EUSKO HOSTIAK
Personal Project in progress by Itsaso San Sebastian for the Concept art and illustration course at Lightbox Academy (Madrid, Spain). It is a fighting game concept where the main characters are creatures from Basque Country mythology against new gods such as social network or money and other mythological creatures.
LAMIA, River mermaid
Lamia, in a Basque mythology, is described as a beautiful woman with duck legs. They normally are on the river shore brushing their long hair with their golden brush. This character has the skills of throwing her feathers as a throwing weapon.
Clothing and character development sketches. Her hair should be tied up as it would be easier for her to move. Regarding clothing, it should be just a fabric as it is easier to find a piece of fabric than clothes. It was also explored the idea of taking Basque traditional clothing and adapting it for fighting.
Color testing. I tried different colored feathers from different ducks. At the end I chose swan's white feathers as an elegance and beauty sign.
BASAJAUN, Lord of the woods:
Protector and the guardian of the woods. These hairy and generally peaceful giants were thought to build megaliths, and keep the secret to various skills and technological advancements humans learnt through trickery. This character will fight with his big axe anyone who dares to threat his lands
Lighting test with Will-o'-the-wisp (not from the Basque Country mythology)
Expression development. This character doesn't show many different emotions, just surprise and anger. It is a reference to the famous "memes" of Chuck Norris and his emotions.
JOXEMIEL, The father:
Character inspired by Jose Miguel de Barandiaran as tribute. This person was responsible to go town to town through all Euskal Herria writing down all the tales. Thus, we still know Basque Country's tales and creatures.
Despite his physical skills, he will be able to randomly summon Basque Country's mythology creatures to attack with their strongest attack.
This will be his clothing before every fight. The idea is that he grabs his clothing and pulls them away in order to get ready for his fight the same as we can see in some cartoons and games.
AKERBELTZ, The animal protector:
Akerbeltz is a spirit in the folk mythology of the Basque people. This character it is a NPC (at the moment) that will appear in the background Akelarre (not created yet).
Although in the game the characters will see the same size, this would be the real sizes of these characters.
LAMIA'S POOL:
First fighting background. It is inspirede in Urederra (Urbasa, Navarre, Spain), Otzarreta (Altzusta, Biscay, Spain) and rice fields. It is the place where the lamias are hidden.
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