Character Design: Beginning to End: The Exterminator: Character Designs

These are my character designs for a short film that I worked on on my final semester.

The premise was a battle between the forces of good and evil except the problem is, both characters can figure out which one is which. The Exterminator is about a retired ex-Bug Exterminator who mistakenly takes a local superhero as a giant bug because of the hero's costume.

Retired Exterminator:

I wanted my exterminator to look like an old man, someone who would believably confuse a man in spandex for a bug.

I gave him long eyelashes, big eyes and a short stature to really drive home the connection he has with insects. His hair also started to resemble fly wings.

I wanted him to be able to move quick and spontaneous so I started to give him a pill like form and shorter limbs that can move fast.

This became his look, with very animated eyebrows, limbs capable of moving fast and big glasses emphasizing his deteriorating eyesight.

In his exterminator suit his eyebrows still standout and he wears a gas mask making him look even more bug like.

Bug Hero:

The hero I had in mind was a very stereotypical type of super strong superhero. I took references from the Tick, I had in mind a superhero would looks heroic but can be arrogant and jumps the gun.

For the insect design I decided to go with the Flea and gave the superhero, super jumping powers

Even though both characters have bug like qualities, they are totally opposite in appearance and demeanor.

In battle the room that they fight in becomes heavily obscured by bug gas making the two characters' imagination run wild as they mistaken the other for a bad guy.