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Pony Tales — Adventure Outfit Set
This time, they're getting ready to actually go somewhere.
The Adventure Outfit Set gives the whole cast new fantasy-travel and combat-inspired looks while trying to keep the things that already make each of them recognizable. Rather than putting everyone into matching armor, I treated them more like an adventuring party with different roles, weights, and approaches to gear.
Cindra keeps a lighter, heat-ready look built around her ember colors. Rimea leans into icy blues and practical cold-weather details. Sylva's outfit stays closer to a woodland scout or healer, while Noctra and Umbra get lighter gear suited to characters who probably aren't interested in announcing themselves from across the battlefield.
Others ended up considerably more equipped.
Terra needed something heavier and sturdier, Aurelia's gear keeps the bright white-and-gold identity she already has, and Kaelis naturally ended up at the far end of the scale. Instead of turning him into a fully armored knight, I went with heavy guardian gear that still leaves his existing markings, build, and reptilian features visible.
One of the more interesting parts of doing a set like this is figuring out how much you can change before a character stops feeling like themselves.
The outfits changed substantially, but I still wanted their markings, colors, silhouettes, accessories, and general visual language to carry through. A few of them took quite a bit of iteration to get there.
And apparently shoes are much more difficult to keep attached to an adventuring party than I would have expected.
With the full cast finished, though, I really like the result.
They still feel like the same Pony Tales characters, just a version of them that looks ready to leave the studio, pick a direction, and see what's waiting beyond the next hill.
Which does make me increasingly tempted to put a few of them together in some proper action scenes.
I'm trying not to make promises.
Again.
