Tomato's Meshes: Mirror Mirror time again! (05/25/13)

[Tomato]

Face it TUE. Your soul belongs to me now.

[Cyber Burn]

You sooo own TUE, it's not funny.

But now we can prepare for another Benton mod. 

[Podmark]

Will TUE finally get the Skeletor mesh he's always wanted? Find out next time, same Tomato Time, same Tomato channel.

[BentonGrey]

Haha, not anytime soon.  SCD has already called my bluff on Thundercats, so I think I'm full up for the moment!  He-Man is the major 80's toon I'm least interested in.  If we're all still around in a few years, maybe then.

[deano_ue]

oooooooooooh

[Tomato]

Need to do a few bits on the harness and belt, as well as new feet... but Skeletor's coming along ok if I do say so myself. Also, I want it noted that I am very vexed with TUE right now... it wasn't until he infected me with his crazy that I would have even CONSIDERED buying anything MOTU related, but yesterday I broke down and shelled out nearly $30 for my first legitimate motu purchase... God help me.




To be fair though, the one I bought was a Battleground Evil Lynn, and that thing is gorgeous.

[deano_ue]

lol she will do that to you and may i also suggest adora that figure is stunning

[Tomato]

Honestly... No offense man, I think it looks boring, myself. I guess I'm just a sucker for the bad girls 



still missing part of the harness (crossbones portion) and eventually I'll get around to his staff, but it's coming along. You'll notice I decided to make the clawed feet attach to the other ones... I figure this way TUE can reuse them on other meshes if he so chooses.

[BentonGrey]

Hey 'Mato, that's really coming along!  That skull face is fantastic.

[Tomato]

Hey 'Mato, that's really coming along!  That skull face is fantastic.

It bloody well SHOULD be, I had to do it twice. I had it done almost perfectly, and then Max crashed. Upside though is that I had it more or less down to a science the second time.

[BentonGrey]

Haha, well, small mercies, I suppose...

[Tomato]

And now for something completely different.


Mk, so some of you might remember that I made mention of a certain thing derailing my CSA skins? Yeah, this might shock you all, but it wasn't talking about MOTU. Trying to finish up the mesh of the battery now.



Now, this IS on the Ren GL keyframes like the power rings were, but unlike those this one will not have auras or the floating logo... based upon my (admittedly limited) research, Alan doesn't have an aura during flight like the GLC does, and is more commonly depicted with green flames. And because adding FX would be too much work (I'd have to figure out a way to get them to work during the GL flight animations, I'd have to set the whole thing up twice because you jerks would want FF and FFv3R versions, and I'm not the only party involved who has to skin this beach) you'll all just have to live with a new ring, new battery, and new base mesh. I know you're all devastated by that, but I'm sure you'll learn to live with it.

Anyway, as I said, this is one part of the something I'm working on setting up, there's one other that IS skoped and ready, but since it's just a skope I'm just going to hold off until all interested parties are ready.

Edit: Close up of the ring

[detourne_me]

i hate to be that dude Tomato, but i guess it's just my southpaw pride.... alan's wearing his ring on the wrong hand.
otherwise, the details on the ring are amazing! i also like the details on the mesh,  like the puffysleeves and little ponch too.

[Podmark]

That's one fancy ring . I'm curious what else you and these interested parties are up to.

[Tomato]

i hate to be that dude Tomato, but i guess it's just my southpaw pride.... alan's wearing his ring on the wrong hand.
otherwise, the details on the ring are amazing! i also like the details on the mesh,  like the puffysleeves and little ponch too.

So is Sinestro, but there's nothing I can really do about it... I make the pieces, but it's Ren's animations.

BTW, I've gone ahead and added a different FX to the ring as well... I was gonna use the same one as the other GL/PR skins, but given the shape of the ring I instead opted to use the same type as the battery.

[Tomato]

no texture yet, but it's ready to be sent off. whoopdiedo.

[Amazo Version 2.2]

that is some seriuosly sweet stuffage tomato! i cant wait to see it finished.

[Cyber Burn]

More Lanterns to play with, right on! 

[Tomato]

So I won't rehash here why I've been more or less absent lately (long story short, I've been hanging out with mah bronies) but after seeing TUE's He-Man, I got motivated enough to finish off the mesh of Skeletor itself.



Still haven't done the staff, but honestly... I'm not motivated enough at the moment to mesh it. If I can find one somebody else made free for use, or something I can get permission for, I might go that route, but unfortunately I just don't care enough about ff stuff atm.

TUE, expect a PM shortly.

[Podmark]

Looks pretty good, and I'm sure TUE will have something awesome to dress it up with.

[Tomato]

I'm so weak...

[cmdrkoenig67]

I must confess, while I am not a fan of the MOTU show/characters/etc...That is an amazing Skeletor, Tomato!  The Green Lantern ring and power battery is also really well done...Bravo!

Dana

[martialstorm]

Great work on the Alan Scott character and objects Tomato!

[Tomato]

For the record, I am still working on the staff... I've go about 65% of it mapped (horns, staff section, and gem are all done, just have to do the skull now) so... that's a thing.

For those not following my tumblr (shame on u) I'm down to the last few icons for the project I've been busy with, so I might start coming back to ff stuff soonish. I dunno how much I'm ready to do though, I'm still feeling burned out... but we'll see. At the very least, I have some ideas for tweeking my female meshes.

[Cyber Burn]

For the record, I am still working on the staff... I've go about 65% of it mapped (horns, staff section, and gem are all done, just have to do the skull now) so... that's a thing.

For those not following my tumblr (shame on u) I'm down to the last few icons for the project I've been busy with, so I might start coming back to ff stuff soonish. I dunno how much I'm ready to do though, I'm still feeling burned out... but we'll see. At the very least, I have some ideas for tweeking my female meshes.

Good news indeed.

[Tomato]

well yeah, except that was before my body was assaulted by a virus from the nether reaches of hell. I'm going in to fast track tomorrow (kinda like er, but not really) but atm we're thinking it's some kind of flu. Aches, congestion, sore throat, loss of voice, constant nasal drainage, and a raise in temp (not a huge one mind, but then, I've never been prone to fever)

[Cyber Burn]

That's a bummer 'Mato, I hope you feel better soon.

[Deaths Jester]

well yeah, except that was before my body was assaulted by a virus from the nether reaches of hell. I'm going in to fast track tomorrow (kinda like er, but not really) but atm we're thinking it's some kind of flu. Aches, congestion, sore throat, loss of voice, constant nasal drainage, and a raise in temp (not a huge one mind, but then, I've never been prone to fever)

Hey, us folks in the nether reachs of hell had nothing ot do with this, so keep us out of this will ya!

[Tomato]

Starting to get some work done on Female_Basic_TM_v2


comparison to V1

some side shots

Updates so far:

-More natural looking chest
-Narrower shoulders and arms (might go back and add some muscle back in, they're almost too twig-like now)
-longer, more natural ab area
-better breasts
-minor changes to the head shape (it's kind of impossible to see given my base, but I generally tried to make the face less round. I'll try to show it in a later update)

Still working on:
-As mentioned above, tweeks to her arms
-Going to experiment with her hands, try to make them longer without making the animations look unnatural.
-major adjustments to the collarbone/shoulder area
-gonna make some changes to the ab area, the front side looks a bit too flat.
-I want to play with her ankles a bit... the size of the feet are ok, but I feel like those ankles would never support a real human being.

Feel free to make your own suggestions here, I'm trying to make this the best basic female mesh I can.

[Podmark]

I can already see that I like the new version better Tom. Very cool.
I might have some suggestions later.