So this is the result of that Concept Design workshop I did! It was really great, and the guys were super nice and helpful and I learnt a lot. Basically, we were given a brief, which was to take the movie Return of Oz and reimagine it. Unlike typical concept design, where the director has the main idea of plot, genre, etc, we got to work with it. We then got to choose either a character or environment to work from. I chose to do the Wheelers in a horror setting.

Originally I had planned for him to be complete arched over and he had huge legs with wheelchair feet, and he sort of pushed them along. Then I decided to swap that for huge arms and small legs.

Idea behind it is that - because in Return of Oz Dorothy is put into electrotherapy at a mental rehabilitation centre and the evil witch in Oz is a reimagining of the Nurse who 'takes care' of her and the Wheelies are her minions - that the Wheelies are basically spawned from her fear of becoming one of the people at the hospital in the wheelchairs or something.

Also, instead of having lots of smaller ones who work sort of like a pack of hyenas like in the original, this time there is only one or two, and because they're so huge they're slower, but more destructive. But also because they're so big and only capable of moving via wheels, getting around the Ruins of Emerald City is quite difficult, so Dorothy has to avoid being crushed to death by him/them by going through small areas and climbing to places he can't get to.

tl;dr the wheeler is a big dude who is Mombi's henchman and tries to stop people from getting to her and is pretty ruthless and will fuck your shit up.

shoddy background just to get him into place and rust textures EVERYWHERE (but I don't remember where I got them from so whoops).