Captain America.... 2/6

lugaru · June 21, 2007, 06:10:16 PM

Nice, you are really making great skins of current affairs, so I couldent be happier. Especially the justice league stuff...

Podmark · June 22, 2007, 01:27:49 AM

Ok Murs, I've taken a close look at the Lord Vulcan design. I can't promise I'll get that crown prefect but otherwise it should be pretty easy to put together.

It's basically:
male_basic
cape that goes around neck
and Shiar crown

The armor is all close fitting so it only needs to be skinned on.

murs47 · June 22, 2007, 06:43:48 AM

Quote from: Podmark on June 22, 2007, 01:27:49 AM
Ok Murs, I've taken a close look at the Lord Vulcan design. I can't promise I'll get that crown prefect but otherwise it should be pretty easy to put together.

It's basically:
male_basic
cape that goes around neck
and Shiar crown

The armor is all close fitting so it only needs to be skinned on.

Sounds really good, hope it works out. Skinning on the armor will be challenging but hopefully I'll get it right and he'll look very menacing.

Podmark · June 22, 2007, 12:00:11 PM

Yeah I was looking at that armor, it's pretty complex.

murs47 · June 22, 2007, 06:45:20 PM

Here's Speed...finally. :rolleyes:

Ok...I'm unreleasing until I find out where I got the mesh from

murs47 · June 24, 2007, 11:14:02 AM

Here's my tribute to Bart Allen:

I know the Impulse mesh isn't available due to GammaPatrol being down so I'll provide it here in this link for the people that need the mesh: http://www.mediafire.com/?1iumjjo92oj

Previsionary · June 24, 2007, 11:23:11 AM

Wow, Murs...that's a cool collection of bart skins. I especially like the kid flash skin.

Renegade · June 24, 2007, 12:48:07 PM

Poor Bart RIP

Podmark · June 24, 2007, 01:06:38 PM

I miss Bart alreay :(

Pretty good work there Murs, however I'm not convinced with the faces. It's kinda a small pic so I can see them prefectly but Bart was a very lighthearted and happy kid so the Impulse skin at least should be smiling, probably the Kid-Flash one as well. I didn't read enough of Bart's Flash exploits so I'm not sure if he should be smiling or not, but the yellow eyes look really weird from here, did he normally look like that?

Otherwise they're looking really good.

murs47 · June 24, 2007, 01:11:44 PM

Quote from: Podmark on June 24, 2007, 01:06:38 PM
I miss Bart alreay :(

Pretty good work there Murs, however I'm not convinced with the faces. It's kinda a small pic so I can see them prefectly but Bart was a very lighthearted and happy kid so the Impulse skin at least should be smiling, probably the Kid-Flash one as well. I didn't read enough of Bart's Flash exploits so I'm not sure if he should be smiling or not, but the yellow eyes look really weird from here, did he normally look like that?

Otherwise they're looking really good.

He's smirking in the Impulse skin, but yeah, it's a small preview pic so you can't really tell. As Flash his eyes would glow yellow when he was tapping into the Speed Force. I decided to add that effect cause otherwise it would just look like a Wally skin except with brown eyes.

Maybe, I'll do a big smile with Impulse, then a smirk with Kid Flash.

Isn't crazy how we watched this character to grow throughout the years......now he's gone. :(

Previsionary · June 24, 2007, 01:15:41 PM

Off topic:

But we all know he's just gone for now until someone decides he needs to be brought back in with a new tude and stuff. -_-

Podmark · June 24, 2007, 01:37:35 PM

Quote from: Previsionary on June 24, 2007, 01:15:41 PM
Off topic:

But we all know he's just gone for now until someone decides he needs to be brought back in with a new tude and stuff. -_-

Well yeah, eventually he'll probably be back, but I'm not going to be holding my breath. DC's running a pretty tight reign on their stories for the last few years so I haven't serious doubts we'll be seeing a quickie resurrection.

Actually if someone can think of many significant characters in DC who have been resurrected in the last 5 years, who were dead for less than 5 (ie Todd and Jordan don't count) I'll be surprised. Troy doesn't count either because her resurrection was hinted at in her death issue.

Murs yeah I'd go with the big smile and smirk. It'd be more Bart like. I'm not big on the yellow glow but I totally understand why you did that. For a while I was thinking of skinning a Bart Flash skin but couldn't think of a way to differentiate him from Wally so gave up.

murs47 · June 24, 2007, 01:43:41 PM

Just 3 very small updates to the skins. Gave Imp a cheesing smile, Kid Flash a slight smirk, and I forgot to skin the the bottom of Flash's boots. The updated skins are already uploaded to my group as well.

My guess is Raven, she was resurrected in one of the first issues of TT(volume 3). That's exactly five years ago...I think. Can't think of anyone else though. I love trivia questions....even though I get them wrong, it's still fun.

Podmark · June 24, 2007, 01:47:05 PM

Nice work, I like those much better.

