Wacky Racer: Vehicle Variations


Here are our vehicle designs. We went about this a little differently from our character since we didn't have as clear of a starting point from our vehicle that we were fully 100% on.

We originally divvied up the work like this
(Me - 1 Character, 2 Vehicle)
(Gale - 2 Character, 1 Vehicle)

I was placed in charge of making 2 early variations, then we asked around for feedback for some more definite direction on where we wanted to take it. All we know so far is that we wanted bird aesthetics to it. (rather than sticking to owls, we kinda just generalized it to something bird adjacent to restrict us less)

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This one has a more 'cart' type of approach to it. Looked at a swan boat and took the wings and slapped on some wheels. I wanted a birds claws to grasp at one of the wheels, so it did. But it ended up looking a little too much of a mishmash of bird motifs.
We liked the bird claw a lot so we tried making those in lieu of the front wheels. To change up the rest of the vehicle, we gave it more flower motifs to try and unify it with the character we had. It looks a little ehh though. Not my proudest work.
Before the handover to Gale, we asked around for some more feedback to give us more of a stronger direction, since a stronger starting concept could do us a lot of good.

And that was a great idea! One of the TA's in my workshop ended up pointing out that the front legs kinda gave her a Baba Yaga type of vibe. A strong concept that we can alter to our needs for the character!

We liked this one a lot and landed on this. We avoided being too upfront about the flower motifs and chose to fully lean towards the bird theming for this. We figured that we could just unify both through color.



 

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