I'm super excited about releasing the AK47 Bubblegum【バブルガム】the first design for my new Bubblegum collection for CSGO! It features anime stylized characters chewing bubblegum and cat-alike characters made of bubblegum mixed up with a clean design where I emphasize the use of bubblegum-like colors. Even the character has a collar made of pink bubblegum balls!

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 AK look different from skins already in the game and 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" and give it some aggressive shapes in contrast to the puffy cats. I colored some of these triangles pink in a way that resembles when bubble gum "pops". The cherry on top is the pink camouflage pattern, which I really like and gives the design a "weapon" feel to it without 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!

As a side note: 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 a collection for them!

As for the Japanese characters, I've received help (thank you Kyu!).

バブルガム Bubblegum
ネコたい Cat Squad
かわいい Kawaii (cute)
エリートクルー Elite-Crew
カウンターストライク Counter-Strike.

It was a lot of fun working on this AK47, I hope you like it!