USAgent's 2nd rate skinning

USAgent · March 31, 2009, 04:14:06 AM

Well, I don't know how much activity this thread is gonna get from me skinning wise, since I have less than zero time anymore for myself to skin it seems. But since I have done some recent skins I figured I start up a new thread for them. I am mostly doing Johnny Patches skopes that need a standard skin. And after doing a couple of them I think I felt something bite me again, but we'll see.

So to start off here is my latest skin I just did:

Thor villain Kurse.

You can probably figure out where this skope came from, yep....Mr. Patches himself. He did a great job putting this togeather I must say. One problem with this skin is that I had no idea what to do with where the ankles and feet come togeather, so I just left it.
He actually wears armor, but I can't skin metal for the life of me and I don't like reflective.tga layers either so I skinned him more grungy with shadows.

And concerning my skinning, I am definatly not a artist and have feeble photshop skills but what I am trying to accomplish is getting some characters out there that arn't "out there" yet, and also getting some skins on Johnny Patches awsome skopes so we can at least have something to play around with until someone with some actual skill skins them.

Older skins that were already posted:

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Jack Hammer - old Daredevil villain and new Master of Evil member

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Ursa Major - Soviet shape changer and Winter Guard member

Jakew · March 31, 2009, 04:46:08 AM

Uhhhh....

Wow.

That.

Is.

Amazing.

On a sidenote ... where are JP's skopes generally available? I know you and Laughing Paradox are his two main collabs.

fractal · March 31, 2009, 06:23:45 AM

just recently got back into FF glad to see kurse finally got meshed. Great job USAgent & Patches!!!! It seems like skoping has made a lot of really difficult meshes possible. Looking forward to some more obscure marvel characters. One quick question are these for

?

laughing paradox · March 31, 2009, 09:13:31 AM

Great skin, USAgent!

Kurse really looks great.

tommyboy · March 31, 2009, 09:51:30 AM

Great stuff, both of you.

USAgent · March 31, 2009, 11:32:40 AM

Quote from: Jakew on March 31, 2009, 04:46:08 AM

On a sidenote ... where are JP's skopes generally available? I know you and Laughing Paradox are his two main collabs.

His Skopes are here: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WiCKeT_HaRLeYs_Freedom_Force_Skopes/

Kurse isnt released just quite yet, but the other 2 are at his yahoo group, I will get him zipped up and uploaded to my yahoo group shortly as well. And these will be for both FF1 and FFv3R.

Thanks guys!

Johnny Patches · March 31, 2009, 11:55:35 AM

nice Mr US.. i couldnt ask for better thank you buddy

Quote from: Jakew on March 31, 2009, 04:46:08 AM
On a sidenote ... where are JP's skopes generally available? I know you and Laughing Paradox are his two main collabs.

also Check
AA's site
Laughing Paradox's site
My yahoo group

blobula · March 31, 2009, 02:45:21 PM

Fantastic work, USAgent! One of your best skins ever, if not the best.

I don't know who Kurse is but I have to download that skin.

USAgent · March 31, 2009, 10:12:42 PM

Thanks Blobula! Johnny's skope made this a easy mesh to skin on. If you saw the mess of a photoshop file I have for him you would wonder how I got him to look like that!
I uploaded him along with the other 2 here: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/USAgentskins2/

There is one problem with Kurse's skin though, ya see those legs straps on his upper thigh with the circles on them? Well the straps are mirrored on the back of his legs too but the circles arn't centered on the straps like thay are in the front, but since its a mirrored piece it can't be helped.

Podmark · March 31, 2009, 10:54:20 PM

Good work here USAgent.

electro · April 01, 2009, 12:05:48 AM

Kurse looks Amazing - You & Johnny did a great job on these characters - Hope to see you two team-up more often

fractal · April 01, 2009, 03:00:55 AM

great job on these guys

johncostantine78 · April 01, 2009, 03:53:22 PM

Agent, you make a fantastic Kurse skin and don't release any hero file? Shame on you!!!!

Outcast · April 01, 2009, 05:47:28 PM

Great work on Kurse ,Ursa Major and the Winter guard member.

I'm not sure if this was intentional, but based on your reference pic, I think Jackhammer is missing some pants.

USAgent · April 01, 2009, 09:37:20 PM

Quote from: Outcast on April 01, 2009, 05:47:28 PM
Great work on Kurse ,Ursa Major and the Winter guard member.

I'm not sure if this was intentional, but based on your reference pic, I think Jackhammer is missing some pants.

I noticed that myself after the fact, I think it might of been a "boo-boo", but I am just gonna say that um....I was looking at a different reference pic while skinning...yeahhhh.

