Kaj @ FanFest

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3D Artist | Compositor | Tool Dev | Viera Enthusiast Commissions: https://vgen.co/Kaj I make #FFGear at github.com/kajupe/FFGear I am not known for my ability to be able to focus on one project at a time sorry about that Kyi Emporian - Lamia

Oyugun Mol, a blue-skinned Au Ra with short horns, stands in a blue tunic with brass shoulder-pads. She's turning her upper body to look at the camera with a grin. Both hands hold daggers backwards, one somewhat up toward the camera and the other relaxed behind her body. A wide white ribbon flows around her. At the bottom of the image in the white frame surrounding the image it says "KAJ.BLUE" in light-gray text.
A screenshot from Visual Studio Code, with the line "if 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" highlighted. In case you don't know python, this is not a very good line of code.
An Au Ra is A-posing in Blender. The bottom half of her large coat is being simulated. A copy of her is placed off to the side and turned around 180 degrees so the back of the coat is visible as well. No part of the coat is intersecting with either itself or any part of the character, it looks very stable.
An Elezen man sits confidently on a bar-stool in the middle of a very out-of-focus saloon lit in moody warm tones. He wears neat clothing with a dark-green vest over a white dress shirt with a ruffled collar, and has one gilded boot planted on the floor, with the other raised up to rest on one of the stool's supporting metal rods. In his hand is a large silver revolver, and held between his grinning white teeth is a rose. In the bottom right corner of the image is a watermark; a bunny icon with the text kaj.blue below it
A video of a Blender scene, showing a Miqo'te in a purple robe and a large hat. Both have visual artifacts on them which the cursor circles before selecting all the objects in the scene and clicking a button on the FFGear panel labeled "Offset Along Normals". After clicking this, the issues go away.
A Miqo'te in a big robe stands on the left, sulking. The bottom of her robes looks glitchy and shows a different material than the rest of the robe. Next to that is scrawled "Wrong side of mesh :(". Her large hat is very shiny and next to it is the text "Way too glossy". To the right of her is a copy of her, but this one has a clean looking robe and a not-shiny hat. Next to her is written "Properly geared cat =)". She looks much happier than the other one, looking off to the side of the image. Above them is the FFGear logo with "1.3" appended onto it. This is set against a purple gradient background with some faint pink-ish sparkles raining down from above.
A screenshot from Blender of the Inn Room from FFXIV Shadowbringers. Daylight is shining through the window, reaching far into the room.
A Hyur in a light-blue dress and a very big hat of the same color stands in a forest clearing. She has a little basket hanging on her arm, full of herbs, and she's holding a larger herb in her hand. She's in the middle of turning around, looking over her shoulder as a bright-blue magical ribbon twirls around her. Smaller and less bright ribbons float off to the sides of the image. She has a joyful and slightly awed expression on her face.
A Miqo'te with short hair, an eye patch, a big hat and a dress, all of which are purple (everything about her is, really), is holding a book in front of her in one hand. She's looking away from it at the moment, toward the camera, with a slightly displeased expression. On the underside of her wide brimmed hat shine stars as if it's a window to the night sky. Behind her, an alchemical workshop of sorts can be seen, though it is very out of focus. In the bottom right is a watermark: an icon of a bunny with the text kaj.blue under it.
An Au Ra is wearing a cloth outfit with many large gold accessories. On the left she is standing next to the text "Working Space Rec.2020 using FFGear 1.2.0" and the color of the gold is oversaturated into a bright orange. Handwritten text beside her says "Yuck! Way too saturated" with an arrow pointing to some gold on her waist. On the right there is another copy of her next to the text "Working Space Rec.2020 using FFGear 1.2.2". Here the gold coloring is much more reasonably saturated, and handwriting like on the left says "Yay! The correct color!". Below that version of the Au Ra are two doodled characters, one Viera and the same Au Ra as in the render, doing a soy-point and wojack face respectively toward the nicer looking gold. This is all set against a gradient background going from deep purple to a steel blue, with the FFGear logo and a link to github.com/kajupe/FFGear in the top left of the image.
