DanSyron

RAINE - OC design commission

Added 2025-08-26 14:58:32 +0000 UTC

Hola everyone!

First post in a while, but my August was very full of driving to other parts of the country. That mentioned, please take a look at this:

In early june I was commissioned to create someone an OC with the general ideas surrounding FFIX, Burmecians, and a similar but derivative take on Freya Crescent for someone in my server. Seemed fun so I jumped.

I took some time and reduced the Burmecian/Freya components down to their bare foundations, pulling from the base concept art from the game, processing the original themes from the game's area surrounding Burmecians and their city, and distilling my own take on them but imbuing the idea with my own flavor of how I approach ratkin characters. Using themes surrounding water, moroccan traditional wear and jewelry, and my slight bent on some of the modern/tech flavorings, I created Raine.

I threw in some of the design sheets of elements I wanted to add to their design, really bringing in the idea of textiles with ornate patterns, silks, and the shape language I wanted to keep from the Burmecian concepts but pushing my own preferences as well. the flow of the outfit was derived lightly from the Burmecian dancer concepts from FFIX but extrapolated into a solarpunk wear to give a heftier character anchoring.

Overall very fun commission, I don't usually receive opportunities to design other people's characters for them.