Filipe Pinto Art

Concept Art & Visual Development

Professional digital artist with 10+ years of experience in creating artwork for games.Contact: [email protected]

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Varynthil - The Pillar of Dawn

Once the second largest city of the Wastheni and the capital of their kingdom, now a flying city and a beacon for hope.This city was partially destroyed by a cataclysmic event that shattered most of the Continents of the world.
During the cataclysm, it separated from its lands and miraculously survived its ascent into the skies.

Sketches

Elyina, the Spider Queen

An Ancient creature that has lived for thousands of years, always evolving according to her needs and the needs of its spawn.Since the emergence of the Races and their civilizations she has become more woman-like, sometimes venturing out of her caves and luring in men and other people who fall for her deceptions.

Fracture Dweller

A Vekaren creature that crosses the rifts between Realms and has the ability to summon other Vekaren creatures.Along with its summoning skill, the male is highly aggressive, clawing and slashing its foes up-close and firing a high energy beam from time to time.The female however is more passive. It absorbs the energy of those who come close enough to provoke her.

Noxymorph

A Vekaren Immortal creature.One of the most aggressive Vekaren beings to exist and one of its kind.It pursues its foes relentlessly with extreme speed and violence, never letting them escape its grasp.Its unique ability allows it to separate and transform into 5 different creatures, each holding their own talents and skills from the original.

Outfits Design Briefing

Given the high-fantasy theme and slightly medievalesque setting, some outfits have been designed with simple cloths and color schemes, while others have a more unique approach.NPCs
Typical town NPCs have the more simple cloths, with slight variations between them.Special characters - relevant to the main story or with special stories themselves - have slightly more unique garments and complex designs.Player
The Player outfit changes in real-time according to what is equipped. In this case, the outfit range of designs is more broad. It can be simple or very complex, depending on quality and where it comes from.

Armored Beast

One of the youngest Ancient creatures known in the world and one of the first bosses to be encountered in the game.

Concept Art

Hairs & Beards

AKEN features a complex customization system with lots of different controls. One of them is to swap and preview different hairstyles, eyebrows, beards.For our Demo I created a few of each using Blender's new Hair System, then created material logic inside Unreal Engine to allow customization.

Fracture Dweller

A Vekaren creature which I designed, sculpted, retopo'ed, rigged and animated, during AKEN's production.

Design

We used World Partition to create our Open World Map, even though it's a very small area. This allowed us to expand freely and test the grounds for a larger game version.The challenge here was to integrate Ultra Dynamic Sky and its Weather System in most of our assets to make the level feel like one environment. This included rocks, grass, background assets, our modular houses and other props.

One of my responsibilities was also to improve performance while keeping the world and level aesthetics in the direction it was envisioned.LODs and HLODs, Nanite, Lighting and Shader Optimization were some of my concerns.