Rigorous Study

A new challenger enters the arena!

So! I haven’t done a ton of TotK artwork yet, mostly because the cell-shaded games from the company that shall not be named, lest my accounts be killed, tend to be lower detail and more work to get looking right in my style, which is kind of… stylized realistic, I guess? I dunno, I’m never happy when I put them in and it’s nothing but flat colors all the way which is why I end up remaking textures and adding some more lighting, emphasizing normal maps, etc. to try and squeeze just a liiiiittle more out of them.

All that to say, Purah was a long time coming for me. She was by far and away my favorite… new…? character? I mean kind of, right, I enjoyed her very much in BotW but she was a minor character, literally and figuratively, but hot damn she came back for the sequel and just. Unf. Such unf.

So here she is! Posing her coat was both hell and extremely satisfying, I rigged it to her body in such a way where the rig would get the broad strokes done and then I’d freeze it back to a static mesh and do the rest by hand. I’m quite happy with how it turned out. :)

© Purah - Nintendo