Estahl

(2022) Estahl was a collaboration with the talented Antoine Destailleurs as a prototype for style in Avalon; pulled back from realism. Antoine designed the character overall and was responsible for producing the outfit. I designed and made the sword and sheathing mechanism (broken down here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lD9g2k), and produced the head and hair while trying to land on what we hoped to achieve stylistically at the time. Later his face was stylized further. We gave each other feedback and worked together to produce this character to suit the goals of the project.

I had gathered and created a gradient of style that we could use to discuss around and identify what line we wanted to walk and what sort of DNA would make it successful. It was a helpful start but the path to achieving it was particularly difficult to find with the head.
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Art Director:
https://www.artstation.com/octostera