Fenriel's Works

[Fenriel]

“So, how many variants of Aerith are we going to do?”
“Yes.”
“…b-but that’s not a numb-”
“YES.”

Final Fantasy VII: Aerith Gainsborough - Crisis Core, Remake, Red dress versions (default, angry, sad status)

the references i've studied for H O U R S...

the young lady took her sweet time dressing up, but at least in the end she managed to show up all nice and clean.
i don’t usually work this much on mugs, except for rare occasions when i’m very inspired due to planets alignment, falling stars, stuff like that.
i’ve always liked her character since good old '97, so it’s been a fun experience making a revamp of her portrait and i’m really satisfied with what i’ve done so far.
gotta thank Kanna again for the little flowers, those saved me plenty of time while polishing details

needless to say, at this rate i might end up doing the whole cast of main characters in the coming days/weeks.
not going to do villains and secondary characters for sure (at least not for now, nor anytime soon after the main group is done. Sephiroth will eventually be there though, so don’t worry), 'cause that would be overkill followed by severe burnout even for me.

anyway, that’s it for today.
not sure who’s gonna be next…maybe Tifa? Barret? Yuffie? guess we’ll see~

[Kemui52]

<.<
>.>
Might that mean Red XIII’s in the planner? o:

[Fenriel]

“You’d better be worth the money, merc. Every last gil.”

FF VII: Barret Wallace - Remake version with sunglasses (default, angry, happy)

Classic version (default, angry, happy)

here’s my take on the leader of Midgar’s Avalanche group.
i had to step away from Tetsuya Nomura’s style of drawing due to lack of proper sprites from the “KH - CoM” sheet, but i guess i’ll get back there when doing the remaining cast of human characters.
it’s been kind of a pain to change every single palette due to skin tones and clothes, but the end result is quite alright.

reference model

shoutout to @BuskHusker and @ZessDynamite for the skin tones and the jacket collar, those were really helpful references!

@Kemui52

Might that mean Red XIII’s in the planner? o:

maybe.

[Melledoneus]

One of my greatest regrets as a rom hacker is that I never got to use any of your gorgeous tile sets.

[Fenriel]

well, you still can if you’re willing to split every square tile and make a sheet out of them

most of those are either palette swap/recolors, and the custom ones are either from other GBA and/or SNES era videogames, so they shouldn’t go beyond 16 colors.

[Fenriel]

'sup. as you might have noticed, i’ve taken a break from the previous FF VII-R themed mugs as i was busy with other stuff (and partially, still am).

then, a FF XVI gameplay demo showed up in my youtube feed, and after watching it like 20 times or so due to how beautiful that title is going to be, i absolutely could not keep myself from momentarily switching to that instead of keeping the VII-R sprites going (fear not though, i still plan to finish the whole crew in due time).

needless to say, i may eventually end up spriting more people from XVI’s cast, especially characters like Clive, Benedikta and some Eikons.
meanwhile, i suppose i could show you my take on “Ifrit, child of flame”:

reference material, i swear it almost looks like Godzilla

probably the most badass version of Ifrit so far, this one looks more like a dragon rather than an ogre like in previous FF titles, wich is actually pretty cool. Kazuya Takahashi really did a stellar job with the new characters and summons, and has become one of my favorite artists among the likes of Akihiko Yoshida.

unfortunately, all the details and horns required much space, so putting everything into a mug was kinda impossible.
however, there’s always the cropped version, available in a 2 pieces set:

overall, i’m quite satisfied with this one.
i could have added more details, but there’s just so many scales, spikes and fire trails that spriting/editing all that would have made my brain implode.

maybe i’ll do Garuda next, depending on inspiration.

[Fenriel]

back with another FF XVI summon, Garuda:

Model references

not exactly how i expected it to turn out, but it’s alright i guess.
too many feathers, limited hackbox space and obscure details made it quite hard to edit, to the point i’m honestly not sure if i can manage to crop it and resize it into a proper mug version.
i already made both eyes and mouth frames though, so that would be a waste to leave it unfinished…

anyway, that’s about it for now.
coming up next: either more stuff from FF XVI, or FF VIIR. it all depends on inspiration~

[edit] tried to squeeze it as much as possible, managed to make a 2 parts set like before:

[Fenriel]

“Zack, embrace your dreams. If you want to be a hero, you need to have dreams… and honor.”

decided to make a variant of a previous work, since it was mainly just a head swap with some recolored palette, so now there’s also Angeal Hewley from Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core added to the FF VII roster.

shoutout to @GenericPretsel and Garytop for the beardless head and armor references, as for the rest i just changed few details here and there like the shading for hair/skin tones plus some other minor stuff.

also, here’s a little sneak peek of my next subject (currently work in progress):

you may get a free drink at Seventh Heaven if you can guess who it is~

[Fenriel]

apparently this one took longer than expected, i got busy with other stuff and since editing the previous KH_CoM sheet was too much of a pain in the ass, i said screw it and went back to the traditional FE style of drawing (at least for now).

not much has been done this time around, except for the head portion of the portrait there wasn’t really much space left for details, so i decided to keep it as clean as possible.
without further ado, here’s my take on Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII:

Remake, Purple dress versions (default, angry)

Yuffie might be showing up next…but considering the fact that i’m still playing with Bloodborne, i guess a hunter could eventually pop up too.

now, if you’ll excuse me, i have a bunch of stuff to upload into the repo thread~

[rdrouyn]

Amazing looking stuff, especially the UI elements, intro screens, backgrounds and the maps. If I can get my sprites to look as half as good as yours, I’ll be happy.

