character design

A little while ago I started coming with an idea for portfolio piece, which I had decided to turn into a full blow next gen real time character, once I had decided what the rest of him was going to look like. Things have been pushed back a little bit by the start of my final module for this academic year, interviews and just finishing up bits and bobs for this and that. I have also been starting to come up with a character design for my potential entry into Polycounts brawl competition. I hope I will be able to finish that character for the deadline of the 6th May but if I can't it will still make a good portfolio piece. Anyway back to this character, so yesterday I decided I would get a good idea about what the character would look like and the design has come along a lot in my opinion.

Here is a bit of character backstory (this helps you a lot when creating a character, adding it helps you differentiate your character from the next roid raged killing machine). The character was guest at one of Her Majesty's correctional institutions. He and several other inmates where offered places on a scheme run by one of the resident doctors. They were told that if they signed an agreement and took part in the program that they would be released far before their sentances were due to end, and would not have to go through parole. However several key things were left out of what they were agreeing to. Once they agree they were put under anaesthetic and subjected to some pretty intensive surgery, which served to augment/replace their circulatory system allowing them to operate outside the bounds of a normal human. They also had fearsome masks surgically attached to their faces removing any sense of identity and also to protect their brains from damage. As this one one of the only vital organs left in the body that could effect the subject. The masks had a series of sensors built in to augment the subjects vision. The subjects are code named "blood hounds" and used to hunt down and eliminate targets. They have been lobotomized so have know understanding or feeling and only react to control words given to their handlers. As they suffer damage in the field more of their bodies are replaced with "industrial" prosthetics which serve as viscious weapons. "Veteran" bloodhounds are typically more metal and tubing than flesh.