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Hey guys, Orinocou here (again). Perhaps a few of you remember when I asked for your help a few months ago? Back then, I was drawing the scene where Terra first encounters Tritoch and reacts with him somehow... and needed help visualizing what actually happens in that part, because the details were a little sketchy in the video game.

Long story short, your ideas helped me a lot, and I am finally finished with that scene. The final decision I went with is as follows:

When Vicks, Wedge, and Terra approach Tritoch,

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he uses his magic to kill the soldiers.

The effects of the magic also neutralize the Slave Crown on Terra's head, so she becomes partly-conscious for a few moments. She approaches the esper and inadvertently creates a psychic-connection-thingie with him. The energy from this connection makes the Magitek armor go haywire, and it breaks down. The scene ends in a bunch of explosions.

I hope this is clear in the comic. Again, thanks for all your help, guys! I even put a link to the CoN on my front page. You can check it out here: The FF6c.

Take care, now!

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Looks good. Are you doing all the coloring in photoshop?

A few tiny gripes though. The soldier says 'Returner scum' to the Narshean guards even though Narshe is not in league with the Returners at this point. Also, Terra's hair looks too short and fly away in some of the scenes. Though her looks may change now that she is free of the slave crown. Also, if you added some eye lashes she'd look more femanine. Just some things to consider.

Glad I was able to be of some help. If you need any more ideas just post and I will try to answer as best I can.

You know, Frozen_Aura, it's funny that you should mention the "Returner Scum" thing. I had caught that mistake while I was making the page, but it was too late to go back and change the dialogue, so I left it be, thinking that no one would catch the error. Unfortunately, a couple of people have caught it... oh, well.

Terra's character design is a little different here than you'd regularly picture her. I made the choice for give her curly hair, for one thing. How long do you imagine her hair to be?

Also, I think I'll keep that eyelashes idea in mind for next time I draw her.

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You know, Frozen_Aura, it's funny that you should mention the "Returner Scum" thing. I had caught that mistake while I was making the page, but it was too late to go back and change the dialogue, so I left it be, thinking that no one would catch the error. Unfortunately, a couple of people have caught it... oh, well.

Terra's character design is a little different here than you'd regularly picture her. I made the choice for give her curly hair, for one thing. How long do you imagine her hair to be?

Also, I think I'll keep that eyelashes idea in mind for next time I draw her.

You could chalk it up to that character's personal prejudices. Maybe he's a hardcore Imperial supporter and equates any resistance to the Empire with the Returners whether it's true or not.

Great work on your comic so far though! Please keep updating it!

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Terra looks a little too masculin

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Terra looks a little too masculin

Terra Branford
Robert Plant

Separated at birth?

I like the eyelashes idea too but whatever you do I think you should keep working on the comic, working on a long term project is also a good way to improve your skills as an artist.

Plus I like the comic.

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Quote (Dark Paladin Danny @ 1st October 2007 11:41)

Terra looks a little too masculin

Terra Branford
Robert Plant

Separated at birth?

Bwaa ha ha! Excellent! Yeah, thought I'd have a bit of fun in giving her a bed head. So, who's Robert Plant?

Also, Dark Paladin, if by masculine you mean creepy shots like this one, I was trying her to look more demonic than masculine.

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I meant the way her face seems more or less rather male

I liked her in that one, that one looked effective

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Quote (Dark Paladin Danny @ 1st October 2007 11:41)

Terra looks a little too masculin

Terra Branford
Robert Plant

Separated at birth?

Bwaa ha ha! Excellent! Yeah, thought I'd have a bit of fun in giving her a bed head. So, who's Robert Plant?

Also, Dark Paladin, if by masculine you mean creepy shots like this one, I was trying her to look more demonic than masculine.

Robert Plant was the lead singer for Led Zeppelin.

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Quote (Dark Paladin Danny @ 3rd October 2007 13:43)

I meant the way her face seems more or less rather male

I liked her in that one, that one looked effective

Uh-oh. We can't have Terra with a man-face, now can we? I'll have to work on that one. Maybe add eyelashes, as someone suggested.

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Out of curiosity why did you give the narshe gaurds guns? when you fight them in the game they have a sickle or a claw like thing, but no guns, i dont think anyone has guns in the game. Also terra looks really......butch. The other thing i want to note is that you missed a line in the last one, it goes from her waking up to arvis tellin here thats amazing, she never said her name.

Good start though, might want to work on some of the non game daialog though so it isnt so corny. But still good start.

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Out of curiosity why did you give the narshe gaurds guns?

In the Playstation's anthology version, there are some CG movies that you can access after beating the game once. In one of these movies is a scene with Narshean guards firing rifles at the m-tek armors as they storm the streets. This is not found in the SNES version.

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Out of curiosity why did you give the narshe gaurds guns? when you fight them in the game they have a sickle or a claw like thing, but no guns, i dont think anyone has guns in the game. Also terra looks really......butch. The other thing i want to note is that you missed a line in the last one, it goes from her waking up to arvis tellin here thats amazing, she never said her name.

Good start though, might want to work on some of the non game daialog though so it isnt so corny. But still good start.

Frozen_Aura's got it. I saw guns in the CG movies, so the soldiers get guns. I had a couple other reasons, too: First, the game's intro mentions that gunpowder has been rediscovered, so I figure that means firearms. Second, the presence of those crazy magitek machines leads me to believe that the world's technology has reached (and surpassed) the invention of guns.

Which totally doesn't make sense because none of the main characters get guns; they have to fight with swords and paintbrushes. Go figure. But I'm probably reading too much into it, dork that I am.

I'm really surprised to hear that people think Terra looks butch. Maybe I should've given her hair on her upper lip to complete the image?

