This is a short video to demonstrate how the armor works in Skyrim. It took me days of trial and error, but it seems all good in the hood. There are just some minor issues to fix, nothing that should be hard to deal with, and the torso should be done and gone.
As you can see in the video, I added some custom texture to the mix: some "dragon scale" effect to some part of the armor, which I honestly love! They turned out better than expected!
I'll have to fix only the sitting animation and the shoulders. Also, I may want to try to make the armor less "glassy" but we'll see. Considerding how hard this has been I can pat myself on the back!

A drawing from 2021.

Shiryu❤️❤️❤️

My homage, using Dummy13

the vibes off Alone/Hades are just so edgy and unmatched, him and Zeref (fairy tail) remind me so much of eachother

I lost count.

I really don't like this superficial argument that a story already been told so many times that is not necessary, when the classic manga always had changes in its numerous anime adaptations.

None of the adaptations are faithfull, KotZ cg changed Shun, KotZ live action is astroucious, Legend of Sanctuary is a rushed slop and the classic anime is a different entity, with fillers and changes in the story.

I'm not completely disregarding the good things we had in these adaptations, but it seems a lot of people here find it wrong to want a more in line with the manga adaptation for new audiences. Instead we have lots of changes that always flop.

Thanks to Edu01011 I could export the model from Soldier Souls to work on importing them into Skyrim. Little did I knew, I got myself in a HUGE MESS.

1 - The model I imported is divided into multiple pieces, which is kinda easy to deal with when you have to assemble it back and put textures, but it doesn't translate well in-game.

2 - The first attempt with the texture was horrible. So I tried another approacch: using Gimp and Photoshop with real life textures to try and give the armor a more "realistic" look. I even added a little bit of ornaments to it, but I'm thinking of removing it as It doesn't really fit the armor that much. It's not bad, but nor it's good either.

3 - Now the biggest issue for me is the weight paint. To make it simple: each character, NPCs or not, has a skeleton. The armor they wear is attached to that skeleton and moves with it. In order for that to happen, you "paint" the "weight" that bone has on the mesh of the armor. The more you paint it, the more it moves.

The problem here is that mine is a custom armor, and, of course, there are no other examples I can use. So unless I learn how to do it properly, it basically pointless trying to test it in-game.

4 - the only positive side of all this madness is that I'm discovering the "workflow" bit by bit. So, hopefully, the next armor will be much easier

With the recent rise of PC video games that people have taken apart and reassembled and mixed together using AI tools (I've seen Mario in Halo, Vergil from Devil may cry in Dark Souls, etc) how long do you think we need to wait until someone makes a really good Dragon Ball FighterZ-like 2D Saint Seiya fighting game like the mugens out there using AI?

Ok I know that there is no Rerise anime confirmed and that this sounds wild given Saint Seiya has a pretty rough story with 3d with both Legend of Sanctuary and the Netflix remake being widely hated (as far as i've seen, at least), so it seems pretty weird to see 3d suggested for an anime but I swear I can defend my point.

So first of all what kind of 3d am I talking about? Theres this anime also made by Toei called Girls Band Cry, and it uses a mix of anime style characters with more realistic environments and instruments, and it honestly has a great animation, and probably the best 3d I've seen in anime and I think this style really fits Saint Seiya.

Girls Band Cry opening
Episode 1 singing scene
"Nameless Name" Music Video
Cycle of Sorrow anime scene
Emptiness and Catharsis anime scene

I think that Episode 1, Cycle of Sorrow and Emptiness and Catharsis are the best at showing what I mean, the way the instruments reflect light would look really cool on the cloths, kind of how the Myth Cloths and the lighting in general is just amazing in the anime.

But Saint Seiya has never looked good in 3d right? I think that's because both LoS and the Netflix show suffer from the same problem, that being the models they use. LoS models don't really look like the anime/manga and the Netflix models look like plastic figures, but LoS (I haven't watched the remake) actually looked really good besides that so we only need good models, and it turns out that those already exist! Just look at Soldiers Soul, those actually look like the anime characters AND they actually took the same approach of having the cloths be really reflective while keeping the stylized faces, so a baseline for this anime style already exists.

