Elisa Gauthier - Concept Art 2023

Creature Design 

Yaälova, Spirit Guardian

A small creature design project. I wanted to create a god-like feline creature, a spirit guardian of some sort. This was done during Jeanne Plouvenez's class. 

Procothylia

Another project from Jeanne's class. For this one, the goal was to create a fantasy creature that was friendly and could be used as a mount. Procothylias are jungle creatures and use pheromones at night to lure prey which makes them prized mounts for hunting. At night, the pheromones activate and the animals take on bright colors, with their slime-like tales and manes growing larger.

Environment Design 

Alpaca Temple

I created this Alpaca Temple project during Elodie Mondoloni's class. It is a safe haven for alpacas of all backgrounds and sizes ! I wanted to try a very stylised, Animal Crossing-like art direction.

Dragon Shrine

This was done during Karine Villette's workshop. It was challenging as it was my first real project using Blender, but it was a really fun experience and it taught me so much !

Character Design

Rocking Chair

Jacky is a 65 year old grandpa, who has a passion for rock music. One day, he decides to chase his life long dream of becoming a true glam rock star. With his friends Ruth and Giuseppe (designed by my friends Mathilde Gurib and Morgan Marmont-Giovannoni), he becomes an international superstar. This project was done under Jeremy Vitry's supervision !

Scifi Art Student

Another project done with Jeremy, where I had to design an art student from the future, using clean scifi inspired fashion.

Dune : Spice Wars Fanart

For this project, I designed two characters using Dune : Spice Wars' art direction. As a huge fan of Dune, it was such a fun project. I chose to design a Bene Tleilax Face Dancers unit, since they aren't represented that often. Jeremy Vitry was once again supervising this class.

Weapons

Mortuary Sword

Made during Elodie Mondoloni's class. I used Swordtember prompts and designed a sword around the word "mortuary".

Scifi Gun

A scifi gun I created during Camille Peyrebere's class ! 

Vehicle Design

Mars Rover 

A cute little Mars rover I designed under Pascal Nicolas Tremblay's supervision. It drives around the empty planet, searching for interesting samples (but it never really finds anything).

2D VFX

Random VFX concepts 

Here are some quick VFX concepts I designed during another Jeremy Vitry class !

Alsephina

Alsephina is a fictionnal MOBA game character, and I designed some VFX for her ! They're all centered around stars and astrology.

Some other Creatures (personnal illustrations)

The Mares of Diomedes

An illustration based on the mythical mares of Diomedes, from the Labours of Heracles. The legend says they eat the ennemies of their master.

Peafowl and Tegu Hybrid

I designed this hybrid creature for the Character Design Challenge. I liked how mixing the peafowl and the lizard created a dromaeosaur-like animal !