Basia Ulczok

Below you’ll find a selection of my favourite character designs I created for various projects over the years.

I had the opportunity to work on The Multiversity, an education-themed metaverse experience set on a campus for anthropomorphic animals in outer space. Players take on the role of a student, solving riddles and puzzles while learning about the real world along the way.

Orchid was a particularly fun character to design. The goal was to give her a strong scholarly presence, reinforced through her mechanical limb augmentations. The glasses were a late addition to the design, but they quickly became an essential part of her character.

One of my favourite NPCs I’ve ever designed is a cuckoo that emerges from the Astronomical Clock once a day at noon, tips its hat to anyone watching, and disappears back into its clock lair for the rest of the day.

For an NDA project, I explored early character interpretations of Baba Jaga, drawing from various sources in Slavic folklore. Starting with a more traditional village sage, I experimented with versions such as a winter witch, a shapeshifting monster, a swamp-dwelling creature, and a pure chaos, goblin-like witch.

As part of the worldbuilding for Dragon Egg Farm (unreleased), I designed the main character as a player avatar I could relate to: someone starting from scratch, exploring the world, and building something of her own.