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Luna Lankastar The Night Witch by Mania Carta Receives the Golden A' Design Award in Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design
Mania Carta recognized for computer graphics, 3D modeling, texturing, and rendering design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Luna Lankastar The Night Witch by Mania Carta, designed for Sandstorm, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design category. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More 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.
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 1 A' Design Award.
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://dezigners.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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/148798
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/148798
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!148798
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/337202
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JeVAxD
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Luna Lankastar The Night Witch
- Function
- The Night Witch
- Category
- Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Entertainment and Arts
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray, Sienna and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Sandstorm
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mania Carta
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #148798
Credits
- Image Credits
- Luna Lankastar the Night Witch of Linerma By マニア カレタ (Mania Carta)
Design Details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Realization and 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.
- Operation and Interaction
- Luna is a mysterious witch and has a deep secret hiding inside of her only one person knows that.
- Project Duration and Location
- 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.
- Specifications
- They are many sizes for the artworks as also different cinematic shots. The main Artwork of Luna is a portrait of size 2250X3000 pixel
- Keywords
- Witches,gods,darkness,revenge,power,fantasy
