Podmark's skins (Game Over)

[Mystik]

you have to start the mod  with a danger room mission against magneto and the old school brotherhood or juggernaut

[murs47]

Those sound like some solid ideas Pod, do you plan on using those NM/GX hybrid redesigns or their current costumes for the mod?

[Podmark]

Well the mod is still not a certain thing at this point. As for which costumes I'm not sure. If I went with the regular ones I could pretty get started now, but otherwise I'd have skin the new looks. Personally I really want to wait and see if the costumes will actually be used to get them accurate. There's pretty much no detail below the knee on the cover and I'd have to guess what Santo and Sooraya are wearing.

We'll see.

[murs47]

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[Podmark]

DUDE! WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT?!!

EDIT: Ohh I found it, didn't realize there was a con this weekend!

[murs47]

So it's still possible these uniforms could be official......they look a lot more GenX-ish here though.

Is Ramos going to be the new artist?

EDIT: I found a very high res version of Skottie's New X-Men #43 cover if you want that as well.

[Podmark]

Yeah the costumes were confirmed as official a few weeks ago. Young said they were designed as a merger of the New Mutants and Generation X uniforms from the begining, and I love them. Ramos is doing the crossover issues then he's moving onto Runaways.

Sure I'd love a high rez 43!

EDIT: huge [spoiler]CABLE'S ALIVE![/spoiler]

[murs47]

Yeah.......stupid Joe Q and his big mouth ruining things for me.
A fan asked if there was going to be more Bob, Agent of Hydra, and he said no. The nerve. :angry:

Can you link me to the article where it's confirmed these are the new uni's. I'd love to read more about it.

High rez NX#43 [spoiler][/spoiler]

[Podmark]

I think it was in one of www.comicbookresources.com x-positions. I don't remember which one though. It was just a simple question and answer.

[murs47]

I just noticed that Wolfcub and Match aren't on Ramos' cover. Nehzno looks massive....and really cool.

[Podmark]

I just noticed that Wolfcub and Match aren't on Ramos' cover. Nehzno looks massive....and really cool.

Nope and neither are Blindfold, Loa, Trance, the Cuckoo's, Indra, Bling!, Onyxx, No-Girl, Armor, or Ernst. That's the entire student body.

[murs47]

 :doh: I completely forgot about all those characters. Whew.....I was worried Match was going to get whacked. But the reality is you can't have all the characters on the cover.

Is Onyxx still in critical condition?

[Podmark]

Nah, Onyxx is fine, though him and Bling! were considering leaving the school during the Facility arc.

I love Match, if there wasn't so many other great characters ahead of him I'd love to have him on the team.

I'm still waiting for a cover that shows the whole student body on it, that would just be cool.

[Sledgehammer]

Well, Podmark, what can I say? I believe I've already told you how much I like your work. Not only because of its quality. But also because you usually skin 2nd or 3rd string characters (some of them, have only been skinned by you).

From Nimrod to Armor, everything is extremely cool. Armor's skope turned you amazingly well in my opinion. Too good to be true. Then, to have Stryker, or new Rockslide in my computer is simply great.

I'm also glad you decided to skin those costumes for more popular characters. For FF, I tend to collect as many costumes as I can from each character. And being a Gambit fan, it's nice to have Death around, even though that plot didn't live up to the expectations. And, finally, I must say that Sunfire is quite stunning.

Keep it up!

[ghazkul]

Thw new Xmen's new costumes look great, mixing new style characters with classic chararcters. Will you be creating a skin/mesh for Anole, Rockslide's lava form (I know it was only around for a bit but it looked great) or some of the non-New Xmen secod string students?

Just one other small question also, will you be doing any new skins for the Fantastic Five? The new comic book shows some of the new characters besides the ones you have already skinned, the skins are amazing by the way,like the Grimm children, the Human Torch's son and the Invisible Woman's F5 Costume?

[Podmark]

Yeah I definitely want to skin Anole and Rockslide, and I'd like to get more of the secondary cast skinned too.

