Hit By the Presser (Patreon)

Bluesky/PixivMaybe Ara will run out of HP while she's stuck up there.  Even though she looks like she's peeling off, she'll just get pounded into the ground by the presser once more. Again and again. She'll definitely be there for a while.===============================================================An Explanation (For Those Who Need/Want It):The setting in this piece is based off of the Nasod Foundry level from the Altera region, which has pressers that can flatten your character. It's just one of the many scenarios that allows you to get flattened in game, but that seems to be the one that people know most based off of what I've seen. The character pose and expression is also based off of the animation that plays when Ara gets knocked down with an extra helping of fanservice. However, canonically speaking, Ara doesn't actually appear until much later at the end of Hamel, so this piece could never truly happen with her, but meeeeeh, it's fine. She can still get flattened in later scenarios and nobody plays Elsword for the story anyways.===============================================================About the Piece and My Thoughts:I made this more so as a treat for myself rather than... Well, you know. I gotta suit my own wants too, right? But I decided to release it anyways. I played Elsword NA for about four years and Void Elsword for a few months. Needless to say, I knew a lot of the ins and outs of the game back then.Anyways, modeling that presser took me a good, long while; I did it all from scratch with no ripped textures. I had to assemble the emblem on it myself and of course, I had to also model the latches afterwards. I tried to make it as faithful as I could to the in game pressers.Working with this model of Ara was actually insanely time consuming because the materials list for her was massive, really unorganized, and separated one by one. So that means I had to readjust all the textures for the model several times. The skin for her legs also wasn't able to be adjusted separately from the skin for her chest for whatever reason, but I worked around it with a bit of lighting and some Photoshop magic. However, I will say that this is the first MMD model I have worked with in Blender.===============================================================Extra Notes:I'm considering adding a section to my descriptions that will list off small details that you might not have noticed had I not said anything. There are a lot of tiny references and as someone has called them before, easter eggs that I try to include in my work if possible. I've always thought it was cool to occasionally see attentive people who notice these allusions and thus, they serve as extra treats to those familiar with the characters and their respective series.Flattening as a status effect or just in games in general has always been something I've abused on more than one occasion. Though, I kinda wish there were more Elsword flats out there, especially with how many scenarios the game has for them.===============================================================Credits:Characters: Ara, Little Devil is from Elsword.kLiR for the Little Devil model.