Pod'20: Goldballs (March 22)

[Cyber Burn]

That is excellent guys, I can't wait to try this one out.

[windblown]

Jay looks fantastic, but Tag is one of my favorite skins right now.

[Podmark]

Today I bring yet another teen mutant:

Kevin Ford gained the mutant power to decay any living tissue he touches, leading to the accidental death of his father. He was taken to the X-Men's school and assigned to the New Mutants training squad until he found a better fit with the Hellions. Eventually he left the school and fell in league with Selene. He died fighting against the X-Men.

Skope is by Windblown and it has a really cool animation for removing his glove.

I have a Halloween related skin I'm hoping to debut next week, but I haven't finished it yet so we'll see.

[Cyber Burn]

It's always great to see something new from PodBlown...WindMark...The Power Team.

[Podmark]

So I just realized that Wither includes my 500th skin. Pretty crazy.
Icarus is released.

[Epimethee]

Congrats on that amazing milestone, Pod! Quality and quantity.

[spydermann93]

500!? Wowzers!

You're a machine!!!

[Podmark]

Happy Halloween! Here's your treat:


Two skins of the Spider-Man foe Jack O'Lantern.

First the original, Jason Philip Macendale, more commonly known as the second (more or less) Hobgoblin. This is a costume that I've always thought looked pretty neat. Good colour balance and design elements, and the skins and meshes I'd seen of the character didn't quite capture the art of Jack O'Lantern I was familiar with. I first started this skope over a year ago, but didn't start skinning him until now.

Next is the third Jack O'Lantern also known as Mad Jack, an identity shared by Daniel Berkhart (the second Mysterio) and Maguire Beck (cousin of the first Mysterio). Mad Jack wore a similiar costume with a few modificantions that I tried to capture here. I wanted to make sure both faces were unique, and thankfully the reference art for both was quite different. Mad Jack was the first Jack O'Lantern I'd encountered while reading comics.

I still need to skin the gliders so release might not be next weekend.

I've stated before that skinning Spidey Rogues is a goal of mine. I've tackled others like Electro before and now I'm knocking off a couple Jack O'Lanterns. I might skin the others one day. I particularly find legacy villains interesting, seeing how they approach the identity, their motivations, and what visual changes they bring.

Well I hope you enjoyed the 5 weeks and 5 skins of October. I've got some more stuff in the pipeline (Wallflower, Pod, Alopex) so I'll be back with new stuff soon enough.

[Cyber Burn]

This is too awesome Pod. Jack O' Lantern was always a favorite of mine when it came to Spidey Villains, so I'm very happy to see this. 

[windblown]

Both Jack O' Lanterns look great Pod, I especially like the first one, but it's very nice that you bothered to make the faces so different. That's one of the things that I like the most of your skins, every character is special and has its own personality on them.

So I just realized that Wither includes my 500th skin. Pretty crazy.
Icarus is released.

And congratulations on this!    I hope that we have a lot more skins to see in the future.

[laughing paradox]

500 skins! Woooot!! You go, Pod!

I'm loving these Jack O' Lanterns! I think the black outlines on the first one, and the impression of shadows in the mouth area, make the first one a better design. Both are solid skins, tho.

[Podmark]

I'm loving these Jack O' Lanterns! I think the black outlines on the first one, and the impression of shadows in the mouth area, make the first one a better design. Both are solid skins, tho.

Yeah I thought so too so I did update Mad Jack's face a bit with that in mind.

One more Jack O'Lantern, this time the second, Steven Levins, in the outfit he wore after being resurrected from his death in Civil War:


All the Jack O'Lanterns are done and I hope to release them later this week.

[daglob]

I'm jealous.

[Amazo Version 2.2]

seriously sweet stuff pod! are these on texas jack's mesh, or on a new skope? either way, i am really looking forward to these.

[Podmark]

seriously sweet stuff pod! are these on texas jack's mesh, or on a new skope? either way, i am really looking forward to these.

Thanks. It's a new skope based on TJ's mesh.

[Skerdilajd Shehi]

will there be any spider-man mesh created by Pod? though i know he has created kaine and scarlet spiders and dusk, but peter parker?

[Podmark]

Hello Shehi,

I don't have anything planned for Peter right now. A number of other creators have tackled most of his looks and if there's something in particular you're looking for let us know, I'm sure we can help you find it.

Peter is one of my favourite characters so there's always the possibility of me skinning him down the line.
There are lots of Spidey characters I certainly want to do when I find some time.

[windblown]

That's a great skin Pod. I didn't know that there were so many Jack O'Lanterns in the Marvel Universe.

[laughing paradox]

The updated pumpkin head is much better! Nice job on it. 

[Podmark]

Hey everyone, it's a new year and I have new skins to show you! Like last time I'm going to show off a new one each week for the month of January.

We'll start with another Windblown collaboration, this time the New Mutant Wallflower:


Includes an alternate skin based on a different artist's version of her outfit.

Laurie Collins was a mutant who could influence others using her pheromones. At her ultimate potential this essentially allowed her to control everyone around her and fear of this ability led her to be assassinated by the Purifiers shortly after M-Day.

Check back next week for another skin!

[laughing paradox]

Really nice work, Pod.

You've improved so much from back in the day.

[WyldFyre]

Beautiful skin.  I never really read the newer (read as after the 90's) X books, but your skins make me want to go back and take a look.

You and windblown are quite the team. 

[windblown]

     Besides those fantastic skins, I like the new way of previewing your work, especially the logo/banner.

[Podmark]

Thanks guys  .

    Besides those fantastic skins, I like the new way of previewing your work, especially the logo/banner.

I've been wanting to create a new preview pic design for a while, I figured a new year was a good time to do so. I felt my old preview images were too small, they were designed when I mostly used a 16 inch laptop as my main display (to be honest I might have gone a little too big with these new ones). Admittedly, I'm not the most creative artist, but I think the new designs came out well.

[Podmark]

A while back Detourne_Me contacted me with a new Ant-Man/Giant-Man skope he'd cooked up. It has the ability to shrink and grow (switching to Giant-Man in the process), ride on a flying Ant for Fly, and can even pull out some high tech ray guns. It's a pretty cool skope and he asked me to release it so I've updated my Hank Pym skins and should release this weekend:

[spydermann93]

Yay! That's super cool! I've always had trouble making an interesting Ant/Giant-Man to play with. With these new weapons, now I'll have no trouble!

[BentonGrey]

Neat!  That is really cool.  Great collaboration, guys!

[Cyber Burn]

It's a given that the Skopes and Skins are great, but I'm going to have to agree that the new preview style is really nice. Great job!

[Epimethee]

Looking forward to playing with this. Great work, Pod and DM!

[detourne_me]

He looks fantastic Podmark! I'm happy you've even redone your hank Pym skins for the slope too.
I also have to echo everyone's opinion on the new preview images, too. They look great.