The Domain Discarded Fireworks Maker (Patreon)

Bluesky/PixivI kinda like to think that the Traveler got so used to running domains over and over that it took a few runs to realize something was very different.===============================================================Artist's Journal:- Inspiration: The Traveler is ready get some talent materials with plenty of resin. ...Err, what? What's that by the stairs?• I was actually given a lot of artistic freedom to make this piece. The original concept was that the Traveler would find Yoimiya somewhere in the open world (Which I would probably have given flavor text on top of including a couple of in game UI elements to suggest that the commission currently being taken was Playing With Fire... Works to tie it together to Yoimiya), but I recalled that I had recently come into acquisition of two of the Inazuman domains, one of which ended up being selected for the choice of background once I brought it up.• Additional ideas that got drafted up before the domain was ultimately selected as the setting included Yoimiya being rolled over on accident by Sayu, her being careless with lifting around supplies while helping Ryuunosuke/Thoma (Both of which were based solely off her character demo), and finally, Yoimiya having a hefty fireworks accident while tinkering with new material (Which DaAussie came up with), which was a close second to being picked.- What I thought would be a small job actually had a lot of issues surrounding it.• I seriously underestimated the adjustment of Lumine's dress due to the fact that she's crouched down (Which was done to allow a closer zoom in for Yoimiya). Folding it properly against the ground took a lot of work and even some manual sculpting to fix the clipping as well as smoothen the folds out. I consulted a friend of mine to get their opinion after my first try and afterwards, had a completely separate session to redo it, but I heavily improved it by doing so.• As a recreation, I sought to replicate the domain's lighting to a T. I realized that that very same lighting wasn't sufficient to make Lumine and Yoimiya visible enough, so I had to render them and Yoimiya's bow separately. On top of that, due to them all being in close proximity with one another, lighting one of them would often interfere with the shadows of another, so I also had to separate those as well to adjust them accordingly. In summary, several renders had to be stitched together in order to form the full, proper picture.• Due to the way Yoimiya's model was constructed, there were two spots (Specifically where the bandages are) where meshes overlapped too closely, thus making the overlapped areas appear black. Completely distracted by the other issues, I accidentally forgot to account for one of these overlaps after a lot of work had already been done, so one extra rerender was needed. Thankfully, this was quite minor in comparison to the other two glaring problems I just mentioned.• Lately, pressing down on my scroll wheel has been very inconsistent (And if you have any knowledge of default Blender controls, you'd understand why) which got annoying reaaaaal fast.===============================================================Trivia:1. In Universe:- Violet Court is the domain for grinding Inazuman character talent level up materials.- The discarded bow in the bottom right corner is the Hamayumi, which Yoimiya is depicted holding in her official art.2. Personal:- There's an interesting, but small chain of events that's behind how this originally got made...• I had a dream where DaAussie told me about some new Mario Party that released with four different types of flattenings (Probably got subconsciously influenced by this picture of Rosalina at the time), but when I went to go try it out, Yoimiya was the one on the receiving end of it all.• The pose she has in the picture was what stuck out to me the most out of my dream and I ended up drafting a rough version of it with an unfixed Yoimiya which I sent to the commissioner. It ended up influencing them pretty heavily, enough to the point of wanting it to be made official.===============================================================Credits:- Characters Used: Lumine and Naganohara Yoimiya (Genshin Impact).- Commissioner: Anonymous.