Danny, Tucker and Sam By RobertMacQuarrie1 Watch

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The "Power Trio" of the original series.



I'll admit, I'm not a fan of the "Two guys and a girl" dynamic from a lot of series. I get why it's done- it's better to have characters in the know about the protagonists identity since it allows for a better narrative flow. I just prefer there being more of a "Solitary hero" sort of thing. But, the Danny, Sam and Tucker dynamic wasn't the worst setup like that I've seen. And the focus on comedy certainly helped make their interactions a lot more fun, since the show wasn't above having the characters suffer amusing injuries for the audience's enjoyment.



The character designs here weren't too bad. Tucker was the easiest, since his design was fairly straightforward. I'd be kind of interested to see how Tucker would be depicted today, as the technology influenced geek, what with the prevalence of smartphones and tablets in today's society. The character seemed a bit ahead of the curve in that regard.



For Danny, I wanted to do a little something different with his hair, to give a bit more of a justification for the alternate identity with these designs. So I decided to have his hair essentially go all "Super Saiyan." While he is Danny FENTON, the hair is kind of floppy and shaggy, but when he becomes Danny PHANTOM it becomes more coifed and stylized. I also redesigned his shirt a bit, along with Sam's. due to the limited nature of the original animation models, both Danny and Sam just had these circles on their shirts. But since I was afforded the luxury of being more detailed with my design, I decided to have Danny's shirt be that of a rocketship orbiting a sun/planet to highlight his interest in being an astronaut, while giving Sam a cartoony skull on her shirt.



Speaking of Sam, her design really highlighted the unique challenge of this project. While the original character designs were fine for the most part, they were clearly designed to be cartoons, and two dimensional ones at that, and not necessarily work as a three dimensional model. This is best seen in regard to Sam's original hair design which was... unique, to say the least. It's kind of hard to determine what type of hairstyle that actually is. Does shhe have bangs? Is her hair pulled up at the top? Is that a ponytail? What's going on with all that? The other hairstyles I could kind of work with, but her hairstyle was one that I had trouble wrapping my head around.



So what I settled on was giving her bangs in the front, and pulling her hair up noticeable for that top ponytail on her head. This, to me, feels more like an actual hairstyle. The rest of her design was fairly easy to convey.

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Published : Mar 17, 2018