Salutations Warrior of Light. or is it Darkness? The oracles of light are here, Minfilia and Ryne... or should I call both of them with the same name?

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These girls are the true chosen ones in the FF14 universe. bound to a doomed end. but I'm not going to spoil the story and how it ends for those who haven't played it yet. ...I too still haven't finished Shadowbringers. Don't think I ever will  seeing how expensive everything has become and how difficult it seems to re-subscribe to SE live service. (at least from where I live). it's hard to commit. uh..sorry for the sudden rant

Always wanted to have them in 1 frame just like Ryne & Gaia or Alisaie & Ameliance. ...but...I'm not entirely happy with the end result. something is off and I don't know what (again).

Other 14 pairing I have in mind currently :  

- Lyna and Lyse.

- M'naago and Lyse.

- Lucia and Hilda.

- Cirina and Sadu.

- The other12 goddesses like Halone & Nophica

if you have any pairing ideas, let me know.

don't expect for them to get done so fast and soon though. there are many characters I haven't even rigged yet. ...but I admit If I'm in the mood for them, I'd sometimes rush them and get them done faster. just like what I did to Ashley Graham.

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The one Viera girl that made everyone wishes they were Balthier. Fran.

I rigged her FF14 model. just like I said I would.

About the feet dilemma, I'm just going to let her wear her shoes whenever I animate her. the hands also look human. so I'll leave it like that.

There is still Penelo, and FF14 Alma waiting to be done. I think that's all for ivalice girls?  might want to touch Type-0 girls soon. since I haven't done any of them.

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It's Iris and Monica along with mandatory Aranea.  It's the 3rd Aranea back alley animation, so there will be a long version next week compiling the three of them. 

Monica is House Amicitia servant, so I think it's only obvious I'd pair them both. other obvious pairing is Luna and Iris but Luna is pairable with anyone really.

I'm also getting ready for June swimsuit set. the girls are mostly characters I'd love to revisit.  I included 2 popular petite characters this time. total of 6 characters (for now). the amount of character on the list still can go up depending on how much time I spend on each week animating. Usually I do spend waaay too much time fixing small details...like clipping,lighting and shadows etc. And lately, I tend to redo the animation process twice or more trying to figure out something that feels off. sometimes I even give up and scrapped some after wasting my time trying to fix stuff.

After Iris and Monica, I'll be touching Terra / Tina from FF6. 

That is all for this week! thanks for all the kind support and donations!  m(_ _)m

Hello hello! are you well? I heard some part of the world experiencing terrible heatwave. please be careful wherever you are. Anyway, guess who is here to deliver Divine Ass-ault.

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Decided it's Lenneth this week. 

Valkyrie Profile have a lot of cute beautiful knight girls serving as loyal einherjar.  don't think many people know about them though. me included. 

Animating her reminded me that my skill is still not quite there yet. I had to revise some animations couple times even though the poses are quite simple. I still think something look off, but I can't figure out what. usually I'll notice the mistake once I look back at it in retrospect much later on. if you love drawing, you know how that works and feels. it is similar.

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I plan to release Olette next week, so might as well rig another KH character. A supporter mentioned her not too long ago. so she has been on my mind since. it's Aqua from kingdom hearts.

Don't have any ideas on what to do with her yet, but at least I get her model ready to animate.

Still trying my best to match the ingame shader and lighting. I think I'm slowly getting there. Aqua is such a sweet girl. I have no plan for the Anti version of her currently. but who knows maybe I'd be in the mood to have her Anti version sooner.

Right now I have Xion, Larxene, KH3 Yuffie and KH3 Aerith waiting in line. no rush. let me know if I'm missing some characters you'd like to see. If they have a high res model especially.  Also, I'm not really big fan of Disney nor their characters. so no promises on those. at least for now. but I could be persuaded, as you all know.

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The usual drill for petite character next week, If you're on FANBOX, I'll direct you to "read" her article on my other blog.

