Sascha Martin’s Time Machine: Designing the Characters

Even though we haven't reached the stage of character design, Manuela's already making changes to some of her creations.

In the last post I previewed something of what she has in store for Sascha Martin himself, with a touch more depth added to his character and some tweaks to his mouth and eyes.

You might notice that his hair has changed as well in this picture. That's partly in preparation for the new persona he'll adopt to show off his latest invention at Show and Tell.

The new look involves not only a hair style change, but a complete new outfit to match.

In the image above Sascha Martin is still wearing his outfit from the first book, Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship ...

But in the second adventure, Sascha Martin's Time Machine, he's going to look something like this picture on the left.

I wonder if you can spot Manuela's reference to one of Sascha's all-time heroes from television ... who also happens to be one of hers!

Sascha's not alone in receiving an illustrator's overhaul for the new title. Mary-Alice Cooper has stormed back to the drawing-board (Manuela's Ugee 19 touch-screen graphics tablet) for a complete make-over.

Mary-Alice will also appear in a new outfit (of course!) but she won't be outdone by Sascha and insists on bringing more depth to her personality as well. No one's going to call Mary-Alice Cooper shallow!

Visit the author's site to read more about Mary-Alice Cooper as she prepares for her role in the new book.