A video showcasing the progress made on the image in the quoted post, starting with the Au Ra just floating in a void and not looking very high-fidelity, and ending with a fully detailed scene. The last bit of the video zooms in on different places in the image to show the detail better.
A blue-skinned Au Ra floats upright in tropical cyan water, looking down at the camera with a smile. She's wearing a colorful swimsuit consisting of a mostly red chest-wrap (it doesn't really "wrap" but I don't know what else to call it) and a skirt with blue tassles hanging from the bottom, which are flaring out around her. Bubbles have escaped her mouth and are floating upwards, and some smaller ones are rising from her skin. Below here grows a verdant kelp forest, tall enough to almost reach her. Growing up among the kelp are tall lilypads of varying heights, though not the kind that reach all the way to the surface. Colorful fish swim all around, some even forming a circle behind her head. Wow, such incredible composition.
The camera, mounted in a corner on the ceiling of a ramen stand, looks out onto a futuristic street. Sitting at the counter is Fioh Sion, an Elezen in a black jacket with a glowing blue inner collar; and Shizuka Diamah, a Viera in a black and purple coat. Fioh is eating his ramen while being pestered by Shizuka who has already finished hers. She's showing him a funny meme on her phone, which Fioh is looking away from with an annoyed expression. Behind them on the street people are walking past or hanging out at various other storefronts. In the foreground inside the ramen stand, a hooded individual is cooking up more food in a wok. On the floor behind him is a small kitten drinking some milk from a bowl that's been set out for it. In the bottom right corner is a watermark of a bunny, with the text "kaj.blue"
A screenshot from Blender where an Au Ra has been given realistic high-detail hair, as opposed to the normal game hair.
A screenshot from Houdini where a ribbon of cloth is wrapped around a character's arm neatly
A screenshot from Blender where a character's head has the beginnings of a very spiky hairstyle from in-game ffxiv, except remade with Blender's hair system. It looks much less silly than the earlier example.
A screenshot from blender where a character has a layer of hair seemingly tied back into a knot, like it's tightly running back along the scalp. At the back of the head is a singular, for lack of a better word, erect ponytail. A big spike of hair pointing straight out.
A clay-shaded picture from the Blender viewport, wherein an Au Ra is swimming in place underwater. Behind her are large lilypads stretching up toward the surface on long stems.
Incredible graphic design is on display here. In the top left is an image of a Viera and there's a plugin window open which is being used to change part of the color of her coat to green. Then there's a big red arrow pointing to the bottom right, where the Viera is T-posing in Blender with the same change made to her coat. In the bottom left is a quickly drawn version of the Viera doing the soy point at the rest of the stuff in the image. In the top right is the FFGear logo and a github logo, next to which is the link github.com/kajupe/FFGear
Thancred Waters and his adopted daughter Ryne striking a pose in the desert of Amh Araeng. They are standing back-to-back with Thancred leaning slightly forward, and Ryne leaning backward against him. Thancred has a serious expression, gunblade in hand, tilted toward the camera. Ryne looks much happier and flippant, holding her daggers but throwing a peace sign with one hand and smiling. It's around mid-day, and it looks very warm.
A collage of one piece of art per month of 2025, except for August where it says "WHAT THE FUCK WAS I DOING IN AUGUST?". Brief descriptions: January: A character in white looking up at new year's fireworks in Kugane. February: A huyr kneeling to cast a healing spell in a bozjan trench. March: A viera in old ARR clothing, posing against an orange background. April: The viera from before, but in very bright horrible colors against a blue background, standing on a little circular moon. May: A Miqo'te crouching at a river with a fish in her mouth, smiling at the camera. June: The viera stands with arms stretched out behind big text that says "FFGear". July: An Au Ra falling downward through Solution Nine toward the Aetheryte Plaza. September: A Miqo'te sitting among lemon-bushes and picking lemons. October: A Miqo'te in tribal clothing striking a powerful pose in front of a firery red sky and some foliage. November: A Viera is crossing a large stone bridge in a cold environment, as she looks up at the northern lights. December: Y'shtola Rhul is floating in the air in front of some bookshelves, torn papers in the air around her, lit purple by the gemstone in her staff.
