Honkai Impact 3rd and Star Rail Welt Yang Concept Art Shared

HoYoVerse offered insight into how Welt Yang’s design for both Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai: Star Rail developed. The company’s Art Collection Archives showed how his concept went through three designs before finally landing on the one we see in games today. That last one also showed the touch of grey in his hair. In Honkai Impact 3rd, Welt Yang appeared in the manga and visual novel before becoming a main character in Honkai: Star Rail. In the new RPG, he’s a five-star Imaginary character who follows the Nihility Path and is a founding Astral Express member. He’s also always available via the in-game banners. With the three preliminary designs, certain themes were emphasized. They all share a simplistic black, white, and grey color scheme. All of them also look a bit formal. He’s wearing a jacket in most of them as well.

After that, HoYoVerse shared the final design used for the character in both games. This is his final design, which features a formal “suit,” as seen in some of the preceding concepts. There’s also a scarf in the final look, which showed up in a prototype. To compare, here’s the art from HoYoVerse compared to the Honkai: Star Rail official design. Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai: Star Rail are both available on PCs and mobile devices.