Beatborn - Character Concepts
Beatborn, a rhythm based combat game, is a student project which I had the great pleasure of working on. My primary responsibilities were UI art and the character design. This is the majority of what I did in concepting the main character (nicknamed Midi by the team), which was great fun. She is the last defender of The Core, a massive source of power giving energy to humanity's last city. An army of robots is aiming to take this Core down and the player has to defend it, fighting in rhythm to awesome music. Beatborn was one of the games chosen to be featured at the Dreamhack 2019 student game showcase in Jönköping, Sweden.
Download for free on itch! https://sweetjp.itch.io/beatborn
The awesome 3D model, made by Nemanja Zivic: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Z5ZLwx
Final character render.
The very first ideas of the character design; testing out settings, colors, shapes, etc.
The second stage of character design. Narrowing it down a bit more, trying to find a good balance in the Sci-Fi look.
Final stages of character design, trying to figure out color schemes, hairstyles and accessories.
Sword concepts, testing out a bunch of different shapes in order to find something that fits the character.
Picking out some favourite swords and placing them next to the character in order to get a better feeling of scale and how the shapes work together.
Render of the final sword design.
Character sheet for our 3D character artist, showing body proportions.
Credits!