Chef

As this is a cook he must have good hands and forearms while being a little chubby because of his depression about work and his bad nutrition. To help refine this design we have looked out a lot of information concerning chefs and during the research, I thought it would be a good idea to imagine that he was now working for the new burger company as a delivery boy which would explain his outfit. Another example, to keep this kind of retro atmosphere, we thought he would be wearing Converse shoes, with reference the film “I robot”, throughout the film. Other big contrasts that we can notice on the Chef is the remote control that is on his sleeve, which is a symbol of the future and also his retro helmet that bring back the old values. In terms of physical characteristics, the fact that he is depressed is shown by the fact that he is slightly tilted forward. The character has to seem tired but still lovable. That is why his whole shape is not very sharp but to support the fact that he is very tired, his facial features are more pronounced. The fact that his bust is very large and impressive with a small head shows that he has some good in him, the size of his torso indicates that he can be very open to people. His legs being a lot smaller and thinner makes him seem not aggressive at all and makes him look a bit lazy. A last thing that I wanted to show is a very characteristic nose that is closer to an animals nose than to a human nose in order to make the character look more real. For this I was especially inspired by the drawer of Black Sad, Juanjo Guarnido and also by some Disney movies.

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