Thursday, January 19, 2012

Deconstructing Characters


For the hero, I chose a complimentary color scheme.  The colors are blue and orange.  The mix of a bright color with a darker color helps to show the path that the character is on.  He has a dark past, but is striving to do good things on a path of enlightenment.  After a spiritual awakening, the character is freed from a long lasting drug addiction.  He realizes he is destined to do something very important, and the path of light begins.  The saturation is bright for orange, but slightly darker for blue.





Again, the lighting used here is representative of the character's past and future motivations.  The shadow in the background creates depth, and shows that his past self is separate from who he is now.  His past was dark, resorting to crime to help him pay for his addiction.  After his awakening, he become a brand new being on a path of righteousness.  The depth that is created by this lighting shows he has a very dynamic character structure.


  

The hero is best represented by the shape of a circle.  After a spiritual awakening, the character has become one with the earth, and the universe.  Oneness in best showcased as a perfect circle.  This symbolizes unity, and inner peace.  The character's shape before would probably be something like a zig-zagged line, as it was a very troubling time for the hero.  Now that he is on a path of light, his shape is more like that of the Earth.


                                                                          Hero: 'Syd'

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For the villain, I also chose a complimentary color scheme.  The colors I chose are purple and green, and the picture above represents the sort of cosmic vibrance of these two complimentary colors.  Zaar is the leader of an alien race, and you can tell from the colors that he is a being from outer space.  His costume is a futuristic space suit.  Zaar is an evil being, bent on enslaving the human population of planet earth.  The colors are vibrant, but dark and evil at the same time.




The lighting in the picture represents the villain's motivations.  Zaar wants to dominate and control every species he finds, so he's not the kind of bad guy to stay hidden in the shadows.  In the picture, the guy is surrounded by darkness.  This is the same case with Zaar.  He wants to be seen and feared, but is surrounded by all of the evil things he does and intends to do.  Unlike Syd, who had a dark past but is now on a path of light, Zaar has been evil his whole life and intends to keep it that way.




This picture represents the path that Zaar is taking.  He is doing evil deeds which are evident by the many crooked turns present in the above picture.  Zaar has been doing these things his entire life, following a journey of death, destruction, despair.  He's a typical villain, who has been brought up by evil, and surrounded by that evil throughout.





                                                              Villain: 'Zaar

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