Posted July 14, 2018 by HyperHeartComputing
#character design #dondo #CHAMPIONSCOURT #champion #fighter #donut
Howdy humans! It's pablo here to bring you today's dev update this one being a spotlight on Dondo - Master of the Bear-Claw Fist! and how he came to be.
So to begin with let's start off with how it was even decide we would have a donut fighter. It was Pat's master stroke of an idea to use the emojis as a guide in determining which foods would be represented in the roster of fighters. I think he just likes emojis that much (confirmed), but I thought the food represented in emojis would be the most well known ones which would ensure we maintained a very recognizable cast of characters.
With this version in addition to adding color, I tried to think of ways to make this donut less generic. Frosting was introduced to give more color to the character and to simulate a hairline and by using 2 sprinkles as eyebrows. Initially I liked the hole as the mouth but if this fighter were ever to show some expression or talk it wouldn't look very good and also break the donut silhouette.
Another big thing that I felt needed changing in the previous version was the lack of flexibility I believed this character to have. Without a torso his range of movement seemed limited so I gave him one! More frosting was added to his chest to give him obvious pecs and abs in a stylized way almost mimicking plates of armor. The hairline frosting on the face was made uniform with no variation, giving it an equal spread and the dough was lightened up to be more saturated.
Which brings us to the most recent iteration of the character: