Pod's: Ant-Man & the Wasp released

[Podmark]

honestly guys a wacom, does help. i draw 99% of my skin stuff and then once it's done fine tune it with the pen tool

I have a waccom but I'm not very good with it for whatever reason. Need to practice more I guess.

[Podmark]

Trying to finish up Wolverine:



Old version followed by new.
At the moment I think I'm done with him, but I'll wait for your comments guys.

I'm not going with a Feral face. I thought about it but I prefer something like above. It's really simple, when I think of Wolverine he's the old warrior telling the others how the world works, not a feral beast in the midst of a berserker rage. So that's what I'm going with.

[detourne_me]

Looking good! 
also,   Dragon Age is hard to pull away from,  and I'm also super excited fro Mass Effect 2.  hopefully i can finish anbother game of DA and my original Mass Effect game by then!

[Tomato]

huge improvement here pod... He's really Wolverine to me now, can't wait to get my hands on this.

[laughing paradox]

It's amazing how subtle differences can really alter a skin.. good job, Pod.

The only suggestion I can even make is maybe putting a wrinkle or two on his brow?

[area34]

I agree with LP. I've always seen Wolvie more grizzled and aged. I grew up with Byrne style not the pretty boy Jackman era so I'm a bit biased.

[Artemis]

very nice! its good to see a non snarly wolvie!

[Tomato]

I agree with LP. I've always seen Wolvie more grizzled and aged. I grew up with Byrne style not the pretty boy Jackman era so I'm a bit biased.

To be completely fair, I feel like Jackman finally grew into the role with Origins... he looks so much more like Wolverine than he did in the Xmen films.

Back on topic though, my only suggestion looking at it would be to get some shadow on his forehead... maybe try lp's suggestion too, but you've got enough subtle detail here that I don't see a need for serious wrinkles.

[Podmark]

Hmm I may try some work on the brow/forehead.
There's probably going to be a third Wolvie skin included when I release.

[Podmark]

Time for another Wolverine preview:



The new Manifest Destiny costume of Wolverine. It`s really just a complicated version of Cassidy's perfect design, it's alright.

The belt isn't started at all. I'll be posting some reference pictures soon because I want some advice on what to skope for it. Also the blue might be changed a bit. Most reference has it a different tone.
The rest is done, save for Tomato it ripping apart  Let me know what you guys think.

The chest disc is changed and will be used for the Cyclops skin as well.

This skin will be released with the X-Force and Blue and Gold costumes, and maybe one more. There's one more costume I'm thinking about doing.

[Outcast]

For this WIP, my one critique would be the yellow of his face mask and his boots doesn't match the yellow of his (body) costume. 

[Tomato]

The rest is done, save for Tomato it ripping apart 

*cracks knuckles*

First, Blue is too light for my tastes. To me, Wolverine has always been almost a Blue/Black kind of thing, and this is shades lighter then a Spiderman Movie Blue. I'd say darken it a bit, but emphasize the torso because it's several shades lighter due to the highlights. Also, maybe touch up the shoulders a bit, either make the blue spandex a tad longer or extend it out to the sides more. You can see a gap between the should and the pecs in the idle pose which doesn't look natural.

I notice that you did shade certain areas on the piping, but you probably need to go back over them with a hue adjustment layer to make them a tad more orange. If you look below the belt, you can see where it's a dark yellow shade compared to the orange shading on everything else around it. Maybe make the piping slightly thinner too, but outside of that it's fine.

Button is 50 times better, only question I have is whether it's a 3D addition or a 2D.

[Podmark]

The blue will be changed, but probably not the way you want, Tom. Alot of the reference I've seen has it more green looking so I'll probably be adjusting it that way. We'll see.

I keep getting comments that the different parts of a colour don't match. This is really odd as my technique shouldn't affect that much at all.

EDIT:
The button is the same 3D part as before. I just used a completely different technique. Actually I used a lot of different techniques on this skin.

I'll play with the other things.

[area34]

It could be the actual mesh that is causing the color distortion. I'm not very versed at how to fix that sort of thing but I know AA has mentioned before about it.

[Renegade]

It could be the actual mesh that is causing the color distortion. I'm not very versed at how to fix that sort of thing but I know AA has mentioned before about it.

That's weird.

[Podmark]

It could be the actual mesh that is causing the color distortion. I'm not very versed at how to fix that sort of thing but I know AA has mentioned before about it.

That's weird.

I'm positive it's not the mesh, Ren. Just some oddity in my skinning technique.

[Tomato]

I'm positive it's not the mesh, Ren. Just some oddity in my skinning technique.

I think it's more optical illusion then anything else. The highlights take up most of the mentioned areas, whereas the other areas have significant shadowing. It LOOKS different, even if it isn't.

[laughing paradox]

Great skin, Pod. I like this Wolverine look.

[Podmark]

Took me a bit to get to this but here's a picture of the belt I need to recreate:


I could probably make this with a flat belt and a square buckle but I thought I'd ask what other skoping ideas you guys can think of. Anything out there that looks like this belt?

[Podmark]

Ok belt is finished.

Tomato, I looked at the skin in the character tool and gap between the shoulder is more caused by the idle stance, it has the shoulders kinda of slumped inward. In other animations it looks fine but I'll play with it to see if I can get it to look good on the idle too.

[AfghanAnt]

Really nice skin Pod but that belt is silly. I'm not sure why they don't go back to Astonishing design or even something 70's inspired (at least for Cyclops).

[Podmark]

Really nice skin Pod but that belt is silly. I'm not sure why they don't go back to Astonishing design or even something 70's inspired (at least for Cyclops).

Yes the belt is ridiculous. I don't why Bianchi created such complicated costumes. 

[AfghanAnt]

Really nice skin Pod but that belt is silly. I'm not sure why they don't go back to Astonishing design or even something 70's inspired (at least for Cyclops).

Yes the belt is ridiculous. I don't why Bianchi created such complicated costumes. 

Yeah me either. In fact the only time I have liked those costume are when they are drawn by Phil Jimenez but I love all his work.

[Podmark]

I finished up Wolverine tonight and have released him on Hero Force.



I played with the tone of the blue on the Astonishing costume a bit but ultimately kept it as is. I'll be working on Cyclops again next.

[detourne_me]

Thank you Podmark!  He looks great. I think you did a really sweet job on the Lee era costume, and the details look great on the bianchi design (although i'm not really a fan of the design)

[Sledgehammer]

Great, Pod!

I've always liked your style, and your Wolverine pack is no exception.

[laughing paradox]

Great Wolverine pack, Pod! I particularly like the X-force version.

[cascarudo]

awesome work like usually 

[Podmark]

New preview:



New X-Men uniform for the X-23 pack that I'll one day release. Ideally it'll include re-skins of my first three X-23 skins but I might cut them to get it out sooner. We'll see.
Off chance I may move the whole skope over to Tomato's teen mesh.

Exciting part of this skin is that I now have the female New X-Men uniform skinned. So when I get back to skinning the kids it'll be easier to pump out the rest.

Cyclops is crawling along. Having trouble motivating myself to finish but he's almost done.

[murs47]

Yes! I've been waiting soooooooooooooooooo long for female versions of the Skottie Young unis.

*is happy*