The Photographer
| The Photographer | |
|---|---|
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| Alignment | Good |
| Appears in | Rayman 1, Rayman Junior, English with Rayman, Rayman Advance, Rayman Origins |
| Species | Teensie |
| Status | Photographer |
He is here to immortalise your feats! When you lose a life, you start again in the last place where he took a picture of you.—Manual, Rayman
Eckpointchay!—The Photographer, earlier version of Rayman Origins
The Photographer is a character who first appeared in the original Rayman game. He has a photoboard, which he uses to take a photo of Rayman with goofy bodies. In Rayman Origins, his photoboard makes a comeback, and some early trailers and demos show him taking photos, but he's unseen during the final version of the game.
Appearance
In Rayman 1, his face is never seen apart from a large eye, though he has blonde hair, and wears a chequered trench coat and blue shoes.In Rayman Junior, the Photographer wears a brown coat instead of a green one with red dots on it.
For Rayman Origins, the Photographer had a drastical redesign. His face is finally visible, but like most of the returning characters, the Photographer was changed to a Teensie, to better fit the style of the previous sequels. However, his appearance as a teensie is different from his brethren, being thinner, with a darker skin and with enormous cartoony hands, feet and eyes. He wears a purple outfit with a feathered hat.
The Photoboards
Through the games, the Photographer has a tendency to change the photoboards that he uses to take pictures of Rayman. In Rayman 1, the photoboard has a picture of a bodybuilder's body, holding a surfboard and a sea shell in a beach background. In Rayman Junior, the photoboard has a picture of a body wearing a cloak like Mr Dark's whilst holding letters and numbers. In English with Rayman, the photoboard has a picture of the statue of liberty holding an ice cream.
In Rayman Origins, the photoboard has two spaces, and the positions in which the players stand indicate who has collected the most Lums in a level. The new photoboard shows what appears to be a skinny, loincloth-clad creature wielding an axe, and a large woman in armour wielding a sword; the two most skilled players stand behind these pictures (Being the large woman the first place and the skinny creature the second place), while any remaining characters are left to peek out from behind the photoboard to get their picture taken.
Role in the games
In almost every Rayman game where the Photographer appears, he serves as a checkpoint. He takes a picture when rayman puts his head over the siluette of the photoboard and smiles. If Rayman dies, he will come back to the place where he took his last picture. In Rayman 2, he was replaced by the Green Lum checkpoints.
In Rayman Origins, the photoboard takes a major role than the Photographer himself. The photoboard pops out from nowhere when the heroes break the last Electoons Cage of the level and then they pose and smile for a picture. In this game, the photoboard takes a different role, being no longer a checkpoint, but an end-of-level point, much like an exit sign or a Spiral Door. In earlier development, the Photographer was supposed to appear in the game, waiting for the heroes to come and pose for the picture and then scream "Eckpointchay!" (Checkpoint in pig-latin), however, the main idea was scrapped, and the Photographer was replaced with the Magician and his lum-picking test tube.
Despite this, the artwork of the Photographer can be still seen on the website, and the photoboard with the characters posing may suggest that the Photographer is still there, but as an omniscient character.