Sonic Frontiers: Humanoid Asura

The game, Sonic Frontiers (2022), is © by SEGA Corporation.

When looking at the combat system for SEGA/Sonic Team's upcoming game, Sonic Frontiers, I noticed this 3-armed boss that appeared as part of the gameplay footage, Asura, body shape which looked sort of like a dress in my eyes. From there, I decided to have fun with the idea of recreating the boss as a humanoid.

The exploration sketches started off with a gesture study of Asura with the reference source as a guide. Afterwards, I experimented with ideas of a chibi-form that was going to be fully human, to a robotic child, to eventually the adult form I have now. I had to look at many different angles of the boss from the combat video to figure out the overall shape which helped to come to the decision of her final design.

The top was going to be formed like a crown until I did a study of the boss's top form and realized how the points needed to be aligned with where the arms are. So that's where the overall idea of "hat" came into play for the final version.