One thing I find when fleshing out story ideas is that the intended audience I think about and jot down on paper changes. And that (most of the time) involves changing up the overall style. It either lightens or darkens the mood.
Niko Tatoploulos is my main focus and centre of my idea. I want to build everything else off of him. So here we have it, a lighter, more athletic Nik for the urban jungle.
You ever reminisce those old saturday morning cartoon shows?
You know, the ones you watched and loved as a kid? You ever think to yourself, "How cool would it be to reboot the show?"
Back in 1998 there was this cartoon show every Saturday morning titled Godzilla: The Series. The cartoon was a direct follow up of the film remake back in '98 (yeah that one). My brother and I would watch that cartoon religiously. We loved both the movie and the cartoon (we even had a seven foot blow up Godzilla! It was totally awesome).
The one thing that didn't fly well I found was the style design of the show. The look and feel just felt a little off, stiff and somewhat lifeless. The idea definitely felt original and was totally cool, but the animation and graphic style was lacking that originality, that spark of life. And that got me thinking, I've been wanting to doodle out some reboot sketches of the series for a little while now. Finally building up enough courage I began to put pen to paper and scribbled out some ideas.
I don't claim to be filled with skill or talent, but it gives me a sense of comfort scribbling out ideas as oppose to writing them. The first sketch I doodled was back in 2011 while the second sketch is the most recent doodle of this year. The rest is the journey of my thinking process. Can you figure it out?
Here's to hoping for more images to come.
Enjoy :)
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In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's some tidbits of the film and cartoon...
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