FFVII: AC Sushi

Done for a fanart contest (TCSJ Anime Fest) held at my old college X3

[EDIT]
I won the contest! X3
Now I am RM100 richer!

Phew. It's finally DONE! I haven't CGed something this HUGE since the FFAC poster WAY back in 2004 XD This time, things moved faster and I'm REALLY happy with the colouring this time. All those days of tinkering around with skintone etc have paid off!

This took about a month because at first they didn't allow digital art into the contest, then they changed their minds. The hardest part was laying out everything and getting the details down. I wanted to play with scale and that's why there's giant sushi everywhere XD

Sephiroth didn't make a proper appearance in the last poster I did, so here he is, in his gorgeous glory! I actually wanted to put him snatching the sushi with chopsticks but it messed up the layout too much so I just left him... lurking in the background XD I felt this could use a small Vincent in there somewhere but oh wells. Maybe next time.

I got the idea for this when I was watching the English dub of FFAC on Animax XD Some of the translated lines are really good! Cloud's array of swords slicin' and dicin' was the inspiration for this X3

Done in OC4 Plus and PSP7. I'm posting the reduced version here (no plagiarism) but here's some closeups:
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The new submission format SUCKS! The intermediate one they had going there for awhile is so much better T_T