Y'shtola Rhul, a Miqo'te (catgirl) from Final Fantasy XIV is hovering in the air in front of tall dark bookshelves. Torn pages are fluttering around her. The purple crystal in her staff gives off a mystical light. She is looking confidently at the camera.
A 3D render of Haurchefant and Ysayle celebrating starlight. Ysayle is relaxing on a red couch in front of a fireplace which warmly lights the room. She is looking fondly at Haurchefant who is walking toward her with two steaming cups, smiling at her. Both are wearing casual clothing. Strewn around the fancy Ishgardian room are multiple pieces of gear representing the members of a static, such as a Pictomancer's brush and a Monk's glowing gauntlets in half-opened presents under a decorated tree. Ysayle holds a card gently between two fingers, presumably sent by the members of the static along with the gear-pieces as gifts.
A screenshot from bluesky with the Final Fantasy XIV account asking if you put the "1" waymark north west or north east. JoCat is replying to it saying "NW, anything else is blasphemy" while AngelArt has quote-posted it saying "I heard only psychopaths put 1 northwest"
A 3D render of Evie, a character of @gilbun.bsky.social, crossing a bridge in Sharlayan together with G'raha Tia and Krile. They're chatting as they walk, G'raha carrying four large books and Evie holding one against her chest with her right hand, the other gripping a small paper lunch-bag. Evie and G'raha walk side-to-side while Krile walks a few steps ahead of them. They're lit by a warm light coming from a light post on the side of the bridge. Mist hangs in the air, colored blue by the night sky. Conifer trees stand tall in the mist behind them, and the branch of a closer one peeks into frame from the right.
A Vieran woman in a red tunic and with a large backpack is looking up at the winter sky's aurora / northern lights with an awed expression, as she crosses a massive stone bridge. Warm lanterns line each side, and a merchant in a blue shirt walks a bit farther ahead beside his Chocobo. The aurora has a path curving through it that points at the Viera.
A popular meme image of a house which has a big piece of fabric hung out in front of it, with "WELCOME HOME CHEATER" written on it.
A grid of 3D renders, in front of which it says "vgen/Kaj" and two sketches of characters doing a soy-point and a wojack face. They are so excited for you to go to vgen.co/Kaj and get a commission. Wowie!
A portrait of a Miqo'te standing in a forest at sunset in a powerful pose. He wears tribal clothing and fireflies buzz around him. Sunrays shine past him from behind.
A photo of a short-haired black and white dog smiling in front of a lush green background and a red wooden planter.
A Miqo'te from Final Fantasy XIV (a catgirl) sitting among rows of lemon-bushes. She is picking one off of the closest bush, and has a basket of them by her side. It's sunny, and the environment is lush. In the background, a green-haired Viera can be seen also picking lemons, and another Miqo'te is lying face down in the dirt further back by the fence.
A 3D render of an alley in Kugane. An Au Ra is leaning out from a bookstore on the right, looking up at the sky where fireworks are exploding. Light is coming from the roads around her, but this alley is only lit by the light of the still open bookstore.
A brown-haired Miqo'te wearing a tunic and stockings stands diagonally in frame with one leg raised back, her tail curning around it. She has clan-markings on her thigh, partially visible in a small gap outside of the stockings, with the rest of the markings below a thin layer of transparent fabric further down the leg. She wears a glowing green necklace which hangs in the air, wooden bracelets with red fabric tied to them, and knee-high black boots.
