CHARACTERS III
Here's the next two characters that I sent Bax. I didn't have time to slap together a reference page for her, but I gave her some links to some photos I found online.
Here's what I sent her:
CHARACTER #5 - Nik (the engineer)
He's a BALD, and somewhat big guy. I picture him as African-American or maybe even Polynesian. He's from a colony on one of Jupiter's moons where the gravity is stronger, so he can lift things that are so much heavier than the average human. He's just a little bit above normal height, and he's a little muscular ( I say, "a little muscular" becuase I'm not really fond of all those beefy-looking superheros you see nowadays).
His space suit is similar to everyone else's but he'll have all kinds of random tools on his belt, and possibly a little armband that has gadgets on it. I think that his outfit should have some kind of gadgety backpack on it when he's in the field. If you got any cool ideas, then drop them in.
I think it'd be cool for him to wear some kind of gadget on his head that's similar to an eye patch. There's a band that goes around his head, that has a clear little screen that flips down over his eye to magnify/analyze stuff he's working on.
He's the guy that keeps the ship, and the film equipment running. Early in the story he gave Lucy her futuristic iPod, that he made from scratch.
The closest actor I can think of (even though he's a little bit older than I'd like) is Michael Clarke Duncan (from Daredevil, and The Green Mile).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/SMichaelClarkeDuncan.jpg
http://www.usaweekend.com/01_issues/010729/images/010729duncan.jpg
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CHARACTER #6 - Klurm (short for Klumaniar'Divotag'Nar)
This is a weird alien delegate that is assigned to join the crew of the ship. He's humanoid, but is slighty different (kinda like how nearly every alien on Star Trek is a guy in makeup, with some random changes to their head). Have fun designing him. My initial design thoughts are this: he's only got 4 fingers, he'll be a gross grey color, he should look slighty fishy or reptilian, but - whatever you do - DON'T make the eyes and head all big and weird like those grey aliens that american farmers are abducted by and probed all the time.
Basically he's a Galactic Historian that's assigned to watch Orson and later report his findings to a big space library. He's snooty, rude and arrogant when the story begins.
Somewhere down the road we learn that his race is bioengineered from parts of other dead aliens - like Frankenstein - so there's something initially creepy about him.
The trick is making him look differnent, and a little repulsive, but still something that we can safely look at ( and eventually come to like as a crew member).
His gear:
He wears a spacesuit thing that's designed by his race. It should be a combination of robes and a form fitting space suit.
He wears a breathing apparatus ALL THE TIME. It is a clear mask that cover his nose and mouth - the tube leads down to a panel on his chest (which is connected to one on his back). He has no possessions except a little metallic book/bible that he keeps in some hidden pocket.
Also, there could be some kind of alien sybol on him somewhere to denote his heretige.
I found an alien race that I think he'd kinda resemble fomr the game Everquest2. There' some screenshots you can flip through on this page:
http://everquest2.station.sony.com/en/main.vm#racesErudite
Here's what I sent her:
CHARACTER #5 - Nik (the engineer)
He's a BALD, and somewhat big guy. I picture him as African-American or maybe even Polynesian. He's from a colony on one of Jupiter's moons where the gravity is stronger, so he can lift things that are so much heavier than the average human. He's just a little bit above normal height, and he's a little muscular ( I say, "a little muscular" becuase I'm not really fond of all those beefy-looking superheros you see nowadays).
His space suit is similar to everyone else's but he'll have all kinds of random tools on his belt, and possibly a little armband that has gadgets on it. I think that his outfit should have some kind of gadgety backpack on it when he's in the field. If you got any cool ideas, then drop them in.
I think it'd be cool for him to wear some kind of gadget on his head that's similar to an eye patch. There's a band that goes around his head, that has a clear little screen that flips down over his eye to magnify/analyze stuff he's working on.
He's the guy that keeps the ship, and the film equipment running. Early in the story he gave Lucy her futuristic iPod, that he made from scratch.
The closest actor I can think of (even though he's a little bit older than I'd like) is Michael Clarke Duncan (from Daredevil, and The Green Mile).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/SMichaelClarkeDuncan.jpg
http://www.usaweekend.com/01_issues/010729/images/010729duncan.jpg
CHARACTER #6 - Klurm (short for Klumaniar'Divotag'Nar)
This is a weird alien delegate that is assigned to join the crew of the ship. He's humanoid, but is slighty different (kinda like how nearly every alien on Star Trek is a guy in makeup, with some random changes to their head). Have fun designing him. My initial design thoughts are this: he's only got 4 fingers, he'll be a gross grey color, he should look slighty fishy or reptilian, but - whatever you do - DON'T make the eyes and head all big and weird like those grey aliens that american farmers are abducted by and probed all the time.
Basically he's a Galactic Historian that's assigned to watch Orson and later report his findings to a big space library. He's snooty, rude and arrogant when the story begins.
Somewhere down the road we learn that his race is bioengineered from parts of other dead aliens - like Frankenstein - so there's something initially creepy about him.
The trick is making him look differnent, and a little repulsive, but still something that we can safely look at ( and eventually come to like as a crew member).
His gear:
He wears a spacesuit thing that's designed by his race. It should be a combination of robes and a form fitting space suit.
He wears a breathing apparatus ALL THE TIME. It is a clear mask that cover his nose and mouth - the tube leads down to a panel on his chest (which is connected to one on his back). He has no possessions except a little metallic book/bible that he keeps in some hidden pocket.
Also, there could be some kind of alien sybol on him somewhere to denote his heretige.
I found an alien race that I think he'd kinda resemble fomr the game Everquest2. There' some screenshots you can flip through on this page:
http://everquest2.station.sony.com/en/main.vm#racesErudite
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