Luna Lankastar The Night Witch by Mania Carta is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Golden A' Design Award in Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design Competition Category.
GoldComputer Graphics· 2023
Luna Lankastar The Night Witch
by Mania Carta
Client: Sandstorm
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Computer Graphics Category
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About Luna Lankastar The Night Witch
Luna Lankastar the Night Witch of Linerma. This mysterious witch no one knows where she came from but a long time ago, she was raised by the Goddess of Light Visatra, she teaches her all the powers and secrets that most known witches possess, so one day if the darkness arises, she will have the responsibility to protect everyone. As they are witches still trapped in another dark dimension that was created by Enix the god of chaos, Luna got a big responsibility on her back to free all the witches that were locked by the god of chaos Enix, and save Linerma from the darkness.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Luna Lankastar The Night Witch is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Luna Lankastar The Night Witch is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Luna Lankastar The Night Witch creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Discuss Your ProjectInterviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I was always fascinated by Korean fashion and it's culture this is where it really all starts. at first, I wanted to create a beautiful digital human Korean girl
but then my imagination start to take me somewhere else once I started to see Luna coming to life.
From there I start to think about how can I give a beautiful touch and make her unique from there I start to get inspiration from witches and mystery fantasy characters to create her to a new level of creativity.
Because her name was Luna I was thinking maybe if I create a lamp and a shape of a crescent it will be a good idea but then the way to make it and implement it was tricky from there I start to test and try everything like using Lego, it was for me like a puzzle to achieve what I want at the end from there I start to think about creating different lighting scenario for her and different hairstyle design.
Luna motivates me to create more appealing characters with different touches.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
By learning blender and developing my skills and techniques on it I wanted to achieve something deep, beautiful and mystery I never done in my whole career life and after I won many awards and my work got featured many times I was on the point to say that I achieved what I want but still
as an artist I always like to find new challenges to bring something new to the World and this is really my true passion.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
To complete my story the Witches of Linerma and reveal the true identity of this Witch why her name is Luna where she came from and what's the reason
that she is the main protagonist of the story to save Linerma from the Darkness that the God of chaos Enix created.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to blending Korean fashion aesthetics with mystical elements in Luna Lankastar The Night Witch has created a unique visual narrative - could you elaborate on how this cultural fusion influenced your character development process?
Regarding the production of Luna visual, indeed I got inspired from Korean culture but after that I mixed with my own imagination and fantasy, at first I wanted to learn how to make realism for characters, so it let me develop my skills in different approach but then my thinking went the other way, since at first I was relaying on images reference which most artists does but it really didn't work and after that I decided to use my own imagination and the few skills that I have develop in blender.
The mysterious blue necklace and magical earrings in Luna Lankastar The Night Witch seem to carry deep symbolic meaning - what inspired these specific design elements and how do they connect to Luna's hidden powers?
For Luna's necklace, I wanted to learn how to make simple model shapes and develop my skills in reflecting image references, so the necklace it was based of reference image I found on the internet and since I like it, I want to take the challenge to make it and reflect in the Luna. As for how the necklace that luna possess and why it is connected to Luna's hidden power, such thing I can't not revealed so you can just wait for it and you will understand the secret behind this witch and everything behind it.
As the creator of Luna Lankastar The Night Witch, you mentioned experiencing an almost supernatural moment when the character emerged - could you share more about this transformative creative experience and how it shaped your artistic journey?
This character visual that I have created it was at first a very good experience for me since I wanted to learn likeness and achieve realism but then I failed because I couldn't reflect what I see as reference images, so I decided to create it from my mind and then I made her in real-time since it was a big challenge for me in blender as it was my first skills development so i can give her the same visual impression based of the realism render.But I think with everything that i gained as skills i will
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Luna Lankastar the Night Witch of Linerma.
This mysterious witch no one knows where she came, but long time ago, she was raised by the Goddess of Light Visatra, she teaches her all the powers and secrets that most known witches possess, so one day if the darkness arises, she will have the responsibility to protect everyone.
As they are witches still trapped in another dark dimension that was created by Enix the god of chaos, Luna got a big responsibility on her back to free all the witches that was locked by the god of chaos enix and save Linerma from the darkness.
But Luna has her dark side, and she cannot show it until she faces Enix as also before all the witches are back and set free, she asked Vatilia the Light Witch to unleash her power by summoning Antolia the Queen of Ice to shatter all the darkness that Enix created and release all the remaining locked witches in the abandoned land of Madula.
What is the real secret of Luna and where did she come from!
They are something very dark awaiting the witches in Linerma, can they join forces to defeat it.
Once all witches are released can Linerma be saved! - Dimensions & Packaging
- They are many sizes for the artworks as also different cinematic shots.
The main Artwork of Luna is a portrait of size 2250X3000 pixel - Tags
- Witches,gods,darkness,revenge,power,fantasy
- Production Technology
- Character production and all design was made in Blender, sometimes, using Zbrush, Marvelous Designer, Substance painter, but mostly each character production and cinematic is using almost blender.
- Design Challenge
- Regarding Luna and how she came to life, even Maniacarta doesn't know how that happen, at first once he gained a bit of experience in character design and CG art he wanted to create a CG model of a beautiful fashionable Korean girl, but then he starts to see something he never expects, someone from a far land coming from another dimension will come out from his screen and once he saw the magic, Luna the Night Witch of Linerma come to life.
Even if we ask him to make another one like her wants or reproduce her from scratch, he doesn't think he can because is like a mystery for him and it's hard to reproduce and he wants to keep it like that. - Research
- The research of this witch character started by looking into the Korean culture and especially the fashion model such as K-pop, but he wanted to create something unique and mysterious, so because his interest to fantasy and darkness, he start to gather many elements such as the magic blue necklace that luna wears as also the earrings she having and that's the only reference that he used for her, he went to look for interior design elements then combined and mixed many elements such as celling lamps, crescent to get the design of the magic earring.
All other elements such as clothes design, hair style, and luna was from his imaginations. - Inspiration
- During his young age, Maniacarta was always motivated by anime and video games, then once he grow up and gained many experiences in his career, with the passion he have and imagination he decided to create his own story related to witches and darkness, Maniacarta can't reveal so much about the story in detail what is about but it's around fantasy world and fights between gods, darkness and witches who need to protect the land of Linerma that Enix bring it to chaos for a reason that only one witch know.
- Project Duration
- The project starts in the heart of Tokyo in January 2022 and it's updated each two months with new character designs and story reveal.
- Operation Flow
- Luna is a mysterious witch and has a deep secret hiding inside of her only one person knows that.
- Image Credits
- Luna Lankastar the Night Witch of Linerma
By マニア カレタ (Mania Carta)
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