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Happy New Year and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER. LET'S GO ANJI
DOOD! It's #StriveModMonday again! This time I get to talk about the Fuka palette for Bridget! A mod for @/don_yoake!
I don't really know much about the Disgaea series aside from the Prinnies and so to find out this character adorns their aesthetic I was pretty hyped.
An idea I got from another Anji skin was to put a design along his sleeve and as per usual if the devs did not intend to have a graphic to be there the UV Map is really hard to work with so that's why it looks so low rez, but the feeling gets across and looks fine in motion.
Since he's the wind element that was the main design aspect I wanted to revolve around when arranging the assets. This can be seen with how the leaves follow these long winding paths.
I spend like 900 hours brainstorming and experimenting because I'm trying to figure out how to preserve a character's aesthetic as I make their color palette. Between deciding what colors go where and recreating the graphics from scratch there's a lot that went into this one.
Some misc. stuff. First time working with glasses so it was neato to find out that the translucency is dictated by the alpha channel. TEETH. ❌
I kinda just had fun with the guitar giving it a purple taste color (the gradient) and added some blue and pink gradients to mimic the FFXIV electric guitar since he also plays the game and I thought it would be a neato touch. I would try to be more accurate but...
As always it's super sick to see the finer details the devs take time designing you wouldn't be able to really see much of if at all during regular gamplay. Additionally thanks to Coto for pointing out the amp head and speaker cab are modeled after an irl one!