Hot metal 2

Our group also plays the Star Wars MMO, so they had some suggestions on the design. I made a hot and cooler version.

 

Hot metal

Some photoshopery for my WoW Guild.

Ready for a contest!

Grey scale first, then color overlays and environment.

Redirect the eye to the character, then add in environmental color, glow effects, and some rim lighting. Ta da!

Animations soon to begin

Time to get the attitude and posture down for the first key frame.

 

Rigging: it continues

Look-at controllers, elbow controllers, and a whole lot of skinning.

Rigging: the ongoing saga

Feet and legs done!

Character Design: Random character generation

Recently I was directed to an awesome blog called "Character Driven".  http://itscharacterdriven.blogspot.com/
The beauty of it is you get a random assortment of traits for a character. When I pushed the button I got

Squatty
Disturbed
Progenitor
Who may/may not be a Satyr.

So, here's the process!

Line art

Compositional elements

B/w composition

First draft of colors

And final touch ups.

I highly suggest giving it a try and see what you get!