Most difficult skin you ever made?

Outcast · February 07, 2008, 07:12:40 PM

Was there any particular skin/character/mesh that you had the most difficult time skinning? (Probably took too much of your time, took several attempts/trial and errors,etc..) What or who was it? Or are they basically just the same for you guys? :huh:

Podmark · February 07, 2008, 07:24:56 PM

Yeah Gambit in his death persona. Had very inconsistent ref pics, and getting all the details in was way more work than I bargained for. Plus I keep tweaking the skope. Wasn't happy with the hair.

Current version of the skin is up on my google site. It came out pretty good.

Revenant · February 07, 2008, 09:37:23 PM

Any female character with fishnet stockings.... Curse you Black Canary! Getting them to line up properly... is painstaking.

Courtnall6 · February 07, 2008, 09:45:51 PM

I'd have to say Gorilla Grodd.

No base...everything from scratch...and lots of hair!

murs47 · February 07, 2008, 10:50:54 PM

Cyborg Superman for me. Just the metal work, really.

Arkillo's face being a close second just because of the face.

the_ultimate_evil · February 08, 2008, 09:26:59 AM

his name would be optimus prime

AfghanAnt · February 08, 2008, 02:26:21 PM

Ultrahelles Ant. I had to paint every piece by hand, no base.

Tomato · February 09, 2008, 08:20:27 AM

Grah... for me it's a toss up between this version of Mahty, Syn, and Hellscorp, though I will admit Syn was just a pain from a mesh/hex point of view more then a skinning one.

UnfluffyBunny · February 21, 2008, 12:46:13 PM

the standard of the mach 2 monster >_>

Deaths Jester · February 23, 2008, 01:02:04 PM

Panzermann...just coming up with the idea was a pain in the arse but having to do it all by hand with nothing but the vertex maps...pain in my @$$!

Lightning Bug · March 04, 2008, 12:30:27 PM

The most difficult skin I've ever done was John Carter of Mars, the base skin for the TM_JohnCarter mesh found at http://www.fxforce.com/TMHexes.html

From a technical perspective, the filigree around his belt and bracers (which I did by hand) was really tricky to get to line up...not to mention frustratingly tedious. Also trying to skin meshes for modern firearms so they looked like pulp-era Martian weapons was tough.

But I think the hardest part about doing the skin was that he was my Dad's favorite character, and he died 5 years before he had a chance to see this character exist outside the pages of a book. I dedicated the skin to him and all that...but it still sucks he didn't get to see him come alive in-game. He would have thought that was cool...

daglob · March 04, 2008, 08:03:13 PM

The Girl Phantom. She's on Female Teen Bald Guns and I can't get the (insert invective) stripes on her pants to line up. This is why she isn't at Character Obscura. That, and The Phantom isn't really all that obscure. I'd switch her to a Tom Versatile mesh, but the only TVF meshes I have have only one gun.

Protomorph · March 04, 2008, 10:38:51 PM

My alternate skin for Alchemiss. Not that it was hard, per se, just because of the amount of detail I put into her. She was almost completely photoskinned for textures and stuff, and I used Ashley Judd for the face.

Most of the photoskins I make I focus most of my skinning energy in the face, and not so much on the body.