Character Art Freebies.

[AndrewAnimation]

thanks Brain of Knowledge!=) hmm no i shouldn't go through that much trouble, i'd say. if anyone who's already smooth with the modelviewer would actually enjoy doing this, however, feel free to FFXI-itize any of my main characters from my novel:
superheroes2 by ~AndrewAnimation on deviantART
anna molly by ~AndrewAnimation on deviantART
lilquick06 by ~AndrewAnimation on deviantART
that would be fun for me to see. no problem if no one has the time though. i understand how that is. x3

[Restlesstornado]

so I was wondering when the "lottery" would be over? 1 week perhaps?

[Ziero]

thanks Brain of Knowledge!=) hmm no i shouldn't go through that much trouble, i'd say. if anyone who's already smooth with the modelviewer would actually enjoy doing this, however, feel free to FFXI-itize any of my main characters from my novel:
superheroes2 by ~AndrewAnimation on deviantART
anna molly by ~AndrewAnimation on deviantART
lilquick06 by ~AndrewAnimation on deviantART
that would be fun for me to see. no problem if no one has the time though. i understand how that is. x3

The "Brain of Knowledge" thing is actually a forum title for having XX number of posts or something...I think, not an actual user name. And while it won't be super accurate or anything, I can try to "ffxi-cise" some of the characters. The thing with FFXI is that most of the armor and clothes have a medieval feel from numerous cultures of old, so it's hard to match up to more contemporary, modern-like clothing. But a few ideas pop into mind from those pics.

so I was wondering when the "lottery" would be over? 1 week perhaps?

I think it's more of a "when he feels like working" thing rather then an actual timed lottery or something. When it's done it's done and we'll find out who got picked then.

[AndrewAnimation]

that would be awesome if you wouldn't mind doing that! xD
yeah i know how it is with medieval-based character creation, after playing soulcalibur 3

yup, sort of like that. it's very scheduled, though, so i can explain the whole thing of when i'll make the drawings. i make 1 character every 2 days, as i've been doing so far, but i give each game/forum i draw for its own chance, til every game received one drawing each, then i start all over, the order always being as random as the winners. unfortunately, with 10 games on my list now, that calculates to roughly only 1.4 drawings per game per month. i can't up the production because it would interfere with my normal job, but, keeping it the way it's at now, i don't see myself ever stopping. it'll just be really slow-moving

[Restlesstornado]

In any case lookingforward to seeing any new work you draw up~

[AndrewAnimation]

thanks=) if you care to see the ones i drew for the winners of the other games so far, they're at the beginning of my deviantart gallery:
AndrewAnimation's deviantART Gallery

[LilithAngel]

Here's about as close an approximation as I could get for this one.



The others, especially the "Anna Molly" one, might require some .dat modifications, but that's just a matter of finding .dats that look similar to what you want, and the mod community is rather robust for this game. I'll see if I can't whip something up as well; this sounds like fun.

[AndrewAnimation]

lol, coolio!!
lol wow, the carpet and the lighting and everything, too!
thanks for doing that=) it's funny you chose that character first, as her name is lilith. i noticed your name the first time i saw it because of her=)
here were my Soulcalibur III (PS2) attempts at that one:
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/c...n/100_2743.jpg
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/c...n/100_2734.jpg
(my lilith sometimes has a cape, in other images that i didn't show you)
cool let me know if you make any of the others anna's been my favorite character for months now=) i suppose the mod stuff wouldn't appear online in the actual ffxi game, just for the modelviewer, right?=)

[Ziero]

cool let me know if you make any of the others anna's been my favorite character for months now=) i suppose the mod stuff wouldn't appear online in the actual ffxi game, just for the modelviewer, right?=)

Modified armor will appear in game on your screen only, but have no affect on anything but how you see it. It's also only something that can be done on the PC as you need to actually swap some files around to get it to work.

And I tried to get a few done last night, mainly based on this pic:
superheroes2 by ~AndrewAnimation on deviantART

From left to right, this is the closest I could get.

