Kivu

From the game Frostfall, by Dusk Games
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Kivu is one of the characters from our game Frostfall who was wholly my idea. I was working on concepts for characters that would impress the Dusk leadership team (I think I still hadn’t been formally hired) and wanted to do something forest-y and fairy-like, but nothing stereotypical or uninspired. I conceived her as something feral and cold, but she ended up warming a bit as we shaped the narrative of our story, so that rather than just something fierce and savage, she became instead more of a cultural outlier, curious of the outside world - sort of the odd one out in her tribe. Complex characters are always more interesting anyway. I painted these in Clip Studio and edited them in Photoshop.
3D model by Jordan Ray
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQBwXr