Character and Costume Work
Hello! My name is Athena Cole and I’m a recent 3D Character Art graduate from the UK. My background is in real-world costuming and prop-making, which tends to be the focus of my work. These are several pieces I developed during my studies, with the goal of creating believable, detailed characters optimized for games.
Character and Costume Work
Raising a Family
The result of the final project for my master’s degree in 3D Game Art. I sculpted my DnD characters: a grandmotherly necromancer and the skeleton familiar she dotes upon. Game-ready (~136k verts total) and rendered in Unreal Engine 5.
I took them through most stages of the game art pipeline: invented their designs, created the clothing in Marvelous Designer, sculpted face/body/accessories in ZBrush, did basic rigging/posing, retopology, and UVs in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, lit and rendered in UE5.
The elements that were not scratch-made are the skeleton base mesh, which is a wonderful freebie by Fabricio Works, and the environment, which I assembled with modular pieces from Megascans.
HZD Daenerys Clothing
Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn) x Daenerys (Game of Thrones) character costume based on concept art by Whitney Lanier.
Student project done in three weeks to an industry brief. Clothing created in Marvelous Designer, sculpted in ZBrush, retopo/UVs in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rendered in Marmoset.
Laudna
Real-time game character sculpt of Laudna from Critical Role, based on official character artwork by Hannah Friedrichs.
Clothing created in Marvelous Designer, detailed in ZBrush, groom & retopo done in Maya, textured in Substance Painter, rendered in Marmoset.
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