Akitsu - The Dragonfly Queen
A downloadable Character
Akitsu - The Dragonfly Queen
For my character art entry in the Grads in Games Rising Star 2023 contest, I chose to start from a concept I made about a year ago for a stylized design course. We had to design a character, a prop and an environment linked to one of the 7 virtues or sins. I designed Akitsu, a dragonfly queen that greedily defends her fountain of youth in a world inspired by Art Nouveau. It was an amazing experience to make my own character concept come alive in 3D, as it was also the first time that I rigged and animated a character fully by myself.
Both her youthfulness and the elegance of Art Nouveau, made her in my opinion perfect for the Ethereal Grace theme.
Concept: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6bzDrO
Project: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8wQgRG
Sculpted in Zbrush, textured in Substance Painter, topology, rig and animation done in Autodesk Maya. Rendered in Unreal Engine 5 and Post Production done in Photoshop.
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