I Love Roleswap AUs. Here's Some Ideas.

I love roleswap AUs. Here's some ideas.

Demise as...

Ganondorf: power incarnate. Crush the peace and sanctity of Hyrule with overwhelming force.

Link: flamboyant and slippery. Pops up where he's least expected, and makes a show out of the chaos.

Zelda: crafty and unseen. Beloved ruler by day, evil enchantress by night. Destabilize Hyrule with illness of body and mind.

Hylia as...

Ganondorf: the unstoppable force. Identifies the Goddess's magics early. Attacks with her magic offensively.

Link: the vine that sunders. Integrate with the enemy and take it out from within.

Zelda: the unmovable object. Stalemate the enemy until the opportune moment.

These are primarily inspired by their botw/totk incarnations.

Imagine a legend of Zelda au where Demises hatred/reincarnation/soul doesn’t just stick with Ganon, but rotates between all three of them through the generations. And when Demises hatred is in Zelda, Hylias reincarnation/soul has to go to Link or Ganon

OR

Both Demises soul/hatred and Hylias Soul rotate between Ganon, Link, and Zelda every generation, the souls being bare souls not having a “favorite”

I love the idea of a corrupt Queen Zelda.

I also love the idea of a Link fallen to corruption. And between the three of them, I think Demises hatred would have to force it more. Link is usually so kind hearted and self sacrificing. It would have to twist his usual nature into something more “the road to hell is paved in good intentions”

Although that’s if you want to be more canonical with his personality. I love the idea of a cocky shit head Link. Like “Excuse me Princess!” Link but make him a snarky smirking cartoon physics villain. Link but chaotic neutral to evil.

Okay now Imagine Demise Link trying to woo Hylia Zelda

happy zisu zunday!

zisu and her dog, and Werewolf Zoroark Zisu again because. werewolf. you know

My face when weight painting

Haha I jest. This is a test of the lips weight painting, which I'm still not satisfied with after six hours of tweaking. Trying to get the mouth corners to behave in the correct fashion is very annoying. I am not sure if it's a rig issue, a topology issue, or a skill issue.

I also finished the teeth, finally. I was dragging my feet hard on finishing them because the molars were relatively complicated. I tried out the multiresolution modifier and that was the solution to getting it done.

I am making decent progress on finishing the character model. I have to weight paint the rest of the face and feet and hands. Maybe I can publish something before the one year mark in October.

something something turntables

This piece has given me an epiphany. A doorway as a framing device is a neat trick to enhance the liminal feeling of a piece.

Liminality is often boiled down to a feeling of unbelonging, which is to say, the sense that you aren't supposed to be there.

For all that a space can feel unwelcoming and alien, a picture taken from inside a liminal space will always have the tiniest bit of belonging to the space. A (hypothetical, in the case of a render) person had to actually enter the space to take the picture. In the moment the shutter closes, the photographer belongs nowhere but in there.

When a photograph is taken of a liminal space through a doorway, it's like an affirmation of the liminality of the space. You don't belong and you are acknowledging that you don't belong by not entering. You're peeking at something you know you shouldn't be.

Idk if I’ve posted this yet but look!! I made a new thingy!!

Scalchop Blade

I think the model captures the style of the original. The blade material was created entirely using math nodes and some custom object properties. Some compositing would probably help but I'm not at that stage yet.