Event Portraits

[MiKeMiTchi]

Zalbie's face angle looks odd there, jimmy.

[jimmyjw88]

Hmm....Alright. Then back to the original Zalbag angle. ^^

[Fein]

If the mouth is any smaller, it will just be a grey dot, it just doesn't look right. Having the wider mouth is better imo.

[mav]

We could always stick with closed mouths--it's hard to tell whether the Zalbag I posted is shouting, commanding, or shocked. Hell, I made the portrait and I don't even know...

[MiKeMiTchi]

IMO I think we don't need a commanding Zalbie portrait. His face looks already commanding to me (vanilla).

[Archael]

still looks awkward to me

[Sephirot24]

still looks awkward to me

Yup. Open mouths and FFT styled portraits don't get along too well.

Good try though jimmy!

[MiKeMiTchi]

I wish LD could show us how these custom portraits work in-game..
It'll help us.

Hmm.. patience..

[mav]

IMO I think we don't need a commanding Zalbie portrait. His face looks already commanding to me (vanilla).

I figure LD meant a portrait showing Zalbag as he was literally giving a command (hence the open mouth), but yes, I too think Zalbag had a very commanding presence. Just ask Teta.

[MiKeMiTchi]

Okay, I will ask her. lol.

[jimmyjw88]

Haha. Yeah, I think so too. All the open-mouth attempts aren't working. Hmm...Just what seems to be the problem? Hmm....
Anyway, another try because I really hope to see an open-mouth portrait in action ^^

[MiKeMiTchi]

The problem is the ANATOMY.
It looks odd for a face to like like that in FFT.

If we try open mouth, then the chin should go down, too.
The jaw should move, too.

[jimmyjw88]

Ah yes, the jaw. No wonder kept looking weird. But still, with the mouth problem, I think with jaw moved, it'll still look weird. Well, have to try to know ^^

[mav]

Shaping the mouth itself is tedious--can't be too circular or shaped strangely either...It's not as simple as smiles...

[Zozma]

-_- i donno guys, i think its not FFT style to even have emotional portraits like this.

only something drastic like fatally injured characters

[jimmyjw88]

Hmm....yea. Even fatally injured, the mouth only open a little bit, which isn't as tough as this. I guess we should stick to original Zalbag?

[LastingDawn]

I don't know about that Zozma... as I said War of the Lions makes the emotions look natural in it's cutscenes. If that is used as a base, it could work.

[jimmyjw88]

Hmm...though so far, we seen small open-mouth in the scenes not big open-mouth which what we all are trying to do here. Perhaps we try small mouth, like the scene, what Sir LD said, use them as a base?

[LastingDawn]

Open mouths are not 100% neccessary take a look at Mike's early work, alot of them are change of expression in the eyes, some can just be change of positioning of the portrait, with an expression.

[Sephirot24]

Ok, here's my wild try. To the left is mine, and to the right the one jimmy did that I liked the most. I did it just for the hell of it =P