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Finally back to the XCraft project. Recent detours haven't been directly related to this one, I just didn't feel like working on the backdrop, This piece is designed to be a parallel/sister piece to the Ladies of the Comms render. It just felt symmetrical to divide up the initial members into threes and group them by initial role. While the others are more support oriented, these gals are all about the front line, all physically adept. They share less in common than the other three other than blonde hair and ponytails. Their personalities definitely range from dependent teammate to lone wolf. Either way their flair for close combat and ranged combat all makes them fun to create a mix of crossover visuals.

The main delay on this was lack of interest to work on the XCOM 2 stage. Characters have been mostly done for a few months. XCOM stages are weird in that their colors are mostly material driven in game, plus some UV's are not as obvious. I only did a portion of the stage, but it looked empty so I added some StarCraft crates that I did a while ago. A couple look like space copy machines, but whatever they make good filler, I was able to keep the sample count lower and use de-noising again now that I have a skin material that does not streak like crazy. Now, just to get better at lighting. I did add some background volumetrics to keep the background from looking so flat, but I'm of mixed opinion as to its effectiveness just yet.

Extracted with miscellaneous modding tools
Imported using Blender
Edited, Modified, Rendered in Blender 2.79
Resolution: 2160 x 3840
Samples: 1000
Render Time: 13 Hours 28 Minutes (9 Part Split)

Credits
DOA5LR/Ninja Gaiden Assets (Koei Tecmo, Team Ninja)
Resident Evil Assets (Capcom)
StarCraft Assets (Activision Blizzard)
XCOM Assets (2K Games)

Artwork is made as fan art. Assets & Characters are property of there respective owners. XCraft & Protocol X27 belong to me. Work is not to be monetized or used in anyway that would damage the intellectual properties.

Description
Finally back to the XCraft project. Recent detours haven't been directly related to this one, I just didn't feel like working on the backdrop, This piece is designed to be a parallel/sister piece to the Ladies of the Comms render. It just felt symmetrical to divide up the initial members into threes and group them by initial role. While the others are more support oriented, these gals are all about the front line, all physically adept. They share less in common than the other three other than blonde hair and ponytails. Their personalities definitely range from dependent teammate to lone wolf. Either way their flair for close combat and ranged combat all makes them fun to create a mix of crossover visuals.

The main delay on this was lack of interest to work on the XCOM 2 stage. Characters have been mostly done for a few months. XCOM stages are weird in that their colors are mostly material driven in game, plus some UV's are not as obvious. I only did a portion of the stage, but it looked empty so I added some StarCraft crates that I did a while ago. A couple look like space copy machines, but whatever they make good filler, I was able to keep the sample count lower and use de-noising again now that I have a skin material that does not streak like crazy. Now, just to get better at lighting. I did add some background volumetrics to keep the background from looking so flat, but I'm of mixed opinion as to its effectiveness just yet.

Extracted with miscellaneous modding tools
Imported using Blender
Edited, Modified, Rendered in Blender 2.79
Resolution: 2160 x 3840
Samples: 1000
Render Time: 13 Hours 28 Minutes (9 Part Split)

Credits
DOA5LR/Ninja Gaiden Assets (Koei Tecmo, Team Ninja)
Resident Evil Assets (Capcom)
StarCraft Assets (Activision Blizzard)
XCOM Assets (2K Games)

Artwork is made as fan art. Assets & Characters are property of there respective owners. XCraft & Protocol X27 belong to me. Work is not to be monetized or used in anyway that would damage the intellectual properties.