FINAL Red Ranger 3D Model Designs!

Today is a good day!  Today, we get to share with you the FINAL designs for the 3D model of the Red Ranger!  If you've been following along, you know that this has not been a simple or fast process.  In the spirit of "do it right or don't do it at all", we have gone over every detail of Red's design with a fine toothed comb in order to build the most badass, mind blowing character design you could ever dream of while still staying true to the original design we all know and love.

What we wanted was to find a balance between the increasingly popular look of plated armor as shown in Iron Man and the Dark Knight movies and the original spandex costume.  The solution we came up with was a leather material mixed with a sort of motor cycle body armor look.  Our graphic artist, Kevin DeLucia spent painstaking days upon days carving out each and every detail, utilizing his incredible talent to add details never before seen on a Power Ranger.  Check out the detail in the armor plating seen below.

 We kept all the same color elements and were sure to keep the original diamond pattern on the front.

 The helmet has the original "eyes" and "teeth" around the visor and we updated the mouth piece to mimic more of a mechanical breathing apparatus as opposed to the literal lips used in the original.

And finally, we added four LED lights to the costume suggesting a high tech mechanical element to the suit and providing some nice aesthetics.  The image below is the final design of the Red Ranger for Mighty Morphin Power Ranger: First Wave.  Enjoy!

Up next: we bring Red to life!  We'll give him a skeleton and teach him how to move!

Bringing the Red Ranger to life

For our kick starter campaign, we shot a "pitch" video to help explain our mission and all the details of the project. But we knew that people would want to see what we had in mind, they want a taste of what we're going to create. With that in mind, we shot a teaser trailer.

The teaser trailer is like the film; brief but grand in scope. So we created a small war zone and shot background plates for an epic taste of First Wave. We'll show off some of the behind the scenes footage from that shoot soon, but first let's talk about our hero. 

The scene teases a battle between the Red Ranger and a member of the Putty Patrol. Because there's no funding for the project yet, we had to get creative with this because the Ranger uniform that we have designed will cost about $4,000-$6,000. The choices were to step back and design it a little cheaper or do it the hard way and create our ranger from scratch and we don't like doing things the easy way. 

So we got started creating an entirely computer generated character. It's no secret that this is a grueling and time consuming process. Our graphic artist, Kevin Delucia got started well before we shot the background plates.  

He began sculpting the character and bringing Red into the 3rd dimension. 

We'll reveal the final character design soon! To recieve updates by email about this kick starter project, click here http://mmprfirstwave.launchrock.com