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Former CD Projekt RED artist Delara Ozden shares stunning artwork showcasing the Witcher 4 series.
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The illustration, with Ciri wielding an unusual chain weapon, received widespread acclaim from The Witcher fandom.
A former CD Projekt Red artist has shared some beautiful artwork The Witcher 4Ciri wields new and unusual weapons. His illustration later went viral on social media, impressing many Witcher fans.
In the fourth main line entry Witcher The series has been in the works since at least early 2022, when CDPR first confirmed its existence. Two and a half years later, the developer premiered the game's cinematic reveal trailer at The Game Awards 2024 in December. The six-minute video confirmed the RPG's protagonist as an old Siri, who appears to have passed the Witcher Trials and is now a full-time monster hunter around the time the events of the game take place.
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Three days after the trailer premiered, former CDPR artist Delara Ozden shared stunning artwork showcasing an older version of Siri. The Witcher 4A cinematic revelation of. Her character presentation shows Siri in front of a full moon, standing over some dying demons. While the four fangs on the limbs in the foreground are typically associated with elghouls, the slenderness of the limbs suggests a different type of necrophage (corpse eaters in franchise lore) — ghouls.
Ciri uses an unusual chain weapon in Dilara Özden's new artwork
First The Witcher 4 The trailer showed Ciri wielding Jirel, a silver sword gifted to her by Geralt. But Ozden opted for something more daring in her artwork, depicting Siri as an unusual weapon that's basically a long chain with a blade on at least one end of it. This weapon may have been inspired by the Surujin (or Suruchin), a traditional weapon of Okinawan Kobudo, a weapon system used in Okinawan martial arts. Not all types of surujin have blades, but those that do usually have one edge, while others have blunt objects. Ozden's artwork shows only one side of Siri's chain weapon. The wizard himself is depicted in the trailer as under the influence of a potion he drinks before fighting Bauk, as evidenced by the dark circles around his eyes.
The original tweet sharing this stunning illustration amassed 302,000 views, 21,000 likes, and 2,600 retweets within six days of going live. The artwork has since been gaining traction on other social media platforms as well. Dozens Witcher Fans praised Ozden for his work, with some expressing disappointment that he would not be involved in the upcoming game. For context, Painter left CDPR in 2023 and is currently working at Ghost Story Games, developing Ken Levine's new studio. bioshockLike a first person shooter Judah.
for the The Witcher 4CDPR still hasn't committed to a concrete release window for the game. The studio had previously confirmed this The Witcher 4 That's its main focus right now, which means it will definitely hit the market sooner Cyberpunk 2077 sequel-code-name Project Orion– does. AAA game development cycles are at least five years long these days, new Witcher The entry is unlikely to debut before 2027.
The Witcher IV
The Witcher IV is a Single-player, Open-world RPG from CD PROJEKT RED. At the start of the new saga, players take on the role of Siri, a professional monster slayer, and embark on a journey through a brutal dark-fantasy world. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it aims to be the most immersive and ambitious open-world Witcher game to date.
