🏹 Sage of Sea 🏹

Hullo Zelda Amino!!

That's right: two blogs in one day! It likely won't happen again anytime soon ^^"

As I mentioned in my last blog, I decided to take a short break from working on "the Balatro Batch" to work on a different kind of attack, which I genuinely expected would take me longer than it did (hence another blog so soon)

So what is this different attack? Well, it's still pixel art (don't worry, I have another attack planned that *isn't* just pixel art), but this time it's a sprite edit for the one and only Sage using her OC Octavia!!

I had another idea in mind for my attack on Sage, but the idea kinda fell through and led me to think of a backup plan; in this case, using the sprites from Cadence of Hyrule! I personally haven't finished the game, but I did the lute being an important element of the plot and therefore decided it would fit Octavia and her instrument extremely well. I will say I was genuinely surprised when I saw that there were sprites of every playable character with the lute, as I was fully expecting I would need to stitch different sprite sheets together to create my base, but luckily I only needed to reference Zelda's!!

...did I say "a" sprite edit earlier? Yeah, I lied. I have two:

This one was purely because the first edit was so quick to make (and I didn't feel like I was transforming the original sprites enough), so I decided to make another animation. The gradient on the hair isn't quite as clean as I had to apply motion, but I think it still looks alright!!

And here are the individual frames for both animations:

I did have the idea to combine the two animations, but that would require I make my own animation of Octavia pulling out the lute, and I'm not quite at that level just yet... perhaps one day.

Until next time...

#TeamBow