Something about Olette being so cute I can't resist the urge to do her rough.  at least that's the idea for now.. I might change my mind later and do more soft stuff. Also, maybe Ryne and Minfilia threesome in their oracle form next after Olette before I forget about the pairing. 

That's all for this week!

Thank you for all your support and donations, also for the kind comments. thank you m(_ _)m

See you next week ^^

Hello! how are you doing? I hope all's well. just here to deliver my weekly post as per usual.
it's big sun lover this time.

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Miqo'te is really popular for obvious reason with Au Ra close second. ...and Y'shtola, she is on another level. even my friends who don't play 14 know who she is. She is almost in every cameo involving FF14.  In Japanese dub, she called Magnai "boya" instead of "little sun"... which made thousand of her fans had a galactic orgasm. ...yep. she is that good of a mommy material it seems.

I got carried away again while animating this big sun lover. it was more fun than I expected. probably because I don't make her wear her attire. no headache on cloth sim and mesh clipping.

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It's Edea and her "Matron" or "Mama-Sensei" version.

The Dissidia NT version is basically just Ultimecia with different texture and outfit. at least that's what I thought at first. looking closely, her Edea head have this vein on her face. which has full geometry not just a normal map believe it or not.

Nothing the smooth sculpt tool can't fix. her matron version is not final, but I'm happy with her current look for now.

The only time we are shown her CGI matron version is during the game's end credits. other than that, we got to see her during a visit to the orphanage in the game.
Without Ultimecia possessing her, she is a really kind sorceress...just another motherly figure in Final Fantasy series that I'd love to "do".

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April's XV set is up next which is just unreleased Gentiana and Luna reanimated and mandatory Aranea pill. nothing special.  There is a plan for Lenneth next month after them.
And next week, my awaited game Eiyuden Chronicles is going to get released, so I'll really take it easy. (...maybe...)  I really want to play that game....I love Suikoden just as much as I love FF.

I've been looking at various Dawntrail benchmark results and graphic comparison. there is not much difference in model geometry cmiiw. what I notice is just better textures, normal map and the added subsurface scattering on skin. So...if I have to update anything on my rigged 14 characters,it'd probably just the textures. I'll wait to rig any Au Ra NPCs until Dawntrail released. just to save me the trouble of updating their scale textures.

That's about it. ^^
as always, thank you for your support and kind donations. m(_ _)m
take care and see you again!

Hello once again and welcome Warrior of Light, your serving of chicken and egg coming up!

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Who doesn't love a serving of chicken and egg especially a spicy one. Intended to only make 3 animations, but I got carried away and made another one. A lil bit tricky to fit them in frame together than I initially thought with Ameliance being so big paired with Alisaie that is petite. but that's FF14 for you. 

Other than that, just couple of crashes here and there which I still don't know what's the cause. it's Blender. most of the crashes are unsolved mysteries. which I'm sure all frequent Blender users familiar with. Thankfully F14 models are light as feathers, opening the project file over and over again is super quick.

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Speaking of light model, this week I rigged Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca from 12.

This is a PS2 model. so might look a bit weird and out of place with some lighting setup.

A young widow with bold attire, simply irresistible. Now that's she is here, Penelo is obviously also on my list.  As I said, for Fran, I'll just use her 14 model because it's just better. I also have plan to rig FF14's Alma Lexentale / Alma Beoulve at some point.

we'll see which of the Ivalice women going to get rigged next. I just hope I don't forget about them.

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Hmm I think I'll do the usual petite article next week. she is not that short, but she is baby faced. I also need my Aranea pill, so there is gonna be 1 Aranea animation to charge my battery next week along with Young Luna. This is somewhat of a trial for Monthly XV. If I feel comfortable with it, I'll continue the monthly XV plan with random XV girls + Aranea per month.

And that is it for this week.

