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

[laughing paradox]

AA, your Q-Men look insane. Your old iteration was great already, but the improvement is very impressive.

Unfortunately, I can't see Cacus for some reason.

[AfghanAnt]

AA, your Q-Men look insane. Your old iteration was great already, but the improvement is very impressive.

Unfortunately, I can't see Cacus for some reason.

Thanks LP and that is because I've updated the image. I changed the skope and updated the skin a bit to make him more Aboriginal...



Meet Dr. Dwight Yorke also known as the Shepard. He's a leading geneticist and Chimera expert. His power is human manipulation via his voice chords. 


Also meet his ex-lover and research partner, Gravita. Born in Ottoman Syria, Abra Yakootah has the ability to manipulate gravtational forces. Making her one of the most powerful Chimera's alive.


Everyone needs a Prof and Magneto, right?

[detourne_me]

Just outstanding AA! I'd love to see you continue with other versions of X-Men villains, maybe a sentinel/nimrod named Bellerophon!

[Podmark]

Everyone needs a Prof and Magneto, right?

Yes, yes they do.

Great job on these. You're designs never cease to impress.

[Doom2099]

OMG PLEASE RELEASE THESE BEAUTIES!!!

[Klauser]

" ... release me ..."

Seriously - this series is incredible.  Many thanks!!!

[Outcast]

Loving the new character designs here as well AA.

I feel a Mod is nearing completion here. 

[windblown]

Outstanding skins/designs/skopes, I really like them.

I feel a Mod is nearing completion here. 

I certainly would love to play a mod with these characters 

[laughing paradox]

This is very inspiring.

Cacus' face is exquisite, Shepherd looks great but the real winner here, for me, is Gravita. I simply love the design. I'd love to see how she looks with different color palettes.

[AfghanAnt]

Thanks dude. What colors were you thinking?

[laughing paradox]

I think red would be too much like Magneto, but I was considering either purple or blue.

And this is a totally random question -- whatever happened to your All-New, All-Deadly X-Men? The Grey King, Xaos and the others.

[AfghanAnt]

I think red would be too much like Magneto, but I was considering either purple or blue.

And this is a totally random question -- whatever happened to your All-New, All-Deadly X-Men? The Grey King, Xaos and the others.

I thought about purple but it looked too much Magneto to me too (plus the Q-Men wear pink). Blue would be interesting. I had plans for her "children" and one of them was going to wear blue, but maybe making the tones different.

They were lost with a computer crash a while back and while I have the psds I would need to skope them all over again.

[laughing paradox]

I think red would be too much like Magneto, but I was considering either purple or blue.

And this is a totally random question -- whatever happened to your All-New, All-Deadly X-Men? The Grey King, Xaos and the others.

I thought about purple but it looked too much Magneto to me too (plus the Q-Men wear pink). Blue would be interesting. I had plans for her "children" and one of them was going to wear blue, but maybe making the tones different.

They were lost with a computer crash a while back and while I have the psds I would need to skope them all over again.

Bummer about the crash; I know how that goes. At least you have the PSDs!

I am really looking forward to your "Brotherhood" pastiche. Your work on the Q-Men (and particularly the Amazonauts) have inspired me to start doing my own original characters, via Freedom Force.

[baley]

Hey, Mr. Ant --- I've been trying to use your meshes in Freedom Force, but instead of the mesh it just shows a white cube. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for all the hard work. It's amazing to see you still active after all these years.

[AfghanAnt]

I think red would be too much like Magneto, but I was considering either purple or blue.

And this is a totally random question -- whatever happened to your All-New, All-Deadly X-Men? The Grey King, Xaos and the others.

I thought about purple but it looked too much Magneto to me too (plus the Q-Men wear pink). Blue would be interesting. I had plans for her "children" and one of them was going to wear blue, but maybe making the tones different.

They were lost with a computer crash a while back and while I have the psds I would need to skope them all over again.

Bummer about the crash; I know how that goes. At least you have the PSDs!

