WARCANA Celestial Avatar - Concept
Concept I did for the strongest unit of the Fay Calling faction in WARCANA.
WARCANAs lore is based on the idea, that players are mages from different planes, who fight each other about the WARCANA. WARCANA is a magical ressource of some sort. The fights happen in a magical parallel world which is called the flipside and full of this energy.
The strongest units of the games 5 different faction can also be seen as more direct embodyment of the players will.
The Celestial Avatar represents the embodyment of the fay callings mages rage. It is more like a shell - a grown body - which gets posessed by the mages spirit quite literally. If the body dies, the spirit leaves and the mere shell crumbles.
The ingame representation by Joshua Weichhold with VFX by Vincent Siedeberg looks really cool.
Celestial Avatar - Concept Art
Celestial Avatar - Concept Art BW
Celestial Avatar - Color Variations
Celestial Avatar - Explorations
Celestial Avatar - Some Animation sketches
Celestial Avatar - Animation & Attack-VFX Sketches P1, some parts got scrapped/changed in the final product
Celestial Avatar - Animation & Attack-VFX Sketches P2, out of readability reasons we decided to do no impact vfx for most of the units in the end
Celestial Avatar - Unit Card