Niobe's Children Character Design
Early concepts, character development, and gestures for Niobe's Children from PermaDeath: A Video game Opera.
From Cerise Jacobs, the librettist:
"Niobe - the leader of Team Nyx. She is a powerful alpha female who has the qualities of the marble/stone she's eventually turned into - cold, hard, maybe a little brittle, definitely of the night. Her children are very much like her. Their characters are not delineated in the libretto, but you should think of them as being their mother's children. They are children of the cold dark night. Niobe is a soprano."
Final color and render turnaround for the Children using leaf, stone, and root motifs
Sketches of Niobe's Stage II form, as well as the children's summoning
Gesture drawings of the children's attack patterns. With their claws and hive-mentality, they're like a vicious group of velociraptor-gremlins
Gesture drawings of Niobe and the children's early design, showing an early idea for how the children might crawl out from underneath Niobe's massive skirt
Early concepts for Niobe's children framing them as zombies with a death mask that completely hid their face