Norse giants

Jotunn- Norse myth: a race of "frost giants" that inhabit the realm Jötunheimr. they frequently have interaction with the Aesir of Asgard, some bad and some good. they are the descendants of one of the first beings Ymir. they are all connected to and influence nature.

Myth-busting time! The relationship between the giants and the Norse gods was a complex one. In the Norse myths, giants usually appeared in oppositional relationship to the gods. At the same time, myths also showed them to be similar to the gods. “Giants” is the usual English translation of the Norse jötunn but it is misleading: size is not their defining characteristic. Although Ymir must have been huge for the gods to fashion the world from his body, most giants were like the gods. They...

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I had a blast working on this project. This is a game-ready asset inspired by a Forgotten realms character "Hekaton the ruler of storm giants" the design was inspired by the book cover art from "Storm King's Thunder" by Tyler Jacobson. I concepted the character further in Photoshop and ZBrush to get a detailed enough illustration to work from. My focus for this project was to push my quality in creating game-ready characters and particularly to do this successfully in Unreal Engine. To…

Frost giants, called isejotunen in their own language, were large giants that lived in caverns or castles in cold, mountainous environments. Almost always evil creatures, these giants stood 20' tall and weighed around 2800 lbs. They had white skin and either blue or dirty yellow hair. In combat, frost giants would hurl rocks and then close in with battleaxes. They were immune to cold, but particularly vulnerable to fire, and had low-light vision.

Original Comic Art titled Surt (Norse Myth), located in Israel 's (08) Norse Myths (clr) Comic Art Gallery (926202)

Giantess and draugr Norse giants

Skrymir is the tallest of the giants, and he is also the toughest and the smartest. Skrymir resides in the Jotumheim region of Utgard.

Concept art for KOA

the snow trolls, while they receive only one brief, oblique reference in all of tolkien's work (helm hammerhand, stalking out of the hornburg by night t... Snow Trolls