Ash - Pandora's #1 Bored Teenager

Borderlands-inspired character I made for the Grads in Games Rising Star 2018 Character art competition.
Sculpted in Zbrush, character hand painted in Photoshop (props a mix of Photoshop and Substance Painter), rigged in 3ds Max.
(Development sketchbook: https://issuu.com/kialolivergibson/docs/ash_risingstar2018_sketchbook)

She’s a teenager who’s grown up on Pandora, a savage wasteland of a planet filled with bandits and monsters. Naturally, having grown up there and now in her late teenage years, she’s jaded and bored by the whole experience, spending her days scavenging the barren wastes and looking for something interesting.

I chose to make a unique character that would fit into the Borderlands games as an opportunity to try more stylised character sculpting and hand-painted texturing. Her child-like nature gave me an opportunity to play around with a mix of cute and apocalyptic themes.