History of Scales



 Scales was originally created by Eros Di Pede and later revised and illustrated by Daniel Caballero in 2008 and was originally titled "The Adventures of Captain Scales and Black Eyed Soul". It was a simple story we created to pass the time. The plot of the original book was that the 'Black-Eyed Soul' and 'Red-Eyed Soul' were brothers and mortal enemies as Scales helped Black-Eyed Soul to stop his evil brother. The Red Eyed Soul actually had no backstory, origin or motivation to be villain of our book, we just picked a random  menacing name and we were fine with it! The book consisted of a title cover and 13 chapters. The story was vague, had no cohesivness, structure or explanation and was very repetitive but this very story brought us to this animated series called Scales.

 To the right you will see the original designs of Scales and 'Black Eyed Soul' (Commonly known as Donovan). Looking back on this we do think that the characters looked way to cuddly, fragile, over the top and tried way too hard looking cool and strong. Thank God we changed them!

 We completed the book after 2 years of procrastination and were very exhuasted of writing it. During 2010 we were brain storming ideas of making a sequel to Scales, taking place right after the end of the first book. It would have all new characters except Scales. Characters we pitched to create wer a Motorcyclist/Engineer, a Robot and a Bird. Once again, laziness came over us and we didn't end up making the sequel. But during that time of brain storming we were coming up with other ideas, like a video game or a remake of the original. There, Eros and Daniel conceived the idea of doing a full fledged revival of Scales as an animated series and was announced on October 13th, 2011.

The Beginning (2007) Eros initially created the story 'The Adventures of Captain Scales and The Black-Eyed Soul' in the pass time during elementary school. He was only beggining to write the story when he asked Daniel to illustrate the pictures for his book.The designs for the characters were very simplistic and plain. Captain Scales' (now just called 'Scales') name was influenced by 'General Scales' in the game 'StarFox Adventures' in which Daniel is very dismayed by this but still uses the name regardless. In his first design, scales scarcely resembles his new appearance as his physique had an oval-round face, circular body and scrawny limbs, he also only wore one piece of clothing on his head: a bandana. The Black-Eyed Soul's (now referred to as 'Donovan') appearance was a cute ghost with stubby legs.