Bringing My Character to Life: Yun the Waterbender (Original ATLA Character)
This has been almost 12 years in the making. Back and forth.
I decided to redo my Avatar OC's recently this year and the story as well. This one is my personal favorite among them.
Her name was Yuan, because I wanted something to sound like "Dua" which means 'two' in my language but Yuan is a silly name since it's a currency. So now I just changed it to Yun.
Backstory:
Yun was born to parents of different lineages: her mother was of Fire Nation citizenship and her father was a waterbender from the Southern Tribe. She is estranged from both of them and lived a troubled life from childhood to adulthood. As she currently tries to find peace within herself in an isolated place, she is suddenly roped into a circumstance which causes her to meet others and tasked to do an important job.
Old concept of Yun. She used to be called Yuan and had a more Azula look to her.
Revised concept. I decided to incorporate my own culture with the hijab/hoodie look and even the mixed race.
Full body design of Yun in the Avatar style
Action animation of my character.
Introduction animation to the character. Voiceover by me.