# Leila (heyLeiloo)

> Game designer and digital artist, and Creative Director at Dead Spark, the studio behind her games. Creates her own characters and the worlds they live in, then builds them into games in Unity. Shark's Request is Dead Spark's first title and her own world: three releases sharing one cast, with a full concept-art album on this site. Also publishes fan art, animation studies, and step-by-step tutorials for Procreate, Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, and Unity. YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UC15QJ4-QI8MF9bj2BDF01mQ.

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## Identity

- [Leila, known online as Leiloo](https://heyleiloo.com/about/): this person. Site: heyleiloo.com. YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC15QJ4-QI8MF9bj2BDF01mQ. Signs artwork "Leila", "Leiloo", or "L★M". She publishes under her first name and the heyLeiloo pseudonym only.
- Dead Spark is the game studio where she is Creative Director. heyLeiloo is her personal brand and this site; the two are not separate people or competing studios.
- Leiloo is also the name of her recurring original character: a brown-haired girl with heterochromatic yellow and blue eyes and white cat ears. Artwork of the character and the artist's self-portraits overlap by design.

## What is on this site

- [Albums](https://heyleiloo.com/art/): the art portfolio, four galleries with descriptive per-image metadata.
  - [Concept Art](https://heyleiloo.com/art/concept-art/): original characters, creature design, environments, character sheets.
  - [Fan Art](https://heyleiloo.com/art/fan-art/): tribute portraits from games and shows — Alan Wake 2, Better Call Saul, Detroit: Become Human, Deus Ex, Halo, Hatsune Miku, Heavy Rain, Jujutsu Kaisen, Mr. Robot, Pressure, Severance, Spider-Verse, The Wolf Among Us, Until Dawn.
  - [Shark's Request](https://heyleiloo.com/art/sharks-request/): concept art and character studies from her own Unity game and the world it is set in.
  - [Animations](https://heyleiloo.com/art/animations/): frames from short loops and motion studies.
- [Tutorials](https://heyleiloo.com/archive/): step-by-step guides — coloring and layers in Procreate, brushes in Photoshop, Maya basics, and Unity quick-fixes (2D colliders, sticky walls, game icons). Organized into series: [Procreate Basics](https://heyleiloo.com/series/procreate-basics/) and [Unity 2D Quickfixes](https://heyleiloo.com/series/unity-2d-quickfixes/).
- [About](https://heyleiloo.com/about/): bio and contacts.
- [RSS](https://heyleiloo.com/rss.xml)

## Canonical facts

- The canonical host is https://heyleiloo.com (no www).
- The earlier WordPress version of this site (2022–2026) lived on www.heyleiloo.com; its URLs permanently redirect here.