#Vis dev: Sam Drummond

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Thanks to the now defunct Trollhunters fanpage, Аркадия-ТВ, some more of Sam Drummond's artwork has been recovered! Discord still has the cache description from the original artstation post which is as follows:

The odds of getting everything that was originally posted is extremely slim but now can safely say we managed to get a few more from the void :)

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Akiridion Armour Design Path

Tumblr please stop glitching and let me upload images.

As promised, Jim's Akirdion armour from Rise of the Titans! These were created by Sam Drummond who at some unknown point in time removed all his RotT artwork from his artstation account along with other works. Because that is a situation that has never happened even with the website choosing AI over artists (Artists simply replaced thumbnails and left their work for the most part) these were presumed "safe" which turned out not to be the case.

While much was lost, Fisorion of reddit happened to reupload these there 2 years ago meaning they have been preserved. They've been saved off as well with the hopes that maybe they'll be reuploaded some day.

Starting off some concepts for the design:

Then refinement work including a progressing from the concept, to 2 to 3 which would be stuck to:

And finally some funky callouts with texture reference!

The concepts for the new Amulet were also saved!

And for your reference needs, callouts and from different angles too.

Nobody else mass nuke their art for a while stressed enough as it is with websites collapsing and taking things with it.

[/Edit 13/02/2025] As this is being converted to a proper design thread, more things have been added!

We also happen to have the concepts and finalised version of the box the new Amulet came in curtsey of Sean Wang. In addition, it has the flat colours of said Amulet at two different angles should you need it as well. Plus a vibing Daylight Jim, can't go wrong with that.

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There is in fact one other reference for the Akiridion armour that may be of benefit to someone. These are by their modeller for the blown apart sequence, in both wireframe and finalised, Monica Stefanelli!

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And all results in this fancy look: