Concept Art

This page gives an insight into the creation process of the Planet Protectors series. Some concepts were scrapped and some are yet to be used or simple mock-ups for larger ideas.

### Character Designs

Another concept for Scott. At this time, characters lacked tails, their heads were much larger and the uniforms were less angular. Scott has a chain hanging from his belt buckle here that was scrapped.Concept art for Rufus. Cindy, Scott and Rufus were all created at the same time. This was also the first artwork of the ship which maintained the angular pipework and green walls.Concept art for Jack. The original style was much more cartoonier and chibi compared to the current designs.Sonar concept art. She changed quite a bit! Her nose was a simple button and she had a mane of fluffy fur around her neck.Concept art for Casey. She had long hair! This was changed as most of the other female characters had long hair and variety was desired.Roary concept. Other than the style change, he's practically the same!Audrey concept. She's also pretty much the same too! She was designed after being written into the story at the same time as Roary.Concept art for Gary. He's got a lot more facial hair now.Concept art for Sabre. At this time he didn't have a solid name. Xander was thrown about!Lana concept art. She got a cool hair bob shortly after this.Skye concept art. More German Pinschers were sketched and the top result ended up chosen and developed into Skye.The same happened for Danny. He's on the left!Concept art for Marshall. This design was a prompt to introduce more species into the Planet Protectors style. This outfit was later officially used in Marshall's reference sheets!This same process of animal variety eventually lead to Jabari too.Minor character design concepts. These designs would be used for Kiki and Giraffe Shopkeeper's headshots!
### Environments

Initial sketch of Xylox used for the Lemur Clan group image. This was used as inspiration for the final product.Concept art for the Work Pods, introduced in Hard Times.Concept art of Gary's house. It's behind a huge privet where Leon resided during the events of Experiments.Map of XyloxConcept art of Lana's space cab. The cab features in Red Alert but has yet to receive official artwork.Testing background layering. This is the basement that later appeared in The Quest.Leon's lab.Concept of a Velocity owned planet base.
### The Quest

Content relating to the creation of The Quest comic.

Initial concept art for a cover poster for the comic.Initial concept for Rufus' involvement in the story.Concept art for the colour pallets for Jabari and Marshall's rave outfits. This version of Marshall was chosen and Jabari's boot colour was used for the shorts and hat for the final design.Rough sketch of the GabGazelle parody CD cover that's seen in the background of panels.Rough layout plans of the SUBMANIA nightclub. Not all rooms are used in the final comic.ExteriorCorridorLoungeBalconyInitial concept art for Patch. At this time he has yet to officially debut but can be seen in the background of a currently released page!Patch was initially created for another project in 2015. The core design was already created; it just needed to be translated into the anthro style of Planet Protectors.Initial concept art for DJ Subwoofer. Just like Patch, Subwoofer was already created for another project and even had been translated into the anthro style. All he needed was a new outfit.Concept art for his key artwork that would be used here on the Wikia.Concept art for the outfits of the APP team. They have not yet debuted in the comic, though their outfits have officially released as part of their reference sheets.
### Hard Times

Content relating to the creation of Planet Protectors: Hard Times. Concepts of this story date back to 2018.

This art is finished and used officially however it's a remnant of an old practice.Instead of illustrations, character artwork was considered just like it was for the previous chapter, Experiments. This was dropped in favour of illustrating the story as the reader goes through it; character artwork was already created in droves at this point too. This is a Hugo/Holly artwork that never met completion.So illustrations were decided upon instead! At this time, only a very rough idea of the story was concepted but elements from the first chapter can be seen here. This dates to 2018 and it would be a while before the story would begin officially.Gary got on the bus! This was created a while after everything else seen here so far. This was later cleaned up and used officially.Expect a lot more of these initial sketches for illustrations. Commentary will be provided when necessary.You can view the final products on the Hard Times page, of course. This image takes place in the same area as that very first illustration concept!5 Illustrations per chapter were originally planned, but this was overkill. Here we see the confrontation between Gary and Trev. Very rough and scrapped.Initial sketch for the first illustration! Perspective and ambition were key focuses with these illustrations.Initial sketch for the action scene with Jack.Oops! Roary and Jack were left out. They had to be doodled onto the side with a note.Original concept for Gary and Harvey meeting Luna.The final sketch was much more dynamic!Another completely unused illustration; Gary meeting Harper. This was dropped as there were already four illustrations and to also keep Harper's illustrations all into one chapter.Initial info written about Harper. Don't read this until you've read Harper's introduction in Hard Times!More on HarperMysterious Hugo... This is a remnant from a scrapped illustration from the next chapter. Once that officially releases, check back here for info on why!
### Mock-ups

Mock-ups for potential other projects. They're too ambitious to work on, though the future is always bright.

## Concepts for a Planet Protectors RPG game

Notes for the RPG's story. Hopefully this story can be told one day!More notes for the story.Concept art for Spinky's device.Various robot enemy designs.They'd have their own functions too. This is Garbot! They've appeared officially via a cameo in The Quest.Concept art of the battle system.This one is based on the events of Experiments. It would be an additional story.A different and more simple approach.Concept for the pause menu. You can make your choices here too.Character overview: Max Wells. Max is the lead character of another project; Major Max. Planet Protectors exists as a TV show inside of the Major Max universe so Max would be a secret non-canonical characterFriendships and character connections would be a key feature of the game. Levelling them up would unlock new character based moves.Weapon concepts. All three of these are the official signature weapons for the characters.Ever wondered exactly how the belt buckle communicators work? This wasn't specifically created for the RPG and is applicable to the series as a whole, though it would play a large part into the RPG too.Breakdown on how the belt works.