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Xabier Urrutia

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Link in the Forest Temple!
When entering the Forest Temple, Link is attacked by fierce Wolfos that protect it!
It took me waaaay longer than expected. I really wasn't sure if I would be able to pull this out, Link vs 2 Wolfos, 3 animated characters on a mostly improvised animation.
This was the longest and most challenging 2D animation I've ever done (I haven't done a lot of them to be honest😅)
This time I got Link to be left handed, and Navi is also there aiding our favourite hero.
Enjoy!!!
#thelegendofzelda #zelda #ocarinaoftime #bestgameever #sketch #digitaldrawing #mastersword #kokiritunic #navi #adventure #fakepencil #link #savinghyrule #forest #temple #2Danimation #dekunut #wolfos #fight #action #animation by @xabier.u

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8 years ago

Ma'khür Statue - SOUND ON-

The statue of Ma'khür is a small part of a bigger environmental project I started a couple of months ago to try to bring my hell project to Blender's Eevee renderer. The statue itself was taking long enough that I thought having a post about only the statue would give me the oportunity of practicing rendering and exporting workflow on Blender.
Better quality, description and explanations in Artstation post.
#Yöhni #hell #conceptart #scupt #render #blender #eevee #cinematic #film #statue #textures #classical taken in Spain , Madrid by @xabier.u

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6 years ago

Link in the Shadow Temple // Link vs Stalfos! Rough animation.

Link is wandering through the Shadow Temple's guillotine room when he encounters a deadly foe, the Stalfos!

A lot to comment on this one! This is from The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time. In this animation, the Hero of Time fights a Stalfos, this enemy will defend with a shield in an almost unpenetrable way, but speedruners say the Bigoron sword's thrust is very effective against them, that's why the final attack here is a thrust using Bigoron.
We also see the Hover Boots and the Longshot (used in a way I wish could be used in the game). Hover Boots not only allow Link to walk some steps through the air, but also make him slide on the floor as we see at the end.
Navi is missing, sorry, I forgot about her till the end, tried adding her but didn't like the result, it was too distracting.
I added some clips that I like, some slow motion clips, and some frames that I think are cool to see as stills.
I know lots of my followers came here because of the previous animations, I don't know if you'll like this one better but I just hope you enjoy it!
It was a lot of work and I've been wanting to get it done since last November.

I'm not planning on doing a clean version, just this rough idea.
The software I used was TVP.

Thanks to @julen.urrutia and @adri_uri for the feedback on this!

Please enjoy and share if you liked it! Happy day of the Dead!

#bestgameever #zelda #ocarinaoftime #sketch #mastersword #drawing #2Danimation #rough #thelegendofzelda #bigoronsword #hoverboots #longshot #shadowtemple #fight #stalfos #link #badass #hylianshield by @xabier.u

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7 years ago

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 by @xabier.u

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4 months ago

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 by @xabier.u

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4 months ago

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 by @xabier.u

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4 months ago

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 by @xabier.u

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4 months ago

🦀Hello!🦀

It’s been a while since our last post, but it’s finally time to bring this account back to life.

Crabhunters is a worldbuilding project with its own characters, stories, and internal logic, and we can’t wait to share all of it with you. But it’s also an art project, created by and for artists and anyone interested in the creative process. So before we start exploring the world itself, we wanted to show you some of the early concepts and experiments that helped shape it.

This post introduces our protagonists, the crabhunter brothers. You’ll get to know them much better as the project grows! Originally, we just wanted to design and model a character for our portfolio. Then we decided to make them siblings. Then hunters. And little by little, the world of Crabhunters started taking shape in our minds.

Here you’ll find some of the different character designs we explored, the specialized hunting suits they wear, and some of the very first sketches and head studies we made during development.

Follow us to stay up to date with the project — we’ll be sharing more of these early explorations soon!
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#crabhunters #julenurrutia #xabierurrutia #conceptart #worldbuilding by @xabier.u

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5 months ago

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 by @xabier.u

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a year ago

Kept you waiting huh? Sorry for those who waited too many months for the General Lore post!

Be warned, this is a bit of a dense post with a lot of lore exposition. I know, I am such a Zelda nerd, if you are too, then this lore post is for you!

I really like to put some thought and logic behind my projects and I have so many ideas that I try to fit in the puzzle that worldbuilding projects turn into. This post shows some of those ideas.

This is a bit of a mid game flashforward, a moment when Link enters the depths of Hyrule Castle after a certain incident... And he founds out about the origin and truth of his world.

He is though, destined to get more questions than answers in this place.

Anyway, I hope you like it, even if it is a bit of a denser post. Next up is Hylian Market, so we are back to early game story, that should be fun!

#spacezelda #thelegendofzelda #worldbuilding #2dart #Link by @xabier.u

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3 months ago

Hylian Fields!! Link and his neighbours are traveling to the market to sell some goodies and attend a parade organized by the King of Hyrule!

This post explains a few things about the fields and the planets' logic so I hope you will enjoy it!

As I mentioned I will be doing shorter posts like this.
I really hope you will enjoy the post and you will let your imagination play a bit of this fictional Zelda game.

We'll continue this little prologue to Link's adventure on next posts!

#zelda #thelegendofzelda #hyrule #hyrulefields #link #space #planets #environment #2ddrawing #noAI #zeldaspaceproject #videogames by @xabier.u

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a year ago

I always liked classic Zelda game beginnings where Link wakes up in his town, surrounded by his neighbours, oblivious to the fate that awaits him.

Zelda always has references to itself as a saga, and I put lots of references to other games in here, please let me know which you've found! Of course, since this is an ongoing concept art project, none of the concepts are set in stone, so some things might look a bit different on following posts.

Creating this town and its people proved to be way more work than I expected. I put lots of hours and care into this post and I hope you will enjoy it! However seeing the effort it took, expect other posts from this project to be shorter than this one.

I can't make a game for obvious reasons, and I don't know how much of this fiction I will end up exploring, but for now, let us indulge in the fantasy of a new space Zelda game!

#zelda #thelegendofzelda #town #link #space #conceptart #2ddrawing #noAI #space #zeldaspaceproject #videogames by @xabier.u

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