Tenryuu - Launch Date 2026 - 2K (Patreon)

My world-class ship celebrates her big day!!

Last week was Tenryuu Day !!!! We made it to another year, and Tenryuu continues to be the best girl in the whole wide world.

To come clean about my initial plans- I wanted Tenryuu to look completely different with new hand-made hairstyles and Kai and Kai Ni outfits 100% accurate to her official CG, but maaannnn, 3D modelling is hard !! It tried my best to throw it down in Blender but modeling, doing retopology and UV mapping clothes is some big brain stuff. Atleast I gave her some new eyelashes, eyebrows, and iris textures so she's plenty different in the face from last year.

Still, I ended up feeling guilty I couldn't do right by my Tenryuu, so I sorta went crazy mode and created a supersized set in the last week. And yes, it did take me many super late sleepless nights. I was holding back last year, but felt it was right to show off a lot more of her in different outfits and hairstyles. I tried to come up with a lot of different poses, expressions, scenes, and composition ideas- although a lot of my camera angles feel really similar, haha. I really like the last picture messing with her hair and outfit colors, alt colors are something I gotta play with more.Archive Link

Well, I've got another month and half until the KanColle anniversary, so I've still got a second chance to do right by here. Though, I want to give Tatsuta the same Blender treatment too. Gotta keep working hard...