Felos is another character from "Crash Nebula." He is an evil sidekick to the main villain, (Ving) alot like Crab or Goyle are to Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series. I originally drew him as a big hulking tiger, but the other sidekick was a big hulking rock guy, so Butch directed me to make him more of a sleek fast villain. After many discarded drawings, (I don't have time to scan them all now) we settled on the blue version you see on the early concepts page. Then I only needed to make him look younger and you can see the final model on the turn-around. I included a drawing guide for the over-seas animation studio as well as some clean-up drawings I did based on the amazing boards of Eric Wiese. Cleaning up Eric's boards was a great learning process for me and I always feel that was a key moment in my continuing development as an artist.
Congratulations one more time!!
ReplyDeleteI like them a lot!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is great, I love seeing how a design comes to life. The grayscale poses are terrific! Very cool.
ReplyDeleteufff, wow!
ReplyDeletethe character is great, but the creation process, the model sheet (turn arounds, facial shapes, poses and attitudes, and so) is simply AN AWESOME S-U-P-E-R-P-R-O-F-F-E-S-I-O-N-A-L- WORK!!!
Lot of learning we can take from your post (I'll do my homeworks!)
Wow Ben, that's awesome! Love the construction sheet. I'm sure working at Laika is the shizzle, but how is it living in Portland?
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Love your use of shapes in your designs and the work sheet for the design is excellent very informative post more like this please!!!
ReplyDeleteFelos kicks much "a"! Wow! Thanks for posting all the sketches and the Construction sheet! Great, great stuff Ben!
ReplyDelete...I SAW THIS A WHILE BACK ON YOUR WEBSITE AND THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT, I LUV THE DESIGN, AND THE EXPRESSION SHEET RUFFS, REALLY GREAT STUFF
ReplyDeleteV cool character design model sheets!!
ReplyDeleteGreat designs!
ReplyDeleteman these are awesome i love it.
ReplyDeleteMan these are great dude!!!
ReplyDeleteI am flabergasted! These are awesome turn around and model sheets!
ReplyDeleteWow I really can't get enough of these! I love seeing the concept sketches to full colours, to turn arounds and construction! Looks great Ben! As usual you got me inspired to draw more then my wee hands are ready for!
ReplyDeleteGreat work!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to hear someone at your level talk about their continuing development as an artist. I love seeing all the designs you didn't use of characters.
ReplyDeleteLove your characters and thanks for the great construction stuff.
ReplyDeleteThis is just amazing!! the construction for this is really good!!
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these designs are so fresh and so clean.... great attitude and love seeing the style guide you did.. I had to do that for Class of 3000 over here @Cartoon Network...it really helps them overseas as we have been getting back more and more animation..
ReplyDeleteur work definitely kicks some rump
HA! Oh man, these are Rock'n! So good! That big guy is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThe work on this blog is Mind-Blowingly great! These are the best model sheets I have seen in ages!
ReplyDeleteThese are all fantastically amazingly brilliantly done !!!!!!!
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