EVANGELYNE [ EVA ] FANART FROM WAKFU FRENCH ANIME SERIES!

 Evangelyne or Eva is one of the characters from the French Fantasy Action Adventure Animated Series called Wakfu [which is based on an online game called Dofus, which is a tactical turn-based MMORPG]. And the French production studio is called Ankama.

Eva is from the Cra race of Elves and she is an expert archer, while she is the bodyguard of Amalia. She ends up marrying the character named Percedal [Tristepin] Sadlygrove, from the Lop race, and they have two kids together. And Eva is friends with Yugo [from the Eliatrope / dragon race], the  main character of the series.

Most of the original art & character design that made the Dofus game [and later the anime] popular was done by a guy named Xavier "Xa" Houssin, who has a cool peculiar artstyle. He worked in France with the Ankama Studio for about 15 years. He's on Instagram over Here. 

But he left the studio almost 10 years ago I think, and then other artists took over the design work.... others that really can't touch his artstyle ;) Also, he sells artbooks of his collection of works, available through Kickstarter campaigns I believe. Plus you can Google "Xavier Houssin Art" and you'll see his stuff.

And I included a colored poster with some of the different races from the Wakfu / Dofus universe, down there on the right side, to show his art style.

The first Season with 30 episodes of Wakfu aired back in 2008, before Season 2 was launched in 2010. Mostly the show is done in French, with English and other subtitles available. Some call the cartoon an anime, but it does have its unique style, while the computer animation was originally created via  Adobe Flash. Their utilized software may have changed by now, I dunno. 

They've had a total of 3 Seasons so far, and Season 3 was featured on Netflix. And Season 4 was funded via a Kickstarter campaign back in May 2020. And I believe it should be out later this year, before the end of 2023.

In my opinion, the storyline became a bit bizarre in Season 3; it just didn't seem to make much sense, like they were going with a "whatever" approach - like "whatever we can think of, to just get through the season". And it was almost like the characters were ignorantly shoved inside a game, moving from stage to stage, in each episode... so if the game stage was boring, then the whole episode was boring. It just didn't flow well. And the ratings were not very good on Netflix, so it did not get renewed. And I believe that's why they had to switch to Kickstarter to get funding for the next Season.

I made a character design sheet of Eva from the Dofus game & Wakyu anime, shown on the left. The image with the blue background was taken from the cartoon in Season 2, while the archer pose is from the game.

And as shown at the very top of this blog article, my artstyle is different, per the way I draw female figures and faces. 

One more character design poster is shown below on the right side, with art by Xavier Houssin. That's a Cra archer gal with light-armor like Eva... might even be her ;)

Anyway, Evangelyne is a cool character and she is rather long-suffering and compassionate, so she puts up with a lot of crap from her friends and even from Amelia, who often can act like an entitled Princess Diva. Google Wakfu and look up the trailers for the show on Youtube.

Plus there is a popular clip from Season 1 Episode 22 in which Tristepin [her boyfriend] has a brief dream about dancing with Eva. Its on Youtube over Here.