Character 4 is one of the bigger character designs that I had to explore. With this character I went through the idea of using the planet Mars for the basis of all of the abilities. Mars is known to be the red planet mostly because of the rust that is found within the planet’s sand. One fact that I found interesting with Mars was the fact that it had many aspects that earth has and one of those being a full on weather and landmarks and with that I chose to go with an elemental basis for the abilities.
The first ability that I wanted to create for this character was the ability to shoot out a projectile(fireball) and then after a designated timeframe it would explode into an area of effect fire pit. This allows for the character to build up timing of abilities and to line everything up in order to execute more advanced plans.
The Second ability that was created was designed to be a relation to the element of earth and with that I went towards a pit of quicksand mixed into a sandstorm. This ability will spawn in the quicksand/sandstorm that will then detect whether or not a player is found within its range and if so it will lock all movement of the character and submerge them into the ground for the duration of the ability.
For the third and last ability I went towards the idea of having the element of water. With that the character will shoot out a fountain of water that when the enemy is hit with this fountain it will essentially do damage over time(dots) on the player and will give them an overall debuff that will keep the player slowed down for a shot period of time.
Also alongside this character prototype I was able to work on a cinematic/intro video. I started working on this by building off of various assets. I worked with a skybox that was designed with the night sky in space in mind and then brought into a planet into the scene while experimenting with splines to create a cinematic route for the camera allowing for a nice scene that would bring the player closer to the planet just like you are traveling to the surface of the planet.