Chaaya - Character Concept Design

Chaaya - Character Design

Chaaya is the protagonist that I have created for a choice based, open world adventure game. She is a widely renowned assassin, rumoured to be serving the will of the god of Judgement. She seeks to overthrow the crystal mining overlords, in order to stop their unethical production

Skills Gained:

• Character silhouette
• Consistent shape language
• Colour theory
• Dynamic, high quality illustrations
• Accurate human anatomy

Planning

In order to fully inform her visual design, I began with world building; developing the story, character dynamics, and various in-world cultures

Elemental races concept art:

Character Dynamics:

Supporting Cast:

Chaaya's face concept:

Planning

The images on the left are concept sketches created for Chaaya’s appearance. Her style is mainly inspired from ancient Persian & Indian fashion. Each sketch focused on visually evidencing a specific attribute of chaaya’s character.

Chaaya's silhouette:

Silhouette:

Clothes concept:

Characters colour dynamics:

Weapons concept:

Colours:

Finalising these designs helped me decide on a demonic/ spider-like appearance, which focuses on her desire to be feared and thus avoid confrontation.

All of chaaya's concepts:

Sketches to get feel of chaaya prior to final illustration:

Final illustration potential poses:

Conclusion

I am quite pleased with my final Photoshop illustration. However, In retrospect, I would have liked to further dehumanise her appearance and amplified the spider theme.

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