Further Ludovico's development after meet up with Will

So after December and I showed our Ludovico designs to will he gave us feedback on what he liked. He liked the cheeky face from December's concepts but just to make him a bit more devious. He also like the body concepts that I did and how bottom heavy he is when he stands on his hind legs and it shows how liquid he his. So from this feedback December and I merged our styles together and further developed his character. I did some silhouettes and expression drawing of him so understand him more as an animated character for the game.

Cover Ideas

Ludovico Development

Over the week we have just been developing characters with some drawings and references. December and I are working on Ludovico while Jasmine and Olivia are looking at the Nazi's. Here my character development for Ludovico. I tried a range of different body shapes and face shapes to see if Will liked any in particular. While I was drawing I also experimented with the description Will said of Ludovico being like a water balloon so very fluid. So I played around with his flexibility interacting with some objects.

Background / Aesthetic Research

I gathered a bunch of aesthetic references and inspiration for the scenery, backgrounds etc. Most of which are from wawel castle itself. Basically it is just a mix of baroque meets deco, with highly dense patterns and a color palette of mostly reds, golds and browns. There is almost a steampunk feeling to some of the decor.

Lady with an Ermine is displayed at the castle to this day. 

The Dragons Den underneath the castle. :O

Ludovico concept sketches.

As a group, we brainstormed the personality of our main hero Ludovico: we wanted him to be arrogant, fun, cheeky yet lovable. Almost a kind of "anti-hero". This meant we had to explore ways of making him expressive and giving him alot of character. We also played with the idea of making him really 'snake-like'Below I have attached some of the early draft and concept ideas for fleshing out his personality:

Ermine Reference

I did a bit of research to reference what ermines actually look like........and they are so cute