Through my characterization at the model level I divide it to seven stages, starting from the biggest parts to the smallest parts, the stages are:
Model level:
1- Formal (Silhouette) Stage.
2- Muscles Stage.
3- Fats Stage.
4- Skin and wrinkles Stage.
5- Veins Stage.
6- Scratches and Cuts Stage.
7- Marks of Identification Stage.
When I start the characterizing Matrouk at the model level, it was liner process. This is mean that I can’t start the skin stage before the muscle stage or adding my identification marks before skin stage, so it should be liner process from 1-7.
1- Formal (Silhouette) Stage
I consider this is the main base for the characterization at all levels and stages. By looking at this finished stage the audience could guess and tell the most important description, these are (male, female, monster, freak, alien, dragon, animal, bird, lizard…).
For the formal stage I separated it for two parts, Body Part and Face part.
THE BODY
For Matrouk I have concluded that he is strong giant human, who lives alone. Also I assumed that he has the same human body structure, with some exaggerations to show him as giant. Let’s take a look at the reference which I create for “The Standard Human Body Forms” and named it THAOX, for easy to remember.
By matching Matrouk profile (physically and psychologically) we discover that suitable form is to match the two forms (T form, X form), with more emphasizing to the T form and with a few modifications and enhancements it will look great.
To make him look more tall and giant, there are my modifications:
When we are working at the body we can emphasize more at the Physical extension.
THE FACE
Characterizing the face requires a very good knowledge in reading the face proportions and their meaning, this is very important skill to make your character face reflects its nature, so when we saw character face, we can judge about this character, by saying that it looks brave, villainous, stupid, coward, educated, fair, loyal,… with the face we can emphasize and reflect more at the Psychological extension.
Let’s take a look how I had characterized Matrouk, how I tried to give the impressions directly at his face, and how I try to employ every description at his face, also notice the great integrations between Matrouk body and his face to come up with the final image for him at the formal Stage.
