Making this skin brought back fond memories of learning about the myth in Korean school as a child. Kang: Doing Korean Lunar New Year skins is always personal to me because I’m Korean myself. What about these skins is personal to you? Guo: The inspiration for Widowmaker’s skin comes from the Chinese folk tale “The Legend of the White Snake,” in which a white snake spirit takes on the form of a woman named Bai Suzhen. While the tiger gave up, the bear persevered and transformed into a human-hence the bear theme for Ashe and the tiger for B.O.B. Upon hearing their prayers, the gods gave them twenty cloves of garlic and mugwort, ordering them to eat nothing but these sacred goods and to remain out of the sunlight for 100 days. In the tale, a tiger and a bear prayed to the gods that they might become human. Kang: The inspiration for Ashe’s skin was Dangun, a Korean myth about a bear and a tiger. This skin was actually my very first legendary skin since joining the character concept team, and I received a lot of help from the team for both the aesthetic and the technical aspects of the design. When creating a new design, I like to explore using lots of different materials, textures, and surface finishes to give the design a sense of culture or history.
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Guo: I enjoy figuring out how to mesh the Overwatch heroes with compelling themes inspired by different cultures. This time I learned a lot about Korean mythologies and animals. I always enjoy the researching part of the process at the beginning for each skin. The audience only sees the final skin, but there are probably three or four different concepts within the same theme that didn't make it out.
Kang: For me, it’s the initial ideas and designs that we come up with before choosing the final theme. Is there a specific part of the creative process that you’re always super stoked to dig into whenever you get to create something new? Senior concept artist David Kang and concept artist Tim Guo discuss bringing this event’s Ashe and Widowmaker skins to life and what being able to create Lunar New Year designs means to them. on unsuspecting enemies as Tiger Huntress Ashe, and more. This year, beasts of legend have convened to ring in the Year of the Ox, granting players the ability to flit around the battlefield as Kkachi Echo, strike from the shadows as Pale Serpent Widowmaker, sic a beastly B.O.B. It’s also a chance for concept artists to tell stories through the skins they create, having designed skins in past years that represented characters from Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West, the Four Symbols, and the great lords of Luo Guanzhong’s famed Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Overwatch Lunar New Year is a grand celebration of culture and an event that’s dear to many team members. A skirmish has broken out on the battlefield of Lunar beasts-and you’re invited. A second before her lethal shot lands, an enormous robotic tiger steps in front of its mistress, shielding her from the sniper and allowing her a moment’s reprieve to step back and take deadly aim at the one who sought to do her harm. Swathed in shadow, a serpentine spirit tracks a target through the scope of her gun.
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