Ewzzy's Efforts - ?Blue Demon!

[cascarudo]

yours skins are just great love the the style of the clothes

[Ewzzy]

@Cascarudo: I have a tendency to make characters in pant and not tights. I've developed a shirt and pants base now that works for most clothes with some tweaking.
@Artemis: It's all about choosing a good base. He's based on the Strangefate base with a lot of tweaking to fit him in with the rest of my characters.
@Paradox: Keep skinning? Only because you said so!

NEW RELEASE!

DOWNLOAD AB-MAN
The best part about making this skin was blending together Googleplex's base skin so it looked less inked and so that it had proper skin tone.

NEW WEBSITE!
Oh yes it's true. www.freedomforce.ewzzy.com is now the place where you can get all of my skins and look at some retrospectives of my old days doing skins for FF. It's worth a quick look over. The visual style isn't even close to final. Heck, my banner is just a picture of LA from the Getty Center.

NEW YAHOO GROUP!

I realize that the reason that none of my old skins have survived is because I failed to make any sort of backups. As a result I've posted all of my skins and skopes to my new yahoo group. http://gamesource.groups.yahoo.com/group/ewzzy/ I'm already at 41% capacity so we'll see how long till I have to make another group.

[Scorpion13mk2]

Dude, love the website. Actually the first Ive seen with little advertisements, essentially, under the skins. Its that little something extra. I like it!

I dont remember you from olden times, from before you got back into the game. What sort of skins did you do?

[Ewzzy]

Thanks! If you click on the retrospectives on the site you can see the surviving screen shots of my skins. I started skinning when the game was first released without any clue what I was doing. What was the old site that hosted everyone's skins? Guy Gardner: Warrior was my first skin and it was awful! I didn't even use the character tool. I drew right on the base skin with no layers, saved, and went right to playing in game. I spent awhile as a part of "The Marvel Hunters" a group started by "Kraven" with the goal of skinning every obscure Marvel character. My heart wasn't exactly in that, but it was good for experience to have a multitude of characters to skin. I even did a skin of Crusher Hogan, the wrestler Spider-Man beats up in his first appearance. Then I got into creating originals with NPI I created a bunch that are lost to the ages but my favorites were a team of teenage international super-powered refugees called The Revenants. I did a bunch of Ultraverse and Green Lantern skins too because I was a big fan of them. Ron Marz's run on GL was what got me reading comics regularly for the first time. I was getting to about where I am now skill wise before I quit skinning to go to college.

[Ewzzy]

Wow I get long winded when I post at 3 in the morning.

So I took a break today from doing Dr McNinja stuff so I could try out some nifskope stuff. To create my avatar I did a full body transplant. It's difficult making those work, but the results can be fun. I spent used Irrational's male_trenchcoat as a base to build a new versatile mesh. I stole a bunch of hats from Pulp_Versatile along with some guns from it and the freeze gun from the Ice Soldier. The bodies of Nuclear Winter and Sukhov didn't want to transfer but I made it work. Male_Heavy doesn't work well, but with some nifscope trickery he's in there.

MALE_TRENCHCOAT_VERSATILE


I know with the advent of nifskope that versatile meshes haven't been as necessary, but I figured it was worth a shot. Any other pieces you'd like me to skope on?

[Artemis]

That looks AMAZING! I can't think of anything you can add...maybe minuteman's hat?

[Outcast]

Not everyone can skope that well, so i think that your male trench coat versatile could be very useful. The more accessories and weapons the better i suppose.

Great work on the skope.

[BentonGrey]

I love the Trenchcoat versatile!  I wish he had been around when I was trying to get Harvey Bullock skinned.

[area34]

I didn't know if you planned on doing one yourself but I went ahead and made a chainsaw throw FX for personal use. I haven't made a readme for it yet so it can't technically be released to the public but if you want it released I can do one.

[Ewzzy]

@area: I can't believe I forgot to post my chainsaw fx. I made some, but never got around to releasing them. They look basically the same as yours but the chainsaw isn't transparent.

@Benton: Maybe it's time you gave him another shot!

@Outkast: I've been digging deeper into skoping. Adding pieces is fun and easy, but swapping skeletons can be maddening.

@Artemis: Thanks for the support, I was inspired while working on the shadow side project with you.

Real life has been kicking my butt, so my output has been on a swift decline. Nonetheless I'd like to preview my new Thriller 4 pack.

I cannot for the life of me make non-zombie MJ look right. I've tried 5 different photoskin faces and none work right. For anyone who doesn't read Dr McNinja that is Ben Frankslin II next to MJ.

