Concept Design

A weapon skin design for the video game VALORANT (Riot Games). Officially named the Divine Swine. The goal was to design a weapon skin that was lighthearted and happy in an effort to appeal to “less serious” players.

The design for this weapon skin was a series of happy accidents. The original idea came from a misunderstanding to design a “pink” gun (see below). When I came back the next day with various “pig” gun sketches, the team had a good laugh and the idea was shelved until after the completion of the “pink” gun.

The original idea was to have the pig be shaped like an actual pig but in all my sketches I drew the pig an a circle (mainly as a placeholder) but the team liked the abstract pig so much we decided to keep it. The idea of the pig in the clouds was a result of fluffy clouds being a shape that matched the roundness of the pig. The thought of a pig in the clouds naturally led to the idea of flying pigs so I drew up a quick animation of how the pigs could fly and again the team was sold on the idea and made it happen.