The Caribbean

Inflatable Pirate
Character Bible

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 An old deflated pirate is washed ashore to a Caribbean island with
his parrot. When looking a his map to find his location he realises he
Introduction is closer to his dream island which is positioned in the middle. In
order to reach the heart of the island he has to go past the serrated
surrounding the land.
 Influence Maps (pg. 2-5)
Character design (pg. 6-14)
Character Rough sketches (pg. 16)
Character Poses (pg. 17)

Contents Character Facial Expression (pg. 18)

Final Design (pg. 19)
Environment (pg. 20-21)

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Influence
Maps
Before creating the pirate I
decided researching for the
typical traits and environment
we suppose to distinguish
when seeing this unspecified
character. In doing so I created
an influence map Looking at;

Old People

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An inflatable
Island as it is the utopian
place where the pirate is going
to go through extreme
measures to live in his dream
island.

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Since the character is described
as too old and inflated. I
decided to do some research on
Deflated things
To connote the pirates age as
being ‘too old’.

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 Typical Caribbean
Pirate; looking at the style,
character and colour of a
representative Pirate in the
Caribbean age.

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 Character
Design
absorbing everything I have
learnt through the research. I
started doing little sketches of
old people faces.

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 Learning from sketching faces I
was able to draw different faces
that I thought would look
interesting. The wrinkles
brought the character to life
and made something intriguing
to watch. Thus I decided to use
the wrinkles as an advantage,
making the wrinkles symbolise
something deflated which
would make the character look
‘too old’.

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 I started refining my drawings
and making the characters look
inflated before making them
deflated, to understand the
style I want to draw in.

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 Character
Design

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 Character
Design
(Finally understanding the
character and the style to
where is leading)

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 Character
Design

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 Character
Design –
Pirates'
Accomplice
One of the obvious things that
can not be missed out when
talking about a pirate is the
parrot. Which was easy to
create as I used simple shapes
to make it look inflated, for
example an oval and a circle.

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When finally understanding the
character I decided to give the
character a posture. For
example, I gave him a busted
leg as to show that he an
inflated pirate not just a
cartoon.

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 Character
Turnarounds

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 Character
Rough Sketch

16
 Character
Poses

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 Facial
Expression

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 Final Design

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 Environment

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 Environment

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