[Daily Doodle] FF: The Spirits Within - Jane Proudfoot

[justira]

@ff_press: [FF: The Spirits Within] justira: Jane Proudfoot (G)

Daily Doodle: After my completely ridiculous travails of yesternight (this morning, really), something that's not so.... overwrought. SO.

I adore Spirits Within, unlike, apparently, anyone with any taste in movies, any TRUE FINAL FANTASY FAN, and so on and so forth. After this last round of DOINK! I particularly enjoy Jane — and I've particularly noticed how much awesome Jane is (in the background) during the movie itself. She's smart, decisive, competent, snarky. Watch when Aki is being carted away from retrieving the ovo-pack near the middle of the film: when Aki wakes up and gets shot, it's Jane who kicks the idiot's ass. A LOT. That sort of thing. Now if only she and Aki had actually talked to each other.

Unfortunately, there's not really much of anything distinctive about her character design. She's basically The Girl. The male Deep Eyes all have completely different facial structures; Jane looks largely like any other CG lady, especially without a distinctive hairstyle like Aki has.

So this was kinda hard, especially as my realism resemblance abilities are pretty unreliable. But it was fun and much less tortured than yesterday's doodle.
Time: 10-15 mins

Comments

[novel_machinist]

The expression is amazing here. I can't really give you a helpful critic.

[darthneko]

Yaaay, another TSW fan! ^____^ And I think you did a really good job on the pic - yes, her design was generic, but your drawing is anything but while still being recognizable as her - which I have no idea how you did that, but it's really cool. She's her, and also very distinctive. That's awesome.

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

Jane! Yes!

I have trouble with the movie because it's too icky-scary for my delicate stomach, but then I can't handle the monsters with abnormal head structures (or lack of heads) in FXII, so that has nothing to do with good/bad story characters.

It may be a bit generic, but the eyes and nose are great. Lips look slightly less 3D to me, and I don't know why. I love the shine of the eyes.

And the dubious-Jane expression.

[shanaqui]

Heee, I love The Spirits Within. I wish more had been done with Jane. I should rewatch it and write more Jane fic...

[crankyoldman]

I also liked TSW, so don't be ashamed. XD It was actually my first encounter with Final Fantasy at all; I worked at a movie theater (my first job) when it came out, and used to watch it during my breaks. I was really taken with it, and a guy I was friends with at the time told me it was from a company that normally made video games and offered to have me come over and play them. Didn't take him up on the offer until years later when we'd gotten married...only good thing to come out of that, but that's how I played FFVII and eventually others!

Anyway, LONG STORY DONE, this really looks very much like her, despite her generic design! GOOD JOB.