[Scorpion13mk2]

@area: I can't believe I forgot to post my chainsaw fx. I made some, but never got around to releasing them. They look basically the same as yours but the chainsaw isn't transparent.

@Benton: Maybe it's time you gave him another shot!

@Outkast: I've been digging deeper into skoping. Adding pieces is fun and easy, but swapping skeletons can be maddening.

@Artemis: Thanks for the support, I was inspired while working on the shadow side project with you.

Real life has been kicking my butt, so my output has been on a swift decline. Nonetheless I'd like to preview my new Thriller 4 pack.

I cannot for the life of me make non-zombie MJ look right. I've tried 5 different photoskin faces and none work right. For anyone who doesn't read Dr McNinja that is Ben Frankslin II next to MJ.

I love you. Im not kidding. I want to have your children.

[AfghanAnt]

Moonwalker!

[area34]

Yeah- The transparency is a video card issue. If I run the game in high res is solid but if you've already got an FX pack you should release it. There aren't many people who do FX anymore.

[murs47]

that is just awesome work man...wow

[Artemis]

im not a huge mj fan at all, but those are incredible. makes me want to try and skope a beyonce mesh lol. fantastic work as always.

[Scorpion13mk2]

Hmm, this DOES bring up the question of what the appropriate keyframes to use for him would be.

I have no idea.

[bearded]

take the run animation, flip it and slow it down.

[laughing paradox]

Great skope/skins.. the detail on the jacket is fantastic.

[Ewzzy]

All these and Trenchcoat Versatile at Ewzzy's Freedom Force.

Usually I stratify my releases over the course of a week on the blog, but I decided to dump all of these on my Freedom Force sub-site.

As far as animations for MJ/BF2 I was working on a mod of male_hunter 'cause it's animations are great for this. I never finished it though.

Sorry Scorp, no babies.

[docdelorean88]

That mj skin is sweet! Nice work!

[electro]

Good work on that Bee FX

[Scorpion13mk2]

Oooooohhh!

Damn man. Nothing hurts worse then a chainsaw to the back of the head.

[Artemis]

BEE-utiful!

[Ewzzy]

@Delorean: Thanks, it might be getting a facelift thanks to Bearded.
@Electro: It had to be done. The man shoots bees.
@Scorp: Absolutely nothing!
@Artemis: Bwa-ha-ha! After seeing Laughing Paradox's female-male body skope technique I went to town creating an approximation of the request you asked me about a while back.

It's not quite the same, but it works pretty well. The biggest difference is chest size, Shadow has *ahem* filled out.

[Artemis]

 

O.M.G Ewzzy!!!!!! You. Are. A. Legend.

A Legend!!!

(who knew that 'Amber Autumn' was actually  an alias for Katie Price? http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2008/09/24/previews/Katie%20Price-SPX-025060.jpg )

[docdelorean88]

I think that skope would be a sweet start at a sidekick for Tomstone. Just my oppinion. Btw, what keyframes does MJ take?

[daglob]

 

[Scorpion13mk2]

Crap dude. I really like your new meshes.

[Ewzzy]

@Artemis: That's a lot of hearts.    (What's this about Katie Price? Artemis, you've lost me.)
@Delorean: MJ can take any Male_Basic keyfames. There aren't really any out there that do him justice though.
@DaGlob:  Right back at ya!
@Scorp: Me too. I've fallen in love with Nifskope. Check it:
Lady Deja Vu and Red Son skopes


This ones already available.

necron_soldier_us

I skoped the body and parts of Necron_Soldier onto the us_soldier mesh from Irrational. Get it here:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Lordehmsidymeshes2/

I didn't like my kitbashed skin for the Tombstone/Shadow mesh, so I re-did it in my own style.


Also of note, I've been updating my website and yahoo group as well as updating the Lord Ehmsidy yahoo group to have missing meshes.

[Artemis]

@Artemis: That's a lot of hearts.    (What's this about Katie Price? Artemis, you've lost me.)

I was refering to Shadow's 'filled out' chest. I suppose the reference would be lost on anyone not from the UK.Katie Price is a famous/infamous 'former' 'glamour model', who is known for her HUGE assets...and is currently seeing herself fall out of public favour due to her divorce from heinous 'popsinger', Peter Andre.**

Ok, enough UK celeb-gossip trivia.

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Shadow Looks great re-skinned. Maybe you could do more FF characters? You're nifskoping and skinning skills would definately add alot of character.

Looking forward to all the new skopes - i forgot how cool Red Son's keyframes are
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** I realise i used alot of inverted commas ' ' - it's because I'm certain that the descriptions i gave you will be void when Miss Price needs some more money.

Sorry for the partial thread hijack