Tomato: Revolutionary (06/16/08)

[murs47]

the shape of the head looks dead on it has a slight vertical longness and thin-ness just like the real Sylar's head. What you have skinned so far looks good. My only suggestions would be to make his eyebrow's thicker, he's got some real exaggerated eyebrows. Also the eyes seem a bit too aggressive, Sylar had a bit of a sad puppy dog eyes thing going on. Everything else is looking really good so far..............is Hiro next after Sylar? :P

[Peerless1]

DO NOT BE FOOLED! This skin is not as done as it looks... I cheated a bit on the preview, added a quick recolor of the C6 costume base for the shirt and made the extras one color, just to make the preview look better. Right now I'm more concerned with the skin job on the face and the mesh itself... What do you guys think sofar? Keep in mind, I'm meshing this too, so If something isn't shaped right I can fix it.

(for any poor soul who read it before my brain kick started (I HATE mornings) I apologize for the pun, it was not intended and is gone now.)

It may not be done, but as far as looking like Sylar...it meshes with my memory. *
I really look forward to your future (or past**) Heroes interpretations.

*(yeah, I saw it early)  :lol:
**pun or wordplay was intended  ;)  don't worry, though, I doubt I'm contagious...  :rolleyes:

[Tomato]

the shape of the head looks dead on it has a slight vertical longness and thin-ness just like the real Sylar's head. What you have skinned so far looks good. My only suggestions would be to make his eyebrow's thicker, he's got some real exaggerated eyebrows. Also the eyes seem a bit too aggressive, Sylar had a bit of a sad puppy dog eyes thing going on.

Heh, yeah, now that I look at them again, the eyebrows are off... But whatever, compared to getting the shape of the head right, that'll be easy. I'll also pull out my copies of the episodes, see if I can get a better shot of the eyes.

Everything else is looking really good so far..............is Hiro next after Sylar? :P

No, unfortunately. I've got to reskin avatars for a few losers, before I get back to Heroes characters. My plan is to do normal Peter Petrelli first after that so I can release the set, then work on both Present and Future Hiro.

[Tomato]

I was looking at some other skinner's work on suit coats, and I thought I'd drop off another preview.

[murs47]

The face looks dead on now. Great stuff!  :thumbup:

[Podmark]

Nice work on the mesh and skin. The mesh is particulary cool.

[Tomato]

*Cough, hack wheeze*

Excuse me for just one moment.

*walks off and screams, then returns*

Ok then... I was almost done with this (have to finish up the collar and do the undershirt is all, take me maybe 20 minutes) when, while attempting to convert the thing to work with a set of ffvttr keyframes, the mesh was EATEN. I am not even kidding, I brought it up and it was gone. Like he'd taken Claude's power or something >.>

It's not so much a big deal from one standpoint, because I've got the main portion of the mesh in max format and I can hex on the hoodie from the Azrael_Tvlite mesh again fairly easily. the problem lies in the fact that I did a majority of the modifications to the mapping of the mesh with nifskope, rather then in max.

Realistically, this will only push me back by maybe an hour, but it's irritating all the same.

[Podmark]

Ouch!

[Tomato]

Well, that was fun. Stayed up until like, 3 in the morning because I could not stop myself until this is finished.

I tried a technique for the shirt that turned out rather well, I think. Used a couple of shots of Sylar that I took myself and that were sitting on the heroes website to create kind of a photoskin shirt, which I made almost invisible over my base color and then built onto with highlight and shadow layers.

[murs47]

"Impressive. Most Impressive."

[Podmark]

Me like, me really like!

[Tomato]

This isn't a skin preview(that's AA's current design for anyone who cares), as the skin is currently naked with no hair and no eyes (face is the majority of my work) but I just wanted to show off my faux AA mesh for you guys, get things going and all that

[AfghanAnt]

I'm interested to know if you edited the face because I love the smile a lot more with those things. I'm really looking forward to this redesign. Oh and you should show the facial work you did so far!  :D

[Podmark]

Hmmm, it really looks like you've altered that face. Looks good.

