Yo!
This is Totec.
He was actually pretty hard to design since he’s the most important character, and since he changes his personality quite extremely throughout the story. From unsecure and timid to confident and proud. On his personal journey he makes all kind of mood changes, from sad and weak to angry and strong to happy and satisfied. The character design has to pull off all of these changes in a convincing way. After some do overs I think his design is starting to turn out quite tight.
We have decided to give our film a kind of angular and edged visual style, which we find pretty fresh and appealing, as it at the same time fits the traditionally established Aztec-ish shapes. And it also gives the visuals a comical and cartoony touch in a natural way.
Concept of The Wife!
I was quite intimidated when starting on The Wife since I thought she would be the hardest character to design. But after a little bit of testing I found her shapes pretty easily. First I made her way too hideous, but after Sebastian’s suggestion I made her prettier (of course, in this case “pretty” is extremely relatively). She can’t be both super fat and super ugly, just super fat and ugly is perfectly enough ;).
