shapes, and mocking up what the full skirt would cost us on his top half if we went in that direction
Future proofing for other skins. We wanted Charon's proportions to be exaggerated, but not hamstring future skin development
potential last-minute idea of him being desicated instead of a full skelleman. (glad we didn't go this direction :D )
fashion montage!