Goblins
I brought a handful of sketches to last weekend’s production design meeting, all of which I did on my TabletPC. The joy of this was how easy it was to edit, update, and share the images. The dark side was that one catastrophic data loss was all it took to remind me how important it is to back up these pieces of art.
So, while many of the images survive now only as scans of printouts, one of them still struck a chord with the design team, and ended up being selected as the prototype for our “Episode One Goblin.”
This fellow was inspired by an attempt to create goblins with some sort of animalistic aspect. Having played D&D for years, watched the Lord of the Rings a dozen times, and being an avid fan of fantasy, I wasn’t sure how to make the Summerlands goblins unique. My solution was to find the ugliest batch of animals I possibly could and them morph them into humanoids. I had simian goblins, primate goblins, toad goblins, even naked mole rat goblins. The one that captured our producer’s attention most acutely, however, was the bat goblin.
These are just the prototype images, and have to be revised based upon feedback from the design team. In general, Kat preferred something less quadrupedal and more bipedal, which I think will be a real boon for costuming and acting. Have you ever look really closely at a bat? Man, those things are UGLY.