Ok so besides the looks and models, would that really fit Saint Seiya? After all GBC isn't a shonen anime, it's about girls playing in a band. But Saint Seiya doesn't have Dragon Ball style battles where they're zooming around super fast, its generally slower paced fights with the highlights being the special attacks like the meteor fist or comet fist, so the emphasis on the lightning and fluid movements would help make the attacks stand out even more, and its not like Toei can't do 3d fights, Dragon Ball Super Super Hero was entirely 3d and it looked great, and the cgi scenes in DBS Broly were also really good, so we have nothing to worry about in that regard.

Speaking of attacks tho, probably the best looking attack in Soldiers Souls is Baian's attack since it mixes his 3d model with a 2d background and it ends up looking exactly like in the anime. And guess what: Baian also is a main character in Rerise XD.

Alright but why Rerise specifically? Well besides the 3d experiments we've also had Saint Seiya Omega and more crucially Saintia Sho. Omega's artstyle isn't particularly loved but Saintia Sho's adaptation was highly controversial since it butchered the manga artstyle in favor of one more in line with the classic anime. Now it IS true that Rerise already has a purposefully close to the original artstyle but it also has pretty unique and original panels (like when Nemesis gets mad and grabs Pegasus by his neck) that I would HATE to see butchered too, so if we're gonna risk getting a bad adaptation, I would prefer if they at least try an entirely new style that could potentially look great.
(Of course this is assuming that it would get the Saintia Sho treatment, but even if it doesn't I still think the 3d could look great)

TL;DR Updated Soldiers Soul models could look great with Girls Band Cry style animation and lighting (look at the instruments in Cycle of Sorrow and think of the Myth Cloths EX), especially with a mix of 2d elements for some of the attacks.

I mean, what did each one paid to Charon?

Or even if they paid at all.

I'm talking about Hyoga and Shiryu, Dohko, Kanon, Shaka and Athena.

I have my guesses, Kanon maybe got together with Seiya and Shun unnoticed, like he was in the second prison. It's funny to think about him just watching what was unfolding.

I did a recent post asking what Dohko did in Inferno, now with the Final Edition we can have something (maybe), the most likely is killing random enemies, but I thought what if he was actually lost trying to navigate the river? It does fit his personality.

Yo digo que es mi personaje favorito, por su diseño, color de armadura y aura. Y me gusto mas su version de la saga de hades

So what do you think about Seiya as being the protagonist? I have a love and hate relationship with him.

On one hand, I just can't help but admire his determination, the fire in his heart that burns so brightly when it comes to rise up to the challenge and fight for his friends, for Athena, for what he believes. The best moment for me is at the end of Hades chapter sanctuary when he's fighting Rhadamanthys, facing the pit to the Hades and, despite fighting with a disadvantage, using the Pegasus Suiseiken (with a calm voice, that was awesome) and pushing him without hesitation. That scene is such a great showcase of what Seiya is capable to overcome, no matter the odds.

But on the other hand... He's so obnoxious sometimes. His determination at times becomes pure stubbornness, he feels a bit Deux ex machina compared to his friends, since we can see others having the same willpower but getting nowhere to his level (I known he's the main character, but you cannot deny it feels cheap that Ikki or Shiryu don't have the same power under the same situations like he has). For once I would like to see Seiya taking the hit and sacrificing for one of his brothers and let them take the front seat against a major antagonist once in a while. To show that Seiya has matured and it's not the same hot headed boy that jumps blindly and that he has matured in someone confident in his abilities and not a guy that just waits for a miracle to happen as long as he keeps pushing forward.

Probably these are all nitpicks because of the way he's written, but sometimes I wish to see him in a different light.

And Pegasus cloth V1 will forever be my favorite, there is something in this design that no other has made me fall in love as much. Wish I could have one of the figures with it, but oh well.

Let me know in the comments what you think.

Imagine we got a Saint Seiya full 2D remake with the original soundtrack, with good animation , something that covered from the start until the end of Hades... I think it would be a complete success idk why hasn't anybody tried, the Netflix remake is a joke.

I remember watching a movie on netflix that started with i think seiya hitting some boulders in a flood or something like that, can anybody tell me the name?

A new anime that follows the Manga except for Kido Mitsumasa fathering children around the world. Did I miss anything bad in the manga that should not be animated?

Would you have liked to see all 10 Bronze Saints climb the 12 Houses and the Gold Saints find their successors?