[Fenriel]

“We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood.”

here’s my take on the hunter from Bloodborne, with the standard outfit version.
i had to crop down the portrait a bit in order to fit in the hat, since it turned out a little bigger than expected.
the base model is Karel, the hat is custom made, as for the rest i just swapped colors, changed few details here and there, the usual things.
maybe not one of my best mugs, but it’s alright.

also, here’s some Bloodborne inspired 64 colors backgrounds to go along with the guy:

[edit] also made a Hunter battle still because why not:

not sure what to sprite next.
maybe more FF VII R characters, or maybe other stuff. time will tell~

[XPGamesNL]

Oh hell yes! Now we can do some beasthunting in a different format!

This looks extremely awesome!

[rdrouyn]

Well if you are looking for ideas, something Ogre/FFT/Yoshida inspired would be nice. Background, map, battle interface, or character. Any of the above would be helpful. Maybe something based on the OB or TO character creation sequence?

[Fenriel]

looks like someone is in need of specific assets

technically, you could translate some elements from the SNES/GBA games into FE material, although i’m unsure as to what/how could be customized in order to make something decent out of it.

the UI stuff from those games was very basic, since usually it was all about a blue window screen with colored borders, pretty much like what they used for Final Fantasy games from the first one up until 9.
then again, it depends on what’s needed in terms of visuals.

i’m already working on something related to FF7R, although i wouldn’t mind trying some other concepts inspired by OB/TO, if it’s just UI stuff.

[rdrouyn]

Yeah the OB UI is pretty simple looking, which I’m probably not going to replicate. I’ve decided to go with a more hybrid FE/OB approach, more of a homage than an explicit remake. Not sure what that is supposed to look like to be honest. I’m not too terrible at splicing things together for portraits, but creating UI elements is not something I’m experienced with. I think a cool looking title screen would be very helpful since it isn’t something I can cobble together easily from the asset repo. The tentative title for my game is “Fire Emblem: Path of Kings” Something that draws inspiration from both series would be nice. I won’t ask for more until I have something to show for myself.

As far as UI goes, I really like your FE9/10 combat UI so I’m probably going to borrow that(with your permission, that is). I got a stats screen from the repo that almost matches it, I might have to modify some colors but it shouldn’t be too difficult.

You have a lot of cool looking maps I could use. The floating isle one in particular screams OB to me. I’ll see if I can use that one in my hack as well.

[Fenriel]

currently busy on multiple fronts, but i guess few backgrounds shouldn’t hurt.
this time around, how about some 64 colors castles:

[Fenriel]

“…I will never be a memory.”

decided to rework and revamp Sephiroth from FF VII R a bit earlier than expected, so now the main cast from the Remake is truly complete.
i provided multiple emotions again (default, serious, angry and creepy) in order to describe his slow descent into madness from Crisis Core. i might give him a black wing too later, if i’ll be inspired enough.

the rest of the main cast will eventually show up some time in the future, not sure when since i’m still quite busy with other stuff.

[Fenriel]

just finished this one, guess i’ll find a use for it in the coming future:

i’m not the kind that likes to brag, but since it came out pretty good, i’m actually quite proud of it.
it might not be a perfect reproduction of the scaled down title, but it still does the job nonetheless.

also, a little sneaky peaky:

and that’s that for now. see ya~

[Fenriel]

“I am that which you see before you. Nothing more. I’d appreciate it if we simply left it at that. Agreed?”

here’s my take on Red XIII from Final Fantasy VII R. not too shabby, if i say so myself.
this was also one of the very rare times when i don’t do edits directly on pre-existing mugs, but make stuff starting from zero, so after reaching 16 colors and trying to shade details here and there, it came out alright.
i couldn’t make more than just the default mug and frames because there’s not really much to do in terms of different emotions when it comes to animals, so i decided to leave it as it is for the time being.

as i’m currently replaying FF7R once more, i suppose Yuffie could be showing up in the future.
we’ll see in due time~

[Fenriel]

apparently my 2nd gallery has started lagging whenever i try to edit it, so i guess it’s time to compile some sheets and put stuff together before it gets worse again

anyway, while i was doing other stuff, i decided to make some UI assets inspired by FF VII.
it’s kind of a mix between the old and new UI styles, so i might get back on these later on for further experiments and refinements:

battle screen

stats screen

they’re actually quite basic, but so are their original counterparts.
maybe i’ll try a different approach and turn both of them into a more modern concept with a different design, the next time i stumble upon these.