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Mania Carta Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Niferia Digital Art in Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design
Mania Carta honored for computer graphics, 3D modeling, texturing, and rendering design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Niferia Digital Art by Mania Carta, designed for Sandstorm, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design category. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 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 assessed 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.
About Niferia Digital Art
The research of this Dark Witch character started by looking into the Korean culture once more, but this time designer wanted to create something realistic, Asian with better character appeal and strong feelings and wanted to make her dark, mysterious in real-time, and realistic. The project starts in the heart of Tokyo in January 2022 and it's updated every two months with new character designs and story reveals.
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
This recognition makes Mania Carta a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2022 - 2023 to 2023 - 2024 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. The competition 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. Entries typically include animations, simulations, game designs, virtual reality models, architectural renderings and infographics. Awarded computer graphics designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/computer-graphics
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/152541
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/152541
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!152541
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/337202
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.sandstormstudio.com
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Niferia 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, Saddle Brown and Dark Slate Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Sandstorm
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mania Carta
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #152541
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Niferia a blind dark witch, was raised from death by the god of chaos Enix the most powerful of all gods, as for her mission she need to bring back Justine Velmont the god of darkness who was destroyed by the Angel of lights 6000 years ago. If Velmont will rise the world of Linerma will be destroyed, but there is only one person who can stop her...
- Inspiration
- The research of this Dark Witch character started by looking into the Korean culture once more, but this time I wanted to create something realistic, Asian with better character appeal and strong feelings and I wanted to make her dark, mysterious in real-time, and realistic.
- Research
- The research of this Dark Witch character started after completed Luna Lankastar and from there i wanted to develop more my skills and make something more appealing in character design as also clothes production, rigging and visual cinematics and for that I started to develop more my skills in Blender and learn many techniques and tools to create my own workflow that I could use it for others characters and because of that I start to see what things I am missing in my work and skills that I could developed further more and this where the idea came to create a realistic character design fantasy production with a new style and visual design as also to have a strong impact as final product and...
- Challenge
- When I start developing Niferia, it was very challenging at first to get the final visual I was looking for, I was focusing in my mind that I want to see a person and not only a CG character model, and the second challenge I wanted her to have an Asian look but very dark. The Challenge I was facing was two main key points, the first one I was aiming to create real-time characters with high-quality texturing, and for that, I start to develop myself on how to use nodes and shaders in Blender once I understand the basics and logic of it then I start to take that knowledge I gain to a high new level, it was challenging and fun at the same time because I know with all the headaches and...
- Realization and Technology
- Character production and all design were made in Blender, Zbrush, Marvelous Designer, and Substance Painter, but mostly each character production from modeling, texturing, shading, rigging, lighting, and cinematic using Blender only.
- Operation and Interaction
- Niferia is a dark witch that was locked by Visatra the goddess of light, with the help of Enix, Niferia was resurrected so she can rise Velmont the God of Darkness.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project starts in the heart of Tokyo in January 2022 and it's updated every two months with new character designs and story reveals.
- Specifications
- They are many sizes for the artwork as also different cinematic shots. The main Artwork of Niferia is a portrait of size 2250X3000 pixel
- Keywords
- Witches,gods,darkness,revenge,power,fantasy
