Character Concept and Changes

          Over the last few days I have been gathering reference to help with my character concepts. I've spent time looking at Norse/Viking era clothing, armour and weapons to produce something that would work with the environment.

Norse clothing references gathered

From this I used a base 3D model of a male human and made renders of it. From that I sketched over the renders as it helped to understand how all the amour and clothing would fit together. 

Norse character concept

After showing it to David and gaining feedback I went ahead and started blocking out the armour, beginning with the helmet. I did this in Maya and used one of their tools called quad drawing which made it move along fairly quickly.

Helmet Blockout

After this I gained some feedback from my lecturer, who rightly pointed out that this is far too organic to be a statue. After talking about what I could possibly do we came to a conclusion that I would be better off simplifying the model, making it more angular and more stone-like. With that being said here is my new set of references to give an idea of what I now intend to model:

Statue References

You can see from the latest set of references that I am now aiming to make the statue angular, even more so than the statues in the image, with strong lines. There are also weapons and a shield reference there which I want to add to the character, possibly dual wielding two hand axes, or just one large axe like that statue reference is in the top left.

New 'statue' concept