original concept by Marion Bordeyne

thank you! :)

I love all the girlies in the series, Mariko is one of my favorites she is super sweet by nature but ofc has issues of her own and when all hit at the same time, she breaks down for a while but gets to mature and eventually recover.

Mariko is quite a complex character, I adore her!

I really loved this game!! 🥹💖

Based on this doodle I found.
Sculpt took around 2.5 hours and I used it to test toon shaders with arnold to make the outline and half-tone effect 😊

Love the highlights on the eyelids! ❤️

I want to finish this sculpt and do a proper render but the file will probably stay stuck in my iPad for a while since it's not compatible with the zbrush version on my PC 😅

I was working mostly from screencaps and the cropped version of this image.
Found the full pic when I was already in preparation for rendering, so I couldn't make the full pose haha 🥲

It's a design very outside of my comfort zone, I couldn't find many references online but I have Nobuteru Yuki's art book and worked from there 💖
I'm quite happy with the results 💪
I want to do a facial rig and add the coat sometime~

Escaflowne mentioned!! 🗣💞

That's all, thank you 😇

Second outfit