Trine 4: Various Character Concept Art
Trine 4 launch today on all platforms! Several character concepts I made for the Trine Series's newest addition Trine 4 the Nightmare Prince. I worked as a character artist and the art director for the project. I was dreaming to be able to make all the characters into finalized 3D models myself but had to delegate most of them to our other 3D character artist Maïté Vandewalle as leading the art department and the visual style of the game took the majority of my time. I'm glad I was able to make this many character concepts and the final models ended up looking really great.
Redesign of the familiar characters Zoya the Thief, Pontius the Knight and Amadeus the Wizard. The three heroes of Trine and the playable characters in the game. More about their designs on their own 3D model posts that can be found in my gallery.
Prince Selius and his shadow version. The shadow version is almost like just inverted color variation of Selius.
Badger and Hedgehog are neighbors. Designing these characters was a perfect opportunity to bring out traditional anthropomorphic fairytale characteristics.
Moonshine, spirit of the air. Her elegant design was inspired by the magical Crystal Wing Moths that live in the Moonlit Woods. It is said that Moonshine can only be seen in moonlight, a bit like the nocturnal moths that appear wherever she goes.
Elodea, spirit of the water. Elodea’s look was one of the most interesting to come up with. The idea of combining a gloomy bog environment with a mermaid.
Linden, spirit of the woods. The idea for the visual design came from the Blueberry Forest environment. There is wood, ferns and blueberries, but the more unique element for a dryad type creature is the skirt-like part inspired by the blueberry flower.
Aunt Gretchen. Amadeus’s long-time nightmare about his overpowering and possibly insane witch-aunt, who he was very very scared of when he was five and who curiously is strikingly similar-looking to Amadeus’s wife Margaret.
Princess Zoya is Zoya's nightmare. Zoya declined a royal marriage offer, but the prospect of having been Ridiculously Rich has been bothering Zoya ever since, especially because she isn’t really getting any younger.
Final models in game. As Selius model was originally made for Nine Parchments I made that model (can be found in my gallery) but here the model is improved and retextured by Maïté Vandewalle.
Final model in game, modeled and textured by Maïté Vandewalle
Final model in game, modeled and textured by Maïté Vandewalle
Final character models in game. The 3 heroes models and textures by me (detailed posts in my gallery). Moonshine modeled and textured by Maïté Vandewalle
Final model in game, modeled and textured by Maïté Vandewalle
Final model in game, modeled and textured by Maïté Vandewalle
Final model in game, modeled and textured by Maïté Vandewalle
Final model in game, modeled and textured by Maïté Vandewalle