Queen Jarrah

Queen Jarrah, the second main antagonist in the film, Kulipari: An Army of Frogs. Queen of the spiders, she wants the one that raised the veil protecting the Amphibilands, King Sergu, dead. She forms a tenuous aliance with Lord Marmoo to get this done. I was the Lead Character Artist on the film, as well as the Production Designer, maintaining the art style across all departments. I modeled her, her armor, and textured her from start to finish. We had many designs from sculpts to concept art before finally settling on this version. I wanted more than just a human torso on a spider body, something just alien enough in look, that kept the multiple eyes spiders have and things like the ridges on the nose form the show. Her armor is very gothic and alien in nature. Blackened iron and red, hardened crystal and bronze accents. Her helmet helps her to focus her power. More for show than for actual battle protection, the armor is nevertheless trying to keep a logic to it that should protect her more vulnerable spots (those parts of her that are skin and flesh, not covered by carapace). Rendered using Arnold in Maya, before we made the move to use the Unreal Engine. Hair made using a combination of Fibermesh in ZBrush and Xgen in Maya. Jarrah is based on the Australian equivalent of a Black Widow Spider: a Redback Spider.