Yeah Raven's a good one, though you could potentially give her the "mystical entity get out of jail free card". I'd have to look into how she died to be sure though.

Bart was beaten to death while cut off from the speed force, there's no obvious loopholes in that.

murs47 · June 24, 2007, 02:01:46 PM

Quote from: Podmark on June 24, 2007, 01:47:05 PM
Nice work, I like those much better.

Yeah Raven's a good one, though you could potentially give her the "mystical entity get out of jail free card". I'd have to look into how she died to be sure though.

Bart was beaten to death while cut off from the speed force, there's no obvious loopholes in that.

I don't know if you read JLA#10 yet so I'll put this in spoilers.

[spoiler]When the LSH bring back Wally to earth, they also brought someone back to life and took him/her to the future with them. Brainiac says " we got who we wanted" while staring at the lightning rod which has someone either in it, or it's a reflection of that person. I'm hoping it's Bart. (fingers crossed)[/spoiler]

Podmark · June 24, 2007, 02:07:33 PM

hmmm, I heard about Wally, but not the other one.

kssaints · June 24, 2007, 07:36:18 PM

Quote from: murs47 on June 22, 2007, 06:45:20 PM
Here's Speed...finally. :rolleyes:

Ok...I'm unreleasing until I find out where I got the mesh from

Hey Pod. That Speed mesh is all Tommyboy stuff hexed by me (kssaints)

murs47 · June 24, 2007, 07:40:32 PM

ah, great kssaints! now I can re-release the skin again :D

thanks a ton

BatWing · June 26, 2007, 06:35:27 PM

great impulse skin mur :thumbup:

murs47 · June 27, 2007, 10:56:31 AM

Well everyone, I just read the Sinestro Corps Special and I think I'll be going skin crazy now!
I won't say anything else for spoiler reasons, except..........what are you still doing reading this?

go read the issue already :P

Podmark · June 27, 2007, 01:49:47 PM

Sweet! Looking forward to the skins.

murs47 · June 27, 2007, 02:10:49 PM

here's a small update to Sinestro. Just added boots, made the belt black, and added those little white disks to his forearm bracers.

More to come throughout the week. ;)

Podmark · June 27, 2007, 09:45:09 PM

Looking good.

Blkcasanova247 · June 28, 2007, 05:27:33 AM

Quote from: ips on June 27, 2007, 02:02:55 PM
hey murs,

i think you're off to a great start with your flash skins but i have to suggest revisiting the colours. the red is so muted it's brownish and rust coloured. your yellow needs some saturation enhancement also. try sampling the colours right off a comic scan. it's faster.

otherwise these could really kick some butt.

Yeah....I have to agree. You're colors are definitely on the dark side. Lighten up man! :lol: ;)

murs47 · June 28, 2007, 08:17:07 AM

I've been trying to see what you guys are saying about my muddled colors and I finally remembered that I calibrated my monitor for PANTONE colors a long time ago for school and work.

I went on my other comp(which isn't calibrated) and it's a huge difference on some of the colors. I could finally see what you were saying about the red being brownish. I will have to disagree on the yellow somewhat....it could use some slight brightening but nothing as substantial as the red.

Basically with my monitor being calibrated some colors seem more saturated then what they would be on other monitors. I'll be checking out my skins on my other comp to see what color hues are effected the most. From what I can see so far......Reds are looking like rust, Greens like dying grass, and Blues like grays. The main 3 colors of the RGB color spectrum. The skin tones and yellow seem fine so far.

You guys have pointed this out many times, and thank you for it. But why the heck didn't this click in my head until now? :doh:

I'll probably be posting a lot more WIP's now

Podmark · June 28, 2007, 11:46:57 AM

I'm going to agree with IPS. A little red in the shadows does enhance the yellow colours.

murs47 · June 28, 2007, 01:42:45 PM

I've noticed on you're guys' skins that the shadows in your yellow has an orangish-yellow hue instead of that yellowish-brownish hue that I have, how do you guys do it?

I've tried many different layer types and style all though way to level, curve and hue/sat. commands but I can't figure it out. The only thing that comes to mind is doing it manually with the brush but that would very tedious.

murs47 · June 28, 2007, 03:03:39 PM

Thanks a lot for all your help IPS. :thumbup: I don't think I'll be changing my calibration but I will just bump up the saturation levels of the colors I'm using to compensate. Thanks again.

murs47 · June 29, 2007, 10:50:35 AM

Ugliest costume ever........I'm not too happy with the shoulder pads, but I worked with what I had.

ghazkul · June 29, 2007, 01:03:58 PM

Wonderful work Murs! Ive collected all your Sinestro and Green Lantern corps skins and am still amazed that you are able to create so many good skins.
Are you gonna try doing Sinestro Corps versions of Anti-Monitor, Cyborg Superman, New Parralax (Kyle rayner) or any of the 89 (someone counted it) new Sinestro Corps members shown?