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Beauty, Final, Portrait 1

Beauty, Final, Portrait 2

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Natural Lighting

Alt Color Palette

Comparison with original Squaresoft render

Dagger

Map, which I realized would not be visible in the renders, and so did not really complete

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Donavan Thornton

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Final Fantasy IX - Blank

Posted 11 months ago

This project was completed very similarly to the Garnet/Dagger project I did.

Blank from FFIX fascinates me. The combination of scars and skin patches, the blindfold, and his bravado/flirtatiousness make him such an interesting character to me, and so I've attempted to create a fanart of him a couple of times before. Each time, I've abandoned the effort or found I didn't really have the skill to do it properly. You might say this really has been a slowly unfolding passion project 5 years in the making!

I mostly used Blender for this -- from sculpting to baking, lighting, etc. I also did some material creation in Substance, used Textures XYZ, used tons of Blender addons -- really I used too many resources to possibly list.

I finally have something I'm pretty happy with, and I feel like I've done the character justice. I could push further, sure, but I definitely think it's time to close the book on this project.

Photoshop
Blender
QuadRemesher
Poliigon
Polyhaven
Substance 3D Painter
Cycles
DAZ Studio

Wyatt white
11mos ago
This has certainly came a long way from the 2018 attempts, you can tell that its improved by a lot after the first attempt at blank and then the creation of garnet.
The materials certainly look nice especially the belts though the gloves look just a bit too soft in my opinion, other than that I can't really say anything bad about this version of blank! I'd expect to see him in a souls-like ff9
- Donavan Thornton 11mos ago
  Thank you, Wyatt. And thank you for all the advice and feedback you gave while I worked on it!

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