Zeichentier
March 19th, 2007, 05:32 AM
This was a weekend of fun.
I needed break from the kinda work that I currently have on my desk. Somethin different to kid's stuff and clean magazine illos. Some cool stuff...
Somethin I always wanted to do...
So, since of I’ve had the great opportunity to go for some cover-illos for the german DVD release of „BraveStarr“ some time ago, and while doin those the question was roamin round in my head, how a live-action motion picture of this would look like these days, more and more aside-doodling kept comin together...
Ingredients were: Dirty. Dark. Raw. Fucked up machines that don't work properly in the heating sand...
To get that spirit, basic-question for me became finally, who could play the characters, where nowadays, you can expand everything via cgi, and there’s no limits? (Exept the actors that I would take, should be still alive, that is... :wink:)
Looking at Pirates of the Carribbean 2, I was like: Everythings a go!
Well...
The start did...
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/003%20ca.bs.tex.hex.jpg
Tex Hex, the impersonated curse of New Texas, was literally consumed by the desert.
Only withered, dried up skin stretching over his stringy skeleton, though you shouldn’t underestimate his powers, because of his physique.
All the greed of his sinister soul was only strengthened by the dark magic that Stampede breathed into him, his Kerium-drugged eyeballs glowing red of violence.
Quick and unpredictable in his doing, Tex Hex disposes of deathly magic powers, that also can just drive his opponents insane.
-He’s got a subscription for bad guys ad also a face that’s intensive even without much light: Lance Henrikson!
In my opinion he IS Tex Hex!
Next was my childhood favorite...
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/004%20ca.bs.thunderstick.jpg
Nuclear driven, this droid once stopped obeying his master and just went berserk.
Always on the hunt for new technology, „Thunderstick“ turned himself into a universe-wandering weapon’s arsenal – the most merciless robot in the galaxy.
He does everything for optimization of his machanics. He cannibalises what he finds, usually by deadly force of arms and quickness.
On one of his planetary rambles, Thunderstick ran across a piece of the element Kerium, for that he moved on to New Texas, to get more of it, since Kerium is the ultimate fuel for him.
- Now, who could better play this cyber-ego-maniac (just through his perfect fitting body-language), than Nicolas Cage (looking at his acting in Face/Off)?
Since I was watching DVD back then, I stumbled upon this guy in my mind:
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/005%20ca.bs.handle.bar.jpg
Coming from a planet out of the Riegel-System, on which the gravity conditions are extreme, Handle Bar is a real collossus of brawn and strength.
When his crude, thundering swearing makes the air quiver, you should quickly get yer ass down! This ultra-heavy cynic you should not tease in any way!
...Grimly swearing, powerful and dangerous, but then also likeable? Sure thing: Ian McShane – pounded up with a massive body of cgi-muscles! There ya go!
Even broke down a few more, where I was too lazy to write some origin:
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/006%20ca.bs.sandstorm.jpg
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/007%20ca.bs.skuzz.jpg
Strangely, I realized, I tolly wasn’t in the mood to design some heroes here... Though, the rest of the actors were in my mind:
BraveStarr – Dwayne „The Rock“ Johnson
Viper/Vipra – Alicia Keys
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/008%20ca.bs.braveStarr.viper.jpg
Fuzz – Ethan Suplee
Angus McBride – Joh Hurt
...& Vin Diesel as the Voice of Thirty-Thirty 8)
Ah, whatever. Who knows, maybe one of these days, I'll even do some proper fantsy hero-design :wink: ...
Hope ya like it and don't rip it. :xpld:
Best,
L
I needed break from the kinda work that I currently have on my desk. Somethin different to kid's stuff and clean magazine illos. Some cool stuff...
Somethin I always wanted to do...
So, since of I’ve had the great opportunity to go for some cover-illos for the german DVD release of „BraveStarr“ some time ago, and while doin those the question was roamin round in my head, how a live-action motion picture of this would look like these days, more and more aside-doodling kept comin together...
Ingredients were: Dirty. Dark. Raw. Fucked up machines that don't work properly in the heating sand...
To get that spirit, basic-question for me became finally, who could play the characters, where nowadays, you can expand everything via cgi, and there’s no limits? (Exept the actors that I would take, should be still alive, that is... :wink:)
Looking at Pirates of the Carribbean 2, I was like: Everythings a go!
Well...
The start did...
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/003%20ca.bs.tex.hex.jpg
Tex Hex, the impersonated curse of New Texas, was literally consumed by the desert.
Only withered, dried up skin stretching over his stringy skeleton, though you shouldn’t underestimate his powers, because of his physique.
All the greed of his sinister soul was only strengthened by the dark magic that Stampede breathed into him, his Kerium-drugged eyeballs glowing red of violence.
Quick and unpredictable in his doing, Tex Hex disposes of deathly magic powers, that also can just drive his opponents insane.
-He’s got a subscription for bad guys ad also a face that’s intensive even without much light: Lance Henrikson!
In my opinion he IS Tex Hex!
Next was my childhood favorite...
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/004%20ca.bs.thunderstick.jpg
Nuclear driven, this droid once stopped obeying his master and just went berserk.
Always on the hunt for new technology, „Thunderstick“ turned himself into a universe-wandering weapon’s arsenal – the most merciless robot in the galaxy.
He does everything for optimization of his machanics. He cannibalises what he finds, usually by deadly force of arms and quickness.
On one of his planetary rambles, Thunderstick ran across a piece of the element Kerium, for that he moved on to New Texas, to get more of it, since Kerium is the ultimate fuel for him.
- Now, who could better play this cyber-ego-maniac (just through his perfect fitting body-language), than Nicolas Cage (looking at his acting in Face/Off)?
Since I was watching DVD back then, I stumbled upon this guy in my mind:
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/005%20ca.bs.handle.bar.jpg
Coming from a planet out of the Riegel-System, on which the gravity conditions are extreme, Handle Bar is a real collossus of brawn and strength.
When his crude, thundering swearing makes the air quiver, you should quickly get yer ass down! This ultra-heavy cynic you should not tease in any way!
...Grimly swearing, powerful and dangerous, but then also likeable? Sure thing: Ian McShane – pounded up with a massive body of cgi-muscles! There ya go!
Even broke down a few more, where I was too lazy to write some origin:
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/006%20ca.bs.sandstorm.jpg
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/007%20ca.bs.skuzz.jpg
Strangely, I realized, I tolly wasn’t in the mood to design some heroes here... Though, the rest of the actors were in my mind:
BraveStarr – Dwayne „The Rock“ Johnson
Viper/Vipra – Alicia Keys
http://www.zeichentier.com/gallery/characterconcepts/008%20ca.bs.braveStarr.viper.jpg
Fuzz – Ethan Suplee
Angus McBride – Joh Hurt
...& Vin Diesel as the Voice of Thirty-Thirty 8)
Ah, whatever. Who knows, maybe one of these days, I'll even do some proper fantsy hero-design :wink: ...
Hope ya like it and don't rip it. :xpld:
Best,
L