This is one of my "play around in Blender and learn" projects. It started out as a sketch of "what if Skyrim is made into FFTA", and instead of painting the sketch up I decided to take this a bit further.
I reinforced my learnings in lowpoly modeling and hand-painted textures, while also learned how to set up alpha textures, create particles, and hack together frame animations in this scene. Really fun and productive! Need to think about the next learning project.
This was done in the span of a little over a week, learning something each day. All blender except for some of the vfx flipbooks/sprites, which were started using photoshop.