character design - henchmen?

Heres a couple of spin off characters that would revolve around the fight between Billy, Thor and the evil Lord Hel.

Chris

Character design - Thor

Here is some images of the sidekick "Thor". Changes that will take place will involve his Axe becoming a Hammer and him to take on some more "lightening" based qualities.

Chris

Character design - Hero

Here is the young school boy hero from my cartoon, a boy whos life changes when he finds a magical book which opens a gateway to an ancient battle between viking gods of which he must help fight. With Thor at his side, he becomes a super viking warrior prepared to clash swords with any other worldy adversaries.

This is the School boy Hero named "Billy" in his usual form.

Here is Billy in his "Viking" form prepared to take on the evil forces of the norse Gods attacking his School.

Chris

Character expressions - Hel

Here are a few of the expressions I reckon my villain "Hel" would use most frequently. This in turn will make it easier to animate the character at a later stage, or further help me to understand the characters intentions and personality.

Chris

Character design - Villain "Hel"

Heres some of my designs for the evil viking underlord "Hel" for my character design project.

Here is my original idea for the character "Hel" based on a few rough skeleton sketches I produced. The character is based on that of famous evil people in that of the cartoon world - Mainly the evil pointed features of characters such as Jafar from Aladin, Cruella Devil from 101 Dalmations.
I started with more of a "Brute" image in mind, however this tore the character away from the idea that he was suppost to be evil, so I attempted to mix the best of both worlds to acheive a nasty, sly, strong yet evil character using a mix of both principles. The first sketches were as the following images, of which seemed to speak louder to me as side kicks rather than main characters. Their just not evil enough!

Here you can see from taking reference from such famous characters as above, I can create a much better idea of what would build an "evil" stature. I then applied it to my own design to further the menacing nature of Hel's indimidating appearance.

In playing around with this new idea for slim, pointed, scary evil looks, I decided to try and re design Hel's facial appearance. Here you can see he has started to gain a "skull" like nose, with Cat eyes and a sinister smile.

As a result of this I decided to push his design further, trying to see how changing different aspects of the facial contours effected the "evilness" of the character.

In talking to Colin White, he suggested larger horns and quickly sketched out my design into a new form which helps to pursue his evil charms.

• Hel before:

• Hel after:

This design of Hel takes on that of a similar appearance to the character "Maleficent" in the Disney classic "Sleeping Beauty" (1959).

Chris

11 second club lip sync part 1 - jaw roll

For this character, I accidently used the pulling down of the jaw instead of rolling its mouth with the rotate tool. However, due to the characters dumbish, quirky voice, I feel that a diving jaw will add to his goofy personality and work better with his speech.

Chris

Viking Gods - Character design research

Heres a list of the different Gods that Viking beleived in which are good for interesting characters for my characters back stories.

• Odin

Odin was the god of war. He stormed around on his hellish eight legged horse

• Thor

Thor was the God of thunder, also the most popular and well known of the Norse Gods. He had a short temper however was not out to harm, he was a reflection of what most Vikings thought was important: Strength, Determination and Respect. In his simpleness he had one quick way of fixing things which he felt got in the way of justice, he would kill them with his hammer.

• Freyja

Freyja was the goddess of love and war, originally of sex. She had the ability to trasnform into a bird by wearing a falcons skin.

• Frey

Frey was a fertility God. His Sister was Freyja the Godess of love and war.

• Loki

Loki was half god, half fire spirit. In a sense this character was the devil of the Viking's religious views as he would cause the over Gods trouble and be disrespectful.

• Idun

Idun was the Goddess of spring and immortal youth.

• Sif

Sif was the goddess who married Thor and bore his stepson (by Odin), Ull. The vikings (and their gods) admired golden hair, and she was exceptionally proud of hers, so Loki cut it all off while she was asleep.

• Hel

Hel was a goddess (or a monster), a daughter of Loki and Angrboda, who ruled over Niflheim, which was the land of the dead.

Chris