Influences....

Ursula - The Little Mermaid

My influence came from Ursula as she is the villain in The Little Mermaid created by Disney and personally I'm like a big kid and love Disney. I like the idea of keeping the character of Veepees as light as possible but still portray a villainous streak.

"Ursula is based on the "sea witch" character in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Little Mermaid". In the original story, the sea witch is a neutral enabler, but for Disney's animated adaptation, the character was modified into a full-fledged antagonist and plays a larger role in the overall story. Ursula is a cecaelian sea witch who "helps" unfortunate merfolk to achieve her own goals. Her appearance is of an obese purple-skinned, white-haired female human and from the waist down has black tentacles."

Disney Wikia. [Online Article] Ursula. Available at: <http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Ursula> [Accessed November 11th 2012]

I got many more influence from the basic shape of octopus legs, I also looked generally at Korean and Chinese culture. I noticed that with both cultures they like bold, solid colours but personally as I was trying to put across a villainous attribute I started to look at Hanna Barber's villains from my favourite cartoon Scooby Doo. I started to look at the underwater villain Captain Cutler from the show to get an idea of an underwater villain and also the colours of him.

  

"Captain Cutler's Ghost was the "ghost" of Captain Cutler who on one dark, foggy night collided with a yacht and followed his ship down to the ocean floor. After a while he began to haunt Rocky Point Beach and take his revenge to the yachts at the marina by making them disappear."

Scooby Doo Wikia. [Online Article] Captain Cutler. Available at: <http://scoobydoo.wikia.com/wiki/Ghost_of_Captain_Cutler> [Accessed November 11th 2012]