Character Bible: Final PowerPoint + Reflection

 Below is the final character design bible I created based upon the conditions I received in the beginning:

Project Parameters

 Character: Superhero/Supervillain

Theme: Psychedelic Album Covers

Character Trait: Vain

World Time: 1960's London

Scene (What's Happening): Saving/Destroying City

Action: His/Her Powers

From here I was able to develop the following story:

Elliot Goh is a man from the future. He is very rich and so has everything you could want in life and is still not happy. He is very vain and wants nothing more in life then to be the superhero everyone looks up to in his timeline, AB-Normal. He uses his money to research time travel and pinpoints the time (in the 60's) in which the superhero first begins appearing, and attempts to travel their in order to steal the powers for himself, gaining the one thing in life he cannot attain through money. 

Elliot uses time machine and arrives in 60's city at the exact point in which superhero gains powers. His time machine malfunctions and strikes a nearby boy (Joe Average), who gains the powers of AB-Normal. Elliot sees this happen and is devastated that he can never be the hero as he is the reason for their creation. 

Elliot is now stuck in the past with no way of returning. He was unable to get his powers and due to him being in the wrong timeline, tears begin to appear in the world (this looks psychedelic), which represent the timeline breaking. Elliot decides to spent his time feeling sorry for himself at bars, while observing Joe's attempts at heroic acts which his newfound powers. However Joe is very bad at being a hero and messes up a lot. This causes Elliot to become frustrated as he believes he could have done a much better job as he has obsessed over it for such a long time. Elliot decides to seek out Joe and take the boy under his wing (as a reluctant mentor), posing as a superhero himself. He then uses his knowledge from the future to aid Joe in becoming a hero. He has study all of the events which have involved the hero and so knows a lot about the crimes which will appear. 

The tears in the universe begin to grow larger, which begins to destroy the city. The audience is then introduced to the third character known as the Time Keeper. The Timekeeper is an unknown entity which lives at the end of time. It is their job to ensure the timeline stays in tact. The Time keeper acknowledges the anomaly in the timeline and so travels to the 60's in order to set things right. The heroes believe that the timekeeper is the reason for the tears as the patters are similar to what he is made out of. Elliot has studied all of the villain which AB-Normal has to fight, however does not recognise this one and so sees him as a bigger threat. The heroes confront the timekeeper. There is a long battle between the two heroes and "villain", which is set in the Piccadilly Circus in London. The Timekeeper uses his powers to transform the people and objects into Psychedelic weapons, all in an attempt to stop Elliot. Joe Average must rise up and finally execute his special move (sonic mega clap) in order to put a stop to the fighting. After the battle, Elliot realizes his mistake after finally talking to the Timekeeper and so returns back to the future, to his right timeline. Before leaving, Elliot hands his costume to Joe as a reward for finally becoming the hero he truly is. The reason why the hero (Joe) is so good at his job is because he got his training from his mentor, the Elliot. The experience humbles Elliot, who decides to use his wealth to help others rather than himself. 

Now that I had a story, I now had to begin creating the characters. I felt because I spent a lot of time developing the entire story, I could then use this information in order to inspire the designs of the characters and show of their personality effectively.  

Final Reflection 

I am really happy with how the final character bible turned out and feel I have captured the ideas thought up based on the brief really well. I particularly like the character Elliot Goh as he matches the exact vision I had for the character in my head. 

I was excited to complete the projects as I really like characters in media and wanted to go through the process of creating not only fleshed out characters, but meaningful ones too. I was really happy with my parameters as I am a huge fan of superheroes and felt that the psychedelic aspect forced me to think differently on how to portray the characters. I referenced a lot of comic in the creation of my project as I wanted to ensure they were comic accurate. 

The idea for the presentation of the character bible, was to have a surrounding boarder which matches the state of the world as the story progresses. It starts out with bright colours for Elliot (representing the future), it then slowly transitions to grayscale (to match Joe's 60's vibe) and then finally the psychedelic seeps through to represent the inclusion of The Timekeeper. I made this out of psychedelic album covers which I used to influence my work and a psychedelic pattern I found online.