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La Triforza è uno dei simboli più iconici della storia dei videogiochi. Tutti sappiamo che i suoi tre frammenti rappresentano Potere, Saggezza e Coraggio, legati rispettivamente a Ganon, Zelda e Link, che vanno a creare uno dei simbolismi più ricorrenti dell’intera saga.

Ma questo simbolo, appartenente ad una delle serie più amate di casa Nintendo, affonda le sue origini molto più lontano di quanto si possa pensare.

Il suo design sembra infatti ispirarsi al Mitsuuroko, l’antico stemma del clan Hōjō: una potente famiglia di samurai nata nel XII secolo e associata alla leggenda delle tre squame lasciate da un drago.

E c’è un’altra curiosità: inizialmente Miyamoto, ideatore della saga, immaginava la Triforza come un insieme di chip elettronici, mentre Link avrebbe rappresentato il collegamento tra passato e futuro (da qui il suo nome).

Un’idea poi abbandonata, ma che ha lasciato qualche traccia nei giochi successivi.

La splendida illustrazione di Majora’s Mask appartiene a @alexandertripood mentre l’animazione finale a @xabier.u

#link #zelda #thelegendofzelda #triforza #nintendo

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Hello!🦀🦀

Over the past four months, we have devoted our free time to creating this short introductory piece to the world of Crabhunters.

With this animation, we wanted to show a side of the Crabhunters world that we had not revealed before. It is a more serious side, where superstition, religion, politics, and power intertwine. The story of Crabhunters is not only the story of two brothers who hunt giant crabs, but also the story of the world that surrounds them, a world currently undergoing the greatest revolution in living memory.

This one-minute animation is filled with details and symbolism that we will gradually explain over time as we revisit it, allowing you to discover new layers of meaning.

Hopefully, seeing the brothers at the end of the short brought you some relief, comfort, or even a small smile. We would love that, because it would mean that you are beginning to feel a certain familiarity with them.

Although small in size, this has been a challenging project.

To make it happen, we had to average roughly two shots per week, animate in a style where digital shortcuts often worked against us, and constantly keep the scope grounded in what two people could realistically achieve.

We had to compose our own music too, which, if you check the first crabhunters post, you might notice it's a version of the same leitmotif.

Everything you see in this video is still a first pass. Crabhunters is a living project, and many of these designs, ideas, and locations will continue to evolve as the world grows alongside us.

Even so, we're incredibly proud that we were able to create this. At a time when AI-generated content is becoming more and more common, we chose to embrace a slower process, one built on patience, consistency, and countless hours stolen from evenings, weekends, and spare moments throughout already busy days.

It's not a perfect project, but it's ours, and it makes us so happy to share it with you.

Now it's time for the algorithm to decide its luck online, but if you do watch it, please let us know what you think, what you liked best or if you have any theories!

#crabhunters #2dart #cinematic #animation

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Hi all! 🦀🦀
Today we’re sharing a collection of sketches, some old, some new, that helped shape the mood and atmosphere of the world of Crabhunters.

These shots don't tell a partícular story, although grouped as they are it might seem like they do 😂

We've already mentioned that Crabhunters is both a 2D and 3D project, and each medium has its own distinct visual identity. We want the 3D to feel tangible and realistic, so we saw this as an opportunity to do something different in 2D. We quickly realized that with this watercolor-inspired style, we couldn't rely on the usual digital tricks to create contrast, lighting, and shadows. So, as you'll see, we began experimenting with the use of color itself to generate those contrasts.

We hope these images spark your imagination and reveal a little more about the world our hunter brothers call home.

We also want to take this chance to announce that we'll be going to Annecy from 23th to 27th, so don't hessitate to come and say hi!

And finally, we have a release date for the little something we've been working on lately: we'll be releasing it next week, on June 18th!
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#crabhunters #cinematic #2dart #conceptart #worldbuilding

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Hey everyone! 🦀🦀

By sharing these posts, we also want to show what our worldbuilding process looks like.

Leather bags might not be as epic as giant crabs or biomechanical vehicles, but they are a perfect exercise for developing the world and visual style of the project.

As a worldbuilding and concept art exercise, we tried to simplify the core identity of the project down to a single theme: CRABS. So what do things look like when everything revolves around crabs?

Small items like these bring worlds to life, and we would encourage everyone to try designing similar things.

Craftsmanship is at the core of our project, so we had a lot of fun designing these, and we learned so much about the world we're creating.

We hope you like them and have fun spotting the different crab-inspired details! You'll notice that some of them don't have obvious crab elements, we'll talk about what they represent in future post.

If anyone here works with leather and creates something based on any of these designs, please share it with us, we'd love to see it!
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#crabhunters #conceptart #2dart #worldbuilding #bags

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Hey 🦀🦀!

We've got another small project update to share with you. This time, we're taking a look back at some of the very first concepts we created for the world of Crabhunters.

As you've probably gathered from the glimpses we've shared so far, some of the people of these lands seem to make a living hunting gigantic flying crabs. To help them in this dangerous pursuit, they craft all kinds of peculiar vehicles using parts harvested from their catches.

We'll be diving deeper into how these flying bikes work and where our fellow hunter brothers fit into the picture in a future update. For now, we wanted to share these fun early explorations, some of which you may have spotted briefly in last year's video.

We hope you enjoy them, and we'd love to hear which design is your favorite!
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#crabhunters #conceptart #2dart #vehicles #motorbikes

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Larunbatean Bideojoko Sortzaileen Euskarazko 1.go topaketa antolatu genuen Bergaran @gamerauntsia ri esker.

Perfil oso desberdineko adituak elkartu ginen: concept artistak, komikilariak, musikagileak, programatzaileak, bakarkako sortzaileak eta itzultzaileak Euskal Herriko bazter guztietatik.

Zelako esperientzia polita! Mila esker hurbildu zineten guztioi! Pozgarria izan zen aurpegi zahar zein berriak ikustea.

#bideojokoak #euskara #bergara

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This is an introductory video to our latest project, CRABHUNTERS. Let yourself be immersed in this new world, its lore and secrets, following the life and adventures of two crabhunter brothers.

@crabhunters.project is an account we created to keep all the work about the project in one place. As the project progresses you can expect this page to be home for many 2d and 3d concept art, information about this new world and a chance to see how we develop a project.

Our first goal with Crabhunters is to create an animated short film and we want to share the process of this creation with you. If it will grow to become something bigger or not, only time will tell, but let's enjoy the ride together!
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#crabhunters #crab #hunter #2d #2dart #3d #3dart #art #animation #character #desert #sky #zbrush #aftereffects #procreate #photoshop #cinematic #brothers #bro #airplane #worldbuilding #conceptart

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Speed sculpting 17 blockouts in 3 days while listening to Steve‘s Lava Chicken on repeat was an experience unlike any other… Made with @nomadsculpt for iPad. Polygroup screenshots from Zbrush. @howest_dae

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I've saw the amazing @xabier.u posting his Zelda project and I LOVE IT! So, here's a fanart of our hero, Link, in his idea <3
#xabierurrutia#nintendo #tloz #zeldanintendo #nintendozelda #nintendofans #tlozfanart #thelegendofzelda #nintendofanart #zeldafanart

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Link vs Stalfos - Incredible animation by: @xabier.u
Sound design by me.

So I decided to make a step into sound design and I started puting some sfx to this awesome animated clip of the legend of zelda.

#animation #zelda #thelegendofzelda #game #sound #art #cinematic #sounddesign #videogames #memes #nintendo

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