You're My Only Hope

Hey all!

More Ocarina of Time art! I never thought I could do so much from a game I’ve never actually played. :D (I really need to fix that…)

At any rate, on my last Ocarina of Time piece, Biliocho of DeviantArt asked if I could recreate this cutscene from OoT where Ganon captures Zelda in front of Link, who barges into the scene just slightly too late to do anything about it. Doing stuff like this is especially fun because when you look at the old art in the game there’s not a ton there, meaning a lot of what goes into it is just adding additional detail and design to a pre-existing concept.

In this case, I built the surrounding Temple according roughly to the textures of the old one, incorporating a few design elements of my own and then letting the scene show itself through some good lighting.

I also experimented with different looks for the prison/gem thing she’s encased in, but in the end settled on something fairly identical to the original (most of mine obfuscated the princess too much for my taste). Then finished it off with some depth effects, and added lightning in post accented with lights actually present in the scene for where it impacts the surrounding stone.

If you guys are interested I’d love to do a full write up on this piece, for fun I saved all the “in-progress” renderings I took through making it with that purpose in mind. For now, I’ll leave this here.

Enjoy!