Inspiration for my Character

I have been looking at characters and locations that inspire my character, her costume and her background. This is useful in gauging what impression I want to give when someone looks at her, and this will add to her characterisation.

Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena: Warrior Princess was a popular tv show in the 90's that sprang to mind when I had ideas for the costume. I want my character to be a woman of power and strength, however also looking feminine at the same time. The characters and costume in this show present this well.

The costume of the character on the left is similar to that of what I imagine my character to be wearing as it is tribal, connotes nature and is feminine. I like the arm band features and the brown colours, I would like to replicate this in a way, however with more gold and in a regal fashion as I would like my character to seem as if she is a goddess or of royalty and wealth.








Kylie Jenner

The hair and costume here is my inspiration for my character. The thick black ponytail shows femininity and I think is a homage to snakes as it will be shiny, straight and slinky like the shape of a snake.

The costume is a bit too war-like and not naturalistic or tribal enough, however the bra part and gold chain is something that inspires me for the character; it is regal, feminine and goddess like.

Avatar

The character of Neytiri is an inspiration for my character as she lives in the jungle in a tribalistic world, and has a strong personality, physique and is completely adapted to living in the forest. Moreover, she is high ranking in the tribe. This is the kind of position I would like my character to have. Moreover, some of Neytiri's accessories that she is wearing in this photo on the left are tribalistic, and I would like to use something like this, however probably in gold to represent the regality of my character.

Moreover, the location of Pandora is something like the world my character would live in. I don't think that there would be glowing plants, however this jungle atmosphere with abnormal geography is what I see the world she would be living in to be like. As it could be post-apocalyptic and this world contains mutants like my character, who knows what would have/can happen to the geographical features of the world if the biological normalities could change.

Tomb Raider: The Game

This is another inspiration for the world that my character lives in. Lara Croft here is on a 'deserted' island called Yamatai, which features a lot of old temple ruins on a jungle/forest covered island. I don't see the buildings in my made up world to be clean and new, they are old, crumbling, covered in jungle vines and leaves, however are still partially inhabited.

Lara croft in this game is the body inspiration for my character. I see her with this physique, anger and determination. She is extremely skilled with weapons and makeshift weapons.









Apocalypto

The world in Apocalypto is what I envisage the world of my character lives in to have been like before the apocalypse. The world she lives in now will be the ruins of this in the jungle, with only remnants of the mayan culture left, mostly regarding their gods and temples.