I am really looking forward to your "Brotherhood" pastiche. Your work on the Q-Men (and particularly the Amazonauts) have inspired me to start doing my own original characters, via Freedom Force.

Nice! I can't wait to see them.

Hey, Mr. Ant --- I've been trying to use your meshes in Freedom Force, but instead of the mesh it just shows a white cube. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for all the hard work. It's amazing to see you still active after all these years.

All of my work is for  only.

[baley]

Yeah, that will do it. Hah!

[baley]

Mr. Ant, something that came up:

I'm loving your hero files.

I'm noticing that your hero files use FXs not in EZFX, or FFX, or PFX, and your Web site provides  -only FX for the Justice League. How did you (and how do I) assign, say, the appropriate intended FX to Green Lantern's attacks?

Thanks a bunch!

--- Baley

[AfghanAnt]

To fight my depression over losing 90% of my unreleased work (and all of Weird World skopes and a lot of psd/skins...) I started working on a skope/skin for Benton's mod. He asked me to update Vanisher's old look and mix it with the current one. I hope this is what he was expecting.

FYI the Unus you see above does not exist anymore so I'm making a new skope (I still have the psd).

Still have four more familiar faces to finish these guys off and start working on Windblown's New Mutants again.

[BentonGrey]

Well, that's not what I was expecting.....it's even more awesome!  I love the design you've come up with AA, something that really captures the best parts of both of his looks and just really works as a super villain! 

[AfghanAnt]

Well, that's not what I was expecting.....it's even more awesome!  I love the design you've come up with AA, something that really captures the best parts of both of his looks and just really works as a super villain!

[Podmark]

Wow that Vanisher looks great. Kind of an ugly costume though

[OrWolvie1]

Fantastic job, AA. Course I have always loved your work. Like I've said before, every new release gets better and better. Love it! 

[AfghanAnt]

Wow that Vanisher looks great. Kind of an ugly costume though

I actually really like how terrible it is. I really wanted to capture the cooky crook Stan Lee and Jack Kirby envisioned, not the misanthropic two-timing teleporter from X-Force. What he's been wearing since the all-black bodysuit has been so non-costumey that is doesn't feel like the same Telford Porter.

Fantastic job, AA. Course I have always loved your work. Like I've said before, every new release gets better and better. Love it! 

Thanks. I believe all of these skins/skopes will be featured exclusively in Benton's mod (which everyone should be downloading and playing for the new content alone). I do have some other owned stuff coming out for Marvel. Nothing in the near future for originals or DC (burnt out/disappointed by both).

[Cyber Burn]

Toad is just hideous, I love it! I've already been excited for Benton's Mod, this just adds to that "Kid in a Candy Shop" feeling that I'm having.

[BentonGrey]

I love that Vanisher costume.  The more I look at it, the more I like it.  AA has done a masterful job of tweaking and adding to the original costume to make it a more interesting, more complete supervillain outfit. 

Thanks for the interest in the Marvel Adventures mod guys! 

[windblown]

I love it!! Really curious to know who are the other 4 characters, looking forward to discovering it!

[AfghanAnt]

After a slow and tedious process I have the Q-Men back - need to reskope some but for the most part I got them back. I'm going to try and release as much as this stuff as I can. I'm most likely going to try and reskin Kid-Ant and the F.O.U.R., as well as, some other stuff I was working on before everything went to hell. Hopefully you guys will like it.

[Cyber Burn]

After a slow and tedious process I have the Q-Men back - need to reskope some but for the most part I got them back. I'm going to try and release as much as this stuff as I can. I'm most likely going to try and reskin Kid-Ant and the F.O.U.R., as well as, some other stuff I was working on before everything went to hell. Hopefully you guys will like it.

I don't think that there would even be any question there. You make it, us sheep automatically love it. 

[AfghanAnt]

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.

[Cyber Burn]

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.

Man, that's a lot of love put into these guys. Definitely something for us to look forward to.