Digging Up the Past...

Our new assignment got me thinking about character designs, and my favourite designs from the past, before university. These character designs have been waiting in a creative limbo for the past few years and I'm not really sure why - some of them are my favourite pre-university pictures. Although some look like cave drawings compared to my new work, I still like them all and with a few adjustments, they would fit right in with my new stuff. So here are my resurrected characters, hope you like them:

Wow, sorry to overload you with sketches there, but I hope you stuck with me. As you can see, i like a lot of my old characters and to a certain extent had already planned a game using them - an old school adventure with a load of bosses and one ultimate boss - following in the footsteps of Crash Bandicoot, Kingdom Hearts, Pokémon and Croc. These games were all influential to me whilst growing up so it's only natural that I'm quite nostalgic about them and because there are few current games like this now it inspires me to bring this style of gameplay back and get away from the thousands of shooter games out there. Anyway, my plan is to edit and improve these designs and hopefully use them in this project. I have a lot to choose from but I think I will stick to two or three characters and carry on this idea in my own time or in my final year.