Anubis is the Greek name of a god commonly depicted as a man with a dog canine head.
Game designer and cosplayer Martina Hugentober loves to create games and low poly costumes. Recently, her Anubis costume receive a lot of attention, getting more than 10k likes on Instagram and her cosplay transformation video got over 72k views.
Hugentober told Bored Panda that she fell in love with the character design when she found it online and asked the original designer Hui Zou and maker by R-one studio, if she could make a lowpoly version of the character. “Lowpoly means I want the costume to look digital and artificial instead of realistic, like an early stylized 3D computer graphic come to life. So I started making my own templates in Blender, a 3D software.”
This is just the third costume that Hugentober created and it already looked like as if it was done by an expert. “I don’t consider myself a master at costume making. I still have a ton to learn. Love doing it though,” she shared.
The Swiss designer spent around 1000 hours to complete the costume and all the materials were sourced from a local hardware store.
“I built the costume with PVC which is rigid, so I had to figure out how to be able to move at all, how I can get in and out of the armor on my own, and how to make the pieces detachable for transport because they’re huge – the scythe in particular,” Hugentober explained. “The blue piece on the throat is see-through reflective vinyl. It’s like looking through sunglasses.”
Hugentober won second place at the international cosplay contest organized by Fantasy Basel Comic-Con in Switzerland. Many people were impressed with her costume and asked if it will be available for sale, however, Hugentober has no intention of selling her art piece.
