Skeleton Character Redesign from Jason and the Argonauts Film

The Redesign of Skeleton character inspirated in Jason and the Argonauts film of 1963 tries to explore a Sci Fi style.

It  maintains the iconic shield but with a more minimalistic aesthetic. The redesifn Skeleton is wearing an ancient armor which combines soft textures of clothes with hard elements like tubes connoting sicentific testing and advances. The new character is provided with lights in the clothes and coming from his hand dennoting some mystics but at the same time sci fi power.

In the original movie Jason and the Argonauts the Skeleton Character plays an important role, taking place in an iconic fight in which Jason the principal character - a mythical greek hero- have to fight with an army of seven skeletons to get the golden fleece, the emblematic scene was produced using stop motion technique and took three monts to film (MailOnline, nodate). In the original design the shield are adorned with Harryhausen's creatures- associate producer and stop motion expert of the movie-, including an Octopus and the head of Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth(Clark, 2013).

References:

MailOnline (no date). Famous sword fighting skeletons scene from Janson and the Argonauts [Online]. Available http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1007489/Famous-sword-fighting-skeletons-scene-Jason-Argonauts.html. [Accesed: 20 November 2014]

Clark, N. (2013). Ray Harryhausen, the visual effects master famed fro skeleton battle in Jason and the Argonauts, dies aged 92. The Independent [Online]. Available http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/ray-harryhausen-the-visual-effects-master-famed-for-skeleton-battle-in-jason-and-the-argonauts-dies-aged-92-8606777.html [Accesed: 20 November 2014]