Main Enemy Characters, Rat Boss - Colour Variations

Once i had done the turnaround design of the rat boss character i started to look back at the research and noticed the rat characters are very limited in their colours as they usually have the full body colour with exceptions such as eyes, nose, hand and feet, tail and other minor details but because i had not gone into much detail the rat boss character was able to stick with about four or five colours. For most of the colours i chose to have a darker shade of colours to give the character colour backing that this character is evil through his dark colours to his design and that's why i feel that looking back now at all the colour variations together there isn't much of a difference. Where as the final colour combinations i tried to go in a different direction in the form of having a bright white colour covering most of the rat and this was done to make the character seem much more dominant and outstanding in the fact that nothing else is as clear as this character who seems to be singled out making him the head of the whole game. However as much as i like the fact that the white singles the rat out as the head guy i feel that one of the othe rcombinations of colour will suffice as the main enemy character as the dark colours show that this character likes to hide much of himself with the use of his dark contrast of colours and is seen as a deadly character because the rat boss is not clear as the final coloured rat but instead is similar to most rats but from the dark shade is seen as a bad guy as good and bad are seemingly inevitable in their representation of light and dark colours throughout cartoon shows as well as games.

Myself and Tom both decided that the second colour combinations will work well as it holds that near dark brown shade of colour which distinguishes the character as an enemy and as the main character on the enemies side. The reason we also chose this shade was to keep some of the colours that are basic instinct when thinking of a rat as a brown shade with scrawny features.