Full character creation
I had the chance to work on this character from concept to VFX, the whole pipeline (except for most of the retopology work and final textures, done by Pol Rius - https://piranesy.artstation.com)
The final design came from iterating on the Death concept, a Titan that would summon undead skeletons as it's regular attack. I eventually started brainstorming crazy Ideas and this was the result. You can more or less track the evolution from the first concepts exposed.
As a bit of a "bonus track", I've included all my other relevant concept art tasks in the project, including some that never made it into production.
Giant Animations
final character sheet
starting point. The premise was "it spawns minions instead of attacking", so the first thing I tried was to remove the arms
Iteration on the Death concept, which was the original idea. You can see Enric Sant's original oncept on the top left corner
further iteration on the Death concept
brainstorming. Here the 'dwarves on top of something' idea popped in, reminiscent of our previous game, Dwarfs&Dragons.
development of the dwarves
we agreed on giving them a carrier, so the giant became the actual unit, a demi-god-ish carrier of armies
the idea of the giant caught on, so we definetely moved away from the Death one
power-up ability concept "throw dwarves behind enemy lines"
Alchemist (character not included in the game)
Bloodmaster (character not included in the game). Their names would have been Walter, Morty and Stan
Chi-Chi (early iteration) skins (not included in the game). In this early version he was a she and carried a baby panda on her back
Jumper skins (character not included in the game)
Mushachos, they were initially concepted as Edburt's special summoning hability
Aisha fisrt concepts, initially intended as a skin for Maya
Gaia's Roots Manuva tri-flower summoning