3D Character Design - CEPHS

Cephs

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is the character a good or a bad character? She has been a rival of a rock spirit, Bato, that has been a guardian of Eriozzan, the spirit forest for so long. She has a goal of being the new guardian of Eriozzan. She competes with other spirits to rule the spirit forest. Because of her aggressive attitude, most of the spirits dislike her and cast her away. She lives alone without parents and grew up by herself all alone. She probably needed some spirit to notice her capability, who knows. 

Concept

Cephs is a character that has an assassin fighter style with a mask on to cover her real identity. 

  

(Credited reference from Pinterest)

Her pose will show how confident she is with her skill and how aggressive she can be.

(Credited reference from Pinterest)

These 3 references are inspiration for her clothes design which is the mask will design to be a simple, grim reaper look-alike. She will have her cloak on and hoodie to mostly cover her type of what spirit species she is.

Character Design Development

The first design for Cephs, her anatomy is much more to look like a human anatomy and she has her blade hook as her weapon, cloak on and bandage right arm. 

As I tried to think of any ways to make her anatomy unique, I tried to shrink some of her body parts so it does not look like a normal proportion. I make her wrist legs thin and for her legs shape, I wanted to have an obvious shape for it so I added a spikey design to show that she can be a dangerous character. The same goes to her hand shape and fingers.

For her weapon, I planned to make her have the blade hook and a crescent which she can actually produce by herself from her own power.

Cephs's colour pallete

Cephs has the vibe of antagonist or villain because of his high rivalry with other spirits makes her like to be the number one powerful creature in the spirit forest. For Cephs, I choose the colour of red for her high spirit of wanting to rule the forest and her violence towards her rivals. Here is the colour palette of Cephs.

Red is a powerful colour that can be associated with violence, aggressiveness, energy and also with a splash of black, it shows more character’s identity of being mysterious and evil. One of the reference characters that has a little bit of similarities to Cephs is Harley Quinn. She is the villain and at the same time, there is a time when what she did was actually right.

For Cephs's mask, I would not want to use other colours as one of the tips to colour at least a design is not more than two or three colours so I choose simplicity.

After finish with character design, I proceed to 3D modelling for Cephs and render using Diffuse, Ambient Occlusion and Wireframe and here is a video of Cephs's turnaround.