VISUALIZATION OF HONOR

Evergreen Studios wrote:Bringing Honor to life visually has meant addressing two major elements: her visual look and the uniforms she wears. At some point Honor is going to have to be played by a real life human and that creates challenges given David’s description; there are not many Honor Harrington’s walking on Earth today. One thing was clear when we first approached Honor; we couldn’t base her on today’s Hollywood hot actresses, she’s too quirky for that. While we haven’t even remotely started a casting process for the role, we have picked out a number of different “Honors” that we think take us in the right direction and we are working on developing that further.

The visual representations of Honor released thus far are mostly from the Top Cow Comic. Comic art tends to be eye-catching because it is all about selling the books based on the cover art. These versions of Honor will perhaps be different than what you might visualize by reading David’s descriptions, especially since comic book artists are prone to be very fantasy-driven. In all honesty we love the artwork that Juen-Geun Yoon has delivered and think it looks fantastic – but at the same time you will see that in the interior pieces we have toned Honor’s physique into a much more athletic frame (our reference has always been that of top female athletes whose stature tend to mirror Honor’s). Honor’s look will continue to evolve in this manner, even throughout the first series of comics as we start to focus down on the correct look. We hope to share some of that evolution here.

The same can be said of the uniform/dress that Honor wears. When we initially developed the concept piece on which the comic cover is based, we were working on the visual representation of Honor on the bridge. One of the ideas that Patrick Tatopolous came up with was that each of the enlisted on the bridge would effectively have with them a holo display at all times, so that a visual projection of any battle or occurrence in space could be in front of their eyes at all times, and shared with others as needed. The enlarged belt was the source of that projector.

Since that time we have developed numerous different looks for Honor. The current incarnation is much more inline with the tone of the RMN. It loses the belt, places correct insignia and ranking, and is better suited to action. It will be featured in the “Science Class” piece of the first issue of the comic out on March 5th, but we thought we’d release a sneak peak here.

rdt wrote:Why don't you try to design the uniforms for a male officer first. Then the designs for women officers should follow naturally. Not all bodies belong in the duds we see here. The RMN has all kinds of bodies. Weber often describes a character (female) as stocky or sturdy. Or even thin. But never curvacious or sexy. I have a photo taken at the changing of the guard at the Royal Palace in Stockholm of the cutest female soldier I ever saw and she is wearing the same uniform as the male guards. Same silly spiked helmet and all.

Taurus2 wrote:I see where RDT is coming from. In our culture at large and in comics in particular, there's still an overwhelming tendency to sexualize female figures to an unnecessary degree, from their posing to their wardrobe. In contrast, male figures are largely unsexualized. Designing the male uniform first and then saying "okay, the women wear that too" seems like a good way to dodge some of the temptation to put women in clothing that emphasizes their sexuality in ways that don't fit the character or their role in the story.

Spacekiwi wrote:Personally, on ship I always thought it kind of weird they werent wearing skinsuits pretty much constantly. You are in a working envionment with the hazard of being in space, so wearing protective equipment is a smart thig. Since that equipment is also uniform, really it should be the permanent space uniform.

JustADavid wrote:The only grip that I have is that you got the hair wrong while she is a prisoner aboard the Tepes, Honor should have longer hair. She started growing it longer in "Flag in Exile".

JustADavid wrote:The only grip that I have is that you got the hair wrong while she is a prisoner aboard the Tepes, Honor should have longer hair. She started growing it longer in "Flag in Exile".

JustADavid wrote:The only grip that I have is that you got the hair wrong while she is a prisoner aboard the Tepes, Honor should have longer hair. She started growing it longer in "Flag in Exile".