Character Design Task1

April 04, 2021

Character Design Task1

Park hyoung yoon (0325165)

Bachelor in Design (Honors) in Creative Media

Character Design

MIB

Rubrics

Week 1 - 3

Concept World Creation

Theme - Ancient Greece

Greek Titan Goddess Tethys, daughter of Gaia and Uranus. By the help of Tethys, the Goddess of fresh water,

Streams of fresh water floats around the city. Civilization developed and coexists with fresh water ecosystem.

In Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, a sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids. Although Tethys had no active role in Greek mythology and no established cults, she was depicted in mosaics decorating baths, pools, and tricilinia (dining room) in the Greek East, particularly in Antioch and its suburbs, either alone or with Oceanus.

Fig 1.1

WORLD BUILDING

Location - Antioch ancient greek city on the eastern side of the Orontes River

Water - Streams of river flowing above the city

Landscapes - Plains with mild hills

Climate - warm Mediterranean climate, in summer, dry hot days are relieved by stiff evening breezes and the help of streams of river. Civilization developed and coexists with fresh water ecosystem.

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SOCIAL CLASS

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Goddess - Tethys

Guardian of the city and makes major decisions for the people and abolish laws and customs.

Advisors

Advisors helps to make decisions, has high authority. They are important member of the society. They sit beside goddess during events and meetings. They live with the average citizens to find factors to improve standards of living.

Average citizens

Education is compulsory to all citizens, to find adequate jobs they desire. Lives in utopia in a community that possesses nearly perfect qualities for the citizens.

FOOD AND DRINKS

The location of the city has wide fields for crops and streams of fresh water that helps with farming crops, breed domestic animals such as cows, cattle and chicken and good source of fish for food. As the streams are flowing above the city and widely spread citizens have easy access to drinking water and fishing for food. Citizens enjoy wide variety of cuisines as they have easy access of food such as bread from crops red meat and white meat.

PROFESSIONS

Tethys the Goddess - Her magic keeps the streams to flow across the city and enrich the ground for crops. She is the guardian and protector of the city and deals with threats of mystical creatures or from invaders. Due to her peaceful gentle personality with powerful magic, army of soldiers were not necessary in the city.

Farmers - Farms crops and domestic animals.

Fishers - Easy to spot in the city as they are fishing above the streams in the city.

Scholars - Mainly architects and engineers of transport both on rivers and land

Cooks - As the land is rich of crops and other food resources, it brought lots of cooks to come up with huge variety of recipes.

Guards - Mainly acts as police, to maintain public order and safety, enforcing the law.

APPEARANCES

Wool from local sheep and linen from flax plant were used to make cloth. Linen was a light fabric suitable for summer and wool for winter.

Peplos - Rectangle of woolen fabric wrapped around the torso and pinned at the shoulders. Worn by women

Chiton - tunic worn by Greek men and women in ancient times, made of two rectanfles of linen sewn together to form a tube and belled at the waist

Chlamys - In ancient times, a rectangle of woolen fabric pinned on one shoulder. it was won by soldiers next to the skin or over chiton

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ORIGINS

In the beginning, there were small village with people were suffering of famine. The goddess Tethys disguised as traveler, was passing through the village. Even though the people were in suffering from famine, a family welcomed her with warm food and drinks. Tethys were surprised by their warm and kind heart and decided to stay and help the people of Antioch. As time went by, under the leadership of Tethys, the small village grew into a city by the help of her powers which enriched the fields and streams of fresh water flowing above and around the city.

ENTERTAINMENT

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Hippocampus (water horse) Racing

Races in hippodrome a wide flat open space filled with stream of water floating and flowing in O shape at the center of the dome. Races includes horse races and chariot races.

TECHNOLOGY

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The technology is more focused on transportation. Boats and ships were more advanced due to the advantage of flowing streams of river above and through out the city. The system would be close to monorail transport in the modern days but the visual would be similar to water ways of Venice.

MAGIC

Tethys is the titan goddess of the primal font of fresh water which nourishes the earth. Tethys is the source of fresh water flowing in the city. With her magic powers the city nourishes rich soil for crops and fresh water streams flows floating across the city providing fresh water and lifeforms that lives in the streams. The city was built and developed with the flow of the streams and heavily dependent on the magic of Tethys.

Character Build Progress

Fig 2.1

Img 1 - Floating river streams in a way of how monorails are in the modern era.

Img 2 - Walls of water formed around the building.

Img 3 - Floating river in a way of huge tunnels across the city.

TETHYS CONCEPT BUILD

Tethys - Titan Goddess of primal font of fresh water which nourishes the Earth, also considered as personification of fresh water around the World. Possesses gift of prophesy and power to change her shape at will. Her name was derived from the Greek word meaning "the nurse" or "grandmother"

Symbol - Fresh water. In art and mosaics, she is often depicted with a small pair of wings just above her brows which probably presenting her not only being mother of rivers streams of fresh water, but also as the mother of Nephelai (rain - clouds) and Aurai (breeze).

Gender - Female

Age - Immortal (mature visual)

Species - Goddess

Personality - Calm, Generous , Peaceful

Profession Class - Mage / Sorcerer / Supporter (Healer)

Tethys Hair Reference