Figure Designs

Rough figure designs + How do other figures look


 While we won't be getting the sculpy for the figures anytime soon I've started designing an early design of how I want the figure to look. The first one is very rough and as I started drawing it out I didn't really like it and ultimately thought it didn't really fit the character. While in a situation were you're being stalked you of course would want to defend yourself however within the game there is little to no way to defend yourself as you can be quickly overpowered by the stalker even if you were to have a knife, dude has a massive pair of gardening scissors and could clip you in half in an instant, especially a malnourished  teenage girl like Alice who has very little strength even to hold a weapon.

The second design I think is a step up. I think it accurately depicts allices personality and the unaware scissors at the back of the sculpture just make it even better. The key thing when creating this sculpture is to capture the same stance and look of hesitancy that's in the drawing. Having the tightly kept arms and hesitant gaze, she is unaware that someone is pursuing her yet still she is fearful.

A high quality expensive figure the base of the figure is incorporated into the aesthetic of the character/theme.


An example of a prize figure. The base is often very plain as prize figures are fairly inexpensive.



When designing these figures I looked at a lot of examples some low end prize figures others more expensive figures. While I believe my figure will probably end up looking like one of those really rough prize figures I still want to incorporate some stuff often seen in the much expensive figures, such as a detailed stand. Often with many prize figures the stand is just a simple plastic base however with the more expensive fancy figures the stand is often decorated to fit in with the characters aesthetic or theme. So I wanna try and do this with the use of the scissors seen within the background of the 2nd drawing, fitting in with the theme of the game. The scissors might also be good at keeping the character sturdy.




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