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[Podmark]

Very nice looking.

[daglob]

That looks good.

(And another one off my list.)

[BentonGrey]

Very nice work, Area.  I actually like the blue version, but I don't know anything about the character.  Great work on his clothing highlights. 

[area34]

Not familiar? The Escapist was a great mini by B K Vaughn about creating comics. It was based off/inspired by the Chabon book Kavalier and Clay. Both definitely worth reading.

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Various versions. I skoped on some ties on the back of the masks and I ended up sticking with the blue since in the comics it tends to be black with blue highlights. I still need to do the golden age one from the novel- but first in the row is when Denny wore the suit as a publicity stunt. The classic is what most comics use for the golden age flashbacks. Standard is self explanatory. The alt is what he wore in a couple of issues I have, and the last is what he looked like in the comics that Max makes about him. I'm not to happy with the stubble but I couldn't get it to look right. In the end I just grabbed some static and shaped it to match how one of C6's looked like.

[murs47]

Very nice skin Area. I've been meaning to check this book out for a while. I hear it's BKV's best work, who I'm a big fan of.

[detourne_me]

Oh wow.  I loved The Escapist.  I really need to read it again!
Also ...  GREAT skins,  you've improved by leaps and bounds!
I do like the bluer tinted ones better but they're all great.  I'll have to read the series again to know which character to play in the game.

[area34]

I probably should do a Luna Moth or a some Iron Chain to go with him but I'm already behind on my requests so they will have to wait.



I added a costume that is from a Chabon novel cover. No idea if it's ever used for anything other when Joe does his stunt. I just liked the visual. All I'm missing now is a blue body suit under yellow undies with and a cape version that is on some paperback editions cover. It's far to hideous to waste my time skoping and skinning. It's just not a very good design.

[cascarudo]

great character design and all the variations 

[Kenn]

Taking a break from completing my various WIP's and starting a new one-

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The Escapist
From one of my favorite comics in the last ten years. That is the silver age version (but I'm not sure if it should be black or dark blue). I'm still skoping the modern/relaunched hair. I plan on doing a golden age that is bright blue and I have a bulkier build version on the mesh that is for the time when Denny wears the suit. I haven't really done much with the keyframes other than dump flying animations (he's built out of Ren's Supes) so if anyone has any ideas what to do with his moveset let me know.

When I did my Escapist 5 years ago, I went with the Deathstroke keyframes.

[area34]

I'm still playing with the Escapist. Trying to get a reflection effect to look right but I'm trying to get my requests done first. I promise you Prev the Hammer guys are being worked on. I'm just tweeking the skope so there will be variant versions.

Anyways, out of the expanded universe of characters that didn't make it into the game. Gold Fang

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All I had to go by was one concept art pic so the design isn't totally mine but the rest of the crew is all me. The ninja skope is from Styles Hand that I had already tweeked (can you guess what other group I have almost done?) and the archer is from DM's Foot soldier(which has me itching to do a Foot solider skin).

The big dude/Enforcer in that back still needs his axe skinned but I was holding off because I wanted to know if there was a male_heavy no mouth. His face reflects wrong and it distracts me and Id like to fix it if possible- otherwise I have to play with UV's and that's something I've never really done.

I also still need to make a Fang logo that I can slap on the arm's bands and on the Enforcer's chest.

Oh, Here is a closer shot of the ninja and archer that's been sitting in my Photobucket forever.

[Previsionary]

Oooo, that's pretty cool, Area. It's like you're trying to drive BG into a frenzy. Is that what you're trying to do, Mr.? Are you trying to over-stimulate Benton to the point he explodes? IS IT? I approve. Let's destroy that guy.



No worries on the HAMMER agents. I'm just glad you decided to take them on. I still have to find something to work as a HAMMER robot, so I'm not in a rush or anything.

[laughing paradox]

The Gold Fang stuff is awesome!

Send me those ninja skopes so I can finally make some proper The Hand ninjas!

[Cyber Burn]

Sorry Area, I'm just getting the red X, I can't see the pics on this new batch. Looking forward to it though.

Nevermind, I can see it now. Really nice skins. I don't know of a male_heavy_no_mouth, but there is a no_face version. Don't know if that will work for you though.

[area34]

I've looked into it. I would have to do a head swap since the the no-face has extra parts that are not alpha'able. I'm right now working on how to go about doing head swaps. If it works I'll just use a nomouth from a standard male_basic.

