Hoss20 Skopes

[hoss20]

I was going to preview this in my Stuff I've Been Working thread, but since I'm not skinning it and it is solely a skoping project, I'm putting it here. I just got an itch to update this guy. Like a lot of skopes currently sitting incomplete on my computer, I did this one a little while ago. When I asked my good friend, Laughing Paradox, if he would be interested in skinning any of these skopes I'm looking to complete in the near future, he piped up regarding this one. It's the underappreciated son of Darkseid, Kalibak.

It uses Gren's Ulik_Gren mesh as a base. I've added some animations to make him a bit more diverse (left handed punches, ranged power blast with the Mega Rod, among others). LP and I both are fond of the costume in the animated version, so that's the look I decided to represented. The preview skin shown here is Afghan Ant's awesome Kalibak for male_heavy. I made a few adjustments to fit the skope.



Out of respect to AA, I won't release the skope with his skin. If you already have the AA skin, it can be easily plugged in there. I will wait for LP to finish his skin before I release the skope.  Keep an eye on LP's skinning thread for more collaborations from the two of us.

[Cyber Burn]

Very nice Hoss, I look forward to seeing the finished version.

[AfghanAnt]

Ha! That looks great. I'm glad you were able to use it.

[windblown]

Cool skope. It looks great.

[spydermann93]

Beautiful!

[daglob]

The only thing I want to know is when can I get it.

[Cyber Burn]

I have to say Hoss, it is really great to know that you and LP are teaming up again, the two of you have produced some fantastic pieces of work.

[hoss20]

Ha! That looks great. I'm glad you were able to use it.

Well, it's definitely my Kalibak skin of choice. I've thrown it on a few different meshes/skopes to try to get the character right. I finally decided to put some of effort into the skope instead of making just a functional one for myself. I do really like how the skin looks on it.

Thanks to everyone. I appreciate that you all like it.

Daglob, you'll get it when I release it and a second before!  Feel free to PM Laughing Paradox, as all I'm waiting on is his new skin. Yeah, I just threw him under the bus. Actually, I forgot to send it to him last night, so he's probably cussing me out right now.

[laughing paradox]

Ha.. guess what skope got bumped down on my to-do list?

[Amazo Version 2.2]

Ha.. guess what skope got bumped down on my to-do list?

i hope that this means that you two are back in the game, it would be seriously sweet to see laughing paradox skinning hoss20's skopes again

[hoss20]

So, here's another one that I've been sitting on for a while. I've given my good friend and skinning partner the benefit of the doubt about a hard drive crash and losing a lot of his work, as to why this hasn't been released yet.  Of course, he requested this skope in the first place, so ...... anyway, I digress. LP is working on his skin now, so I figured it would be okay to preview the skope. It's of a certain Earth-magic physician and former Avenger. The placeholder skin is primarily Tommyboy's from his awesome mesh and the face of Gren's ET_Druig mesh.

[Starman]

Sweet!

[spydermann93]

Hoss, I love your skopes.  They're always so brilliantly awesome!

[windblown]

He looks great! I love the skoped hair

[cmdrkoenig67]

Hoss, that Kalibak skope is great, as is the Dr Druid skope...Amazing work!

Dana

[hoss20]

Thank you all. My skinning partner has been under the weather lately, so it will be just a little while longer. I know that the good doctor is what he is working on now.

[hoss20]

So, now that Laughing Paradox has finally started skinning again, he's decided to actually skin some of the skopes that HE asked for. I kid because I care.
So, here's a finalized Dr Druid. LP likes the purple cloak and I prefer the blue one, so after he finished his awesome skin, I asked if he would mind if I skinned the different colored cloak as an alternate and he was cool with it. Because it was significantly lighter than the purple cloak, I felt it needed more texture detail and I hope it turned out OK.

                                 

LP is going to have a huge update at Force of Paradox, probably after he finishes up the Serpent Society skins (I hope). Because this is a collaboration, I'll wait for his update to release it on the site.

[Cyber Burn]

You guys make a great team, I always enjoy your collaborations. I check the site regularly for unannounced updates, so I'm looking forward to seeing what's in store.

[laughing paradox]

Aww, yeah! The good Doctor looks cool and I like both capes, to be honest.

The update will occur no earlier than a month from now.. I need time to pack things up and set the site up and fix some skins and etc. etc. etc. 

[Helix]

Sweet! I like options. Great job, guys!

[AfghanAnt]

I really like how you did the hood. He looks great.

[Cyber Burn]

I really like how you did the hood. He looks great.

I hadn't noticed that before, if you don't mind me asking, what did you use for the hood's pieces?

[hoss20]

Thanks to all that like the good Doctor. LP always makes my stuff look much better.

Cyber, I used a few pieces for the cloak/hood:
1. Robe from male_sorcerer by Valandar - pruned all of the triangles necessary to leave the opening in front
2. Cape from vxBaron_Blitzkrieg - the cape itself comes around across the upper chest, so I thought it would work well and it's actually what you are seeing from the front
3. Hood from male_gni_versatile by Gni (compiled by Ewzzy) - I just pruned a few triangles off, rotated it backwards, and tried to blend it into the cape's neck piece

[hoss20]

While Laughing Paradox and I are on the Serpent Society kick (oh, yes, there's more to come), I figured I would try my attempt at all of the requests for an Anaconda with stretching animations. So, for your approval:

                       

I apologize for the poor quality of the video sample. My video capture works well, but within Freedom Force, it went a bit wonky and there are sections where the background in the Rumble Room flashes black. It let's you see what I wanted you all to see, though.

I'm still finishing up on the keyframes to ensure that all pieces show up where they should and other pieces don't show up where they shouldn't. I've sent the skope to my skinning partner, LP, for a real skin as this one is just a huge kitbash for demo purposes.

[windblown]

Cooool!!  I especially like the grapple animation.

I had the same video issues with those black flashes before, but I'm using Fraps now and it works fine.

[spydermann93]

AMAZING WORK, HOSS!

[AfghanAnt]

Dude! This is so great. 

[Cyber Burn]

That is awesome Hoss! 

[Podmark]

That's awesome Hoss! I love how our skopers are pulling out all these fancy skopes lately.

[BentonGrey]

Ohh man, that is cool!  What a neat skope, Hoss!  That's great work.