Hey  everyone! 👋🏾 I’m Shanice, one of the Cantina Ambassadors, and since we’re in the final stretch of the Contra x Cantina Creator Challenge, I wanted to share a bit of my work for inspiration.

Everyone meet Talia Grounded. Here’s her profile: https://cantina.com/i/c6wgk

She’s the main character of my episodic series, “Someone Else’s Life”. She’s independent, observant, loyal, and very much somebody who tries to keep her feet planted even when the people and relationships around her get complicated. She’s inspired by the Taurus sign in the zodiac

In episode 1 of the series: https://cantina.com/i/bdd46

Talia Grounded suddenly wakes up inside an unfamiliar life where she has a husband, a career, and a reality she doesn’t remember choosing. As everything around her insists this life is real, she begins questioning her memory, her identity, and whether she’s somehow living someone else’s life.

Check it out and tell me what you thinkkk.

If you’re still working on your submission and have questions about building your character, figuring out their personality/backstory, developing your concept, or turning them into an episodic series, feel free to reach out! Here’s my profile on cantina: https://cantina.com/i/l8vgy

I’m happy to help however I can.

Can’t wait to see what everybody’s been cooking up 🥳

I loved every episode I've seen and loved the original characters you've created from it!

Hey guys! I'm an ambassador at Cantina, sharing a main character from my microdrama series "The Heart Vow" as well as a brief note about my process of going from character to series.

https://cantina.com/i/ziqw0

QUEEN NARAMA The young queen of Namar.Beautiful, commanding and emotionally volatile beneath an immaculate exterior. She genuinely loves her husband. She also senses that something about their marriage is wrong. Her heart is beginning to beat a second rhythm.

For this series, I created a fictional city and world, and I wanted all the characters to reflect this. So I created an overall world prompt that I used for both the environment of the characters' avatars when creating them, and for the series itself to keep consistency.

I also did several "screen tests" with the character, some alone, some with another character from the series where I created a short one off scene in the environment and "world" of the series without being from the actual episodes just to see what the character looked, sounded, acted like in the world and then I was able to tweak the character's appearance, voice, personality as needed before creating a full episode, a useful technique if you are doing a lot of world building!

About the series: 🫀The Heart Vow 🫀is an ancient Mesopotamian supernatural telenovela where marriage is sealed by exchanging living hearts - and betraying them can literally make your spouse bleed! 🩸

Please note this is not a submission into the contest, it is for inspiration purposes only. Looking forward to seeing what you create!

This series and character eats and serves