Vortex the Marlin

the little matchgirl reimagined under the sea

i treated my extra thumbnails like a work-in-progress, so i saved them throughout figuring out the composition and stuff. i hope that's okay.

The Giving Tree

Character/Environments

For mine, I decided to redesign Sly Cooper from the video game, and remake the story into a steampunk setting. For the character, I used Sly, and for the environment, I went for an urban city, and tried to vary the different places he could go, such as the indoors laboratory looking place (number 3), or the airborne buildings (8, for example).

In the game, Sly's central weapon is a cane, so the last picture is a few different designs to start with.

The Giving Tree - Environments

Beauty and the Beast Redesign

So I also decided to do Beauty and the Beast. I really wanted to do some redesigns for the Beast too, but I unfortunately didn't have time.

Anyway, most of these concepts are going off of the idea of Beauty being a monster hunter.

The Giving Tree

Featuring... dismemberment! And lots of weird science stuff I haven't really figured out yet (this takes place maybe 200 years in the future). My recreation involves two young brothers abandoned on a hostile swamp planet after their scientist father is killed on an expedition. The older brother, Cause, is the more courageous and brash of the two and has taken it upon himself to hunt for food. But going anywhere on the planet is dangerous, and he often returns from his hunts with severe injuries. After loosing his hand, his little brother, Tam, proposes giving Cause his hand so that he'll still be able to hunt.

Using their father’s leftover equipment, Tam cuts off his hand and grafts it to Cause’s bloody wrist (science!). As time goes on, Cause continues to return to the hut injured, and Tam continues to help his brother the only way he knows how. But after sacrificing himself for his brother time and time again, Tam becomes nothing more than a mishmash of organs and a head hooked up to a life support vessel (science!!). Cause returns injured once again, and upon realizing that Tam has nothing left to offer him, is overcome by a wave of helplessness. Having developed a vain streak in light of his Frankenstein-esque appearance, he requests only that Tam tell him he’s beautiful. Tam looks his brother over, awkwardly proportioned with Tam’s limbs and covered in scars, and tells him as such.

So...er... dismemberment!

So the story I chose was the Land Before Time. I think I might have done the assignment wrong; I didn't choose one theme for my sketches. Whoops?

Character- Littlefoot

Environments