Dr Leonard De'Myr

The main character in my animation!

Appearance:

Dr Leonard De'Myr is fairly tall, around 5ft 10”, though he doesn't always appear that tall due to standing hunched over all the time. His appearance is fairly scruffy, ragged, stressed. He's actually quite young at the age of 35, though he looks more like he's in his 50's. Mostly due to poor diet and lack of care for his own well-being. He wears a high necked long white lab coat, with big thick black gloves and big hulking black boots, the boots and gloves have belts and buckles on them. His hair is wild and grey, stuck up and swept back. His face is a reminder of how dangerous mad science can be. The left side of his mouth is a huge gaping scar, healed all wrong which makes him look like he has one side of a huge manic grin, showing muscles, gum and teeth. He's very gaunt and his eyes are wide and sunken. He wears a set of goggles so stupidly big they have to be important for something!, dials and buttons on them.

Personality:

In short....he's mad, insane, manic....and any other words you can think of that say the same thing. As you can imagine through years of being locked up....he's pretty paranoid and socially inept.

History:

He met his love Clauderine at the age of 20, fell madly in love and married her shortly after. The first year was bliss.....but after that Dr De'Myr began to lock himself away in his lab working day and night and barley seeing Clauderine. She fell ill with a terrible disease and eventually 5 years on from the marriage, it claimed her life. He tore himself away from his work too late, he couldn't save her and he didn't even notice that she was deathly ill. Realising what he had done he went into a madness of despair and depression and threw himself back into his work trying to forget his folly.

10 years passed when his madness, loneliness and depression took over and he began to plot a way to create “Clauderine”. He succeeds, but she isn't really complete, she cant talk or express. He then sets out to fix her, whilst struggling with his own mind, knowing what he's created is wrong, and shouldn't be. But giving into what he wants is far far easier than doing what's right.

Thats the Jist of him.

So what did the design work look like?

And the puppet?

Have an over the top photoshoped poster!

So thats Dr Leonard De'Myr

Where did I get my inspiration?
Lots of places, mostly burton, a little vasquez, but alot from a certain man named Simon Quigley, who put the mad scientist idea in my head and rekindled my love for the recluse that they are.

Next up is Clauderine.