October 22nd Update

Apologies for the lack of an update last week, I had a power outage and I didn’t get it back until mid week, so I decided to just add this week’s and last week’s progress together, first up the last on my main character redesigns, Naga:

I’m so much happier with this design than with the old one:

The actual changes aren’t that extreme but opening up the hoodie and changing to cargo pants really highlights the misguided teen style I’m going with, and breaks up the black and green nicely, where as before I felt the black unbalanced the previous design.

Secondly we have the first redesign of the secondary Characters, Sakata:

This design didn’t actually change as much as I thought it would:

Basically I adapted his armour to match the style of the human military

I also moved the tattered shirt to the outside, and while I do like the coat I feel it is a bit bland on its own, but for now I’m quite happy with it, since the problem is that I felt his design didn’t match the advance technology of the Human culture, which I feel subtlety it does now, while keeping his individuality.

Now, onto this week’s status on concepts:

• Background extras:42/42
• Main Characters: 13/13
• Main character re-designs: 5/5
• Secondary Character: 14/14
• Secondary Character re-designs: 1/5

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

October 8th Update

Another Redesign this week, Pamu:

Most of the design is  largely the same as the original, since I was pretty happy with it, but I decided to simplify the colour scheme:

This was mainly because of the changes I made to Anguis last week, so to give her more identity when next to Anguis, I decided to take the brighter elements of her scheme and make them more of a focus.

Now, onto this week’s status on concepts:

• Background extras:42/42
• Main Characters: 13/13
• Main character re-designs: 4/5
• Secondary Character: 14/14
• Secondary Character re-designs: 0/5

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

October 1st Update

Another redesign this week, Anguis from the Blind fold code:

I was happy with the majority of his original design, like his hoodie and hair, but there were a few elements that I had to change. First, his original colour scheme was a bit too bright and hard on the eyes:

So I muted the neon cyan of the t-shirt and had it match the blue of Pamu’s Hoodie:

Since Pamu has the darker colour scheme overall I think I’ll brighten up the blue sections of her hoodie when I get to her redesign. Secondly I didn’t like the short sleeved hoodie, so I took the stitched pants Idea from last week and applied it to the sleeves.

A really unexpected consequence of these redesigns is I’m able to see how far I’ve improved since I started the concepts, i’m half tempted to redraw all of the main cast, but I don’t think I’ll be able to find time, especially since there is still so much I still have to get on paper, so for now they’ll have to wait.

Now, onto this week’s status on concepts:

• Background extras:42/42
• Main Characters: 13/13
• Main character re-designs: 3/5
• Secondary Character: 14/14
• Secondary Character re-designs: 0/5

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

September 26th update

A little late with this one, but I’m glad I took a little extra time with it, this week is the start of my Character re-designs starting with Kigyo:

I’m really happy with how this turned out, its a big improvement over the old design, which looked a far too much like the character he was inspired by, also Kigyo is the Blindfold’s tank, so he should look burlier and more of a brawler. There were a couple of elements I did want to keep though, like the hexagon design and the hood made of strips of cloth, but the rest I took from stock images of Punks and ravers. Overall I think this sets a good precedent for the rest of the redesigns.

Now, onto this week’s status on concepts:

• Background extras:42/42
• Main Characters: 13/13
• Main character re-designs: 2/5
• Secondary Character: 14/14
• Secondary Character re-designs: 0/5

That’s all for this week,
Until next time

Marc Out~~

Season 1 Background Extras

As Promised, My first big milestone, the Background Characters on the City, here so I can reflect on the amount I’ve gotten done, The are 126 images in this Gallery.

Looking forward to complete more milestones like this in the future.

Until Next time,

Marc Out ~~

June 19th Update

Last of the blindfold code followers, after this one I only have six more background extras to do!

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Its pretty exciting seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on a big milestone like this.

I also love the the logos I designed for these followers, I’m going to for a punk anarchist look with them, so that’s kind of inspired the logos as well. I’m going to really focus on using these for inspiration when I’m re-designing some of the blindfold code members.

I’ve also bee brainstorming how I’m going to handle concepting the environments and scenes of the show, and I think I have an idea, I’m going to handle it in a similar way to how I’ve been handling these background extras. I’m going to start with just buildings and draw only three or four buildings for each section of the city. However I’m still going to hold off on those until I have all the character concepts for season one done.

So here is my current status on concepts:

• Background extras:36/42
• Main Characters: 13/13
• Main character re-designs: 1/5
• Secondary Character: 7/12
• Secondary Character re-designs: 0/4

These numbers may rise and fall as the series develops, but I’m going to start including the milestones on whatever I’m doing with each post from here on out.

That’s all for this Update
Until next week

Marc Out~~