Monday, 28 January 2013

Cullis: Initial concept design research

Cullis is a character who is introduced early on in the prologue and is shown to be a large, clumsy red-faced drunk with an armoured eye-patch. He is described as wearing a field marshal's jacket that is a size too large for him, suggesting he stole it. He also wears an eye patch that covers a gun installed in his eye socket (!!)

When devising an initial design, I looked at pictures of real field marshal's jackets. However, this seemed to ground the design of the character in our reality, whilst he could be a fusion of another aesthetic and our own.

What I looked at was a combination of the following reference images and characters.



This seems to be a British Army field marshal's jacket. This jacket is from around 1918, and is thus more ornate than more modern battle dress uniform.



Operation: Anchorage's General Chase wears a  stylised general's jacket, which is adapted to the Alaskan environment. It features oversized lapelles, belt and pockets. It also extends to the shins.

Treize Khushrenada, like all other soldiers in the Gundam Wing  franchise have uniforms inspired by older  Navy uniforms. It has contrasting epaulets and knee-high boots with knee protectors.
The duffle coat is essentially a field marshal jacket, they show how a range of lining patterns can bring out the monotone materials.


                                                   



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