AfghanAnt Artistic Advances 7/8/16 - Marvel Adventures Exclusives

[Podmark]

Great news!

[BentonGrey]

Great news AA! 

[spydermann93]

Good news! I got most of the WW originals back but I'm missing a few tgas and need to reskin some stuff. It is probably going to take a while to compile but I am definitely releasing these bad boys and I hope you guys like them. They are 3+ years of skoping, skinning, and thinking.

That's really awesome to hear! Did you find that you stored a lot of them on another drive, or were they uploaded somewhere?

Either way, I cannot, friggin' wait to download them!

I absolutely love yours and Unko's original characters.

[Doom2099]

Yay, been looking forward the WW!

[windblown]

That's fantastic news! 

[AfghanAnt]

The Shepard / The Man with the Golden Voice
Emotional manipulation via speech


Gravita / Madame of Motion
Control over gravitational forces


Gargoyle / French national
Flight, stony skin, and sonic wails


Fractal Girl / Korean national
Rudimentary 4-D manipulation which manifests as self similar duplicates / unconciously creates "bad luck" effect when doppelgangers are near her


Cacus / Aboriginal Australian
Nuclear emissions


Beef / German national
Bovine strength, fantastic speed


Magmaman / Maori New Zeland national
walking volcano, magma, lava, and smoke control


Kirin / Fractal Girl
Living 4-D matrix (space/time manipulation)
- I wanted to play with the idea of the Phoenix/Jean Grey but make it as true to what I wanted for these guys.
- I need to finish up her fans and I'll be releasing them and a ton of fxs I put together. 

[deanjo2000]

Im in awe of your skinning work.
I love the ideas behind them too

[Bloodshadow]

Beautiful skins and designs AA

[spydermann93]

Absolutely stunning, AA.

It's going to be like Christmas when these are released

[BentonGrey]

These are really excellent AA!  I think my favorite may be The Shepard.  I like the King Tut beard, it adds a little something to his design.  I also like the new addition.  She's got a neat look, a bit aquatic, and I love the iridescent costume.  I think she needs a bit more touch up around her decolletage, as the gold of the trim blends in with her skin.

[WyldFyre]

Every time you preview your skins I am amazed.  The faces and colors are just beautiful to behold.

[Podmark]

Those are all really great AA. Love your design work.
I think Fractal Girl and Magmaman are my favourites.

[AfghanAnt]

I also like the new addition.  She's got a neat look, a bit aquatic, and I love the iridescent costume.  I think she needs a bit more touch up around her decolletage, as the gold of the trim blends in with her skin.

Agreed on the gold.  Fractal Girl's new persona is based on Marvel Girl becoming the Phoenix.
Her codename and look comes from the Kirin or Qilin:


The kirin is one of the legendary four beasts (along with the Phoenix). I thought it would be a cool costume to have scales, flame like fur, and fish f-is. I've been thinking about my Second Genesis team lately.

Should have these ready by Saturday when I get back from Colorado. Just need to zip up the files and host them.

[BentonGrey]

Very neat, AA!  I like the inspiration quite a bit.

[detourne_me]

 
I love them all AA,  but Fractal Girl and Kirin take the cake,  I love the use of Asian mythology!  Fun fact, these days Qilin in Korean means giraffe! I can really see it now, too,  traditionally Asian dragons have softer, rounded horns, similar to giraffe antlers, and the long neck is also pretty indicative of Asian dragons.  Hey,  aren't the Q-Men in your universe referred to as Chimeras, as well? (as opposed to mutants)  That's a pretty cool connection to make.

[AfghanAnt]

I love them all AA,  but Fractal Girl and Kirin take the cake,  I love the use of Asian mythology!  Fun fact, these days Qilin in Korean means giraffe! I can really see it now, too,  traditionally Asian dragons have softer, rounded horns, similar to giraffe antlers, and the long neck is also pretty indicative of Asian dragons.  Hey,  aren't the Q-Men in your universe referred to as Chimeras, as well? (as opposed to mutants)  That's a pretty cool connection to make.

Yup! I almost named her Chimera but started doing research and fell in love with the Qilin.

[AfghanAnt]

Preview to the second generation.

[spydermann93]

Looks awesome, AA!!

Any plans for analogues to X-Men villains (excluding Magneto, obviously )? I'm really liking these alternate takes on these characters and I just love looking at their designs

[windblown]

wow, I love them! I think The Shepard and Magmaman are my favorites.

Second generation looks promising

[BentonGrey]

Ohh!  That's really neat, AA.  What a great peak behind the curtain! 

[Cyber Burn]

Ohh!  That's really neat, AA.  What a great peak behind the curtain! 

Agreed, it's really awesome to see the evolution of a Character go from Paper Drawing to 3D Rendering for FFvt3R. Honestly, though, I'm really looking forward to seeing your release, not just for those amazing Skins and Skopes, but I'm seriously looking forward to checking out your new FX's. They've always been really well done, and inspire me to try and step my game up a bit more.

[spydermann93]

Ohh!  That's really neat, AA.  What a great peak behind the curtain! 

Agreed, it's really awesome to see the evolution of a Character go from Paper Drawing to 3D Rendering for FFvt3R. Honestly, though, I'm really looking forward to seeing your release, not just for those amazing Skins and Skopes, but I'm seriously looking forward to checking out your new FX's. They've always been really well done, and inspire me to try and step my game up a bit more.

Agreed! I've been excited for these characters and FX for so long, I don't even recognize time anymore

[AfghanAnt]

Spoiler

Releasing these noon PST tomorrow.

[spydermann93]

YES!!! SO MUCH YES!!!!

I love the mask for "Dark" Kirin! Can't wait to make some hero files based on these guys

[AfghanAnt]

I got you covered with herofiles too.

[spydermann93]

I got you covered with herofiles too.

[daglob]

As the saying goes, "We are not worthy". Truly beautiful work.

[deanjo2000]

Just love everything to be honest, 2nd generation looks very promising. Please do some villians I'd love to see your take on a juggernaut type character.

[AfghanAnt]

A couple hours late BUT they are ready for download. Visit freedomforceuniverse.com to grab the pack. Let me know if you have problems. I was trying to QA everything before I released.

Just love everything to be honest, 2nd generation looks very promising. Please do some villians I'd love to see your take on a juggernaut type character.

I'm actually going to scrap the second gen to work on villains. I realized Wendigo works better as a villains any way. You'll see the other designs used for a different part of my universe though.

[spydermann93]

*frantically runs to go get download, falls; can't get back up*

*cries*

EDIT: Well, I finally got to check everything out, and I'm loving it! The characters seem to fit very well with the vanilla Freedom Force characters, which is great! It will be fun to take them out on missions   The FX look really beautiful, too! They fit the characters so very nicely.

One thing, though, is that all of the FX point to the Steam version's data folder, so the people not using the Steam version will have to change the directory for each of the FX. It's simple enough, but I just thought I'd point it out.

All you have to do is just set "library" as the root folder and place your FX in the main game's "Data/Art/library/fx" folder, and you should be good to go!

Anyways, I'm going to get back to playing more with these amazing new characters!