Liz Ard
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WIP: So close...yet so far...
🕑 Added 2024-11-08 10:08:14 +0000 UTC
Hello! Weekly update~ How's everyone? I'm...not gonna lie, a bit frustrated with this one. :')
The more I work on it, the more I realize it was far more work than I anticipated!!! Too...many...characters...
I did work on it a lot during this week, yet I could only really add a few seconds to the final video. I'm at 75%, which is 1 minute and 4 seconds currently done.
The reason for that is, there's a lot of characters I want to include, and I want to have their outfit match what they wear in the manga as close as I possibly can...yet they only appear for like, 3 seconds each. So a lot of work goes on very little actual video time.
At least I'm going to have a LOT of characters rigged after this...maybe I should make more Eorzea Academy AU videos to actually get to use them. My goal last week was to rig at least 3 more characters, and I actually got to rig double that! So yay!!!
Sadu and Magnai were really fast to do, because their uniform is the standard one, thankfully. They're so fun, I love them. Yotsuyu also wears the standard Educand uniform. Her skirt is actually seems a bit longer in the manga, but for what I'm doing, I think it's okay to save some time and go with what we have.
The ones I'm the happiest with are Ryne and Gaia! The girlfriends look so cute~
And of course, they were the ones I spent the most time in. Both have custom outfits that I had to test a few times until I got them right.
Ryne's appron is a mashup of the Craftsman's Apron and the Collegiate Attire, with a custom pattern applied to the apron. I couldn't find any art of her wearing with in color, so I picked pink to match the ribbon in her hair! And also, because Ryne and Gaia are yet one more of the pink/red and blue trope of shippable characters in this game...have you ever noticed how many of those we have?! Ryne/Gaia, Sadu/Cirina, the bunboys of Wachumekimeki, Valan and Quinfort, Lizard and G'raha -- anyway, I'm getting distracted.
Gaia's outfit is a mashup of the Educand uniform and the Diadochos Coat of Healing! She actually wears it closed in the manga, and there are no pockets, but this is the best I was able to do. I'm also pretty happy with how with looks~
I actually recorded the whole process of making this, if anyone's interested in a video showing it, please let me know and I can put it together. Since I'm pretty new to the whole modeling and changing models like this, I can't guarantee it's the best way to do it, but it works nicely, and I didn't feel like it was too complicted.
I can't say I'm happy with all of them though. Sadly, Zenos looks way cooler in the manga than what I have...but after spending a few hours on his model trying different things, I give up, and he is wearing the Educand uniform in white - because for SOME reason, he wears all-white in the manga?! WHY??
But instead of wearing it closed like this, he wears the jacket like a cape, Yu gi Oh-style...which I don't think there's any outfits like this in the game currently, so I can't replicate.
I also tried to make a full white, plain button up shirt with long sleeves but it just...didn't look good. So for now, it looks like he is wearing a chef's uniform or something. Uh...sorry, Zenos fans. He is only going to be there for 3 seconds on a split screen. I need to start optimizing my time now!
I can't escape the messy timeline. This whole new messy bit (between the "MMseq" nest and where the needle is, is where all of the characters I rigged are!
And still, there's 5 more characters that I have to rig. Tataru, Y'sthola, Urianger, Thancred...and Emet Selch. I'm too far in to stop now!!! In the end, I kinda feel like I'm putting way too much effort on little result, but I still want to see my idea as I thought of it done. No backing down now! I really hope it comes out fun in the end.
If I were to estmate, it might still take me 2 more weeks to finish. I'm going to aim for 2 weeks, at least. But if I need more, I won't let it go past the end of the month, so there's that. I AM going to finish this month!!!!
Oh also, I want to apologize for anyone that was expecting a video last week, as I usually post weekly. I really needed to rest a bit more and ended up not making one :') I hope I can deliver one this week. If you're interested in them, let me know if there's anything specific you'd like to see a video on, and I can make it for you on that!
And that's it for this week's update. Thank you very much for reading and for your support!
Comments
Liz Ard
Thank you for worrying! It's going to be fine! In the end I'm still enjoying everything and learning a lot~ and next one will probably be a much simpler, easier one to balance it out! :) thank you~
Riihu'ta
Tyt dont burn out k?
Rachel 🌸
Aww thank you so much! 🥰❤️ but the uniform is really pretty I agree! My characters race is Miqo’te so anything they or the Au Ra wear are always adorable!! ❤️❤️
Liz Ard
Ahh thank you!!! And the uniform is so pretty, it's one of my favorite store outfits! I'm sure it's going to look really cute on your character too~
Rachel 🌸
Btw your character looks so cute in that school outfit! I’ve just recently bought the uniform on the FFxiv store 😁❤️🥰
Liz Ard
Thank you~ ❤️ hopefully it won't take much longer now!!!
Rachel 🌸
Yay! ~ a new update! I’m super super excited 🥰 I get see my sweet boys (and girls) again! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
