The Cat Sidhe is a mythical witch said to be able to turn into a cat and steal people’s souls. In a future filled with tech, what’s closest to a soul than a persons lifetime of information? The cat sidhe now uses a cybernetic cat with a hard-light hologram to stealthily hack into people’s digital lives and steal whatever she can sell using the hacking device built into her arm. She keeps her cat close when not in use, wrapped around her arm, as if it were a part of her.
Inspired by cyberpunk and the aesthetics of Borderlands, I created the Cat Sidhe using ZBrush, Maya, Marvelous Designer, Marmoset Toolbag 5, and Photoshop.
Work in Progress Thread here: Myths Reimagined - Cat Sidhe
The character mesh - including outline - has 113,404 triangles
The cat mesh (cat and skeleton) - including outline - has 30,468 triangles
The background elements have 186 triangles
There are a total of 7 2k texture sets using Albedo with Opacity packed into the alpha channel, packed ORM, Normal, and some maps (Cat, Datapad and Hair) have Emissive textures.
The Cat Sidhe uses a modified duplicated mesh which is slightly inflated with reversed normals to create the black comic book style outline.
Sculpted in ZBrush
Retopoed and rigged/posed in Maya 2025
Textured and rendered in Marmoset Toolbag 5
Additional shots
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