Terraria Boss Empress of Light

Terraria's infamous rouges gallery of pixelated, Lovecratian horrors get the extra-dimension treatment as they are brought to life in low-poly glory.

The interesting thing about this whole project is, as you progress through the bosses, the challenge of depicting them increases, as they become more elaborate as the developers of Terraria themselves seem to get more ambitious. With the Empress of Light (as well as the Cultist), there is a deceptively large amount of behavioural variety. I opted for the simple pinwheel attack, some small particle "bullet-hell" emission, and the after-image barrel-rolling she does which I composited in post-production.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5z-e6uQ0qg
Full post: https://polysthetic.com/terraria-bosses-modelled-in-3d/