The Lost Empire - Archaeologist

The Lost Empire is an IP project I did about an archaeologist who accidentally discovers a hidden empire on his research trip to Peru. The chief and most of the people of that hidden empire there does not approve his sudden 'intervention', since they have been keeping it hidden for thousand of years. However, there are also some people who are more open-minded and want to learn about what is out there.

The Archaeologist is an energetic guy who is always curious about anything. He is a tech-geek, who later introduces the technology he brought to the people there.

The challenge for this project was how to make it stylized enough with clear shape language to suit a feature animation style. I went through a lot of sketches for each characters there to finally found the best one.