[Tomato]

I'm interested to know if you edited the face because I love the smile a lot more with those things. I'm really looking forward to this redesign. Oh and you should show the facial work you did so far!  :D

Hmmm, it really looks like you've altered that face. Looks good.

Actually, I did my own version of the AA head (and yes, I did modify the mesh to fit that smile AA >P) in part because I don't think I could get the max for Ink's original mesh, and partly because, if I recall corrently, the AA mesh used hair from another mesh that Ink integrated into his with permission from the original mesher.

So I just took the Male_Basic mesh and made my own, then hexed it onto the original to use the cape.

As far as another preview... I'm going to work on it some more tonight and I should have a preview for you tomorrow morning. I'm not being a jerk or anything, I just don't want to make a preview of something when It's going to be 3 times better tomorrow.

[Tomato]

Grah, sorry it took so long, somethings wrong with our wireless connection and I had to use DSL cable.

[Tomato]

No replies huh? this should spark something then

[Podmark]

I'm liking the design, it looks pretty great. But the heads looking weird it's got this awkward...points to it. And the smile's making him look kinda sinister.

[the_ultimate_evil]

agreed try and soften the area around the eyes so as not so have such a sunken in evil look.

[Tomato]

just a real quickie update on the eyes for now, since I'm online collecting a few things (for releases, you'll be happy to note)



How's that? Better, worse, ZOMG, what?

[Lunarman]

Better I'd say.

Much more realistic :)

[The Pwime]

afghan ant is looking awesome so far.  :D

[Dr.Volt]

Coming to this late....Sylar and AA look GREAT!  The inevitable question is, when can we expect that they will be released???   :)

[Tomato]

Coming to this late....Sylar and AA look GREAT!  The inevitable question is, when can we expect that they will be released???   :)

Errr... yeah... about that... I was going to upload Sylar, Revenant, Red Ant, and Damnage yesterday evening after work, but ummm... My grandmother died or my chickens hatched or something* and I got distracted.  However, all I have left to do is actually zip up Sylar(I have it all set up though), make up the appropriate Misc page, and add the little Nifskope addendum to the site. Depending on when I get it done, I'll eithor upload it tonight or tomorrow around four, when I get off work.



*read: I goofed of playing Mario Party 8 for two days

[AfghanAnt]

I really love what you have done, Tomato. I really can't wait for the rest of the skin.

[AfghanAnt]

Oh by the way, I really liked the first face personally.

[Tomato]

Oh by the way, I really liked the first face personally.

See, it's stuff like this that'll cause me to die of a heart attack before I'm 30 >.<. I'll go ahead and see about a middle ground on the eyes... so the eyelids are still there, but not visible to the extent they were before.

Anyway, One other thing... I've thought about it, and I've decided I will NOT be releasing my Future Peter Petrelli skin, and I will redo it when I do the Present Peter, since I'm releasing them both together anyway. It might mean it'll take me a little longer to release them, but most of the pieces will be the same for them both, just different colors and textures for the clothing, and I believe having a Future Peter that does not look more like Sylar then Peter is a definate plus

[UnkoMan]

I agree with AA. I like the older eyes better. It's the shape and the lower eyelid. Those look good. Really good.

I think what the others were saying was more along the lines of... Bring all the shadows in a little bit. That way the "pits" the eyes rest in don't look quite as large. I'd probably lighten the cheeks a bit, too, but I tend to make really soft faces anyhow. You tend to have a very soft style with everything else, so it stands out to me.

[Tomato]

Hmmm... I get what you're saying now, I think. Ironically IPS, I actually did alter the eyebrows for AA to be more round the other day, but I haven't had enough progress to warrent another preview.

R/L is kicking me in the butt right now... I work in freaking fast food and two of the most senior employees, plus a flunky, are all on vacation for the week. And I'm too bloody responsible for my own good, which the boss knows, which is why I apparently have as many days as the manager of the store.

[Tomato]

Just a quickie update so you guys can bash my AA face again. Now... sleep