Until I started designing Loki I didn't really know what style I wanted to do for with this project. After trying out few different styles varying from simple and silly to a more detailed serious style.
Eventually I found a happy medium between a silly and serious style. I wanted to go with a style that will be easy to animate while still looking impressive.
Style Exploration
For Loki's design I wanted to get the point across that he is the antagonist type character within the story but not to the point to where you don't want to root for him at all. Loki is not a "bad guy" in Norse mythology, he is a trickster. I decided to give Loki a few sharp edges in his overall silhouette, specifically in his hair and the horns on his helmet, to give him that antagonist shape language.
Loki
Brokk and Eitri
Brokk and Eitri were the first characters I started doing designs for. Originally this project was made with the prospects of it one day becoming a 3D animated short film so my original designs for Brokk and Eitri, along with a few of the gifts that they make in the story were far more rendered than the style I ended up going with and were designed in a way that would make 3D modeling them easier.
As I stated in the Loki section, I started to try different styles for Loki and ended up liking the idea of doing this project in a 2D style rather than 3D like I originally wanted to do. Upon making this decision I went back and started to redesign Brokk and Eitri in the same style which I ended up with Loki.
Ivaldi Brothers
The Ivaldi Brothers, Egil and Idi, who in the Norse myth of how Thor got Mjolnir are the dwarves who go against Brokk and Eitri in a contest in who can make the finest gift for the Gods in Asgard.
Egil(Egil)
Idi(Idi)
One of the designs aspects for the Ivaldi Brothers which I decided early on in their design was giving them Gjallarhorns (a Viking drinking horn) as hats. I felt this would be both cute and funny and would further show how much smaller they are than the gods who use the Gjallarhorns
Thor
Odin
