Ray Lederer

Ray Lederer’s designs for Skyrim gave a very old, haggard appearance to these characters, with lots of artillery, fur, armour and weapons. This gives the character a real sense of travel and experience, and that he is custom to living in the wilderness. Even the 1^st image, of the greybeard (who is more a mentor role) I think would even make a good lead roll. 

Perun

http://russianculture.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/slavic-mythology-perun-%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BD/
 

I came across this story in Slavic Mythology, about the most famous and powerful figure in the Slavic pantheon, Perun. This story covers Perun’s life, the god of weather, who wields an axe that comes to him whenever he desires, and has a bow that shoots arrows of fire and lightening. I love the idea and myth of this story and character, and will combine it to that of my huntsman. Due to his extreme likeness to the very famous character Thor, it will be a priority to keep my designs away from him, and his story.

Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor

Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor won the Academy Award for Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and were nominated for The Fellowship of the Ring. Their work on Aragorn, who wore this outfit more commonly in the 1^st of the trilogy, was a work to look mysterious, and scruffy but yet beautiful in detail. This is a big inspiration for my work for its natural look and yet extreme details, such as in stich work.

Mike Mignol's Hellboy

Mike Mignola’s Hellboy (created in 1992, first published in 1993) was done phenomenally well for being in existence as long as I have! His heavy coat, big heavy belt, and large ‘Samaritan’ gun are very heroic features, which seem to level out his demonic villainous appearance. Although he has shaven down horns, his ripped coat, side burns, openly bare hairy chest and muscular physique give him an extremely manly, rugged, hermit characteristics, that I wish to capture in my character.

Gabriella Pescucci

Although Scott Summers’ Van Helsing was not a critically well perceived film, I personally think the film had a lot of potential to be better, but yet was still enjoyable, the best features being the concept and costume designs. Costume Designer Gabriella Pescucci I think did a fantastic job of creating the costumes for Van Helsing and Anna Valerious. She clearly took influence from the western genre with Van Helsing, using leather as a prominent material used in the hat, boots, coat and waistcoat. He gives a tough, manly persona and new, different, original design for the Van Helsing character.

Colleen Atwood

Colleen Atwood’s work on Snow White and the Huntsman was spectacular, especially on Charlize Theron ’s  evil queen. However, the costume design concerning the huntsman, I feel was not celebrated enough. The rugged nature of the character is caught through the use of natural khaki colours and a worn in appearance. His hair style was also inspired from ancient Japanese Samurai, as they wanted the character to look like he has spent a lot of time travelling, which is probably why he was given a Scottish accent.