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[USAgent]

Looking great Area, its nice to still see charaters that havn't been skinned before still being made.

[bat1987]

Nice Damian skin, really captured the character, keep it up!

[Podmark]

Nice job. Neat to see that character skinned.

[area34]

It was that or Phonogram's Kohl and I went with one I think more people will want.

[The Enigma]

Please tell me you haven't abandoned the idea of doing Phonogram characters. I'd love to see Kohl et al walking about in FF (either black and white or colour versions would be cool). Your work is definitely improving and you're beginning to find your own style, which is cool. Keep it up, Area

[area34]

I have a half complete Kohl. I stopped when I got stuck on the keys and I tend to switch around what I'm doing when I get stuck on something. I like to say it's to stay fresh but really it's just because I get frustrated (DAMN YOU HOLOCAUST!). It is (in color) his Superman with melted logo outfit. I was going to do his "old school" attire as a variant.

On the bright side the stoppage has let me get Brand pretty much done and I'm almost ready to post pics my first Power Packer's costumes. His skope though I might need help with. How do I do a I get a kid to transform into a cloud for an passive defense(I'd rather not make an FX for it.)

[laughing paradox]

I'm liking the skope and skin for Brand.. really great job. Where did you get those shoulder pieces from? That could work better than what I have for the Generation X uniform.

[area34]

They are from Tommy Boy's Versatile. KQ_shoulderpads.

[area34]

He's not done but he's far enough along that I should open it up for opinions.

Jack Powers-

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He's taking awhile for various reasons. To start with I had to create multiple versions of the base so when I do the other three I can slide it over to them with little changes. Same with the skope. It's made in a way that I can slide it across to other people. Right now he's a hexed a resized Cap Marvel JR but I still wish I could get some cloud animations in the mix. To the skopers out there, is there a better match to the boots? Right now I have his feet partially alpha'd so it doesn't clip but I wasn't sure if there was a better fit.

As for the costumes. The modern outfit needs his feet done still. The current look is shoes into the metal. The Doran outfit is from the 2000 series that I have never read but saw the covers of on a site. The outfit might be wrong since the only pictures I have of it are from the covers posted online and I haven't been able to track it down on DC++. So any reference pics would be appreciated. I think he has a fourth variant but I haven't been able to find any pics of it otherwise I would have done it.

[Xenolith]

That face is just perfect.  I don't know who the charcter is, but the face is really, really well done.

[laughing paradox]

I'm really glad the Power Pack are being created.

For those 'boots' and bracelets, have you tried Jean Grey by Ink? Her arm bands are strikingly similar to Power Pack's stuff.

I really like the way he looks, particularly the Classic look.

Were you also considering creating Powerpax, when Alex was a member of the New Warriors?

[area34]

The face is Courts base with everything smoothed down and brightened. I then went and added new highlights to the chin, cheeks and eyebrows. I did the same with with Damian but I think Jack looks younger and better because I gave him huge eyes. I mean those things are twice the size of my normal eyes.

@LP-  Yeah, they were the first characters that I was shocked to find that Court had never done a version of. They are right in his wheelhouse. I'm guessing it was the lack of a mesh that kept him from doing them.

-I tried out the Jean gauntlets but they aren't round. I don't know why but it bothers me. At some angles it just looks weird to me. I dunno, I'll play with them some. They aren't as bulky either and I kinda like the bulky. Makes the kids look smaller.

And I had planned on doing a couple of bonus characters to go with the Power Packers. One was Powerpax and another was a certain Richards kid that liked to hang out with the team (which is strange since he's still a kid in the comics and the team have aged quite a bit).

Edited to add:
I updated the pic above. I finished the boots on the modern. I changed the chest disk on Doran's to have better reflection and glow effects and did a cleaner cut with the cloud logo on the chest. Oh and I also added more brown to hair. Not sure if I'll keep it that way though.

[area34]

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The oldest of the Power's Clan.

Alex was supposed to be easy after I made a template with Jack but that damn Yellow/Black outfit was a ambiguously foreborn. I don't think I got it perfect but screw it, I've given up on it...

I updated my skope to have the strap to the disk to be an object now. I'm not sure what's supposed to be in the disk though. I can't find a pic where I can see what's in it. The girl has a star in it and her logo is a star so I don't know if it's redundant symbol or if all of them have a star in them.

With Alex I gave him two new doo's. I tried to make the standard mesh hair look completely different than Jacks even though they're both on the same mesh and I'm still debating on making the hair brighter.

[Podmark]

Cool. I like that you've done multiple costumes.

[JKCarrier]

Power Pack are looking great! Can't wait to see the girls. 

[electro]

Nice work on those young looking faces

[herodad1]

area 34, youve done a REALLY good job on them.dont sell yourself short by no means buddy.

[John Jr.]

They're looking very good, Area, specially Alex. The faces are just perfect, with that "wide eyed innocent look" you would expect from Power Pack.

[UnkoMan]

Hey! The yellow black outfit! Awesome!

I love Power Pack. Good work!

[AfghanAnt]

Awesome work. I can't wait to see the girls.

[laughing paradox]

Shaping up very nicely.. looking forward to the full team.. and Powerpax!

[area34]

Thanks for the kind words. I'm taking my time on them, and trying to get them just right. The girls are a little harder since they each have a unique skope of their own and I can't tell the scale of characters unless I'm in game (that's why Damian isn't done too).

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After reading about Pinking issues with my two PCTales characters I was wondering if I should go ahead and release all my skins as DDS format? I hadn't bothered since most people have left them as TGAs but seeing how lately LP has switched over makes me think I should to. Should DDS format be the "standard" for release?

[crimsonquill]

After reading about Pinking issues with my two PCTales characters I was wondering if I should go ahead and release all my skins as DDS format? I hadn't bothered since most people have left them as TGAs but seeing how lately LP has switched over makes me think I should to. Should DDS format be the "standard" for release?

I usually release DDS format as standard myself.. just because it eliminates the pinking issues and saves people from having to convert them unless they only use FF1.

- CQ

[Courtnall6]

@LP-  Yeah, they were the first characters that I was shocked to find that Court had never done a version of. They are right in his wheelhouse. I'm guessing it was the lack of a mesh that kept him from doing them.

Lack of interest. I never really cared for Power Pack.

Nice work though!

[JLAfan2001]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for making these. I can't wait to try them out. Will you be making the FX to go with them too?

[area34]

Hmmm. I got the impression you were a fan of the classic colorful characters and you can get more classically colorful than the original Power Pack. True, I was kid when I read the old stuff so I might not remember them that well.

- They will have some FX's. I was hoping to do a cloud animation with Jack's nif  but that is far to advanced for me so I've made a FX instead. I also have a rainbow streak that kicks in during Julie's flight animation.

[Courtnall6]

Hmmm. I got the impression you were a fan of the classic colorful characters and you can get more classically colorful than the original Power Pack. True, I was kid when I read the old stuff so I might not remember them that well.

I'm all about the classic colourful characters...just not the Power Pack . I never had an interest in reading their books as a wee lad.

[area34]

Coming out of his cave for some help....

Animated series outfits Luthor -



The first two are from JLU and the last is the Superfriends. I need some help with the skope on this one. Ive built this out of Gren's Fury and I want to move the jet pack flames down to his feet jets but I can 't seem to get it to work. I'm sure it's something easy but I'm all skoped out.

[murs47]

Man, wow! You are growing up so fast! *wipes tears*

[Podmark]

Cool.