Project: Film - (currently untitled) - TBA - Art Advance preview

This film project required the realization of 9 creatures/demons and teaser art. Each creature in the script portrayed a unique vision of the deadly sins as an entity.

The instructions were loosely based on size, colors and a few traits that the creatures might have in relation to their sin. The rest was left open for interpretation and imagination. As I went thru the motions of building them, I made decisions along the ways as to how the sins they represented might be visualized in subtle ways.

To get the poses to differ, I would start with a base model and build from that with elements needed to represent their different abominations. I had researched alot of concept art and found many of it to be just drawings and paintings. So I thought it would be more helpful to the effects guys to have more realistic looking illustrations to base there costume designs on. This sets a process of combining anatomy, skeletal structures, texturing, costuming and disfigurations. While several of these creatures were to have massive forms, the challenge lied in being able to differentiate each from the other to present an abomination that at the same time represented a being that was a ruler of its own domain.

Another challenge was the fact that they were all demons of sorts, but I didn't wanted to settle for too many cliques and at the same time avoid making them look simply like zombies. A restructuring of anatomy seemed to be the answer. Skin tone seemed to also present a challenge. Sure it would have been simpler to make them all blue or red, but I thought each should have a certain amount of deterioration as if some of them were falling apart.

Each was set in backgrounds of advance photos of the proposed sets to add the sense of them in their environments.

I compared this project much to the idea of the Hellraiser series but without the dominatrix leather get-ups. I also wanted each to show a bit of suffering in its presentation. A damnation based creature that could walk upright but deformed from its vile origin.

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