Charcter Bible: Designing The Time Keeper + Turn-Around

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 The timekeeper lives at the edge of time and checks to insure the timeline remains intact. Although they are just doing their job, to the heroes they will appear to be an antagonist. The heroes will think this as the time keeper has the same psychedelic look as the tears which are appearing in the world. 

The timekeeper will be made up of a combination of interesting shapes and patterns. They will have this appearance in order to be able to travel between timelines and survive without damaging the timeline. They will need to have a menacing look to their design, in order to make it believable that the heroes (and audience)  think he is the villain. 

With this in mind I began designing the character until I was happy with the final version. 



I really wanted the Time Keeper motives to remain anonymise for the majority of the story and so tried to reflect this in its design. I tried to create the effect that the character is an extension of the psychedelic mist which surround it. By doing this it gives the illusion that the thing threatening the world is the same thing associated with the character, making them the obvious villain. When in fact, the Time Keeper is simply trying to carry out its duties of securing the timeline. In order to do this it must send Elliot back to the appropriate timeline. 






I felt a lot more confident drawing the turn-around for this character as I had already completed two for the other two characters. I was still hard to make certain elements, such as the jester collar match, however I feel I did this well enough. 













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