Nuckelavee Character Concept
A character design exercise for my Design & Direction course at UVU. We were offered five choices of Pixar properties for which we would design hypothetical characters for a hypothetical sequel. I chose to design a beast for the Brave universe, and after doing some thumbnail sketches I settled on my design. It’s based on the nuckelavee, a terrifying fey creature from the folklore of the Orkney Islands.
Finished sculpt (no textures). It's still missing the fin and seaweed/hair elements. I want to do another pass to get a more stylized result.
Sculpt progression and finished render
Finished concept sketch and backstory
Color studies of the concept sketch.
Second page of thumbnail sketches. I settled on the design after the leftmost sketch in the center row.
First page of thumbnails. I explored a few concepts, but I really wanted to try and make the nuckelavee work.