Star magic

Done together with my awesome friends of Rift Artisans. This project has been under work for almost a year now! I had the fun chance to work on both the concept art and the splash for this project; I learned a lot! We started work on this before the official Star Guardian Syndra was announced so the leaks set us on quite the emotional rollercoaster. Our version is a bit darker than the official one, as her backstory mirrors base Syndra's somewhat. Anyway, this was a lot of fun to work on…

Original thread: https://twitter.com/cmzw_/status/1514502702675677185 . Shader-based meteor VFX made for https://artstation.com/halisavakis 's tech art challenge which is regularly held on their discord. . inspired by aazusaa2's work: https://twitter.com/aazusaa2/status/1511022274056364035 . Geometry nodes is used but only for mesh placement/modeling and assigning materials. No image textures were used, rendered in eevee.

My aasimar circle of stars druid, Hal Astra, starry archer form :)

This is the portrait of Varda, also known as Elbereth Gilthoniel without showing her face, but rather her essence. She is a Valië, one of the fourteen Valar and their seven females. Read more about this image here: https://elaininet.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/hand-of-varda/