#project octopath traveler

[sotiredmostnights]

"information gleaned: none" is by far one of the funniest aspects of inquire/scrutinize. congratulations you've learned absolutely nothing

[schelofthesea]

some headshots of faves from some of my favorite medias

[fulgurbugs]

alright i’m done take it off my hands

[smilepebble]

they dont call him cyrus "single glass of red wine" albright for nothing

[starkittnd93]

(Bonus animation!)

[Video ID: Digital animation of Osvald lifting Hikari off of the ground from behind. Hikari looks back at Osvald, visibly annoyed, while a red X symbol and text saying “Why would you even consider this correct?!” appears to the left of both of them. /.End ID]

[linderosse]

Character 112 — Erhardt (Wrath)

Loved being a part of this! Project Path Action is such a cool idea and I was very glad to contribute the three pieces I did :). This one’s the first!

[mrpuripurin]

more parti/hikari/s!hikari scribbles..😈🤠

[ashdoodle-s]

Silly little thing I saw on twt (by __ksgi)

[sebritz]

for fun i put as many characters as i could that i headcanon as it/its users on a canvas ^_^

[viridiave]

sketchbook lore i tried drawing again but digital this time

EVENTUALLY i will know how to draw hands correctly

[blazlngblade]

My countdown drawing for Project Path Action on Bluesky!

I chose to do something for Castti because intially she didn't have any one doing anything for her. In the end, she ended up with two last minute entries (mine included!)

I enjoyed drawing Castti here. And it was nice to include the Eir's Apothecaries as well.

[loregoddess]

As promised, the theory heights of the Octo2 crew based on my best guess from the official arts. These are not canon heights (or headcanon heights), they're my best theory for the general heights the art team was using based on recurring heights in official arts.

I used several official arts, but this was the main art I used for ref:

This is (currently) the only official art where all the characters are standing more or less on the same plane, without being too far in front of or behind others. Also they're spaced out nicely, which made sketching mockups of their proportions much easier.

I also went ahead and threw my lineup onto an actual height chart (US system, sorry) to try and guess at their heights, and got...these:

Again, these are super not canon (or headcanon), and even for theory territory this falls more into the wild speculation side of things. But this was my best guess, since placing Osvald in the 6' range made Agnea and Hikari way too short. Ochette is a beastling, and as far as I can tell they have a different set of proportions as well as anatomy, so I'm assuming her smallness (which is very consistent in official arts) is intentional on the art team's part.

(I also didn't include Ochette's ears in her height estimate, but it should be noted that while I used the concept arts from the artbook bc they provided the most consistent "character is standing in an upright pose" artwork, Ochette's ears are actually a bit larger in all official non-concept artwork).

Anyhow, I also included my entire process for how I extrapolated under the cut. As a treat.

So I started with the main art I showed above and drew out quick mockups measuring each character from the top of their head to bottom of heel, not counting heels on shoes. For characters in dynamic poses, I sketched out a quick "puppet" using major anatomical points (head, torso, hips, knees, heel) as guidepoints, which I then "straightened out" separately to figure out the "height" (as seen with Ochette, Partitio, Hikari, and Throne; I forgot to save a copy of my Osvald sketchover but since his stance was so wide I knew he was going to loose a bit of height if I didn't sketch a puppet).

Agnea is mostly upright, but she's leaned forward a bit, and I wasn't going to be able to figure out how tall she was if she wasn't leaning forward with a puppet, so I gave her a bit of height in her mockup using my best guess as an artist for where the top of her head would be if she wasn't leaning forward. I took the same liberty with Hikari after straghtening out his sketch-puppet, since he's also leaning a bit forward. I couldn't actually see the bottom of either of Partitio's heels, so I went with my best "I'm an artist how would I have drawn this" educated guess.

Then I grabbed images of the concept artwork from the artbook scans (special thanks to @octopathartbooker for the scans) and adjusted each character to the mockup, and then put all the mockups so that the bottom "heel-line" was level for every character, getting this:

Note that Throne is in a wide stance for her concept art but that I still scaled her to the mockup for ease of visual reference (even though as I've scaled the art, it looks like she'd be taller if she were to stand upright, but I needed the visual more than I needed the pose accuracy). I also ignored the position of Agnea's foot in favor of having her heel on the heel-line, so she looks kind of awkward. These things happen, but considering how a few of the heights bounce around a tiny bit in official arts, I think this is the best I could do.

Because a few of the heights just...didn't look right (Partitio being that tall, and Ochette being that small) I also referenced a few other key official arts. First off, the "thank you" art:

This was useful for checking Throne's height against Osvald, since if I were to draw perspective lines then the top of Throne's head would be about level with Osvald's shoulders. This art also shows Ochette as being about half Throne's height, which is also consistent with my mockups.

I also checked the "nighttime" artwork for the soundtrack:

This art isn't actually as useful given how much perspective depth is used in the illustration (Agnea looking taller than Osvald bc she's in the midground and he's in the background being a good example of the depth I'm referring to), but it does show Ochette next to Hikari, and again, she is small. Also Partitio towering in the background supports the idea that he's actually just like, really tall.

The final official art I used to check heights was the endgame artwork, which is naturally a huge spoiler, so go ahead and skip this if you don't want to see it, bc aside from my notes on the artwork there isn't anything after it. (J is the hotkey that'll let you skip to the bottom of a post, though I dunno how this'll look if you're on mobile, sorry).

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This art is...somewhat helpful. I can't see anyone's feet and Ochette appears to be floating (although again, she is tiny compared to everyone else), and there's still some depth of perspective at play, and some of the characters look like they're standing on a higher elevation than others. But! Here we can see that yeah, Partitio is about as tall as Osvald and that's with his head leaning forward (tall enough to use Osvald as an armrest, Parti buddy). Agnea also looks like she could be about two feet shorter than Osvald and this art does nothing to suggest that Hikari isn't short, but again it's hard to tell with some of the perspective choices. Mostly this the art that convinced me that, okay, yes, Partitio is that tall.

[polarisbear]

ooo look at those summer comms ooo look at those gradients. they’ll be open from now to the end of august, so if you’re interested please look at the google form below. or the examples below i’ve made some bangers this last year

google form: https://forms.gle/C95oMoFhFtEamsys5

[fantaseagal]

I would give anything to see Lemaire and Auguste interact. They would have the most unhinged discussions on art

[moresrush]

The warrior of the group is named Tebaeus and he has been cursed to be beast-like and can transform into what I just keep calling BEASTMODE. He has to fight instincts constantly and he is ... insanely calm. It's very hard to actually rile him up, despite his resting crankyface. Like this ... this kibbyman is so cranky. He is called Tebbie by ... too many of the travelers.

[starkittnd93]

Aaaa I can finally show it to you guys! Here’s the drawing I did of Pia for Project Path Action!!! :D

@blazlngblade