Cyn
Cyn was created for a character design brief set by Dreamworks. I love creating characters and felt that this brief was an amazing opportunity to find out what it was like to design for a client, rather than personal.
The idea was to take an existing vehicle and to design a character suitable. I chose a Hover Vespa which was created by Alex Broerman, and started to design a retro Sci-fi character named Cyn (short for Cynthia).
The slide show shows my progression through the project, starting with the finished design and working back to my initial moodboard.
The idea was to take an existing vehicle and to design a character suitable. I chose a Hover Vespa which was created by Alex Broerman, and started to design a retro Sci-fi character named Cyn (short for Cynthia).
The slide show shows my progression through the project, starting with the finished design and working back to my initial moodboard.
The project was around 2 and a half months long and I made the most out of the feedback I was able to get. Without the help of Shelley Page, head of international outreach for Dreamworks, I feel like my design would have been stuck in the initial designs and this really opened my eyes that it was super important to ask for the clients thoughts on the design.
Once I felt the design was ready to be submitted I asked Shelley once more for feedback, making sure everything was matching and worked well together, to which she replied:
This is really well presented work - it looks great!
I think you have come up with a very original character - and her look exactly matches the vehicle - so you have definitely fulfilled the brief!
Overall I really loved this project. It was definitely a difficult task to create something to a brief rather than on a whim but I feel like this really pushed me to do something I would otherwise never thought of!
Once I felt the design was ready to be submitted I asked Shelley once more for feedback, making sure everything was matching and worked well together, to which she replied:
This is really well presented work - it looks great!
I think you have come up with a very original character - and her look exactly matches the vehicle - so you have definitely fulfilled the brief!
Overall I really loved this project. It was definitely a difficult task to create something to a brief rather than on a whim but I feel like this really pushed me to do something I would otherwise never thought of!