Character Development Process
Where did it start?
Character creation has always been a passion for me, alongside building awe-inspiring worlds to go with them. My primary influences with characters really started to kick in with the game Final Fantasy XIII, as I just loved their designs and how well they blended in with the world they lived in. The varying designs of characters and their individual traits
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As I was building games, alongside this hobby I also was drawing comics in my spare time. Most of them where mainly fantasy themed with my own original stories. I drafted up characters initially before making these comics, which would drive me further to bring them to life on paper.
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Back in 2011, I created 2D games on a site called Mygamebuilder and drew up lots of pixelated sprite characters for my own imagined RPG and Fighting games.
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I came up with a series called AFS (All Fighting Stars) Tournament, where Champions based on different existing games would fight against each other, similar to Super Smash Bros.
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Deus Di Convertus - Comic series made around Spring 2013
META Superheroes - Comic Project made around Fall 2013 with a group of friends
Iron Fist - AFS 1
King Arthur - AFS 1
Erza Scarlet - AFS 3
How I ended up progessing in Character Design
My sprite art for characters would eventually improve as I would add more shading, detail and more accuracy. My pixelated art was considered unique in the Mygamebuilder community as I would use the maximum sprite size which would be around 512x512 whereas most other games would utilize much smaller pixel size dimensions for their characters.
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I normally used bigger sizes because I wanted to bring my characters to life in the games I created and wanted to bring out as much of their visual detail as possible.
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Initialization phases would always involve concepting design ideas on raw paper which would lead onto the in-game renditions of these characters. As I did it for most of my original games created, I would like to show an example of some of my biggest RPG games that I made.
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Yuri Lowell - AFS 4 (Originally from Tales of Vesperia)
Verzailles - AFS 5 (Originally from an earlier game I created called Darkness Reborn)
Maulus Concept - Generation X made Summer 2012
Maulus In-Game Rendition