One of my first tasks when I really kicked into to gear on the LU Concept Art team was to visualize the character known then as The Prisoner. The Prisoner was the original name for who would become The Darkitect, the creator of all things evil in LU and ultimate minion of the Maelstrom. He was called The Prisoner as he was literally imprisoned in the Maelstrom. The idea was that most times he would be an entity looming in the sky and on rare occasions would appear to the player as an ultimate boss character. Turns out the LEGO legal department did not so much care for the term "prisoner."
The direction I was given was to start the concepts as regular human characters the idea was to make a very evil looking, sinister character and then, essentially, make him adorable by transitioning him into a LEGO Minifigure. As you can see, I explored many different angles of character type - the only real requirement at the time was that he wore a top hat.
This was easily one of the most enjoyable explorations I did while working on LEGO Universe...
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