Seekers of Skyveil: Lily
Elodie Games ArtBlast, part 2: Lily the Ice Mage!
Also one of the first Seekers I started working on back in 2021, designed by Natalie Pellmann https://www.artstation.com/foxcrusade
She changed quite a bit eh?
Shoutout to:
Billy, my lead
Sean-Paul, our art director
Banks, THE boss!
Stay tuned for more art drops tomorrow!
Meet Lily! She likes making art with magic ice ❄️✨🎨🧊🔮
OG concepts of Frost Mage by Natalie. Iconic white hair and staff, winter coat: classic fantasy design.
Game view concept.
First sketches in Zbrush - quicksculpts with baked AO.
Further refined blockout. This is back when Knife tool was introduced, had lot of fun with it making fur patches and hair.
face work
Refined sculpt, marmoset render
Silhouette check!
Early blockout render.
Early UI mockups for phone layout.
Lowpoly torso to test animations and shading.
Very early tech and shader tests. Realtime model inside of UE4, tweaking hair shaders.
Portrait <3
Staff made with booleans in Zbrush
Decimated zbrush models thrown onto game field to check colors.
At some point Lily and other original heroes went through redesign, for Lily we kept white haircut and ice staff, the rest was redone to make it look less like a generic fantasy robes.
Blockout/proxy done after new concept.
Updated design, quick posing.
Animation test in Marmoset
Colors are baked in Zbrush, exported with FBX
fren?!
Marmoset rendering tests, decimated mesh
Lilys official color palette :)
Updated face
Highpoly WIP
Skirt explorations, tried to break the symmetrt
Final face model
Retopo time!
Final concept with some minor changes to design
Final highpoly
Baked lightmaps in Marmoset
Assembled and colored model in UE4
Creating different color themes directly in the engine.
Source texture channels in Substance
Ice staff visual progression
premium skin