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Blessed by the Fire Spirit (CLOSED) (CLOSED)

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Erotama_NKOFri, May 31, 2024

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Name: Blessed by the Fire Spirit
Software Used: ZBrush, Blender, Substance Painter and DAZ3D and Photoshop. Mostly Blender.

This is my first time entering in any contest ever so, I hope I'm doing it right!
When I first stumbled upon this contest around a month ago I thought to myself "Yeah! I can probably do something." Spent a week or so coming up with ideas with most being scrapped. Good ideas are hard to come by. Still managed to finish something I really liked at the nick of time.

Basically the story I tried conveying was, Valkyries fighting the good fight for the sake of humanity but isn't doing very good at it. Hence the utterly destroyed city. And so comes the great Fire Spirit to the rescue, blessing their leader with his fiery power, being one with her sword and her so humanity can see the sun rising once again!

That's about it.

Now onto the Behind the Scene part:
The main character, the Valkyrie being blessed, is a OC character of my own made using ZBrush with the basic DAZ Model as a base. I always use her for anything personal. Forum Image

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The First Spirit:
Originally called just "Phoenix" is a model I was working on for another project but felt like my guy would work best here instead of whatever other project I was making him for and personally, I was right! Model made from a ball of clay using ZBrush. Used a lot of reference of course.
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The Wing:
I had first thought of using a Pegasus instead but, where's the room? I kept running out of room during the process. Wanted to add more dead Valkyries, More Dragons and other stuff but they felt too cluttered. So, thought of giving the Valkyrie wings!
I initially wanted to just download an asset and use it but, I could not for the life of me, find a suitable wing for free. So took the matter to my own hand and just made one. It's supposed to be a metallic wing instead of feathers. Not sure if it's noticeable in the render like most other things in the background.
Model made from a ball of clay using ZBrush. Used a lot of reference of course.
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The Dragons:
The bad guys got pretty obscured by the DOF but hey, details you can't even see are what makes a render/animation great!
Also yes, Valkyries can make their swords huge in this universe. Magic!
Also thanks DAZ Dragon 3!
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Mandatory Viewport Screenshots:
It already feels like I added way more info than needed so, instead of making the post longer than it needs to be here are some screenshots of the Blender Viewport in a single image.
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