Re: Griffith's Ginormous Garbage Garage Going Gonzo Grand-opening! (Griff's colo
Okay, individual write ups for everybody in Berserk 20 Years Later, in order of their insertion (with built-in character/author reactions =). I'm going to try to keep these short...
Old Guts - Basically, Godot from volume 17, but with Guts eyes, ears, and what are supposed to be armor scars added. Also, his trademark bangs, all white at this point instead of just a patch, also made the hair a bit shorter and more course in general to match Guts better. Godot had surprisingly pretty hair.
The Isidro Swordsman - A black swordsman body from the Berserk prototype, when Guts had more sassy attitude, perfect for Isidro. Removed the crossbow and replaced it with an Isidro pirate sword, as well as adding his fire dagger to his belt. His hair and face is a heavily modified Gambino, though not so much that everyone didn't point out that he looked just like Gambino when I'd show it to them.
Wise Puck - Literally did nothing here, it's just Yoda Puck directly lifted, rotated, and resized. Haha, thanks Miura!
Ms. Schierke - Was harder than the sum of her parts. Just her body from the end of the Troll episode, when her face is darkened out, replaced that with Flora's face, sans wrinkles and with a new hairdo. Aaz thinks the shading looks like shit, like she's a burn victim, but I think the hat justifies it and I liked it, even if it's not totally in sync with the rules. Was going to use the mega hot fire Flora for the face but... I didn't want Schierke to look like a sex pot, at least not on this project. Nice and respectable instead... I'm kind of regretting that choice at the moment, eh Schierke?
40-something Casca - Hmmm, I think I basically just took the most recent flashback Guts had of her, modified the armor so it was something other than her Hawks' era duds, and then added a unique Casca face. It's unique because it's actually from the scene when Guts assaults her, after he bites her breast and she's lying there like... well, a sexual assault victim. Yup, that's the face, rotated, barely aged (she already looked messed up), and with a slightly modified mouth. So, in the future, Casca's default expression will be one of somebody who's constantly just been sexually assaulted. Makes sense to me.
Beast Knight - This one was probably the easiest modification, though I think I did more than I even remember or can tell by working, it went together so easy I don't recall. It's just Guts from volume 27 dragging his sword with the blacked out beast head replaced with an earlier fuzzy version, probably from the same episode I got Casca's face from in volume 23 (think I shortened the nose a bit). Anyway, it came together very simply as at this point the additions to the picture were basically just throw ins.
Holy Emperor Griffith - Well, it's the King's body and throne, but got rid of most of the textures to go with a more simplistic pure white robed look for Griffith. And the I think his head came from after he slept with Charlotte and was depressed over Guts, but I'm not even looking at the image right now. The throne has a few details tossed in like Griffith's shield from his dream of a peaceful life with Casca, and the holy emblem synonymous with him, but this was more about addition by subtraction; give it that perfect white Griffith touch. Throne went through a few incarnations too, like the height, at first I made it way lower, but eventually I ended up raising it even higher because I had room, could, and it looked more balanced. I think I had totally removed the cushion texture on the seat at one point, then reapplied it later myself (don't remember why, sort of inefficient, but looks okay). And after all that conquering and evil ruling, I bet he still misses his old buddy Guts, huh?
Zodd, still the Immortal - From Griffith's exodus from Albion, I think I flipped the image... maybe? Thanks again Miura!
As for some odds and ends, the logo had a bazillian variations but this was the earliest and best and I'm glad I came to my senses and stuck with it (adding the translation of "Berserk" and "Years Later" to match Miura's name only the night before posting), also, there were several versions filled with black bird silhouettes. Originaly I wanted to show birds circling above the Beast knight, inferring they were following his path of death and destruction and feeding on the remains. But that itself never really came out right, and then I tried using the the bird motif all over, and it just turned into a big mess, so I gave the birds the bird and told 'em to flap off. Anyway, if anyone has any questions, a detail or something I didn't talk about, or maybe something you notice I missed here, go ahead and shoot.
