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Neo Tokyo - Character Design

I wanted to take part in Neo Tokyo, but personal things got in the way. Either way, I'm gonna do the character design aspect and post them as I go.

I've done cyberpunk stuff before, but this time I wanted to lean further away from grounded cyberpunk and have more futuristic elements involved. I thought that it might be interesting to have humans want to retain anonymity and robots wish to wish for more human-like/individual qualities. So the humans in this world will have masks covering faces, cybernetic upgrades, etc. Robots might have some individual parts added by them to appear more unique (like clone troopers in Star Wars).

Another underlying element I wanted was for robots to have a sort of classist way about them. Robots created for luxury are upper-class and robots created for functionality are considered working and lower class.

As for our characters, I imagined that Kaya and Masato might be exceptions to the human look. Going forward, humans will have features that blend in with the rest of the crowd. These two are more "thrifty" in what they wear and what they have. I haven't started any robots yet; I'm admittedly a bit anxious since I've not done robots before. But I'll work through it!