Hello Hivers,
This is how I interpreted the character prompt : Mosscloak
Lore
Goroz, the Mosscloak
Goroz is the final, living and post-living hybrid form of a Dimora spirit. It went through the Great Retreat process which is a slow and quiet merging with the forest fungal network. The cloak figure is a symbiotic shell, where the creature's consciousness has fully merged with the fast-growing mosses and fungi of the cloak. This living growth is now like a new body. The visible striped pants are preserved Remnants that serve as a spiritual anchor, recalling the Dimora's old life. The intense, glowing red eyes are the concentrated essence of the spirit's personal biolight, the final sign of a life force that now watches over the forest as a silent keeper and distributor of renewal.
The process of designing this character:
Here is what I need to nail as I was conceptualizing the character tied to my previous character I call in general as Dimora. These are grove-dwelling beings with fungal or plant-like growths; earthy, social, and deeply tied to seasonal change. I am thinking it could be a spirit so that is what the glowing eyes are for. It has a full cloak and visible pants, slight humanoid shape but hidden features.
I want the character as a hybrid of a living dimora who retreated into a symbiotic cloak that grows its own fungi; and a post-living dimora whose form has merged entirely with the moss network of the cloak, wearing remnants of its old body like a costume.
So this cloak character could be a post-living dimora — something that wears its memory as a body. The pants and cloak could be remnants of when it still had a form, and the glowing eyes are the last signs of its biolight essence.
Names I am deciding upon are: Kolmus or Goroz
Some work in progress images:
I borrowed this shape and look from my previous dimora character named Orvel I want to keep the round shape of the body and changed the cloak color to green from navy. I kept the red striped pants
I added a hood and defined the lapels and sleeves. Here I slowly added the mycelial outgrowth starting with the sleeves going up to the collar. Made the lapels color lighter to differentiate them from the green garment
I used a texture brush to give that moss effect and worn and tired look
Hope you like it. Hive On
That is a fine looking coat!
I think the shape and color of the cloak could also work for a cute and fun character like your previous mushroom looking Orvel. I love knowing about your design process too and the lore
Wow I got no words for the creeping fungi on the coat other than magnificent
Magnificent describes the whole thing really nicely.
well done