Annie Royal: Wolf Film References

We are trying to go for a less realistic look, but still keeping a good amount of realism as the animals are supposed to be enemies and not allies. Although the wolves and dogs in the images above look very cartoony, I mainly want to take the proportions into account. 

Daniel Henry: Early Silhouettes & Research for the Roman Arctic Fox soldier

Before I started development on the Roman Arctic Fox Soldier, i sketched & inked a few silhouettes just to give me a rough idea of how i want the character to physically look without the roman armour.

key photos which will help towards the outcome of me and my group's final character designs.

Additional Silhouette studies showing common stances that arctic foxes perform before they get ready to attack their prey. 

Daniel Henry: Early Iterative Design (Visual Brainstorms)

I sketched a few expressions & stances for the arctic fox, also showcasing some of the characteristics in my character profile sheet.

I then focused on the armour for the torso, just wanted to get a rough idea of how i want the Foxes torso to be covered.

The Next Stage was to experiment with the shin guards for the legs of my character, i mixed a few designs together until i was happy with the outcome. (Top right of this caption)

Existing Roman Helmets: I picked the design right above (Centre) to take forward and furthermore develop for my character as it complements the early concepts of my groups characters.

I wanted to design my character with a redesigned Roman shield, so i brainstormed existing Roman shields, quickly sketched a few and played with the size & shape of key elements such as the circular metal plate to furthermore enhance the concept.

The World History Book: Contains various information on Ancient Rome relevant to our project + realistic references & detailed illustrations. Has been one of the main sources of research for my character.

The website: www.mileskelly.net

ISBN 978-1-84236-571-7

Annie Royal: Wolf References

The character that I will be designing, and making, will be a wolf. I got some images together to help me with my designs and ideas, also to help me be a little more realistic with my designs.

Daniel Henry: Character Profile Sheet Draft

Name: Cassius The Roman Arctic Fox

Gender: Male

CHARACTER ROLE

As all of my group’s enemy’s characters are animals based on the roman soldiers, so they wear the typical roman armour attire; my characters role is to prevent the main character from progressing through the level.

PHYSICAL Profile

Physical Advantages:

Very quick and strong, amazing reflexes, has an immense sensing ability

Physical Disabilities: Can be defeated by the main character by being jumped on

Attire: Roman Armour / helmet inspired from the era: The Roman Republic 509BC-27BC

Unique Physical skills: Specialist at Javelin (throwing long spears) and highly skilled with swords

Major life events: None

SOCIOLOGICAL Profile

Born: N/A

Upbringing: The Wildlife


Accent or Dialect: 
various growling sounds to communicate

Past profession: As the game takes place in the main characters dream, in the real world before the events of the game, the animals are still roman soldiers just in a human form.

Living /Surviving: Has a Strong ambition to hunt for flesh whilst protecting he’s army

PSYCHOLOGICAL Profile

Personality traits: highly intelligent, unpleasant, overconfident, harmful, technically skillful, courageous, encouraging, organiser

Treasured items: The Roman Scutum (Shield)

Personal interests: Hunting, organising the soldiers for battle

Mannerisms: very calm and composed until he gets hungry or in most cases if one of he’s army members have been easily defeated in battle

Sense of Humour: N/A

Major Life Events: None

Gameplay abilities: moves very quickly and smoothly, can kill the player by throwing and hitting the player with the long spears or simply by sudden contact (touching)

Annie Royal: Armour Research

We wanted to add armour to our enemies as the game is based in Rome, the animals have this armour to show that they are ready for battle and it also gives a surreal effect to the game.

Daniel Henry: Early References for my character

Early references of Realistic Arctic Foxes, which i collected and thought would work as strong character silhouettes for my Roman Arctic Fox.

Daniel Henry: (Group Research) Characters from films which are based in a Dreamworld (Fantasy)

As a group we decided that the main character (Charlotte) gets knocked unconsious by a pillar, and that the game takes place during her coma (Dreamworld). I decided to gather up a list of movies which relates to the dreamworld/nightmare theme of our game "The Forgotten Rome". We rewatched some of the movies such as Wizard of Oz & Alice in Wonderland to get an understanding of the various types of characters that we could take inspiration from in our individual character profile sheets.

Annie Royal: Wolf Character Profile Sheet

Name: Wolf
Gender: Both

CHARACTER ROLE
Their quest is to stop the player from getting to the end of the level, by attacking them as they come near. This character walks from side to side in the level, wearing typical Roman armour, their enemy is the player.

PHYSICAL Profile
Physical Advantages: Fast, strong
Physical Disabilities: Can be defeated by being jumped on
Attire: Roman armour
Unique Physical skills: None
Major life events: None

SOCIOLOGICAL Profile
Born: N/A
Upbringing: Lived and has lived in the wild
Accent or Dialect: Communicates by howling or growling
Past profession: N/A
Major life events: None
How does your character make a living/survive now?: Eating other animals

PSYCHOLOGICAL Profile
Personality traits: Aggressive, angry,
Treasured items: None
Personal interests: Hunting,
Mannerisms: Sneaky
Sense of Humour: N/A
Major life events: None
Gameplay abilities: Able to kill the player by touching them

CHARACTER SYNOPSIS

Daniel Lenart: Group Character Development

Character Development

After a great session with a character developer who gave us a lecture, were was able to develop our main character especially her story.

Here is a brief overview in bullet points of the main characters/games story:

• She is a slave of a rich Roman family
• A horrible blizzard appears
• Everyone starts evacuating from Rome 
• She runs sacred around the masters villa
• She gets knocked out by something such as a pillar and becomes unconscious

•   AS SHE IS UNCONSCIOUS THE GAME IS WHAT SHE DREAMS OF

• She wakes up alive finding out along with the player she was also saved by the family she serves during the evacuation

Deeper character background will be developed