Quote from: johncostantine78 on April 01, 2009, 03:53:22 PM
Agent, you make a fantastic Kurse skin and don't release any hero file? Shame on you!!!!

Its either gonna be hero files or skins, I can't do it all (at least that is what I tell my boss). I should take a note from Podmark and include hero files with any skins I make though, thats a good idea.

Podmark · April 02, 2009, 03:01:14 AM

Quote from: USAgent on April 01, 2009, 09:37:20 PM
I should take a note from Podmark and include hero files with any skins I make though, thats a good idea.

Yeah Podmark should start doing that again too.

USAgent · April 04, 2009, 08:12:56 PM

Here is the old Daredevil/Wolverine villain Bushwacker!
Skope by Johnny Patches!

Yeah I know, I went a little overboard with the clothing wrinkles, but its the only way I know how to make it look like someone is wearing clothes as opposed to a spandex costume. And as I was looking through all the base skin I have, I saw the old tried and true Gryphon's base skin, and I thought I wanted to use that one just one more time for old times sake, I just gave it a different mouth and eyebrows.
This guy sure liked his blue wardrobe! I tried to make the jacket/pants/shoes a little different blue from each other, and even though the picture of him has a black collar it was actually blue in his comic appearances.

I'll work up a hero file for him before I release him.

tommyboy · April 04, 2009, 09:05:16 PM

Bushwhacker looks really good.
You are going to have to change this thread's name, as theres nothing 2nd rate about that skin.
Your skinning is coming on in leaps and bounds.
Excellent stuff, both you and Mr. Patches.

laughing paradox · April 04, 2009, 11:23:26 PM

I totally agree with Tommy.. I can't even skin decent clothes! My characters have to have spandex or be naked.

GREAT Bushwacker. I look forward to its release. I'm so glad you're back to skinning, because you and I share a lot of interest in characters that haven't been created yet.

As in the other Femizons that haven't been created.. Water Witch? SNAPDRAGON!!!

clownprince · April 05, 2009, 01:19:41 AM

i thought he met the characters were second rate? i wish i could buy some jeans that look that good. awesome stuff

UnkoMan · April 05, 2009, 01:29:08 AM

Those clothes actually look pretty good. I'm terrible with wrinkles. The zipper's real nice too.

But these skopes man? Dang... Kurse is flippin' sweet.

blobula · April 05, 2009, 05:26:48 AM

Your skinning is getting better than ever USAgent. Those clothes are very well done.

I've always wanted to see Bushwacker done. Good job to both of you.

XPTO · April 05, 2009, 04:07:53 PM

Very nice skins, you´re indeed getting better don´t loose the momentum

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djfredski · April 05, 2009, 05:15:40 PM

way to good to be 2nd rate.
awesome job!

lgmss · April 05, 2009, 05:21:16 PM

lol I remember this guy being one of the biggest requests in your 2nd rate villian thread on the older forms. Can't wait to use him.

USAgent · April 05, 2009, 07:26:43 PM

Thanks everyone, I am surprised how well this skin went over, the wrinkles on the clothes really wern't to tough (hench the overboardness of them) I just started out with the C6 costume base and used the smudge tool and smudged away.

The name of the thread was a reference to the type of characters I want to skin and also a dig on my skinning ability. But I do seem to be learning new tricks from 3 years ago when I last skinned.
He is uploaded here:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/USAgentskins2/files/
Its for FFV3R but I did leave the FF1 character.nif in the zip as well, plus I threw in a FFV3R hero file!

LP, we definatly have similar tastes in characters , I am always looking forward to your next character!(except I don't to DC, but love yours), but I don't know how "back" I am, right now I am just helping out by making skins for JP skopes for another project.

I do have a couple more in the works for the project then we'll see what happens, But I do seem to enjoying this again, if there were only 30 hours in a day I could get so much more done!

fractal · April 05, 2009, 09:49:44 PM

Great Job I love your skins & the choice of marvel second stringers!! Thanks for also including a FF1 character nif!!!

I'd also like to second snapdragon if you and JP are interested in scoping & skinning her.

Jakew · April 06, 2009, 01:37:37 AM

USAgent, any plans to skin JP's Hypno Hustler, Seth, Bonebreaker, etc?

USAgent · April 06, 2009, 01:41:58 AM

I think maybe C6 is doing Seth, so um, no way am I doing him

. But the Hypno Hustler sounds like a good Obscure character for a future skin.

Cyber Burn · April 06, 2009, 11:59:17 PM

All of these turned out really impressive. Good Job.

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