Thank you for your support and donations as always! thank you very much! m(_ _)m

Take care and see you again next week. ^^

Hello Warrior of light! here I am again for the weekly post. As I said previously, it's Yuna time.

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Initially I wanted to make her wear her wedding dress, but I have no idea how to fix the feathers to behave correctly in cloth sim. tried to merge some vertices to the main dress one by one, but it still behave strangely in simulation. Wasted some hours just tweaking the feathers, I gave up in the end opted to use white lingerie in pair with the rest of her bridal accessories.

I also tried to imitate Lake Macalania for this scene without fluid simulation or geometry node. Guess I'm not there yet. the water might look weird in certain angle or if the camera is too close.

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The new Queen of Alexandria herself. Garnet "Dagger" Til Alexandros XVII.

I was in the mood to finally rig her after I saw Aerith in Garnet costume. like Beatrix, I tried to match her height to Dissidia Zidane.

Why are we getting Rinoa,Yuna and Tifa but not Garnet / Dagger in Dissidia NT I wonder. I want her to get more love like the other main FF girls so bad.

Maybe the game is already dead before they managed to add her. I really love FF9, but I think Garnet is gonna be the last FF9 character I rig unless I find or able to make Lani. 

I know some people love Freya and Eiko, but I don't hink I can bring myself to like animating them. especially Eiko. Like I said in my first post, I'm fine with petite looking characters, as long as it's not too small or short (like lalafell size short) . And Eiko is too small for my liking. as for Freya, I love her personality and just that. 

I bear no hate towards them or those who love them. I just like doing what's comfortable for me is all. Sorry!! m(_ _)m

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Time for the Warrior of Light to enjoy a serving of chicken and egg next week. setting the theme with Alphinaud this time instead of Fourchenault.

After, I want to animate young Luna for Monthly XV trial before I forget. since young Luna is never really in my priority, I'm afraid that I might forget her like I did FF14 Zero.

want to get her out of the way asap. need to fix her rig anyway. as it is quite old and it was initially intended only as a background character to spice up Gentiana scene.

That is it. thanks for your kind support and donation as always m(_ _)m

Take care and see you next week!!

Hello once again everyone! here to teach Saryu in class?

Classroom BJ
Classroom Chair
Classroom Table top
Classroom Table top anal

(I've had report of dead links for some petite characters, so better grab them before they disappear.)

Yet again I had to make our WoL a little bit smaller to make some pose proportionate. I noticed her hair bear similarities to that other girl from a famous book about wizard school. perhaps it was intentional. the hair, while low poly, it's fully modeled under the hat. Usually modeler just delete the unseen part. but not in Nier Rein apparently.

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Since we are still in the afterglow of 7Rebirth, while some people debated whether we should add a scar to "someone" because it's canon, I rigged Kyrie Canaan instead.

I've never read the side story novel where she is originally from. so what I know about her is what I've seen in the Remake.

That's the thing about multimedia franchise. I can't keep up. I know there is also new character like Lucia Lin from Ever Crisis, but gacha game is not my thing.
best I could do is finding their models online. 

Just like any FF character wearing a hat, her hair is not even fully modeled or cut

Well she is coming at some point. I've also seen someone made Jill from FF16 by modifying Tifa's head,hair and texture. pretty genius.
Should I do the same instead of waiting for 16 to come to PC I wonder. Rebirth also  introduced some pretty side characters as well. Eleanor , Fran, Esther, Chloe and plenty more. I can't wait to get my hands on them eventually. if I'm able.

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It's FFX Dissidia Yuna. Though to be honest, out of nowhere I find the urge to rig her non-dissidia model too. since there is an unfinished one on smutbase.
it's pretty tempting to finish that one. After Yuna, how about we finally get ourself a leveilleur made Oyakodon? I'm not talking about food btw.

But that is all for this week. 
Thanks for your kind donations and support as always, and don't forget to take care of yourself. m(_ _)m

See you next week!