@LP - I've got some Hand ninjas that just needs their faces finished. I just need to do a head swap on the ninja's before I finish them.

[murs47]

I would Hand ninjas!

[AfghanAnt]

Wow, great going with the Golden Fangs. I had plans for them for the FFVSTR Mod I never started maybe if I get inspired again you, John Jr, Bent, and I could talk.

[Cyber Burn]

Wow, great going with the Golden Fangs. I had plans for them for the FFVSTR Mod I never started maybe if I get inspired again you, John Jr, Bent, and I could talk.

I think that would be a reaallly sweet project.

[area34]

I did the head swap but not to dis the nomouth nif but it has a weird UV that makes the reflection look wrong so I ended up just changing the mask.

[John Jr.]

Great ninjas, Area. They are all looking good, but the demon masked one is specially good.

[area34]

@AA - If you have modding ideas about Fang you should definitely PM Benton.

I went ahead and updated the Enforcer again (for the last time). I added some stuff to his ears and redid the mask. So unless anyone has any tweeks I'm going to close out the Golden Army.

On another note - Since it's known now that I'm being added to the Champions site(which is a huge honor) I can finally say that's why I've been going back and skinning my old skopes. The plan is when my area goes live that I'm going to upload only skopes that include skins. The problem is a lot of PSD's of the stuff I did in the Hex thread don't exist so I will have to redo them completely (unless Court's suddenly okay with me posting nine different versions of Havok built on top of his Havok Classic ). I guess I just wanted to say that if I do a skin that has already been done don't take it as an insult I'm just trying to skin all my skopes in my area (well, except Winter Soldier, Murs' is perfect.)

Some of the finished skopes -

(And sorry Murs I stuck with the bronze coloring. Turning it gold was just to bright for me and I stand by my statement that I haven't "earned" gold yet.)

and AA -The Prof X skope is made to work with your skin and doesn't contain it. I think the only thing is an alpha issue but I included a blank TGA with the proper alpha that just needs to be dropped on the Jacket.tga.

[area34]

Well I had planned on finishing the Hand but then Style had to go and send me a skope of Tomato's brilliant Two Face. Originally I just wanted the split the hair so I could use my old skin but Style also added a protruding eye and I had to do a new face to take advantage of it.



He's Timmverse era so his face is more scaley and he has ginormous red lips. I'm not liking red lips but what do people think? Should I red the lips or leave it as is? Oh, and the suit is just Courts suit base recolored and leveled so props go to him for it.

[Blkcasanova247]

Lookin good. Are ya still workin on the hair?

[area34]

Yeah I haven't gotten to hair or the coin yet, that's Tomato's hair and the Wire to new hair. I was thinking about adding a couple bangs to it but I hate making things "busy" looking.

[style]

Well I had planned on finishing the Hand but then Style had to go and send me a skope of Tomato's brilliant Two Face. Originally I just wanted the split the hair so I could use my old skin but Style also added a protruding eye and I had to do a new face to take advantage of it.

SORRY!  

He's Timmverse era so his face is more scaley and he has ginormous red lips. I'm not liking red lips but what do people think? Should I red the lips or leave it as is?

RED LIPS! RED LIPS! RED LIPS!  

It's looking good Area! I love it! And ur work in a Champions frame looks like it just belongs!

I was thinking about adding a couple bangs to it but I hate making things "busy" looking.

Always remember more detail to a skope the better!

[area34]

Updated the pic.

[style]

I LOVE IT! Man Freedom Reborn is BOOMING!!!

[pr1983]

wow. very nice.

[BentonGrey]

Great work Area!  Really nice detail on his scarred half, there.

[area34]

Thanks but credit really goes to Tomato and Court for such a great mesh and base. I just did a head. And even that is because Style thought up the protruding eye.

-Alright, closing it out and uploading it to the site later today unless anyone has any more suggestions.


I Skoped some bangs this morning and added some shadows. The skope is set up with alpha's so you can keep Tomato's as standard (you just add two DDS's) and mine as an alt. You now have comics era, Timmverse era and someone else out there can do a Dark Knight face burnt style (see how I covertly did a request).

[Tomato]

Cool, I was waiting to see who'd get to Timmverse Two-Face first.

If you want, go ahead and send the updated nif and blank dds files to me and I'll just tack it on to mine, since I needed to fix the hair anyway. ((And just fyi, the base skin is mostly mine, it's just done on top of C6's skin tone work))