Character Development

For this project I wanted to create a character so that the audience knew who they were playing as during the level. Along with my back story, which will be the next post, the character development was very important to me to be able to get a good idea of how he would have dressed and what he would have looked like, also looking at different outfits that he could have worn, looking at other pirates and also some kind of personality so that the audience know how he would have acted.

I first wanted to have a look at some different film characters that I could base my character on and hopefully get a few ideas off the different characters. I noticed that in a lot of these films the characters where long blouse type shirts as they are very loose fitting and easy to wear. A lot of them also wore quite baggy trousers, again for easy move ability and then boots and waistcoats as well.

I mainly wanted to take my inspiration from Pirates of the Caribbean's Will Turner as he has a similar personality to how I imagine to be as he has a confident personality and is a natural leader, which is what my character is. Most of them had quite long hair which is a style that I wanted to take forward as well as a hair cut would have been a rare thing amoungst pirates, and decided that my character would look the best if he had his hair tied back off his face slightly as this would have made it easier for him to see.