White Skull "El Temible"

The Project Proposal, Progress Presentation and Pre Production Portfolio handins have slowed the progress of the practical work over the past couple of weeks but I am continuing to develop concepts for characters at the moment. 

Capitan Benezuela's nemesis is the last of the original mask bearers, the one who turned on fellow warriors and tried to claim the power of the masks for himself.

 Juan is making progress through the series bible and as he goes we are making modifications to the story, ensureing that as bonkers as the story is, it makes sense. He provided me with his character description for the character to work from when designing him.

"A warrior of Inca heritage whose name “White Skull” was given to him after a skull developed on his mask.

In modern day his outfit is a customised suit that share traits with traditional mariachi suit. A combination of elegance and authority surrounds his style.

Despise his average height his presence still inspires fear and intimidates the weak-willed."

Influences for the character such as traditional mariachi outfits as well as day of the dead sugar skulls were researched when formulating the idea for the character’s “modern day” design. One of the things the description made me think of was “El” from Robert Rodreguez’ “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” films…… and “The 3 Amigos” XD

Initially I was considering giving the character’s mask a design influenced by Day of the Dead sugar skulls but based on feedback this made the design a bit too busy so a more simple skull emblem. 

Juan said last minute that he wanted a rose symbol incorporated into the character’s outfit…… I don’t know why yet but its been worked into his backstory. Ill find out when that’s worked out.

The design received positive feedback from peers. There are a couple of details that might change a bit as the story develops but overall as things stands we are happy to move forward with this design.