Crimson CHOW - Announcement/suggestion thread

[Craig Paton]

Some cool advice on character design and coming up with character topics from ConceptArt.org's Havok Reed here.




Here's a few of my own topic suggestions for this Sunday. Some of them as based on the idea of developing a character from the mood and action in some short sentences of story (An idea I shamelessly stole from Suzanne Hemligh).

• 2014. In a Christmas Carol we met the human personification of the year 1843, in the form of 'The Ghost of Christmas Present'. 2014 is one currently in it's prime, with four months of it's life remaining, already the events of the year have taken their visible toll.
  
  
• 'He sighed, as he wiped the blood from his boot, and then he straightened up. "Be ready, here they come, again." He said.
  
  
• The collector of stories, goes to war.
  
  
• Her back was turned to me as she reached for the mask.
  “I'm going to hurt you, now.”
  She fastened the straps and secured the mask.
  “and, … I'm going to hurt you bad.”