Dracthyr
This project has been a wild ride. Growing up one of my favorite things about games was when you were able to customize a character and when the Dracthyr was offered as project to me I knew that I would put my all into it. I've been working with player characters for some time now, uprezzing the Worgens, collaborating on the Vulpera and making new customizations for a handful of player characters, nothing really compared to this. Starting a player character from scratch has been a rewarding but extremely difficult process. I started very early in the development process before we really knew what dracthyr would be. Mostly what we knew was they were going to be mail wearing casters. I've only included just a few concepts of the beginning of this project but there was countless more. A lot of decisions where made as a group, trying to figure out how to make something new and unique, that felt like a caster but also a powerful dragon. After many iterations and even changes after things where done, this is our final dracthyr.
I had a lot of awesome suggestions from the character team for customizations, I think I took pretty much all of them and added them as an option for these guys and plenty more. What I have in these screen shots are only a handful of combinations you can choose from. Working with the feature team for them has been a really big pleasure. Shout outs to Caitlyn, Kali and Ty for helping bring these creatures alive along with their teams who helped contribute to the animation, FX and rigging.
I hope you all enjoy.
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Example of some of the combos you can make with your Dracthyr!
Here is some of the armor I made for the dracthyr! The other half was made by the super talented Sukjoo Choi!
One of the last concepts I worked on. Nailing down the look and feel. This file had almost all of the customizable options hidden within the layers!
Concept that was exploring what maybe the textures would look like on the dracthyr.
Early concept: This was a early test of how we could customize the dracthyr.
This is a SUPER early concept when we were exploring ideas.
Early concept of how dracthyr armor could look.
Before we decided to make the Dracthyr form be androgynous, I had concepted both male and female body types.
