# behindthescenes officialart yakutia

Character reference sheets!
First presented on our trip to Yakutsk where a pitch clip for has been first shown 🎞️

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2022-08-27

Old sketches of Ayana. ✏
Yep, in the early stages of the script, she was just a baby! 👶 (And in some variations she didn't even exist...)

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2022-08-14

Sometimes you have to make the difficult decision of cutting certain characters out of the story, because they just don't quite fit in anymore. 😕
Meet Michiya, Aital and Baska! These sketches are old, back when the series was more humorous and ligh-hearted.

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2022-08-09

Introducing, the father of Ayana and Erchim; a typical Yakut dad 👴

His design had stayed the most consistent throughout.
In the last picture, he is holding little Ayana, whose design had changed many times.

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2022-07-25

Today, the people of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic celebrate their second New Year, called Yhyаkh (lit. "abundance").
During the festival, the Yakut people decorate trees with "salama" and pray to the Ayii spirits for the well-being of the people gathered.

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2022-06-22