Inspiration in-depth.

After posting the previous post, I feel I need to expand more on why it is they influence me and why i want to create a concept with this particular theme.

So what i will do here is just summarise some of the main characters from the previous inspiration sheets and why it is i leant towards them.

• The current track of thought is that she is a female who fights with dance moves, to add on top of that i played with the idea of her being part of a bike gang similar to Akira. Add in the neon tattoo's and it creates a more underground/cult like threatening theme. So i wanted to look into female characters that had balls, didnt focus on beauty but instead focused on holding their place in a hostile environment.

• Faith from Mirrors Edge: This lead female is based purely on an athletic built and you can clearly see that from her dress code of sports vest, loose trousers, sweat bands and grip gloves. Compared to the stereotypical heroin, Faith has a smaller bust to tie in with her athletic build, suggesting that your not meant to look at this girl and think "woah, she's hot". However at the same time she remains naturally pretty in a subtle manner, and as a result focus's the player more on her rebellious attitude and looks.

• Konoko from Oni: Konoko has played a huge influential role in my thoughts behind this concept. I absolutely loved this game, and i always loved her uniform (being the TCTF armour as seen in the image to the left) as well as her "no bullshit" attitude.

This image in particular shows her completely kitted out with weapons, ammunition and a body suit of armour which in all honesty makes her look seriously "bad-ass".
In a more analytical point of view however, by having an exaggerated amount of fire power she does give off the feeling that she is stepping out of line, breaking the rules and perhaps even rebelling (which is in fact what she does), tying in nicely with my theme of an underground gang/rebellion.

• Tank Girl: Tank girl was my inspiration purely for attitude and how to position a girl in unflattering yet sexual ways. She has an almost teenage "give a fuck?" attitude, she smokes drinks and goes out of her way to make rebellious statements.
I particularly like this image because of her position, its near enough saying "you want this? Try and get it" She is confident, arrogant and even to a degree threatening. All these are elements i want to use in order to stop her from being a Lara croft clone and focus on an attitude based character.