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Together.

Yeah I know, i've got a fair few pics already with the word 'together' in them. Heaven knows my luck, I'm probably repeating titles somewhere here and im self conscious about repeats as it is but the title is a direct line Ephemer says in Chi (the old browser version of KH) so I'm taking that from there since this is also a piece of work done completely off a reference.

Said reference being the KHUX Novel with this picture here: i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/b5/e…

That out of the way, this is one of those rare pictures where I sat down and tried my best to bypass some issues I've had lately. For me, when I run into an issue trying to learn something new or fix a problem, if I can't get past it, I just give up and throw it in my 'figure it out eventually' pile and come back to it later. In a case like this, I ran into some that really tested my patience. Posing, for starters, lol, not so much the hands either *eye twitch* but making Ephemer crouch! I've hardly ever been able to pull off that kind of position because i can bend a leg one way then the other leg won't touch the ground then moving the lifted leg up just makes it look like the model's kneeing itself in the chest lol. A whole big thing with that. However, I sat down for many hours today and just pushed my best past it. It's still not 100 percent perfect but i think i got close enough. A very awesome friend once said, it's easy to trick the view so long as it's not animation XD. Regarding Skuld though is what makes this all worth it. I've never worked to completion with a model that comes straight from a blend file. Any that i've tried, were in a format, i couldnt figure out or i had some other problem and thus, i quit XD (like is there a way to append a model from one blend file to another?) but with Skuld, she's actually very simple enough that i was able to pace myself through any issues and come up with this result. Long story short, for me, personally at least, I feel like Im over some very small hurdle here lol. Might not mean much but to me, its something. Moving on, face posing. Hello darkness my old friend.... lucky for me the reference photo didn't have some huge smiling teeth set up so this was easy enough. I still hope to get into doing more advanced expressions one day. As for the lighting, I was trying to get this overhead light look going on but everytime i tried, their fronts ended up too dark so i had to compromise a little.

Lastly, regarding the background. It's a self-created one and obviously I have no clue about perspective but I did my best so ignore it if it's awful or whatever.

Anyway, issues out of the way, as mentioned I was inspired by KHUX's novel to make this! If anyone has experienced the 'keyblade war', they'll understand what this scene is supposed to be. Outside of that? Skuld and Ephemer have such a nice friendship so I just had to do something with these two. Skuld was by herself not making friends really and he just comes along and befriends her. That's so sweet! Then one day he's gone off to do his own thing but i always viewed that as his way of saying that Skuld will be strong enough to stand on her own when he's not there and to me that's an important step in a friendship. That no matter how far away someone goes or however long they're gone, they're still with you in a way and if fate has it in store, they'll return to you.

okay sappyness over. I'm happy with how this turned out ^_^

Ephemer (KHIII) is from:

Skuld (Mod) is from:

Hearts for the background are from Google Images

Stars in the background created with a brush from: www.brusheezy.com/brushes/1340…

Posed and rendered in Blender 2.79 Cycles

Edited in Photoshop

Ephemer, Skuld and Kingdom Hearts are credited to Square Enix

Description

Together.

Yeah I know, i've got a fair few pics already with the word 'together' in them. Heaven knows my luck, I'm probably repeating titles somewhere here and im self conscious about repeats as it is but the title is a direct line Ephemer says in Chi (the old browser version of KH) so I'm taking that from there since this is also a piece of work done completely off a reference.

Said reference being the KHUX Novel with this picture here: i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/b5/e…

That out of the way, this is one of those rare pictures where I sat down and tried my best to bypass some issues I've had lately. For me, when I run into an issue trying to learn something new or fix a problem, if I can't get past it, I just give up and throw it in my 'figure it out eventually' pile and come back to it later. In a case like this, I ran into some that really tested my patience. Posing, for starters, lol, not so much the hands either *eye twitch* but making Ephemer crouch! I've hardly ever been able to pull off that kind of position because i can bend a leg one way then the other leg won't touch the ground then moving the lifted leg up just makes it look like the model's kneeing itself in the chest lol. A whole big thing with that. However, I sat down for many hours today and just pushed my best past it. It's still not 100 percent perfect but i think i got close enough. A very awesome friend once said, it's easy to trick the view so long as it's not animation XD. Regarding Skuld though is what makes this all worth it. I've never worked to completion with a model that comes straight from a blend file. Any that i've tried, were in a format, i couldnt figure out or i had some other problem and thus, i quit XD (like is there a way to append a model from one blend file to another?) but with Skuld, she's actually very simple enough that i was able to pace myself through any issues and come up with this result. Long story short, for me, personally at least, I feel like Im over some very small hurdle here lol. Might not mean much but to me, its something. Moving on, face posing. Hello darkness my old friend.... lucky for me the reference photo didn't have some huge smiling teeth set up so this was easy enough. I still hope to get into doing more advanced expressions one day. As for the lighting, I was trying to get this overhead light look going on but everytime i tried, their fronts ended up too dark so i had to compromise a little.

Lastly, regarding the background. It's a self-created one and obviously I have no clue about perspective but I did my best so ignore it if it's awful or whatever.

Anyway, issues out of the way, as mentioned I was inspired by KHUX's novel to make this! If anyone has experienced the 'keyblade war', they'll understand what this scene is supposed to be. Outside of that? Skuld and Ephemer have such a nice friendship so I just had to do something with these two. Skuld was by herself not making friends really and he just comes along and befriends her. That's so sweet! Then one day he's gone off to do his own thing but i always viewed that as his way of saying that Skuld will be strong enough to stand on her own when he's not there and to me that's an important step in a friendship. That no matter how far away someone goes or however long they're gone, they're still with you in a way and if fate has it in store, they'll return to you.

okay sappyness over. I'm happy with how this turned out ^_^

Ephemer (KHIII) is from:

Skuld (Mod) is from:

Hearts for the background are from Google Images

Stars in the background created with a brush from: www.brusheezy.com/brushes/1340…

Posed and rendered in Blender 2.79 Cycles

Edited in Photoshop

Ephemer, Skuld and Kingdom Hearts are credited to Square Enix