Alysianne Bui d'Armagnac, widely known as Alyzian, is a French Concept and UI Artist who has been working for DONTNOD since the beginning of the production of Life is Strange. She then worked on DONTNOD's next game Vampyr, which was released in June 2018 designing some of its UI elements such as its icons and the base of each UI screen before these were finalized by fellow UI artist, Estelle Leydier. After finishing work on Life is Strange 2, she left DONTNOD to become a tattoo artist.
Life and Career[]
Alyzian's parents were both artists, which influenced her becoming an artist herself. She started drawing around the age of 10.
Some of Alyzian's illustrations for Life is Strange were drawn by hand; others were scanned and worked on digitally. She started with traditional pencil drawings before going all digital from Episode 2.
Alyzian illustrated Max's journal (alongside Alexis Bauzet) and created all of the paintings in the art gallery (apart from the Hawt Dawg Man painting), and created a few posters now and again.
Some time after the release of Life is Strange 2, she left DONTNOD to become a professional tattoo artist.
Concept Art[]
Life is Strange 2[]
As well as her usual duties as a Concept Artist for DONTNOD's Life is Strange series, Alyzian created the storyboard, painting, VFX, and montage for the wolf brothers' story that serves as the intro to the second episode.
She also drew all the drawings made interactively by Sean in his diary in Life is Strange 2.[1]
Trivia[]
- Her artist's name "Alyzian" is an Americanized form of her first name, Alysianne.
- Alyzian was wrongly credited in the Limited Edition artbook featuring her art. Her last name was written with "y" instead of "i" ("Buy").
- Some of the coffee/cocoa stains in Max's journal were digitally scanned cocoa stains from her own desk spillages.
- Alyzian gathered inspirational ideas for Max's journal on a Pinterest board she created.
Interviews[]
- Blackwell Podcast Episode 37 - Alyzian (March 3, 2017)