A brown-haired Miqo'te wearing a tunic and stockings stands diagonally in frame with one leg raised back, her tail curning around it. Notably for the context, she has clan-markings on her thigh, partially visible in a small gap outside of the stockings, with the rest of the markings below a thin layer of transparent fabric further down the leg. She wears a glowing green necklace which hangs in the air, wooden bracelets with red fabric tied to them, and knee-high black boots. In the bottom right of the image is the text "FFGear 1.1"
A 3D render of an Au Ra in futuristic clothing, joyfully falling downward towards the Solution Nine aetheryte plaza, past flying cars and skyscrapers. A magic trail leads down to the glowing aetheryte with her, in a spiral pattern. In the bottom left is written in the Solution Nine alphabet: "Endless adventure in SOLUTION IX"
A screenshot from a terminal window which has logged the following message: @minibubbly.bsky.social Hello Sorry for the inconvenience, I need your help to donate to my family. We are dying of hunger Please help me, don't let me down, we have no one but you🙏🏻😥😥
A 3D render of an Au Ra in futuristic clothing, joyfully falling downward towards the Solution Nine aetheryte plaza, past flying cars and skyscrapers. A magic trail leads down to the glowing aetheryte with her, in a spiral pattern. In the bottom left is written in the Solution Nine alphabet: "Endless adventure in SOLUTION IX"
Futuristic hovering cars in a queue. In front of them is just a big block of metal. They will never get through.
A blender screenshot of a character falling downwards past tall buildings. It's clay-shaded but with some flat-colors here and there on the buildings
A screenshot from Discord of Fioh going "WOW" and then "WOW" again
an extremely low-quality image of a kitten with a military helmet doing a thumbs up
A video starts with a Viera wearing clay-shaded clothes. She swings her hand to the side and summons a brush. She uses it to paint her clothes vibrant colors. She does a twirl and a 2D paint-splash effect flows from the tip of her brush and onto the screen, revealing the FFGear logo. The camera pans down swords strapped to a characters back to show off details in the material. The screen splits in three with the swords in the middle, a closeup of fiber details at the top, and an iridescent sleeve at the bottom. It shows setting up the materials on an Au Ra with one button press. Zoom out and she examines her new clothes. The same Au Ra standing frozen in a pose, showing how the addon can be used to dye gear. Then there are two quotes on screen from FFXIV animators, Benedict_G saying how much easier his life is with this addon, and another from Fioh Sion saying "WOW WOW". Finally there is some text saying it took 8 months and thanking everyone for their encouragement.
A screenshot from github, which reads: v1.0.0 - It's done, for now (Draft)
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A 3D render of a Viera doing a twirl. At the start her clothes are all just plain white like unpainted clay. During the twirl a wave of light crawls across her, adding color to the clothes.
A screenshot of Blender with a character on the left and the FFGear material panel to the right. It does not have a mtrl file selected and displays a warning that dyeing is disabled and results may look worse than desired. You can see on the character shader that it has fabric detail, indicating that the material has been set up successfully anyways.
A screenshot of some code where it says "haha amogus" with a character that looks like an among us crewmate next to it. Under that, a line of code starts with "self.report"
A 3D render of a blue-skinned Miqo'te from FFXIV, clad in purple warrior's clothing and wearing a really big witch hat. She's holding a greatsword behind her back with a glowing blue rune on it. With her other hand she is casting some form of spell that looks space-y in front of the camera, which she is looking up at and smirking. She is lit mostly by the light of the moon, as well as a rim light from the left side and a more turquoise blue from crystals at her feet.
A screenshot from within Blender of a character in multicolored clothing being posed in front of a template image from GitHub that reads "We recommend leaving a 40pt border [...] details of your social card to make sure [...]". The character is blocking most of the text. It's not even GitHub actually it's just "GitH"
A Viera from Final Fantasy XIV standing in Blender, examining herself. She is wearing a big hoodie-jacket thing with a strip of iridescent plastic down the sleeve, which shifts hues depending on the angle it's viewed from.
A red sphere in FFXIV and a red sphere in Blender. Both have essentially identical highlights caused by the use of the game's Sphere textures which have been implemented in blender on the right.
A screenshot from discord. Someone named "Bitch Tornado" has said "sphube" in response to an image of the Sphene Cube.