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The Ville d'arbre Geant Assassins

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Guy: So the target is the current regent of Ville d'arbre Geant ?

Girl: That's right.

Guy: One of the most secure cities in the world? Which sits atop a giant ass tree?

Girl: Mmhmm

Guy: and we have to climb said giant ass tree..... Why exactly?

Girl:  Thanks to the customs at the airship docks. It's virtually impossible to get into the city undetected, and the last thing criminals like us want to do, is get caught in that city. We'd be killed just for our bounties alone, never mind trying to kill their regent. There's a reason this place has a zero percent crime rate, and its not because everyone's an innocent little flower.

Guy: Right....

Girl: So that leaves us one option to get in alive. The only way into the city undetected is to climb the trunk. They don't bother securing the base since the whole thing below the city is crawling with Mal Usine, aka giant plant monsters that eat anything they see. It tends to make for a pretty good deterrent for any ne'er-do-wells who might think of climbing it.

Guy: So you're saying we're ne'er-do-wells now?

Girl: You've been called worse.

Guy: True.

Girl: Besides, I thought you said you like a challenge?

Guy: *Sigh*..... I still say we just steal an airship.

Girl: Just start climbing you baby.

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The idea for this came to me while studying, and listening to a mix of the final fantasy 9, and secret of mana soundtracks. Both of which feature massive trees as major plot points. From that I got the idea of a giant city atop an equally giant tree, in the same vein as Cleyra in ff9, and a few magic wielding assassins sent to kill the reigning regent of the city.

As far as the colours go. I wanted to play around with less gradient shading like I've done in the past, and try out more basic colors, with some much less prominent cell shading. Honestly I really liked how the colours came out for the most part. Definitely going to use this style again in the future.

I really like the whole premise of this overall. But you can't really see much of the city, just some bits that poke through the bottom of the leaves. So I may end up doing some sort of short story/comic, or just a few more illustrations, showing off the assassins on their mission, climbing the trunk, and in the city it self, to show off the scale a bit more.

On a side note. If you want to have a good laugh. Take the French I used in the title, and for the name of the monsters, and run it through google translate. I was super creative when I came up with them =P.

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Tools used:
- Paint tool sai. (Sketch, painting.)
- Photoshop CS3 (Final touches, Colour adjustment.)
- Genius G-pen F610 Graphics Tablet
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The spheres remind me of the transumation circles in Fullmetal Alchemist *-* !

So good!