The AWP Bubblegum 【バブルガム】is the third design for my new Bubblegum collection for CSGO! It features anime stylized characters either chewing bubblegum or using something made out of bubblegum (like the katana in the AWP) and cat-alike characters made of bubblegum mixed up with a clean design where I emphasize the use of bubblegum-like colors.

I played with a very vibrant choice of pink that resembles that of a classic bubblegum ball mixed up with white to keep that "sweet" feel to it. I structured the layout of the design in a way that makes the AWP look different from skins already in the game, I made sure that it's recognizable from a distance and if you see it on the ground.

I came up with triangle shapes to drive the design a bit from "full cute" , giving to it some aggressive shapes in contrast to the puffy cats. I colored some of these triangles with pink in a way that resembles when a bubblegum "pops". The cherry on top is the pink camouflage pattern, which I really like and gives the design a "weapon" feel to it while being integrated with the design.

And there's a piece of gum stick to the gun! I did this by chewing gum in real life, sticking it on a piece of paper with my thumb, taking a picture of it...then I scanned it with Quixel to create a normal map and with the normal map, the picture and a couple of touch ups the skin has a piece of real bubblegum. All this process was super fun for me!

In most of my CSGO matches I've encountered at least one player with an anime/manga character in their avatar, so I decided to create this collection for them!

This is the translation for the Japanese words in this weapon finish:


バブルガム Bubblegum
ネコたい Cat Squad
かわいい Kawaii (cute)
ピンクパワー Pink Power
ドン Don (onomatopoeia used in manga for the SFX of an explosion, like "bang" or "boom")
すごい! Amazing! (One way of expressing awe)
警告 Caution
カウンターストライク Counter-Strike.

It was a lot of fun working on this AWP, I hope you like it!



You can check the rest of this collection here! [Click on the image below]




https://i.imgur.com/LHzZnzs.jpg