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I'll admit my expectations weren't very high when I read that this was an "FF VI comic adaptation", but it actually looks very solid. Nice work. Terra does look a *little* on the mannish side, but it's not as bad as the previous posters implied. Just make her shoulders a bit more slender while keeping her figure and give her more ladylike lashes and lips - it looks very good right now, but those touches would probably create fewer "looks like a dude" comments.

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You're even doing the character introduction with the black background! Awesome!

That page looks great by the way. :3

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I'll admit my expectations weren't very high when I read that this was an "FF VI comic adaptation", but it actually looks very solid. Nice work. Terra does look a *little* on the mannish side, but it's not as bad as the previous posters implied. Just make her shoulders a bit more slender while keeping her figure and give her more ladylike lashes and lips - it looks very good right now, but those touches would probably create fewer "looks like a dude" comments.

This man-faced Terra idea really has me confused. I kind of thought she looked pretty girly, all things considered. But I'm so glad to be hearing everyone's ideas. Just watch... I'm going to overdo the womanliness and give Locke a very effeminate face.

Glad you like the adaptation, laszlow.

Strideo, those character introductions just wouldn't look right without a black background, eh?

Hope that pendant doesn't look out of place.

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I love how Terra looks in the character intro. Keep it up.

Yeah, like Laszlow, when I saw "FFVI comic" I was thinking "zomg some noob with no talent lol" but I have to say I'm impressed. There's a lot of room for improvement, but its looking pretty good so far.

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I love how Terra looks in the character intro. Keep it up.

Yeah, like Laszlow, when I saw "FFVI comic" I was thinking "zomg some noob with no talent lol" but I have to say I'm impressed.

WE WANT MORE EDGAR

Looks like the topic got moved. Sorry, guys! Didn't meant to post in the wrong spot.

And as anyone who's tried it can tell you, Edgar is a b***h to draw.
But who says I'm not a noob with no talent?

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The man-face issue so far as I can tell is just a problem with basic face construction. The features (eyes, nose, etc) tend to swim about the face from panel to panel, but are generally shown too high above the face, which is a more masculine feature. She also shows quite a bit of jaw, which is another trait more common in a male. Just in general, there's a lack of construction for the face, but the neck is spot on.



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Just in general, there's a lack of construction for the face...

Ouch. Now there's a blow to the skills I thought I had. Still, I'm grateful for your suggestions and the guidelines you've shown on those panels. I will keep your ideas in mind the next time I draw a page (I'm up to pg. 30 now!)

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i like it. there is the issue of terra's face, which looks pretty good at some points and not as good at others. im guessing you plan on doing the entire game... long ways, good luck.

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About the last panel, wasn't it the Narshe guards who came looking for Terra? It looks like imperials at the door. Or am I just confused?

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I've seen so many fanart and read quiet a few comics like this to say that the art work doesn't really bother me about the comic (but I will admit that it could be improved on in a lot of ways). One of the best parts of most fanfics and comics that I've ever read is when they get down to the hard-core boss fights were they fight a monster that, in stories, are almost impossible to beat and the heroes almost can't beat them. And your comic just completely skipped the battle with the Whelk. Thats the only thing about this comic that ever really bothered me so far but thats just my opinion.

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And your comic just completely skipped the battle with the Whelk

however, when we look to the plot importance of whelk... or better said, lack of. if my guess is correct, orinocou is eliminating encounters that don't influence the storyline whatsoever.

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however, when we look to the plot importance of whelk... or better said, lack of. if my guess is correct, orinocou is eliminating encounters that don't influence the storyline whatsoever

But it is kinda important because the Whelk was guarding the mines.

Oh yeah. Doesnt Locke have Grey/White hair?

This post has been edited by BanjoTheClown on 10th October 2007 00:48

I considered including the battle with Whelk, but cut it out for several reasons: First, it didn't really advance the plot: I think the programmers made you fight Whelk just so you could get more familiar with the battle screen. Second, the Whelk scene would have come right after the part where the Magitek soldiers whale on the Narshe guards, so I felt that there was already an opportunity to show off the M-tek's sweet (hah!) moves. Finally, I gotta admit I was getting tired of drawing the M-tek machines, and was eager to get out of the mines and on with the story.

BanjotheClown: Locke is one of those characters who has had many changes in appearance. I chose to make him a brunette (what's the masculine form of that word?) because we're already going to have six blondes in the story. Count 'em!
As for Locke having grey/white hair, I don't know where people get that idea. From the sprite?

Strideo: They're imperials at the door. I'm going off of the SNES version, so things might be different for Anthology and Advance; I don't know.

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As for Locke having grey/white hair, I don't know where people get that idea.

Yeah...me either.



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I'mma go ahead and call that color either dirty blonde or light brown. Not grey, certainly not white.

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I could see why people would think it was grey though. It's so pale. A lot of cosplayers wear grey wigs when cosplaying Locke.

In the Final Fantasy VI Technology Demo for SGI they went totally brown with Locke's hair so there is some official precedent for portraying him with brown hair.

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I could see why people would think it was grey though. It's so pale. A lot of cosplayers wear grey wigs when cosplaying Locke.

In the Final Fantasy VI Technology Demo for SGI they went totally brown with Locke's hair so there is some official precedent for portraying him with brown hair.

This is actually the first time I've seen this video all the way through. I've only ever seen screencaps. But yeah, you have a point. Locke has brown hair. Also, that he gets blasted back within the first 20 seconds of the fight is really comical to watch.

Then again, I guess we shouldn't take the coloring of the characters in this video *too* seriously, because Terra there is sporting blonde hair. But whatever.


And to be fair, yeah, I can understand how people can see grey hair in those pictures of Locke above. I guess it's sort of a "grey" area, pun intended.

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