Yellow Ninja Chick
There really is no tight clothing in game that has that shade of yellow. Infact I think there's only one set of armor at all that is even close to that yellow, and it's a Plate mail set. So I got the closest I could get to the overall feel. She's wearing a mix of Monk artifact armor (head and body) with Ninja relic armor (legs, feet, hands)

Blue Guy with Sword
Again, nothing in game comes close to the vivid blue used on this guy, especially armor that's tight and sleeveless on top but loose at the legs. What I ended up giving him was a Padded Harness with Beast Artifact legs and Lord's Sabatons, which are actually from the aforemention Yellow Platemail set. The sword was pretty easy though.

Red Armored Guy with Trident
Easily, the easiest of the bunch. A full suit of Crimson Scale Mail combined with the Halloween event Pitfork. I think it's a pretty good match.

White Samurai Guy
Again, another easy one, but not as close as the red armored guy. This one's wearing a simple Jujistu Gi with White Slacks and Solea shoes. If the gi had no sleeves and the slacks were a bit looser, it would be an almost exact match imo.

And finally
The Schoolgirl
This was again a *real* easy one and a look that could have only come about since the last expansion came out. She is wearing Scholar artifact armor, which is one of the newest classes in this game, and is essentially a schoolgirl outfit. The coat and skirt are all one piece so I couldn't choose a different coat without loosing the skirt. But from the waist down it's an exact match, and if the coat were blue it'd be almost perfect.

Now this is the best I could do without using dat mods, but I'm sure others out there can do better.

[Evion]

Nice art man! I can't wait to see some of your FFXI stuff.

[Callisto]

Yellow Ninja Chick
There really is no tight clothing in game that has that shade of yellow. Infact I think there's only one set of armor at all that is even close to that yellow, and it's a Plate mail set. So I got the closest I could get to the overall feel. She's wearing a mix of Monk artifact armor (head and body) with Ninja relic armor (legs, feet, hands)

Can you view .dats for NPCs in the model viewer? Maybe there's a way to shoop Lion's gear?

[Lady Eleniel]

I'll try my luck. Let me know if its too small. . Whats your SN on Gaia? O:

[Ziero]

Can you view .dats for NPCs in the model viewer? Maybe there's a way to shoop Lion's gear?

Yes, and there have already been .dat mods for pretty much every NPC in game ported to most races. Including Lion's outfit for Hume females and Mithra (not sure about elf chicks though, they never seem to get any love =( )

Again, what I did was without dat mods. With dat mods you could easily get exact, or near exact renderings of all that armor. Heck there are mods out there to make the Scorp Harness match every type of AF for jobs that can wear it already, and I know there are mods that match the 'revealing' look of the Ninja girls outfit as well. Just browse some of the dat mod communities and you should be able to find things that fit much better.

[AndrewAnimation]

lol thanks ziero, that was awesome!!:D :D

yeah, i like the [red and black guy] the best too! but i really like the [yellow ninja lady] one as well, despite that it's armor instead of a spandex kinda thing, as those costumes are only one of a few i draw them in, armor being something else that suits her=D
i love the [schoolgirl] one too (actually the same as the Lilith character, but the drawing of her in the group shot was kinda off, especially since she looked happy), and that outfit would actually suit Anna Molly really well, despite not matching the outfit i happened to draw her in! yeah, a blue jacket would've been more up Lilith's alley=D

cool and that's without mods!
if i ever get far enough with my goals, i'd have the mods capable of being seen by everyone, but i assume there would be huge download/bandwidth/lag issues with that (not sure of which it would be)
thanks for taking the time to do that for me ziero!

thanks evion=D

added, eleniel! good luck=) my gaia name is the same, AndrewAnimation

[Lady Eleniel]

Heh, you'll have a friends request from whisky sour. <3 Always good to have friends who know about FFXI and WoW, in the least. As for .dat modding, I recommend FFXIdats.com, I've always used that site above all the others. The people there are generally really helpful, even if you mess up like me and replace the wrong .dats, therefore losing loads. Heh.