I'd like to do the rest of the F5 too. Don't really know when I'll find the time right now though.

[murs47]

Hey Pod, what's your opinion of that New X-Men#44 cover by Ramos?

[Podmark]

Well considering Ramos is one of my least favorite artists, I like it. The colour work is fantastic, some of the best I've ever seen. I really dislike his Hellion though, and I'm not big on his Anole, looks too animalish. His Rockslide and X look great though.

Ramos really exaggerated the boots though, I'm not big on that.

[murs47]

Yeah, Hellion with a little sleeve-less jacket was a bad call. I really like his Gentle, a lot actually. His Pixie is a lot more skinner friendly then Skottie's version...still like Skottie's more though. What do you think of Elixir on that cover? I do like that there's more detail in the boots, but like you, I'm not too big on the size of them.

[Podmark]

Josh looks decent, but it doesn't really look like Josh. It's the face, it's not Josh's face. Actually Ramos didn't really capture any of the characters in their faces.

[Podmark]

Well no new skinning news thanks to a combination of lack of time, skinning burnout, and other interests. Additionally I'm going out of town next week and heading back to University the week after, so chances are you won't be seeing much skinning from me for a while.

I apologize to anyone who was looking forward to any of the various characters I've talked about doing, and urge anyone who may have been holding off skinning a character because they were expecting me to do them to go ahead and skin.

Hopefully I'll get back to some skinning in the near future.

[murs47]

No New X-Men? :(

[Podmark]

No New X-Men? :(

Not yet anyway. I'm out of town and won't have my computer. Not sure how much time I'll have when school starts.

[murs47]

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[Blkcasanova247]

Whoa! Very nice work from Mr. Finch there. :thumbup:

[Podmark]

Yeah I saw that yesterday. I'm not really a big Finch fan but this pretty good. Not big on the way he drew the boots, or Rockslide, or Anole's arm, but otherwise I like it and it's nice seeing different artists draw the New X-Men. New issue is out next week I think :)

Nothing to report on the skinning front, I'm getting the bug back but my time is kinda limited.

[murs47]

Hey Pod, have you read issue 42 yet?

[Podmark]

Hey Pod, have you read issue 42 yet?

Just finished actually. I liked it, some surprising stuff in it.

[spoiler]Indra the youngest kid in the place, I figured it was Pixie but I can believe it. It's kinda nice to see him getting some use. Nice revelations on Rockslide, Anole, and Gentle's powers. Predator X is back that ought to be good. And then Nori, geez what's up with that. And what exactly didn't Santo know about Vic?  ;) Young's art took on a Bachelo-esque property in this one, which is ok in my books.[/spoiler]

Those interested in what I've been up to go check out the hexing forum. Now.

[murs47]

Hey Pod, have you read issue 42 yet?

Just finished actually. I liked it, some surprising stuff in it.

[spoiler]Indra the youngest kid in the place, I figured it was Pixie but I can believe it. It's kinda nice to see him getting some use. Nice revelations on Rockslide, Anole, and Gentle's powers. Predator X is back that ought to be good. And then Nori, geez what's up with that. And what exactly didn't Santo know about Vic?  ;) Young's art took on a Bachelo-esque property in this one, which is ok in my books.[/spoiler]

Those interested in what I've been up to go check out the hexing forum. Now.

[spoiler]I think what Santo meant by was that he didn't know Vic was so sensitive to the word sissy. Just a guess.

I actually absolutely loved this issue, nothing major happened just a lot of characterization. It was all the small things really. Like Wolverine taking Pixie to the danger room, then later you see him chasing her screaming "$@#%ing unicorns!" :lol: Great stuff!

About Rockslide: Is he like an ethereal from that controls a rock golem? I got a bit confused on that part.[/spoiler]

[Podmark]

[spoiler]Yep pretty much. The exact term was psychic entity, which essentially means his mind just floats around until it creates a rock body for itself. It's a nice idea that isn't too far a stretch from his original powers.[/spoiler]