Character Design 1: Tarsier
When people ask us what the log line for Hackberry Hollow is we respond with “it is a story about a taxidermist in a world where all of the people are animals” and of course creating undead which is where the necromancy comes in (evil grin). So here we have it: the first ever character design to be put up on the blog if you don’t count the robots.
No. This is not the main character. This is Mr. Tarsier.
Yes. A tarsier is an actual animal and their eyes really are about that big.
No. The characters in the story are not named after their species. Mr. Tarsier is an unnamed extra so all creative energy was put into everything else but his name.
Yes. Future blog posts with character designs will be longer and contain more interesting information.
No. Glen didn’t finish this blog post at the last minute.
Yes. Glen is full of it.
Adam Weber says:
May 14th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
We’re calling him Mr. Tarsier now? I guess it works, this guy isn’t really an extra since he does have dialog but he’s one of those bit parts. You know what I’m talking about if you’ve ever sat through the credits on a movie and seen characters named “guy on the elevator” or “guard 2.” Same idea here.
I can just imagine a few years from now, random readers finding this post on the blog and thinking “that guy was your first character?”
But then again, the type of people that would come up with “a taxidermist in a world where all the people are animals” seem like just the type of people that would pick this guy as the first character to design.
Glen Moyes says:
May 15th, 2010 at 1:26 am
Instead of calling him Mr. Tarsier we could just call him Mr. T for short.
Austin says:
May 15th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Oh, yah, i like that. Mr. T is a great name for him.
William says:
May 16th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Be careful… if an ‘extra’ says just one word on screen you have to pay them SAG rates for an actor ($624)instead of the rates for an extra ($162). I recommend that you design this character such that he lost is tongue in a bobsled accident so that there is no accidental on page utterances. It will be cheaper that way.
Adam Weber says:
May 16th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Hey, good news! I just spent hours researching on Wikipedia, and it turns out you don’t actually have to hire actors OR extras for comics!
Capn Slappy says:
May 16th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
[citation needed]
Janell says:
May 17th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Hear that sound? It’s the sound of comic book characters organizing a union.
Glen Moyes says:
May 17th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Oh sure. They can go on strike if they want. I’ll just draw some scabs.
Adam Weber says:
May 17th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
What does a tarsier organizing a union even sound like?
Glen Moyes says:
May 17th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
It probably sounds like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kr822kNMk
Adam Weber says:
May 17th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Glen, something is wrong with you.
Glen Moyes says:
May 17th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I got 99 problems but a strike ain’t one!
Hit me!
Adam Weber says:
May 17th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
WHAP!
Character Design 3: Wolf @ Hackberry Hollow says:
May 28th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
[…] haven’t settled on a final design for this species yet (we all love the Tarsier though). Remember how I said that we moved the post schedule to Friday so I could get feedback from […]
Cath says:
August 2nd, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Looks a bit cartoony in contrast to the whole undead army stuff.
I was expecting far more realistic animal characters ala shardrpg.com, but I guess I still dig it.
Writing and Character Design (wait, what?) Updates @ Hackberry Hollow says:
June 24th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
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