How It's Done – Sirocco

Sirocco is a powerful hot wind found across the Mediterranean region. Our Titan’s abilities are a perfect match for the name: it can hover above the ground using electromagnetic thrusters and unleash a sandstorm around itself, damaging all nearby enemies

We drew inspiration from this concept of an Arab warrior by He Xiaosong, including the blue color of the cloak. In many Middle Eastern cultures, blue is traditionally believed to ward off evil spirits

Knowing Yan-Di’s fondness for gold, we decided to make Sirocco as golden as possible. Pictured here are some of the most gold-adorned robots in the Yan-Di arsenal

Sketch phase

Final sketches

Modelling phase

Sirocco hovers above the desert landscape of the Dreadnought map

Activating its “sandstorm” ability. In reality, the storm is made not of sand, but of metallic shavings

And there's our magnificent Sirocco