My Portfolio - Legoman - Character

 

This is the main character from a screenplay I wrote as part of a Contextual Studies project for uni. I like to think of it as a sort of mixture between V For Vendetta, Half-Life 2 and The Dark Tower books by Stephen King, and it follows a guy who lives in a world run by a corrupt government*, or something similar, that tries to oppress the population and attacks anyone who opposes them.

When the guy was a kid his parents dissapeared in the middle of the night and he was saved by a mysterious man. Even up to the present day he doesn't know what happened to his family and lives as a loner, traveling around the country, trying to find answers to his questions. He mostly moves between places, spending most of his time in the desolate world between cities, outside the confines and oppression of the highly populated areas.

Deep down he hates the government because he knows that they had something to do with the dissapearance of his family, but he doesn't necessarily care about fighting them, it's not his main concern. His main aim is finding out for sure what actually happened to his family and he won't be held away from that by anyone. If the government* or their followers get in his way he won't hesitate to put a bullet between their eyes. Every now and then he comes across bands of rebels, something he believes his parents were part of, and while he doesn't want to go up against the government he believes in the rebels cause.

He's primarily a loner, keeping himself to himself and not wanting anyone else to become a part of his world, which is why he hasn't got a name, not one he tells anyone anyway. He fights his way towards his ultimate aim, doing whatever he needs to survive. And while on the surface he presents a tough shell, a facade of someone who cares about nothing, his quest says otherwise - he just wants to discover the truth behind his parents dissapearance and he can't rest until he does.

Fighting the way to his goal he prefers using guns but isnt adverse to using a bit of hand to hand combat when the occasion calls for it, and although he isn't a black belt or anything hes picked up some of the moves on his travels and is a very competent fighter. And even though he makes use of any weapons he happens to stumble across, he prefers to use his own personal duo of guns, a 9mm Beretta 92F and a Smith & Wesson model 686 .357 Magnum revolver, both of which he never goes anywhere without. Along with his guns he can always be seen with a worn backpack, which he uses to hold anything he may be able to scavenge along the way, and can often be seen smoking a cigarette (a resource that is no longer easy to come across in the world).

The screenplay itself is 11 pages/4150 words long and doesn't end. I got it to a good place to bring it to a halt and made it a "to be continued ..." kind of thing. I don't know if I'll ever finish it and noone has even read it yet (forgive me if I don't feel like putting it up on here) so I don't know if its actually any good. I enjoyed writing it but it could very well be a worthless piece of crap. I like the character though so I decided to make him in Lego form.

 

* I say government but I dunno if it will turn out that they are a government. I think of them like the Combine in Half-Life 2. Now, I dunno about you but when I played that game I wasn't sure if the Combine were actually human or alien, so thats the way I'm thinking of going with this - you never find out who they are, just that they run the country and are on the way to controlling the world.

 

Sunday 4th February 2007 -
		This render was made simply to show the character fully. I put the gun in his hand to make him more than just a Legoman standing there, the gun is there to give him purpose, to show who he is and what he does, what he's prepared to do. His outfit consists of a black leather jacket with a grey t-shirt and blue jeans. At first he wasn't going to wear sunglasses but before I got around to deleting them (I made the character by changing the image maps and everything on my pre-existing Lego Neo) I saw that he looked so much better with them, they make him look a hell of alot cooler. I really like the model and I think this render shows him off pretty well.