Under sun and sky

While I'm waiting for permission to publicly release Draki from the authors of the assets included in his package, I have resumed an old project started in 2014 for another member of my crew, Constantine the Redguard. He is probably the most anticipated of my characters and I'm glad I finally have the time to work on him. I'm not completely happy with the shape of his face - so I suppose I'll have to remodel it in the Construction Set - but I'm proud of his texture, especially now that I've mended the neck seam and improved eyebrows and other small details.

I can't decide whether I should release him as a companion or as a player character. In the latter case I don't think it would take too long to finish him. Of course there would be more to do than just flagging his custom race as playable but it certainly wouldn't require months like turning him into a companion, On the other hand a companion is far more ambitious but seeing your creation moving and speaking is a lot more rewarding.

Constantine doesn't have a background story yet, I'm open to suggestions here, also because I don't know much about Redguards and their culture. So, if anybody feels like writing his story entirely and wants to submit it to me, they're more than welcome.

My dear friend Robert has taken several screenshots of my characters lately... and I thought it was a shame not to make them public, so I asked him for permission to collect them here in this post. Thank you Robert for your tribute to my characters, you really know how to make them shine!!!

This is a preview picture of the Dealer Robe I'm currently working on. What was supposed to be a simple task turned into hell when I came to the rigging part. I had to strive to get it right, I was also on the point of dropping the project. Glad I'm stubborn and kept on trying until I managed to fix everything. The skinning is now far from perfect but decent enough for a public release. Here you can also see the Staff of Eden from AC - not included.

Current status: ready for public release
Items included: robe, mask, tiara and earrings
Estimated release date: thursday, September 24, 2015

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A couple of weeks ago Mahtawa asked me to take screenshots of Avelyn wearing the One-Piece bathsuit by Ziitch. I uploaded the outcome of my long photosession at the beach on the gold coast over at the Nexus, proud of the results. But my expectations were let down when some people began to take a dig at Eli's swimsuit - he's in the set with Avelyn - complaining about the fact that his buns were too much exposed! Well, truthfully I can't see anything indecent in my design, it's just an ordinary pair of briefs. On the contrary Avelyn's outfit is a lot skimpier, but of course noone said a word about that. It's the same old theme... when it comes to male stuff dissing starts. It's so annoying...

Well anyway, there's a lot more to see in these screenshots than a male butt:

• ZKEC Sexy One-Piece by Ziitch
• model Avelyn by Mahtawa - not shared publicly
• my player character Eli - coming up
• Atmospheres 3 by Discovery
• Oblivion Reloaded by Alenet
• Summer ENB by Naritete

Just a preview of some of my current WIPs: Redguard Companion Constantine and Malik's Armor. I've been wanting to create a Redguard character for years and finally he's here. The name Constantine might be temporary but his appereance is decided. I've ported Malik's armor from Prince of Persia for him. This was with no doubt the most tedious porting I've ever done. What I thought to be an easy task became incredibly tricky, instead. The proportions of the original body were absurd, the legs, in particular, were excessively long. And the pauldrons... oh my god! A hell! Now it's decent but not perfect, the legs still fold ackwardly but luckily it's not so noticeable. I'll leave it like this at least for the moment, I think it's not possible to do better than this. Porting the sword now.

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Dlesang has recently made a replacer for the Shrouded Armor which has never been exactly one of my favorites. I like his version a lot more, it is very well done. There is just some rigging problems with the spikes which will come off the arms, for instance, with certain poses. But that's not particularly annoying and besides that this armor looks great! I thought I'd take some screenshots and show them here.




If you want to add the Dark Brotherhood armor straight to your inventory use the following console codes:

• Player.AddItem 000347F7 1 (Shrouded Armor)
• Player.AddItem 000347F4 1 (Shrouded Hood)

This is my main Character, Eli Bosco. I've been pretty happy with his face for a long time but lately I've been feeling like he's missing something, so I have decided to change his hairstyle to something more eccentric. Now I'd love to give him some nice and unique facial feature. Any suggestions are appreciated!

Background story:

Eli is about 20 years old. He was raised by his grandfather, an old fisherman from Anvil, so he spent most of his childhood and adolescence out in the sea, at the harbor and at the fish market. Later his grandfather became ill but before he died he revealed Eli that he had an older brother called Kyle. At this point Eli left Anvil and started a journey to uncover his origins and find his brother without any clue, except knowing that Kyle has a feature called heterochromia, meaning that his eyes have different color. It is unclear whether the old man was actually Eli's grandfather or not. Eli also has a girlfriend named Lavinia who is about the same age.