【22.09.15-04.10.15】Concept Design — Insect

     

 

    Here is my concept design of the 'Insect'.

    First I think the insects as I have drawn them in the image the ant, butterfly, cockroach, bee, dragonfly, centipede, earthworm, scorpion and so on...
    I pick the Eurypterid, Ant and Bee for my concept design because I would like to make my character background story about them.

 

———————————————ANT—————————————

 

---Idea of Ant---

    I think 'Ants' have good programme of survival, they are very adapted to avoid disaster and masters of foraging much like native people of old. We have many different cultures and we are still evolving. Justice and evil things happen in our world as they may the insect world. It could be same. So I would like to quote the Ant and make a new world for them, I will metaphor the Ant world . I think this idea will be nice to try. An Ant world, what are they like ? Are they the top of Food chain?

 

info link：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant

 

 

    The beginning I start to create details silhouettes of my work. I think about the skill they have and how to make them more games like.

 

    After that I try to do some concept of rationalization change; like this one, I thought about the evolution process of ant. Because walking upright is a big ting of evolution in the human world, so I would like to make ant walking upright as well. Then they could have a era similar to the 'Stone Age' and so on..

 

           

 

 

 

    Secondly, I think about how to create the body of character, because I would like to make my character pretty and attractive to people. even the internal structure of the body.

         

 

    I would like to do an Ant Queen of my final piece, because the Ant Queen is the one who establishment of national, she is a heart of whole colony . I referenced Victorian's fashion for my queen. Because the Victorian era heyday they had a lot of imaginative htings, e.g. like Steampunk or Gothic vogue as a famous example.

 

 

    My Ant Queen is of child age in this event. Her mother the previous queen of the colony, died before the completion of building the colony. So she need to rule her mother's colony and development the world by herself ( That's why the robe and imperial crown are too big for her.). The pattern on the robe is a story about her ancestor clan fighting with anteater, because the anteater is the top predators of the ant . They commemorate the date of their victory over the beast.

    I change the white colour to black colour because I think the little queen so young and she can not change anything in her life. The Ant queen always need to be the one whom toils. So I would like to use gothic dress to portray her life as woeful and sad.

 

 

 

 

    In my final concept design of the Ant Queen. I changed some detail of her dress and the cane. I use a fork shape to build up because I think the main thing of ant is 'food', and Poseidon had a cane similar as a fork as well, so I think 'fork' is a good shape of ant queen. I use green of her cloak means the representative colour of her country is green, because they live in a woodland underground dwelling .It's very hard to harvest plants because plants need sun for life, but and daylight is a dangerous place. So I take plant colour to symbolise royalty. The one next to Ant Queen is a chancellor of the country, I would like to put him in there to let people know how young the Queen is.

    This background is the bedchamber of Ant Queen, I use this composition which is looking outside the bedroom because the queen need to finish her final throne ceremony in the bedroom, and all courtiers are waiting for them.

 

   I think this character could be good in a RPG game. Because usually there are a lot of different maps in a game, I think she could be a part of the game. It can be a NPC for player receive task for them. For e.g. like 'Help me build my country'...

 

 

 

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---Idea of Bees---

    'Bees' quite similar as ant, and they are a very hard-working insect. I would like to see what happens if they are the rulers in future. I think the world of furture will be a very peaceful place and there will be no quarrels. They do not just care about 'a country' any more, they have universe and outer space to use for survival . for e.g. they could use a planet for travel; build a beautiful place make people want to go there ,or use a for cultivation/nurture just like a huge farm. Of course you can have some planets for living or something else. I think that is could be a good concept.

 

info link：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee

 

    The beginning I start to create details silhouettes of my work. I think about the skill they have and how to make them more games like. I think the body of the Drone bee and their strong physique. a smaller physique for a normal bee and a .. I think the strong one could be the defender , the smaller one could do all the work.

     Secondly, I think about how to create the body of character, because I would like make my character pretty and attractive to people.
    I make the bee looks like a cowgirl, responsible for nurture and cultivation because I think bee are very industrious so I would like to make my character a farmer. But I wouldn't like it wearing normal dress because I think a cowgirl dress makes people feel more friendly to her .

 



 

    The world view of this bee is future, so I would like to make the body metalization because they use science and technology to reform the body. Original body is not good enough working in future so they will change something to mechanize and make sure they have a high quality life.

 

 

    In this the final concept design of my future's bee. It lives on a farm-planet. There have many animals for nurture and help farmer to work. (The machinery baby elephant is the one who help farmer to do the work as well.)

    I think this character is good for Dungeon crawl or Sandbox game. For e.g. like 'Minecraft', 'Spore', Kerbal Space Program' and ‘Abyss odyssey’, Because these games very plasticity and creativity so if the game will be build up could be like : The main character is a farmer, the daily job is look after the farm. After he has finished the job, the player could do something else. e.g. like do more work to construct own planet or create instrument. Then player also could go to other planets to do something as well.

 

 

 

 

 

—————————————Eurypterid—————————————

 

---Idea of Eurypterida---

    Umm.. 'Eurypterida' because they are so ancient insect. I would like to try make a civilization of them, because I like the ancient civilization and I think of a magic way to incorporate them into my work. I could use old legends and myth for reference, They will help me make the character very attractive. Imagine, if the overlord of sea will be hiding somewhere for evolution, how exciting that would be? They will be change the human's world?

 

info link：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurypterid

 

 

    The beginning I start to create details silhouettes of my work. I think about the skill they have and how to make them more games like.

         

 

    After that I try to do something concept of rationalization change; like this one, I thought about how to create the body of character. The eurypterid ferocious and ugly could makes people think it is powerful and offensive. I made this eurypterid looks like a half-human and half-demon because I found an interesting way of Maya myth, they have a god similar 'poseidon', the god got married with a human to procreation. so I would like make this character, could be an eurypterid and human's daughter, she will defend the homeland because her ability is stronger than her father.

 

 

    Also she could have a second body form for her to fighting with . it will change into huge scorpion like creature. In scorpion form could be more unceremonious and move and attack. First form like this image, it uses hands and tail to attack.

    I think I will try to draw some more concept design if I have time; I will think about the civilization and development for this character. I think this character will be good in 'God game'; for e.g. the game could be like 'Spore', 'Populous: The Beginning', 'Black&White' and 'Command And
Conquer : Red Alert'. It could be the character who defend the homeland, then player could use other characters build house or collection materials and so on...