Evil giant Buffalo from Lion short movie
This giant buffalo is the second protagonist from our graduation short movie, Lion. He is a powerful devil who keeps all the water for himself, in a dry savannah. He'll be challenged by our solar hero, a magic lion. Pauline Toutain did the major concepts for this character. I did some fews too, and made the texturing. Amélie Goursat worked on the bigger part of the sculpt and fur. Mélissa Fournier, Pauline Toutain and Thierry Hav did rigged and animated him.
buffalo sketches
concept for the buffalo from the first scenario which was still a comedy
the scenario moved to be a fairy tale, new concept with solar disk , featuring the lioness who disappeared later from the story
looking for shapes for the buffalo, supposed to evoke a mountain
looking for head shapes with watercolor
atmosphere concept for the magic fight between lioness and buffalo solar god
texturing the skin, fur, and horns color
buffalo with the fur
head turn
turn (mantra), his back is supposed to evoke the kilimandjaro color