SCVI Character Creation Compeition Winners

April 9, 2020

Thank you very much for the many entries to the 2nd SOULCALIBUR Ⅵ Character Creation Competition. With over 6,000 entrants, we’ve selected four winners!

 

Matthew Connolly@Mattb3rt
Award-winning work:

Mattb3rt

【From the art director】
I think this character is very cool and original. Japanese and Western parts are finely coordinated, and the character has an air of Orientalism about her, like legendary divine bird Garuda from Hindu mythology. Her color scheme is also vivid and gives a striking impression at first glance, and I found that the balance of her overall look, such as her outline when holding the weapon, was distinctive and wonderful.

【From the creation planner】
Seeing this character made me somehow imagine a grand story of a statue of a hero built thousands of years ago having a soul and starting to move. Stickers on her chest and shoulders especially enhance her Colossus tribe-based magnificent image, and gives her “out of ordinary” look, which I found really brilliant!

 

Akaaka@akaaka_2588X
Award-winning work:

akaaka_2588X

Title: “Fenrir the God-eating devil wolf”
 

【From the art director】
All of Akaaka’s works are highly detailed and visually stunning. One work that attracted me most was “Fenrir the God-eating devil wolf”. The way each part is organized is very elaborate, and while the character has rich visual quality thanks to the skillful use of patterns and stickers, she is neatly styled with monotone color scheme. All the thumbnails and the screenshots submitted to us were highly artistic and looked great, and they also showed how Akaaka has a strong affection for each creation characters. 

【From the creation planner】
Akaaka is awarded consecutively after winning the first creation competition!
Akaaka’s character is so high in quality that at the first glance I just thought, “great!”. I felt that the character looked so incredibly strong and terrifying that I would hesitate to go near her if she exists in real life.
I believe that the skillful use of the destroyed costume gives her a sort of look that make people to imagine that she has been through so many battles. I also believe that the fact that a shackle is buried into her body make her seem that she is a character elevated to a higher existence. I was especially impressed that “Enlightened One’s Halo” was used to express the shackle.

 

Nobu @ Cat Lover@nob_matrix
Award-winning work:

nob_matrix

Title: "Rostia the princess of snowfield"
 

【From the art director】
All of Nobu @ Cat Lover's works had a straight-forward theme, and they all were cool and beautiful in classy way. I was greatly impressed with "Rostia the princess of snowfield" because her character concept of beautiful and strong princess is finely expressed with lively configuration of parts and bold placement of stickers.

【From the creation planner】
We narrowed down the potential winners to 137 characters through the initial screening, and many of Nobu @ Cat Lover’s characters made it through the screening. I was impressed with how reliably high the quality of those characters were. Especially, "Rostia the princess of snowfield" was exactly how a classic princess should look like, and I was drawn by her smile.
The winter color scheme is very beautiful, and the stickers on the chest and the skirt are well coordinated. The color and the coordination made me imagine a pattern used in the snowy countries. Also on closer look, there are glittering patterns on her clothes. Seeing her costume that resembles snow crystal, I could not help but amazed with minute attention to details!

In addition to the above three awards, we would like to add a “Masuteru Award” from the director of SOULCALIBUR VI, Yoshinori Takahashi!

 

Minomushi@minomusidesu
Award-winning work:

minomusidesu

Title: Villaintula
 
Original work when entering the contest was this tweet.
After contacting Minomushi as winner, he has asked us to publish 
his work with his reworked version.

【From the director】
What I found this character so brilliant was the elements of transformation gimmick that appeal to “a boy” inside you, and eccentrically creative use of special animation! 
Minomushi created a lot of stunning characters the look great with Voldo’s special stance “Mantis Crawl” for the first competition. However, this time Minomushi’s creation skills evolved further – Minomushi submitted to us the characters that look great with both “when standing normally” and “when taking Mantis Crawl pose”. I bet the opponent will be amazed and impressed at the same time when Villaintula takes “Mantis Crawl” pose during a match! 
"SOULCALIBUR" is a series that has been produced with a lot of attention to animation during battles, so I am very happy as a developer to see a design that especially look stunning during a match. For this reason, we would like to honor this character with “Special Director Award” this time.
 One of the good points about Minomushi’s creations is that those creations make us realize that we can take this direction with the character creation in this way. So please keep creating more characters with your wonderful ideas by all means!

 

The above four people were selected for the 2nd Character Creation Contest "Creation Master".

The Twitter name will be added to the in-game credits as we will add it in a patch update as soon as it is ready.

All of the entries surpassed the quality of the first contest, making the selection of this year's contest very difficult.

We will continue to add more creation parts to SOULCALIBUR Ⅵ, so we hope you will continue to create your own creative works!
 

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