DaveRapoza
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Final Fantasy 7 - progress - blocking/sketching/posing
🕑 Added 2021-10-26 17:34:37 +0000 UTCHey!
Hope you're good! Here's the latest update to the Final Fantasy 7 piece - at this stage I am trying my best to capture a bit of the essence of who each of these characters are to me - I don't mind being messy when I'm working through this phase, it's more important to me that I get across some type of(hopefully) iconic look. When doing this I am mostly looking at what initially got me into FF7 in the first place - the concept art and promo artwork/menu artwork - I look to these inspirations(mixed with my style) to bring as much of a faithful representation of my original experience to the artwork - at least that's the plan!
Once I get to the background and Sephiroth all sketched up, I'll begin to do the final lines on all the characters/background elements. After that I'll be blocking in the figures and beginning the overall color composition. Going off of the previous Char piece I did I think this should all go pretty smoothly - one of my happiest developments with this style is how procedural it's become, I love that I can basically plan for an end result and trust that I have the tools/steps to get there - it's very satisfying for me...because I have manic issues with controlling every aspect of this haha.
I'm very happy with the direction, I actually did this one to prep for another idea that a lot of people have asked me for - Chrono Trigger! I already have a composition designed for that one, but I'm gonna make sure I iron out how that approach will go with this FF7 piece.
Thank you all for your support!
Dave
PS - we're editing the F-Zero challenge review now - the first part will be up soon, we're going over every entry individually for the first challenge!
Comments
Oronoro
Oh man, the remake revived my love for FF7 in a big way. It's great to see your awesome take on the classic game. I'm getting echoes of the iconic concept art from this piece. So badass. Stupid sexy Cloud! When I grow up, I'm gonna be a hunky anime swordsman. I don't care what anyone says: his big ass Buster Sword is cool and will always be cool.
BenjahTD
vincent looks amazing!! please record the process :))))
Alfred Manzano
Sephiroth gonna be the best part haha. Hey Dave is your doodle phase happening in clip or PS? Also, hella looking forward to the f-zero breakdowns!
Marcello Iozzoli
love it Dave, hope to see a FF8 Characters too !! :D
Mel Hogan
Dave, the color blocking for the individual figures, could you go into your process there?
Louis Whitworth
Hey Dave! Are you guys planning to announce the next challenge during the F-Zero video?
Martin Gill
My favourite game ever!
Robokomatsu
You are a beast!
Jw Hampton
Can't wait. Red XIII looks sick as fuck.
