Viewtiful Joe - Captain Planet
Viewtiful Joe and its sequels are all about over-the-top action super heroes and the overused tropes of the superhero genre.
The games are set in a world within the screens of a movie theatre called Movieland where wearers of the V-Watch are imbued with VFX Powers with which they can perform feats of impossibility.
This series also gave us 2 fantastic alternate playable characters in the form of demon hunters Dante and Trish from Devil May Cry.
This got me thinking that it’d be interesting to see a super hero that was entirely VFX-based.
Captain Planet was an elemental being formed from the powers of 5 magical rings.
What if, then, in thew Viewtiful Joe universe, a group of characters (maybe VFX Artists!) brought Captain Planet into being through the power of 5 VFX-powered “V-Rings”.
With that thought in mind, I set out to mockup a hypothetical Viewtiful Joe sequel with a Captain Planet alternate playable character!
Concepting
First off, I needed to solidify what Captain Planet might look like in the Viewtiful Joe universe using the same sensibilities, colour palettes, shading techniques, and proportions the series is famous for.
So, after jumping into Procreate, I sketched out a few ideas and then rendered him out.
As an added bonus, I concepted a sequence for a Pure Energy form which might work well as Captain Planet’s own VFX Power.
