Designing Soldiers
Character Design 05
The soldiers in my animatic end up fighting the wolf henchman. I wanted the masks to be slightly different, kind of like the Anbu masks in ‘Naruto’. Since the kingdom has drawn a big influence on egypt I thought that looking into one of the Gods would be interesting for a mask design. I ended up choosing ‘Maahes’ a lion headed God of war. So I started working that into the designs.
As you can see in the bottom four sketches the influence is pretty clear. I also became influenced by Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Princess Mononoke’
In particularly all the fur that comes off the mask, I thought that would work great to add to the lion theme and portray it as a mane.
Here I’ve started messing around with costume designs since I had a good idea what the masks would look like.
Still exploring with the designs. The bottom left one is the one being further developed and being made into an orthographic
