The Creation & Evolution Of Killer Instinct Xbox One’s Cinder

In today’s Killer Instinct Textual Stream, Microsoft’s Adam Isgreen takes us through the evolution of Killer Instinct Xbox One’s Cinder, from his early conceptual stage to how he’s currently looking the game today…

Here’s a few rough concepts we did in-house at Microsoft over a year ago on Cinder.

Notice that we were experimenting with a “back facing” stance, different alien-hybrid type treatments (organic to machine), and a pose that is reminiscent of a gunslinger. This was to convey some of the attitude we wanted to hit, plus his “fired up” mechanic, which we’ll talk about next week. The lanky nature of the new Cinder was a product of the splicing of a human (Ben Ferris) with Glacius’ DNA, which is part of Cinder’s new backstory.

Here’s the original concept based on the original human/alien hybrid concept. As you have already seen, this is not what Cinder looks like now.

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OMG! Crazy! Four eyes? Yep… for a bit at least. We wanted to see how far we could push things before we reigned them back in. This is part of the design process we do – you have to go way out there in order to get some perspective on what’s necessary and important for a character. We went WAY out with him.

This is where we pivoted Ben into a former spec-ops soldier turned master thief for hire. Best in the world at stealing things… could handle himself in a fight… never caught… until he went up against ARIA and Ultratech. ARIA gave him a choice, join her and help further her agenda, or die. Joining up, as I’m sure you can tell, wasn’t as simple as just saying “yes”.

Since the concept above and even since the trailer tease you saw last week, lots of changes have happened with Cinder. Obviously, we ditched the two sets of eyes early on, but here’s some other changes we considered…

Face

Cinder’s mask is actually tech, but its purpose is to protect his face and shield people around him from being horribly burned and irradiated by the energies he contains. You can see above we had a version with the mouth omitted when he’s armored up, but we lost some of the personality and some sense of his human side which was important because…

What about when it’s not covered? Well, you can see the work in progress on that right now, also showing you how his facemask dissolves away in hexes when he turns it off.

So yeah… if you think that having your DNA modified spliced with that of an alien would be really cool… you may want to rethink that.

Body:

Here’s a still of Cinder with vfx turned off to show his combat stance. Note his waist has also changed completely; now much more human, new leg plates are added, and the codpiece from the concept is gone. And what stage could that be?!

So that’s a look at the creation of and evolution of the new Cinder, who will be releasing later this month! What’s your thoughts and perception on how he’s looking in his current incarnation?