Ready Player One- Daito Concepts

I had the incredible opportunity to conceptualize the look of Daito for Read Player one for Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. As one of the High Five, Daito plays a prominent role in the over arching story of the Oasis. From the start I knew him as a tech-ed up samurai. I played on the traditional red and gold motifs of traditional samurai armor while introducing contemporary design details that would modernize the armor but set it apart from decades of future samurai and robot design, including the reshaping of the traditional samurai helmet shape that is typically associated with Darth Vader. I had an opportunity to do concepts along with the very talented Steve Suh who also did some work on Daito along with seeing through Shoto to finish.

A huge congrats to the ILM team who took the design to finish asset and added some extra traditional Samurai adornments to his Armor. This was truly an amazing opportunity to see this design brought to life.

Done at Aaron Sims Creative