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Annamaria Ljubas - 2019 visual development portfolio -
[TWO REIGNS] - The ember in the stars -
Long ago there lived two kingdoms, opposite as light and dark: the Comet Kingdom and the Volcanic Kingdom. They’ve been at war for hundreds of years, with no end in sight. Legend says however, that during a full moon, a star and an ember found each other, and fell in love. Ilys and Kadara, the princesses of the two kingdom, meet on a fateful night at the feet of the shrine built on the border of the two kingdoms, and discover that peace did take place between them. They were cursed in an endless cycle of war and peace, and the two girls are determined to put a stop to it, in hope that they might live happily ever after.
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- ILYS -
Princess of the Comet Kingdom. Her radiant personality shines through wherever she goes. Playful, adventurous and curious, she looks forward to exploring the world outside the walls of the palace every chance she gets. She usually acts childish but knows what she wants and knows how to stand up for herself. She sneaks out to explore the deep woods until she finds a mysterious shrine. And someone else.
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Princess of the Volcanic Kingdom. Her personality is more closed off and she rarely shows her true feelings to others, king and queen included. When she doesn’t practice sword-fighting and warstrategies with her mother, she likes to read and dream about the world above the surface. She’s humble, dutiful, loyal, compassionate and reliable. She rarely thinks for herself and never questions her parents’ decisions and opinions, until she gets assigned a recon mission in the world above that’s going to change her whole life.
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Counselor of the Comet Kingdom. Ilys’ tutor since she was little, Omin secretly tries to influence and seduce her in order to secure a place for himself on the throne. He doesn’t love the princess but he does care for her in his own way. The years have made him colder as she slowly distanced herself from him.
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- the comet kingdom -
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- the volcanic kingdom -
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- the first generationBefore men began walking the earth, another event brought new life upon it. A giant comet fell off its path and stranded itself on the surface. The energy it was carrying it was such that shook the ground: above, and below. New forms of life were born and over time they evolved and built their own colonies, becoming the Comet and Volcanics kingdom.
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- the comet castle -
- the shrine The shrine where the two protagonists meet. No one remembers why it was built or what it was used for. Ilys and Kadara both feel a sense of familiarity every time they step foot there
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Althea and the red flower A young doctor and herbailst, who lived peacefully with her family, she encounters an unknown disease during her chilhood, which reveals itself to be deadly in adulthood. As a child, she got wounded on her right foot by a mysterious plant while she was playing in the forest with her sister, and it started spreading over the years like a curse and it ate away her right leg. Althea sets out to find travel and find a cure to the unknown disease before it reaches her heart.
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character turnaround
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character gestures
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character expressions and props
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ZOOMBIE PROJECT After a zombie outbreak transforms almost all the citizens in the city in zoombies, the journalist Shay and the detective Robert are two of the few immune to this dangerous disease that threatens the living. Shay is a young journalist who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and is a literal scaredy cat. Robert is a once-soldier now detective on the verge of retiring, who now must use all his knowledge and strength to survive and protect those who are still alive.
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AUTOMATA PROJECT We’re in the not-so-far future. Pollution has reached levels never before seen and life as we know it is slowly coming to an end. Plants aren’t able to grow anymore and animals struggle to survive. The immense piles of trash now cover the old cities and above them rise new city towers. The rich live above, the poor live below. And it is here, in the slums, where a few kids, living day by day, manage to build new life out of the old waste and automatas are born.
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ARTIFICIAL PLANTS Since natural plants are unable to grow, gardens and trees in the wealthy district are made of plastic and steel, only resembling what nature once was.
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CHARACTER DESIGN - VAN HELSING (2004)
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ENVIRONMENT STUDIES
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PERSONAL CHARACTER DESIGNS
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DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CHARACTER DESIGNS
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The Tomb
Visual development project around the short story The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft. A boy from a rich family who lives atop of the village finds the entrance of a tomb belonging to the old family Hyde, and finds himself strangely captivated by it, as if it’s inviting him inside.
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PERSONAL ILLUSTRATIONS
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