Pod's: Ant-Man & the Wasp released

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New stuff!



So skinning Blindfold + a comment by Mike Carey in the X-Position I mentioned above + the fact they'd be easy = Pod skins two more characters from Young X-Men. Cipher and Ink.

Young X-Men was for the most part a poorly done book. Among it's problems was introducing 3 new mutants when no new mutants were supposed to exist and there were about 20 existing students to choose from many of them much much cooler. Well I've now skinned all three of them, including my earlier Graymalkin skin. Why? Because I'm a completist and they were again fairly easy.

Cipher has stealth powers and phasing. She was introduced near the end of the book and was only lightly developed. I'm not a fan of the character.

Ink I hated at first, but most of the book revolved around him and I started to like him by the end. He's actually just a normal human but his tattoo artist was a mutant who was able to give people powers based on iconic tattoo images. Ink has the following powers: a toxic palm, a blasting bicep, a super strong fist, flight, telepathy, a healing touch, and the powers of the Phoenix. So he's the most powerful X-Men, I guess.

I'll have the 3 Young X-Men packaged up and released in a few days.

[murs47]

Nice. I remember dropping this after the 2nd or 3rd issue. Yost and Kyle set such a high bar with the x-kids and Marvel somehow thought Daniel Way was the best person to follow them.

[bearded]

i did not read any yost or kyle, which might be why i liked the young xmen story. except for the fake cyclops bit...but anyway, that's why i appreciate these skins.
know what would be cool? a skin for the tattoo artist, and set him up as an npc with custom powers to give pc's a long lasting random mutation!

[John Jr.]

I don't know this "new" New Mutants, Pod, but your skins are great! The colors and highlights are just perfect.

[naitvalis]

great domino! always search a good skin for that character thx pod!

[AfghanAnt]

Is that new hair on Cipher (that's her name right)?

Oh and yah Blindfold!

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Thanks guys.

I've been given some great mesh parts from Bearded and Tomato so I'll be working on those. Bearded gave me a nice new snout for Wolfsbane, and Mr. Vegetable gave me some hair and helmet but you'll have to wait to find out who those are. 

Marvel somehow thought Daniel Way was the best person to follow them.

Marc Guggenheim actually.
I could write an essay on the mistakes made with Young X-Men, but there was stuff that I liked in it. It developed Rockslide quite well.

I'll eventually skin the other members of the Young X-Men team; Rockslide, Dust, Anole, Wolfcub, Dani, and Sunspot.

[Previsionary]

POD! Write a Highlight on Young X-men, send it to me for editing, and I'll finally have another article for FRP. Do it, yo. Know you wanna.

I enjoy the skins even though I'm not a fan of the characters. Is Cipher even still around? I haven't seen her in a while. The thing I really didn't like about these costumes, however, is how bland they are. That's unfortunate.

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Is that new hair on Cipher (that's her name right)?

The hair is from Gni's meshes. I believe I used the Kommando mesh. I also tried using the hidden hair in Tommy's Penance mesh but it didn't look right.

POD! Write a Highlight on Young X-men, send it to me for editing, and I'll finally have another article for FRP. Do it, yo. Know you wanna.

I enjoy the skins even though I'm not a fan of the characters. Is Cipher even still around? I haven't seen her in a while. The thing I really didn't like about these costumes, however, is how bland they are. That's unfortunate.

Yeah Cipher is still around. Carey was talking about using her in Legacy sometime.

Hmm write an article on Young X-Men....I could get behind that. I'll try to write something up and get back to you. And yes the costumes were one of the many problems of the series.

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Blindfold, Ink, and Cipher are up on HeroForce now.

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Over the weekend Tomato offered to collaborate on a project. I got 3 nifs out of him and this is the first of those 3:



The New X-Men leader Surge. One of my favorites among the mutant kids.

Tomato provided the custom hair, which I'm very happy with. The skin is essentially done save for the gauntlets. The gauntlets you see there are from my earlier Surge skin. This costume uses a different gauntlet design so I need to do some skoping to finish this skin. The gauntlets might be a bit of work so I may switch to another skin and come back to this one.

[Outcast]

Really nice work there Pod and Tomato. The hair looks great. I love the face and metal parts too.

[murs47]

This is so frickin awesome!

[John Jr.]

Great teamwork, guys. Her face is great, Pod, specially the mouth, great colors.

[darkknight92]

Awesome work!  Are we witnessing the birth of a new dynamic duo, perhaps? 

[Tomato]

Eh, not really... I've been meshing for several skinners of late (TUE, Murs, Pod) especially with the whole offer thread going on (which only one person has contacted me about... bizzareness.) So while I enjoyed working with Pod, we're not exclusive.

[murs47]

Eh, not really... I've been meshing for several skinners of late (TUE, Murs, Pod) especially with the whole offer thread going on (which only one person has contacted me about... bizzareness.) So while I enjoyed working with Pod, we're not exclusive.

Tomato definitely gets around. I once walked in on him rubbing ketchup all over TUE's body.

[Blkcasanova247]

WOW.  That imagery isn't going away anytime soon. THANKS MURS!

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So while I enjoyed working with Pod, we're not exclusive.

But but but...I just bought this ring and....

[AfghanAnt]

Amazing work you guys. I love the hair so much.

[daglob]

I gotta say I like the way that character looks too. I don't recall seeing her before, but the hair REALLY does it for her.

[laughing paradox]

Very nice skin.. I really dig the face.

The hair reminds me of Storm's when she got all Madureira-rized.

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I don't recall seeing her before,

She's a reasonably new character, having only been created this decade. One of her creators posted in this forum a couple times.

I'm really glad you guys like the face. I spent a lot of time working on it. I wanted to make sure she looked Japanese.

[Cyber Burn]

It really shows. Nice collaboration guys.

[BentonGrey]

Eh, not really... I've been meshing for several skinners of late (TUE, Murs, Pod) especially with the whole offer thread going on (which only one person has contacted me about... bizzareness.) So while I enjoyed working with Pod, we're not exclusive.

Tomato definitely gets around. I once walked in on him rubbing ketchup all over TUE's body.

Murs...you're a sick, sick little man, do you know that?

Ha, this is a great skin, and a nice skope?  Mesh?  Whichever.  The final product is very nice.  It looks very polished.  Those crazy robot arms are impressive.

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Ok (semi) new stuff:


I finished the wolf form of my X-Force Wolfsbane. This features a brand new wolf snout made by Bearded. Came out quite well, thanks alot Bearded.

I'm going to update my old New Mutants Wolfsbane to go with it. I just have to decide how to handle the skope. The teen body I use doesn't play nice with the above skope so I'm either going to rebuild the skope to a friendlier base or more likely do the teen Rhane on a separate skope. That will probably be my next skin, then I'll continue or on with my Tomato collabs or do a special skin I'm considering.

[John Jr.]

Great faces, Pod, specially the glowing eyes. The wolf face is specially good.

[AfghanAnt]

why does she have a mask on her wolf face? Otherwise awesome.

[murs47]

Nice update, looks really cool

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why does she have a mask on her wolf face? Otherwise awesome.

That's the way the costume is designed. I guess it morphs with her face. The mask was rarely used in the book itself.