We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Mania Carta about their original and creative Digital Art design work. Mania Carta is an award-winning communication designer, that makes our world a better place with their original digital art works.
Mania Carta ("MC") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Soya Lankastar Digital Art. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
MC : I was always fascinated by witches and fantasy this is where it really soya came to be. at first, I wanted to create a beautiful digital human Korean girl but then my imagination starts to take me somewhere else once I started to see Soya From there I start to think about how I can give a beautiful dark touch and make her unique from there I start to get inspiration from witches and mystery fantasy characters to create her to a new level of creativity. The way made soya is like using Lego, it was for me like a puzzle to achieve what I want at the end from there I start to think about creating different lighting scenario and cinematic shots to give the final visual and representation of her characteristic as a light witch.
MC : Every character I develop, I use blender as my main production workflow this time I wanted to achieve something dark, beauty deep mysterious, I achieved what I want but still as an artist I always like to find new challenges to bring something new to the World and this is really my true passion.
MC : To complete my story the Witches of Linerma and reveal the true identity of this Witch why her name is Luna where she came from and what's the reason that she is the main protagonist of the story to save Linerma from the Darkness that the God of chaos Enix created.
MC : It took me 1 month to make Soya from modeling, and texturing to rigging and final lighting and compositing
MC : I wanted to create something new and unique but also that have mystery, dark and beautiful.
MC : No, it wasn't but I received many requests and offers from different big companies and studios from China, Korea, France, Singapore, Japan such as Netease, Square Enix, Colosso, Yihuu to sell my design and explain the process of how it was made and lease the production rights, but I rejected them all and I have no plan to sell any of my characters to any platform.
MC : I wanted to create a dark beauty even and with the technology we have in our hand I am going to bring Soya this time to something new.
MC : It was only me and every character I have created there is no one involved.
MC : I didn't target anyone it was my personal project, but I was focusing on bringing a new image and unique style to sandstorm the company I created and my design Soya with other creative styles helped me achieve that.
MC : Soya is a mysterious dark light witch and sister of Luna Lankaster that it's very hard to reproduce this is why every day I receive emails from different places in the world asking for tutorials or selling in it.
MC : Luna it's coming from the name Moon and her earring, and her necklace is a moon this is why her name is Luna.
MC : I use mostly Blender when making Luna but also, I used Marvelous Designer for making her clothes and Zbrush for sculpting details such as her crescent and then knald for baking the high details.
MC : No, I didn't collaborate with anyone, I made Luna by self at home using my personal computer.
MC : Technology was an important role for me, by learning Blender and developing my own skills and techniques on it help me imagine and create what I want to achieve as the final product.
MC : No, it wasn't the only thing that was influenced was Luna necklaces beside that everything was created from my imaginations.
MC : The challenge I faced during the production of Luna was her characteristic and personality, at first, I was focusing on creating a beautiful Korean girl in CG but then slowly started to see something out of what I wanted to make then once it appeared I start to focus on her slowly until I created her how I wanted to see her.
MC : To be honest I never thought of that until someone from your staff contacted me to participate in the competition, at first I was hesitating because I was busy but also it was my first experience participating in an international design competition then I decided to free my time and focus on the competition for me it was a great experience and I will participate again in the future.
MC : After I created Luna The Night Witch and win the heart of people around the world and receiving different awards in different platforms and got featured which I never tought of it, because of that it gave me a strong motivation to start to developing my self more and create more characters for my fantasy dark story.
MC : I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to express myself and sharing my experience and the challenges I faces during the making of Soya Lankastar. I also would like to thank you for the silver award I win which now gives me more motivation and challenge to bring something to a new high level of creativity to the World.
