Moiras best friend, the tomcat Mandigo experienced a quite similar transformation like Moira.
The first concepts showed him as a young, happy and wild tomcat, but actually he is much older.
He has seen a lot of things and has his own way of thinking. Somethimes he is a bit of a dramaqueen and tends to think first on his own needs. But nevertheless he has a special connection to Moira and so she is also his best friend.

During my diploma thesis, Moiras character changed due to the story I wrote and how she sees the world and people around her. So it seems more appropriate to me to make her a little bit older, than she looked like in the first concept.

So she got rid of some baby fat in her face.

 After rendering in the model in Zbrush, I painted over some details like Eyebrows, Hair and Eyelashes.
The next step was her body and clothes. The body should be a bit taller but concerning the clothes I oriented me on my first clothing concepts.

A lot of time went by and now there is just one week left to finish my diplomathesis.
Against my assumption in September, I was too busy to update this blog :(.
I hope after finishing my thesis, I will upload more concepts.

here is one of the first concepts of Mandigo the cat

But I have to work it over, because its to realistic and doesn't match the games "cartoony" style.

At the moment I'm busy with writing the description of my game world and characters. But after all that writing and thinking I wanted to paint something, so I started a concept of Mandigos great dream of his life.

It seems he is a simple guy.. he just wants to be happy and play ;)
But I think he might have some other dreams. Perhaps I find some time for painting more tomorrow or next week ;)

I played around with different cloths but always ended with dresses. ;) I need comments on the outfits,please!!!

Today I changed Moiras hairstyle and changed her forehead to get a better silhouette.
I Think that's it for the first 3D concept of her head. Next steps are some assymetries and variations in her face.

Today I refinded the sculpting of Moira. I'm quite content with it now and hoping to start soon retopologizing the model to get a good mesh for her head.

The last days I made some concepts for my maincharacter Moira. The result are some pencilsketches, color concepts with photoshop and three drafts sculpted in Zbrush.

"It is an adventurous game about a girl in a mysterious world between life and death"

Introduction:

"Moira is a 12-year old girl and that's anything else than candy. She has a brother which bothers her all the time, no real friends and school is more than horrible for her. With a few words, she hates her life. But when her best friend and cat "Mandigo" is about going to die and in the middle of the night the death in persona has come to her room to take the soul of her friend the catastrophe is perfect. When trying to stop the death from his mission she gets accidentally sucked into the Twilight World and makes acquaintance with all kinds of obscure things and creatures, who know the secrets of life and death. Will she find here a way to bring the soul of her friend Mandigo back to her world?"

The main locations of her adventure are set right now and in the near future some concepts of them will appear in this blog. So let's get back to work ;)

Starting in April 2009 I tried to find out what I want to do exactly in my diploma thesis.

It was and is an step-by-step process in which many ideas and researches ended no where but helped me proceeding. Literature and articles on the internet about Game-design, -play and -development also helped me. Check my book list.