FF LH: King Edgar Figaro of the Returners (Single era 3d anim)

[DJ Bonebraker]

Here's Edgar Figaro, King of Figaro and leader of the Returner alliance and key opponent to the Vector Empire and Kefka in FF VI (as well as a self-styled ladies man).

Update II: Even though the second version was really good (especially considering it was the third LH I ever made, and on top of that, one using the base P5 man), there were a number of things bothering me about it. First was the crappy dynamic hair, second was the fact that there is some bad flickering with the lighting in the animations and last was the lighting and some of the textures used. Now i've finally gotten the perfect hair for Edgar, and have improved my knowledge of Poser 5 textures and lighting enough to fix all the annoying bugs, and get him looking more like Edgar.

Click on the preview to download:


Update: Since I really didn't like the way the first attempt turned out, I decided to re-do this LH and change what I didn't like about it.

Fwd FLC & PCX files

The Revers FLC file

Returner Civ Info:

Noun: Returners
Adjective: Returner

Title: King

Name: Edgar

Traits: Industrious, Religious (Expansionist)

Free techs: Masonry, Ceremonial Burial (Pottery)

Culture Group: European

Color: Dark Blue/Dark Purple

Military Leaders:

Banon
Locke Cole
Sabin Figaro
Cyan Garamonde
Umaro
Shadow
Vargas
Duncan
Gau

Scientific Leaders:

Strago Magus
Terra Branford
Relm Arrowny
Setzer Gabbiani
Mog

Cities:

Figaro Castle
Returner's Hideout
South Figaro
Narshe
Sabin's Cabin
Mt. Kolts
Doma Castle
Duncan's Manor
Phantom Forest
House in the Veldt
Baren Falls
The Ancient Castle
Thamasa
Phoenix Cave
Esperville
Veldt
Darill's Tomb
Solitary Island

Unique units: Retuner (Smoking Mirror's Blue Uniformed Imperial Trooper from his WH 40K pack), Narshe Guard (CamJH's Red Shield from his Aielman Pack), and/or the Esperling (see my unit library entry)

Preview:

 

[hIdDeN_eViL]

not bad, but blue armour???
first reply

btw, why is the extension .zip if it is a RAR file?

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

To answer your first question, Edgar's armor was blue in FF VI, so I copied it.

To answer the second one: For some reason the powers that be decided that .rar was not a valid file extension for the upload service, so in order to be able to upload the file, I had to change the extension to .zip.

 

[hIdDeN_eViL]

what?
no RAR files but they allow ACE?
that doesn't seem right

 

[Stonebear]

As an FF-crazed game nut I can Back Hikaro up, Edgar's armor was royal blue with gold trim. He also wore a grayish cloak, but that's just another layer to animate. I would not though that his head looks a little small and his face somewhat... well sickly. I know you're cranking out these animations, but the guy is supposed to be a ladies' man.
And just to be a nit-picky pain in the butt.... Banon was the leader of the Returners. Of course there wouldn't be any Returners without the financial support of Figaro.

 

[Hrafnkell]

I'm not all that familiar with Final Fantasy but that's a very striking leaderhead. Well done! Talk about piercing blue eyes!

 

[odintheking]

Looks like a blue, Greekish-blonehaired Sid Meier. Creepy, but cool,

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Whelp, the reason I'm bumping this thread is because I decided I didn't like the way the first version of this LH turned out, so I re-did a few things (the face mostly) so that Edgar looks like Edgar and not Sid Meiers long lost cousin.

Before and after pics:

 

[Stonebear]

You had to go and fix him. Now I gotta bother with retracting my prior statement and praising the new version. I mean it's so much effort to post twice in the same thread. Curse you people who make free files with which to enhance our games.

ok I think I purged enough sarcasm for the day

 

[Snorken]

Looks great, much better than the first one!

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

OK, I ve got an updated version done... see first post for a list of changes.

Edit: W00T! 3000 posts!

 

[odintheking]

I swear, you've redone this guy a million times. Looks good, though.

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

only three But this will be the last time, since I'm quite happy with how he turned out this time.... looks almost exactly like the FMV version of Edgar.... and you can actually see his ponytail this time around too!