-Work-

CONCEPT ART

Character Design - Witching Hour: Love At Midnight

For Witching Hour: Love At Midnight I was tasked with designing the characters, the three witches.

The project's goals were to design women in a way that's respectful and relatable to women without sacrificing aesthetic value. I tried to achieve this by communicating power and appeal through fashion without using nudity.

My personal goal was also to challenge the idea of what a witch can look like. I decided to ditch the brimmed hats and pumpkins to achieve this.

Down below I will highlight one of these characters and show you the process I went through

After making the final choice, I outlined the character through a call-out-sheet, turnarounds, etc.

Character Design challenge: Design a character at the beginning and at the end of their Hero's Journey

Before

After

Character Design challenge: Design a character within an existing IP

Description:

A design challenge for creating a character that fits within an existing IP.

I chose Skyward Sword, objectively one of the best games, shut up.

With this I challenged myself to tackle some questions that the original game left behind and to create a character that would fit perfectly in the design AND lore of the game.

Concept drawings for a hypothetical pitch

Miscellaneous weapon designs

VISUAL EFFECTS

VFX for a Tower Defense game, under "Animation" you can see these effects coupled with their character's animation.

Homing projectile

AoE attack with a buildup

A hitscan effect

NPC crowds generated based on texture sheets and a particle emitter.

ANIMATION

Animations coupled with VFX for a Tower Defense game

Player animation

Reference

Enemy animation

Inspired by the lively character portraits of Kingdom Hearts, I chose to challenge myself in a project of UI, animation and VFX to create a dynamic character portrait.

Software used: Clip Studio Paint (illustration), Blender (rigging, animation), Unity (implementation, VFX)