Nocturne of Olympus - Lamia Boss Fight

I'm continuing to explore the world of Battle of Olympus and when I finished the Attica stage I thought would have been fun to see if I could explore the boss of that stage as well: Lamia.
In the original game was a very tough first boss, timing with jump and the arrows were really tight to kill her.
I wanted to capture the same sensation of a difficult boss but tried to construct a backstory that would have driven my design.
I wanted to have her (like all the other bosses that I will, in time do) as a tragic character that was unfairly transformed into a monster, and because of that her seek for revenge completely consumed her, to the point that without her rage she cannot live by, even wrapping her shed skin around her tail to symbolize the fear of letting a part of herself go.
The task, fun in the beginning transformed rapidly into a behemoth of a project because I had to learn how to rig, weight paint and animate in blender, a simple animation, nothing complex, witch was frustrating for multiple issues.
Somehow, after a lot of trials and errors I was able to import the model in Unreal where I assembled a quick environment using the assets of the previous stage.
then the hairs.
another huge challenge as well, done with a combination of alpha cards and the blender particle system (tried the 3.5 geometry node hairs as well but couldn't figure it out a proper way to import them in Unreal)
Since I'm not a Character artist this was a very difficult challenge, thou I learned a lot different skills that I myself wouldn't even touch or think to dive deep.
In the end I enjoyed the creative process to visualize how the game could be looking nowdays that I did also a mokeup of the "in game graphics". for that I had to model all the armor and cloths of the main character as well. I just started from a general basebody and work around it. his hairs....well...at that point I just said "whatever, I'll paint them in Photoshop" :D
Slowly I'll cover the whole game, in the meanwhile hope you like it :D