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Presenting THE COOLEST Cid incarnation Final Fantasy EVER produced! Seriously, this guy rocks. He's my favorite anime character out there, and I figured it's about time I did him some fanart justice.
Cid just cracks me up. He's so cheerful and energetic and obsessed with his machines. He's an inventor/pilot/mechanic that works wonders with anything mechanical. His inventions all bear girl names (like Jane and Elizabeth), and don't you DARE break them, because then you wake up Cid's normally hidden temper and he'll go medieval on your backside. When that happens, his backpack/laptop (that weird mech vest he wears) activates and he pulls all kind of random gadgets out, from robo arms to the gigantic hammers you see in my pic. And in reality, the hammers are supposed to be a whole lot bigger than that. >_O
Final Fantasy Unlimited itself was a great and horrible anime at the same time. It had SO much potential, but because they cut it from the intended 52 eps down to 25 (because of low viewership), it left out a lot, didn't develop character, and just kinda fizzled. That, and the cell animation STANK to high heaven, a total bummer because the studio normally does great art (hey, you think maybe THAT'S why they had low viewership? DUH!! -_-)
In any case, I drew this up realizing I didn't have any Cid art yet. At least not colored. I did a pencil sketch ages ago, but looking back on it now a few years later it...well, reeks. This is much better. I used coloration from screenshots that I have. There are two things wrong with it though, that I did on purpose. One, when he goes battle-mode, he normally pulls his visor down FIRST, while here I depict him just starting to do that AFTER he activates his magnetic hammers. Two, his laptop isn't down, and the joysticks he uses to control the hammers aren't out either. This I avoided because it didn't fit the pose, and because it just looked too akward. Maybe I'll show it in a later pic.
I also tried out a WAY cool tutorial I found online for fancy backgrounds. I melded it with some cloud paintbrushes, and voila! A techno-cool background! Maybe I'll use this method for whenever I do Edward Elric (Full Metal Alchemist) fanart.

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Presenting THE COOLEST Cid incarnation Final Fantasy EVER produced! Seriously, this guy rocks. He's my favorite anime character out there, and I figured it's about time I did him some fanart justice.
Cid just cracks me up. He's so cheerful and energetic and obsessed with his machines. He's an inventor/pilot/mechanic that works wonders with anything mechanical. His inventions all bear girl names (like Jane and Elizabeth), and don't you DARE break them, because then you wake up Cid's normally hidden temper and he'll go medieval on your backside. When that happens, his backpack/laptop (that weird mech vest he wears) activates and he pulls all kind of random gadgets out, from robo arms to the gigantic hammers you see in my pic. And in reality, the hammers are supposed to be a whole lot bigger than that. >_O
Final Fantasy Unlimited itself was a great and horrible anime at the same time. It had SO much potential, but because they cut it from the intended 52 eps down to 25 (because of low viewership), it left out a lot, didn't develop character, and just kinda fizzled. That, and the cell animation STANK to high heaven, a total bummer because the studio normally does great art (hey, you think maybe THAT'S why they had low viewership? DUH!! -_-)
In any case, I drew this up realizing I didn't have any Cid art yet. At least not colored. I did a pencil sketch ages ago, but looking back on it now a few years later it...well, reeks. This is much better. I used coloration from screenshots that I have. There are two things wrong with it though, that I did on purpose. One, when he goes battle-mode, he normally pulls his visor down FIRST, while here I depict him just starting to do that AFTER he activates his magnetic hammers. Two, his laptop isn't down, and the joysticks he uses to control the hammers aren't out either. This I avoided because it didn't fit the pose, and because it just looked too akward. Maybe I'll show it in a later pic.
I also tried out a WAY cool tutorial I found online for fancy backgrounds. I melded it with some cloud paintbrushes, and voila! A techno-cool background! Maybe I'll use this method for whenever I do Edward Elric (Full Metal Alchemist) fanart.