AIE Major Production Character Designs

This Jack in the Box is one of two designs that made it into the final game, albeit in a non-interactive & less terrifying way...

Started realizing by this point that my creativity was exceeding the scope of our project!

Feedback from the project leads necessitated drastic redesigning of the characters late in production, the Jack in the Box receiving a significant facelift, so to speak!

This was the first concept design I did exploring potential antagonist designs.

The protagonist of the game is a magic teddy bear, leading me to explore the idea of one of the enemies being a parasitic corruption of one of their comrades.

For a while we were exploring the idea of spidery creatures composed of shadow, but ultimately this concept was abandoned because it didn't fit with the evil toy theme of the game.

Really liked the concept of this, but the idea of trying to animated a character with so many limbs proved too great a risk with the limited time we had, so it was scrapped.

We realized that because of our limited experience in animation, creating multiple characters with moving limbs would be very challenging, so we quickly began exploring much simpler toy designs, settling on an Rubik's Cube.

The idea became that a large chunk of the cube had been broken off & replaced with a mass of playdoh, ultimately the mouth was dropped & general concept combined with the eyeball idea above.

Like the Jack in the Box, the Top did survive into production, but as a non-interactive prop.