Initial Character Design

So this project me and Hannah have decided that we will both share the responsibility of designing the characters but that I will focus for now on getting the main character designed while she investigates with creepy ideas for the monsters that will live in the world through the door.

I sketched my designs on Paint Tool Sai, I knew roughly the elements I wanted this character to have, I liked the idea of him resembling an adventurer or someone who is self sufficient and ‘lives off the land’. Inspiration for this character came from a few places, I liked the design of ‘the kid’ from little nightmares and the childrens clothes in Made in Abyss.

I’m not entirely sure where my ideas came from for the backpack, I know in alot of horror games flashlights are a common thing, but I kinda liked the idea of him having a light up flower on his backpack.

At this point I’m still not sure exactly what style were going to do in terms of line and colour, we are animating in 2D but I don’t know if we want to go for a more clean look or sketchy, it will be something we need to experiment with abit more to find out.