Welcome to The Incarnate Process Episode 55 – Eloden Color 3
Project: Ascended Kings
Character pre-Final: Harromere Eloden
Discussion below:
Alrighty. Here’s the final Eloden.
A few things to notice: the blood on the axe is on it’s own separate layer. So if you find this to be out of character for Eloden, it’s easy to remove. I just thought it gave us a nice opportunity to add in a complimentary color to all that green
Around his eyes I added some dark makeup with streaks running down his cheeks to give him a wild and aggressive look. Found the idea after looking at the character Floki on the History channel’s “Vikings” show (which i’m sure was in an of itself a design rip from Alice cooper and/or The Crow) At any rate, that detail wasn’t part of your description so let me know if it needs to be removed.
Other than that he’s good to go. I have an invoice ready to email you way, but I hadn’t heard any feedback from the previous WIP. So I want to hold off sending that until I get your final approval.
Thanks so much!
The final thing is just with his lateral incisors (the two teeth on either side of his front teeth). They come down very sharply. If we could either shorten them up or round them down a bit I think it would look better. I understand that this adds to the wild intimidating look, but I think they are too sharp. Speaking of teeth though, I really like how you handled the fangs on the bear.
As far as the makeup on his face, let’s keep it. It brings a lot to the table and gives this guy a great deal of character. Great choice.
Overall man I’m really blown away by this character. It really has come together much better than I had imagined. When you see him for the first time it really hits you, the gems in the bear eyes right above his eyes does something special that I don’t think I’ve really seen before quite this way. And the antler pauldrons couldn’t be better, they are so cool! Amazing job!
The rest is easy peasy. Will have the final ready to show this evening.
Cheers!
END EPISODE # 055
Stay tuned for EPISODE # 056 – Eloden Final 1 which will be posted soon!
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