Avatar: FoP, Sarentu exploration
Sarentu clan have a moving history and their role as travelers and storytellers has a melodramatic feel that was important for me to keep in the initial pitch concept.
Also huge thanks to Michael Hansen who was a great help in teaching me Zbrush.
Lead: Cody Gramstad, Mikhail Greul, Janet Ung
Art direction: Gabriel Odgren, Martin Fiedler
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https://oceane.artstation.com/projects/6NQNkN?album_id=1070180
https://www.artstation.com/michaelhansen
I have a soft spot for her. This was one of the first moments where we started to narrow in on the unique identity and a color scheme of the Sarentu clan.
Entu is a typical Sarentu with his heavily braided cloth. Usually when crafting a main character we either introduced an atypical element for the clan or we emphasize what is typical and with Entu we pushed the Sarentu braiding as much as possible.
The way Sarentu are integrated into the Resistance wasn´t meant to look too joyful. Most of the clothing repair is fairly rough and within human shapes.
Kataru is a player´s mother, she only appears for a brief moment, but because she is important very early on we really made sure that her design works well for the shots we had in mind.
Modification station