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Beatrix Animations + 2023 Retrospect
🕑 Added 2023-12-27 15:47:59 +0000 UTCHi~ How was your Holidays? It's the end of December, but guess who's here : the Rose of May.
Check her out below:
I tried to make her body size similar to Dissidia Zidane. initially, the model I found was of the midget version like the one in the original game. I just attach her head on a slightly bigger body. If the head looks a little too big, that'd be because of her hair.
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NEW MODEL
The Divine Assaulter lady. Lenneth from Valkyrie Profiles.
Did I ever mention I like beautiful armored woman?
I use Maria's head from Valkyrie Elysium for this one. I don't have the new Elysium game, so I get her model off somewhere with broken extracted hair alpha texture. I don't know how to properly fix them,so I gave up. Then I casually browse some site and found Lenneth model as a mod and grab it to view in Blender. they look okay, so I tweaked the armor shader a bit then decided to make Lenneth instead of Maria.
I'll rig Maria too eventually,. I just gotta replace/fix her bang first. I don't remember much about Valkyrie Profiles to be honest. All I remember is the combat and how she fly around the world map saving people. Especially her special attack : "Nibelung Valesti". That's still stuck in my head and it will stay there until I die for sure. don't think I ever finished the game too, but I like her and her armor is iconic. She is one of those cool female protagonist with the coolest armor design I have ever seen. it's still cool to this day imo.
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2023 PROGRESS REPORT & RETROSPECT
Since I started posting on Pixiv in the beginning of 2023, I've learned a lot about animation while trying to discover a balanced workflow between my work and hobby. I never go to art school or college, so I learned everything by enjoying other fanart artists and watching tutorials on youtube.
At first, I intended to animate just a couple of characters, then continue to watch other artists and wait until they animate my favorite characters. since I felt like I won't do an excellent job animating them anyway. Thus, I never expected to continue doing this for the whole year and even receiving some support and donation from kind people. it's still mind blowing to be honest. Thank you.
My first animation posted on pixiv was Cissnei, released on January 2nd, 2023 .
I grabbed her model off smutbase. it's a model rigged by MokujinH. I'm sure some of you have known the legend themself. The end result of my trial was.. uh..not good. But I'm glad some people like it, and I know for certain I've improved quite a bit since then. As I continue animating, I felt confident to learn about rigging and making my own mashup model.
My first custom model was Aranea, released on January 20th, 2023.
Obviously, Like most startup animator, I got impatient and tried to animate my own main girl. and oh boy I underestimated her. Looking back, I did everything wrong. from neck seam to weight transferring. in fact, you probably noticed I didn't even blur the weight paint on her neck resulting in jaggy edges whenever she turns her head lol.
I've somewhat improved since then. I've learned how to properly dissect and efficiently rig any kind of characters. I still need to learn more though, especially if specific characters have tatoos or any complicated parts, such as wings etc.
As time passes, the amount of model I rig increased. Here is the list of characters I rigged this year :
I know there is not even Tifa in there. For 7 characters, I think I'm just gonna use other people's models since most of them have better rig than mine. I love Tifa and 7, but I think we agree we get plenty of Tifa already. Nowadays, if you searched for Final Fantasy smut animation, high chances are, Tifa or any 7 characters gonna get recommended for you. Tifa is probably one of the reasons younger gamer finds out about Final Fantasy nowadays. She single-handedly promoting the franchise by appearing at a zoom meeting. What a girl. Love her or hate her, I believed Final Fantasy got carried by her and YoshiP alone.
Joke aside, Right after my first custom model, I decided that I'll join the community to give some Final Fantasy girls justice. I'm not a good animator like some well known Final Fantasy animators out there (you know who they are. I'm a fan of them too), but I'm confident as I continue to animate, I will get better and better.
This is still a lot fun for me, and the support I received keep pushing me forward. so I don't think I'll be quitting anytime soon. And there are still a lot of Final Fantasy characters I haven't touched yet. especially from 14. That game have a lot of characters~~ and I'm just a guy with 2 hands and a stupid brain. can't please everybody. especially since I do this as a hobby to de-stress from work.
One thing for certain though, Aranea still getting a lot of love from me.
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UP NEXT
We are starting up the new year with Aranea, then Alisaie after. I'm not out of the busy schedule yet. I'm moving out to another rent next month, so there is still a chance that I'd be late in posting next month's animation.
Aaaand that's all~ Thank you for your kind support and donation as always, let's hope next year will be a better year for a lot of us! cheers!
Take care, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!! m(_ _)m
