Ryo's Turnaround Reel for Showcase's Showreel

Gantt Chart Gantt Chart

This is the gantt chart I made for Jim's coursework. I am not sure about the milestone, is that ok to insert that into gantt chart or not, but beside that I like my picture. :)

Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce (PSP) Trailer From Koei

Seriously, this totally freak me out!! Amazing characters, plz consider that the game is just for PSP. XD

Wolverine Timeline

Here is a timeline I made about wolverine's comic design, which I think will help to abserve what elements have been changed through years.

* CLICK ON FOR LARGE SIZE IMAGE.

Something I wish my character would be looked like

Samurai Warriors 3 Tokyo Game Show 2009 Trailer [HD] 

I like the way KOEI designed the characters' armors. I hope I could build my character as great as this. Well, not exactly similar, since the environment of Samurai Warriors is ancient China & Japan. Anyway, really cool designs!

SAMURAI WARRIORS 3 CHARACTERS

10 worst comic character design

I found this interesting online. Might not be that related to my project, but definitely worth to read, and I found the revolution of a comic character is quite different from animation.

here is the link:
10 worst comic character design

Thoughts after reading:
1. Is the any influence at late 80's?
2. After evolution,character should still be recognizable.
3. Don't change color randomly.
4. Consider proportion.
5. Don't be over. (changing to much)

Meeting with Lynn

Suggestion:

1. What 3D technology can bring to character design for animation/games

2. You have produced a number of drawings, but to inform our process and to support our reasoning behind our design decisions, it may be useful to research other series which have been updated.

3. Try to compare old designs with new and make observations about what has changed and why you think these changes have been made.

4. Why decisions have been made during your process, look at the story/world or any changes to the universe that have been made.

5. It may be useful to identify a number of changes that are made when a story/character is revised in 3D.  These changes would provide you with a number of methods used in industry to revise a character concept.  This could help to inform the changes you make in the character designs.

6. If any of these things change in an updated version, this will visually impact on the character.

7. Researching character design processes, the differences between designing a character for 2D and designing one for 3D and also ways characters are revised for today's audience.  

8. It will be useful to create a profile of the character as he exists at the moment. 

Agreed Action Points

• Research character design for 2D and 3D characters.  Identify any differences and how these may impact on your process
• Study other character revisions/updates and identify changes in design/story/universe etc.  Try to form these changes into a set of methodologies or approaches to character revision that can inform your process this year.
• continue development of digital painting skills
• explore sculpting using Zbrush/Mudbox

written by Lynn.

Concept Art - Sketches

Back-story

Just found an original back-story of the main character I am going to remake on internet.

Ryo Sanada

Ryo Sanada, known in Japan as Ryō Sanada (真田遼 Sanada Ryō), is the unofficial leader of the Ronin Warriors. He is often called "hot-headed" by fans and does tend to charge ahead without putting too much thought into the situation beforehand (like Kento). Nevertheless, he has a big heart and cares for his friends. He is voiced by Takeshi Kusao (Matt Hill in the English dub).

Ryo's family is descended from a Shinobi ninja clan, but very little is known about them. Ryo's mother died when he was still a baby and his wild-life photographer father, Sanada-san, makes his first official appearance in an audiocassette drama (Cassette Collection #3), in which he is possessed by a demon. Despite such traumatic events, Mr. Sanada is often on photography assignments, much to his son's dismay. Ryo has relatives on his father's side of the family, but has never met them: their personal convictions are disliked by Sanada-san, who had to abandon them to live a life of his own.

Ryo wears the Wildfire armor (a straightfoward translation of its original Japanese name, Rekka). His Virtue is Jin (Righteousness; rendered simply as Virtue within the series). He has an elemental affinity for fire. His weapons are a twin pair of katanas, and his surekill is Wildfire Flare (Flare Up Now!) (called Sou En Zan or Twin Flame Cut, in YST). For this attack, he attaches his two katanas together to form a staff-like weapon and performs a greatly empowered strike with it.

When Ryo gathers energy and the guiding Virtues from the four Ronin or Warlord armors, the armor of Inferno (called Shiroi Kikoutei or White Sun Emperor, in YST) (sometimes simply called the White Armor in the dub) forms around him. He gained the armor during the first battle against Talpa. During the battle Ryo is overpowered and absorbed into Talpa's armor along with the rest of the Ronin warriors and Dark Warlords. He nearly gives up, but refusing to let his friends down he breaks free, and gains the Inferno from the other Ronin's virtues and defeats Talpa. A draw for Ryo when using the Inferno armor was that its power was so great that it damaged his swords from the wildfire armor when he used it, but Ryo later gained the Swords of Fervor, (called Gou Retsu Ken or Strong Violent Swords) and uses a different surekill: Rage of Inferno. The attack is essentially the same as his Wildfire's surekill, except that he shoots a massive stream of fire instead of attacking with a his swords. The armor's power itself is legendary; at the peak of its power, it is said to be able to destroy an entire planet. When Ryo gained the armor, Talpa desired it to the point where he lost any interest in the other armors. With no guiding virtue of its own, the Inferno Armor must rely on 5 guiding virtues to keep it pure. Ryo's tiger, White Blaze, also has an armored form. White Blaze is entrusted with the soul of Black Blaze, who accompanies Ryo into battle and carries the Soul Swords of Fervor. However, the Inferno Armor was eradicated in a fever-pitched battle with Mukara.

By the end of the 3rd OVA, Message, Ryo gained a new armor and more powerful abilities.

The name "Sanada" likely came from Sanada Yukimura, a real samurai who died in 1615. He is frequently depicted as wearing red armor, and was widely considered a hero.

The crest on Ryo's armor is actually a slightly stylized version the family symbol of the Takeda clan.

Project Plan

*Just found culture difference is very difficult and "dangerous" to talk about, so after meeting with Gregor, I decided to change my project to,

Representing Existing Character

*This could be something in 2D have been done before, in 90's or 80's. Remake the character to fit it into nowadays market.

*For Production Document & Pre-Production Portfolio, things to think about:

1.What is character design pre-production?
2.What do CD do?
3.What do CD make?
4.Where in the process fit?
5.Back-story
6.Concept art
7.Prototype


P.S I have been doing notes and plans on sketchbook and notebooks for a while, now its time to get back here I guess, its much easier. :)