ELLANA - Siam Till' Illan
Third and last character of my graduation project: "ELLANA: The pact of the mist-riders". The goal was to create a video-game loosely based on the book "Ellana" by Pierre Bottero.
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The story takes place in a fantasy world heavily fragmented into guilds, clans and casts, where magic is common place. Siam Till' Illan is part of Al-Jeit's elite guard. She was born a sword in her hand and despite her age she is a seasoned fighter and a deadly opponent.
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Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it !
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Huge thanks to all my classmates, all the teachers and art consultants that gave me feedback during my two years at New3dge concept art school (Especially Simon Tosovsky, Choro Choi and Nils Carlsten who helped me push this particular project) and Aurélien Fournier for supervising the whole concept art program and the feedback he gave me all throughout the course !
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Finally thank you Pierre Bottero for writting the serie of books my project is based off. I absolutely devoured these books when I was younger and they always had a very special place to my heart.
As Siam was a rather secondary character, it was more about making her fit the already existing designs of the main characters rather than creating a completely new visual language
Some more explorations. At first I used a lot of North Asian armor references but I then tried to distance myself from it by mixing different influences together