HELLO HELLOOO I finally get to share all this now that I’m done with class :) I’m proud to introduce to you the art and story of….
A developmental project for my 3D Design class!!!
Late 1950s/early 60s, mystery, espionage, high-stakes hijinks
More and more people have been disappearing from the city as of late.. the one thing connecting them all? They were last seen at Cotinis Casino during one of Prasio Cotinis’ renowned weekend performances. Gibbs Halloran, local detective, has been given one week to get to the bottom of where these people have been going and how Prasio is involved, and with a little help from Buster Davis, a longtime bartender at the casino who’s grown tired of the gig, he just might make it.
PRASIO COTINIS - 6’3, 37 yrs old, june bug origins, casino owner and entertainer, crooner singer. Ambitious, cunning, demanding, charming, arrogant, suave, pretentious, etc etc.
Voice Claim: Benny Gecko (Fallout New Vegas)
GIBBS HALLORAN - 4’9 (5'0 w/ his hat), 42 yrs old, raccoon origins, local top detective. Realistic, reserved, gruff, wary, a little nosy but decently discreet
Voice Claim: Jackson Beck (Dangerously Yours, 1944)
MAJOR SUPPORTING CHARACTER:
BUSTER DAVIS - 5'9, 32 yrs old, honey badger origins, main bartender of the Cotinis Casino Theater. Perceptive, pragmatic, jaded, monotone, a little pathetic
Voice Claim: Sammy Davis Jr
To begin his investigation, Gibbs decides to attend one of Prasio's weekend performances. Here, he meets Buster, an amicable bartender of the Theater, who appears to be a little uneasy about the upcoming show. Gibbs doesn't have a chance to press him on why, as he's got his hands full serving other guests, so he returns throughout the following week to chat. He learns that of the people who have disappeared, the majority of them had personally slighted Prasio in some way or had been his competition, and all of them had last been seen not just in his Casino, but in the Theater specifically.... There has also been increasingly strange buzzing noises coming from all of the light fixtures, which have gained a much more golden hue as of late.
The Theater is a frequently recurring environment that all three main characters find themselves in, and it also happens to be where the climax of the story occurs. Gibbs discovers that Prasio has been turning select guests into various bugs to serve his Casino (lighting bugs for lighting, ants for construction, spiders for repair, etc.) via "bugged" drinks that Buster had been making. Prasio had kept him in line with threats of him and his family/friends being next, but once Gibbs came along, Buster saw his chance at freedom from Prasio. Together, Gibbs and Buster figure out how to free the transformed guests and reverse the effects of the "bugging". Once everyone is free, they turn on Prasio. He’s last seen running for his life. It's left unclear if Prasio survived, but his Casino, Hotel, and Theater are all shut down due to infestation.
Additionally, each student drew a tarot card from the deck and had to adapt it to their story. I had the luck of getting the magician :)
An interpretation of the magician, when reversed, is that you have all of the right tools to succeed and achieve your goals, but you’re misusing them to do so. Right goals, wrong methods. So I made Prasio be facing away from the viewer, having him be permanently reversed no matter how you draw his card.
A secondary post with the physical sculpts and builds I did for this will be coming soon :)
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