Character Design

The film focuses on the relationship between a young scavenger and the elemental earth golem she awakens in her search for a meal.  My goal with these characters was to represent two different scales  and styles for the animation.  She is small, nimble, capable -- while he is somewhat slow, dumb, singularly focused.  I also thought it would be an interesting challenge to design a character made of earth and stone.

Here are the original style guides for what I wanted to achieve with the characters.

Here are two action frames of the characters.

Here are the final character turnarounds.