Illuminated Knight Character Design Concepts

As with every design I tend to go overboard with my research, once I've collected reference imagery it helps to take the best images and create a mood board of interesting styles that fit with your initial design concepts. From the storyboard and character bio I had created I already had strong ideas of the kind of character I wanted to create, a Teutonic Knight. I collected lots of different armour sets for my mood board but needed to keep the design consistant and historically accurate. The design I decided to choose copied a style in keeping with the period, but with the big horns on a Teutonic Knights helmet, gave my character design a strong silhouette.