Research

These are the last two mood boards of my intended research, Mythology, fairy tales and fictional stories. I may do more in the future if i need additional research but this is everything to fuel my initial designs and ideas.

it's hard to look at mythology without looking at various interpretations of it, movies have used mythology to either base or inspire their designs on for ages. I'd like to refrain from doing direct interpretations of mythological characters and rather just use them as influences. Norse gods are always a good one but the Thor movie had the whole gods are actually advanced alien races thing going and i don't want to go with something so obvious and cliche. A lot of Greek gods and monsters have been used in games too, God of War was kind of based around it and the game Smite has the god theme going on.

This is my quite small mood board of a select few fairy tales and fictional novels i know of that i felt could be useful inspiration. Red Riding hood is one of the better known fairy tales and one that is ripe for interpretation, it has been done many times before and will be done many times again. Aladdin was one i didn't  expect to use, it is an unusual one but the genie is what attracted me to it. Pinocchio is also an unusual one considering it's subject matter but i had the idea from this one, this game is somewhat futuristic in style, and i figured what was Pinocchio if not a wooden robot becoming self aware.  

Darren Shan's Demonatta series is one of my favorite stories, it has demons, werewolves, mages, ancient guardians and more, i don't want to rip things off, well i kind of do, the characters are awesome but other people are already doing things from books so i'll just be taking ques and inspiration. Sea of ghosts has many interesting character types in it, psychics, strange kinds of technomancers, human warriors, warriors who see through some kind of magic knife and more that i won't spoil. Lord of the Rings is a well known story, what i want to take from it is the types of races.