Paine (Agony)

The paine symbiote was really fun to create, mostly because we havent seen any symbites with hair in the film franchise until now. Whilst her appearance wasnt a secret as such, she was kept as a big reveal for the apsoutely end of the film, only appearing in the last few moments. There is a lot of debate online claiming she was the agony symbiote, i can certainly saw she was inspired by agony from the comics, who is also purple with hair, but in fact I believe with her electricity powers she was ment to be the "payback" symbiote, who has a similar power set. Certainly appearance wise, we based her on agony, which there was a huge debth of reference for. Paine is the more athletic of the female symbiotes, this was evident in her origional concept art which had a clear six pack on show, whilst we started with this direction, she slowly became a more curved feminie figure in line with the curve of her hair. The hair itself, was super challenging, we approached it as geometry rather than a hair sim, so each strand had to be sculpted, i opted to create this with tubes in zbrush as it gave me the most control, and once we had the basic shape down, i was able to combine the center structure and keep only some strands on the outside for decoration and detail.