Soul Sentinel
In a world where Ghouls terrorize the living and the balance between life and death, there are people gifted with supernatural powers…capable of holding those evil spirits back.
They are called “Soul Sentinels”
Soul Sentinel is an ongoing 3D project. The end goal is to have 2 Characters displayed in a short Trailer, similar to the style of Netflix’s animated show "Arcane”.
Concept
Since the project is all about humans and their connection to ghosts I wanted to portray each side by one character.
A Duo with a human sentinel and her Ghost partner, representing the bond between life and death with their friendship.
3D Design
Former Sentinel Avar
Avar is Emily’s guide and partner when it comes to understanding her new found powers and battling ghouls.
Judging by his clothes you can see he is from a more medieval time. While Emily is a human, he wanders the world in a monochromatic color scheme, symbolizing that he’s indeed a ghost.
Soul Sentinel Emily Amara
Emily’s black marks on her body are there to represent her connection to the spirit world aswell as the many pendants and waistbeads with crystals. Next to the spiritual part I also wanted to lean into her extroverted and fearless personality by giving her more revealing, dark and alternative styled clothes.
Sculpting and Modelling
After figuring out what the characters should look like I moved on to sculpt their bodies in Zbrush and then later retopoligzed them using blender.
This was my second time doing the retopology and I was a bit scared of it since I wasn’t familiar with any techniques to make it easier for me.
Texturing
The texturing was done in Substance painter by handpainting every Mesh individually.
Here it was very important that the Textures resemble the clothes’ Materials in the concept!
