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Soya Lankastar Digital Art by Mania Carta Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design

The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Mania Carta for computer graphics, 3D modeling, texturing, and rendering design

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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design category for Soya Lankastar Digital Art by Mania Carta, designed for Sandstorm. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Silver A' Design Award Means

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

Regarding Soya Lankastar Digital Art

The design of soya reflects the style of the Persian culture in a captivating dark design. A dark hood with crescent symbol for even more mystery design, the ornament necklace adds an additional touch to the witch. The ornament visual design was an inspiration from the window ornaments in the churches. the dragon biting her ears give her such fantasy dark mystery look character design. combining all those elements give to soya a unique visual dark fantasy witch character design style.

About Mania Carta

Sandstorm artist and the founder of Sandstorm, Maniacarta is a creative talented artist who she has 20 years of experience with variety of CG production content from Concept Art, Character Design, Environment, Mecha, Game Arts, Manga, Anime, Real-time Cinematics and more. She immerses herself in anything that related from fantasy to real characters, she always focus on giving soul to her characters, her works and touch are unique. ​

Award Record

With this recognition, Mania Carta is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2022 - 2023 and the 2023 - 2024 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design Award

The A' Computer Graphics Design Award is an international competition recognizing good computer graphics designs by best computer graphics designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to computer graphics designers, 3D modellers, 3D artists and texturing artists from all countries. Typical entries include animations, simulations, game designs, virtual reality models, architectural renderings and infographics. The awarded computer graphics designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/computer-graphics

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Soya Lankastar Digital Art
Function
Digital Art
Category
Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design
Discipline
Communication Design
Industry
Entertainment and Arts
Colors
Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray and Rosy Brown
Images
5
Client
Sandstorm

The Recognition

Laureate
Mania Carta
Country
Japan
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2023 - 2024
Design ID
#161051

Credits

Image Credits
Soya lankastar the light witch of linerma By マニア カレタ (Mania Carta)

Design Details

Unique Properties
The design of soya reflects the style of the persian culture in a captivating dark design. A dark hood with crescent symbol for even more mystery design, the ornament necklace adds an additional touch to the witch. The ornament visual design was an inspiration from the window ornaments in the churches. the dragon biting her ears give her such fantasy dark mystery look character design. combining all those elements give to soya a unique visual dark fantasy witch character design style.
Inspiration
During her young age, maniacarta was always motivated by video games, during her career she gained many experiences and with the passion she have and imagination she decided to create her own story related to witches and darkness, the story can't not be spoiled so much 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.
Research
The research of soya character got inspired from oriental, persian and arabic style, but she wanted to create for her something unique and mysterious, so because her interest to fantasy witches and darkness, she went to look for persian ornaments elements then combined and mixed with many elements such as hood, necklace and the crescent in her hood. All other elements such as clothes design, hair style, and final visual was from her imaginations.
Challenge
The production of soya starts after the completion of the witch niferia, because luna was the main protagonist of her story she wanted to create her sister but more mysterious and beautiful that have strong personality. Her characteristic is calm witch but with her magic elements she is very powerful that can destroy anything in her way, and she have the power to summon a legion called tamitra the goddess of light.
Realization and Technology
Character production and all design was made in blender from modeling, texturing, rigging and final compositing.
Operation and Interaction
Soya is a witch that going to save linerma from the chaos that enix made.
Project Duration and Location
The project starts in tokyo after the completion of niferia the dark witch.
Specifications
Soya's artworks have different shots. The main artwork of soya is a portrait of size 2250X3000 pixel.
Keywords
Witches, gods, darkness, revenge, power, mystery, fantasy

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