3D Toolkit - Reaper Brin

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Initial Thumbnails





Feedback



I sent some screenshots of the thumbnails above to my friends to see what they liked, disliked and their reasonings. A lot of my feedback complimented various cloak designs whilst the negative feedback criticized some designs for being too simple. I did some more thumbnails below responding to this feedback.


I experimented mainly with planning the outfits around the cloaks this time as that was what was best with my previous iterations. An issue I faced, was that some of my feedback criticized the tank top which is an element I quite liked. I didn't want to fully abandon this idea so I included in these thumbnails and focused on trying to make it fir in more with the design which worked successfully as I got some more feedback saying that the middle one was the best. (I had sent them a picture without the numbers which explains why the numbers are different in the screenshots below).



Face, Mask and Hair Thumbnails





Mask Thumbnail Feedback

At this point, I had decided on what I wanted the final design to look like. I knew which thumbnails I wanted to carry forward for both the eyes and hair. My only issue, was deciding which mask design was the best. For this, I got some more feedback to help inform my final decision. (I sent them screenshots before I had numbered them).


In this feedback, I got a lot of different opinions especially when it came to 5 (thumbnail 23 in the screenshot). I myself wasn't particularly keen on this design. I liked the idea but it didn't really suit my vision of the character. I decided to go with 2 (thumbnail 20) as it was the most mutually liked. I plan to make the mask look less metallic and more like leather due to the material being better suited for a mask.

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