Ok so Nimrod is finally released with the debut of my new website (thanks UE!)
http://podmark1.googlepages.com/index
Also available are some previously available skins (Hellion v2, Green Goblins, Buzz and Earth Sentry) and an updated Hellion v1 skin moved to a new skoped mesh to include the spikey hair.
Sorry about the delay on Nimrod. A variety of things slowed down its release included a revelation about removing peices on skoped meshes. On that note, on my current computer I can't run FF2 so the Nimrod nif won't run in it, and can't be converted please let me know.
I have a couple of completed skins that are awaiting the resolution of nif situations (both MC2 characters) and I'm hoping to do a bit of skinning this week as I'm off school.
Enjoy.
hey pod, i just tried to download your Nimrod but the download just opens up his picture.
lol it's like Nimrod is never going to actually be released :D
Link should be fixed.
All fixed, Great! Time to transfer my hero file over to a actual Nimrod mesh/hex!!!! nice going!
Did a little skinning warm up. Hoping do do a few more this week. All MC2 characters today:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/toomuchblue.jpg)
Doom (green version included)
Psi-Lord
Mr. Fantastic
Warp
Available now at my site
Never been a fan of the F5 design but good stuff. Although is it me or does the legs have a touch of green in them.
Wow!!!
I love them, great skins. :thumbup:
I just went to the site and downloaded Nimrod. I can't wait to play against him in the Rumble Room.
Quote from: Haljack on February 18, 2007, 02:53:02 AM
Never been a fan of the F5 design but good stuff. Although is it me or does the legs have a touch of green in them.
Maybe a little bit, its just the way the highlight washed out.
Got someone helping me with a hex, then we should see a new preview shortly.
Wow, Nimrod... F5... This is excellent.
I'm crazy about Nimrod. He was one of the characters I was hoping someone would eventually mesh. You have done a great, great job.
Follow the link for my latest skins and a special mesh preview:
http://freedomreborn.net/archive/index.php?topic=41337.new#new
What keyframes do I use for that Nimrod mesh?
Should be noted somewhere in the readme or hex readme, but maybe I forgot it, I suggest the IronManGold keyframes from http://tommyboymeshes.freedomforceforever.com/
Quote from: Podmark on February 23, 2007, 12:53:37 PM
Should be noted somewhere in the readme or hex readme, but maybe I forgot it, I suggest the IronManGold keyframes from http://tommyboymeshes.freedomforceforever.com/
Tommyboy has a revised Iron Man Gold up now and the keyframes don't work with your Nimrod Hex. Anyone able to hook me up with the right ones?
You can really use any thv keyframes, however if you want the ironman ones I can email them (assuming I still have them lol).
New preview:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/MystiqueXMen.jpg)
Mystique in her current look as an X-Man. Might still tweak some things.
Surge meshes have also been released.
Very well done. Those skins look great, specially Mystique and Mr. Fantastic.
Excellent job!
AWESOME! Finally, a Mystique with guns!
I really like the way she came out, great job Pod.
Beginning my attempts to bring us the most recent iterations of the X-Universe, Mystique is released. Who's next? Not even I can say for sure, but it's a good bet it will be one of Mystique's teammates (thus ending this blue thing I've had going on...)
cool f5 skins and mystique too
Preview for current X-Man Lady Mastermind:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/LadyMastermind.jpg)
I had hoped that whole blue thing I had going would be gone, but technically there's at least some blue in that costume. Nuts lol
I've been waiting for somebody to skin this foxy vixen. :thumbup: Nice work Pod. Just one thing though....is it just my imagination or do her breasts look a little square at the bottom? :rolleyes: :P
Quote from: Blkcasanova247 on March 19, 2007, 01:58:31 PM
I've been waiting for somebody to skin this foxy vixen. :thumbup: Nice work Pod. Just one thing though....is it just my imagination or do her breasts look a little square at the bottom? :rolleyes: :P
It's a positional illusion. I darkened the shadow a bit since they're basically just hanging there. From some angles it looks great, others it looks a bit off. Still I like the effect.
I can't wait to see an updated Cannonball and possibly Cable, Rogue and Sabertooth. I really love Carey's team.
Yeah definitly doing Rogue, Cable, and Omega Sentinel. Sam is getting an update, but I'm pretty happy with that skin so it will mostly be mesh based. Sabretooth....uhhhh maybe... Not a big fan and the design is kinda ugh in my eyes.
I'm also thinking of doing the Beaubier twins. However I'm currently working on Rockslide's new form, so all these will trickle out slowly.
Yeah I also love Carey's team, but more than that I love Bachelo's designs. I used to hate him as an artist but I've really come to appreciate his work. Ironically Reagan is made up of mostly Ramos ref pics, just because they were the most useful (Ramos on the other hand is one of my least favorite artists). Mystique was all Bachelo ref, I really don't like others take on that costume.
So on a whim I gave Rockslide a break (theres some issues that I'll bring up later) and started a new skin.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/Elixir_zen.jpg)
Josh Foley, also known as Elixir, has been through a lot in his young life. Originally a Reaver before learning he himself was a mutant with the power to heal. His parents disowned him and he was forced to come to Xavier's school. Dani Moonstar became his adoptive mother. Then there was this whole affair with Wolfsbane. Fast forward a bit and M-Day comes about, Josh's girlfriend, Wallflower, is taken out by a sniper and Josh kills Stryker in an angry rage, using his powers to kill for the first time, but it sends him into a coma. When he recovers he's taken a new zen approach to life.
There's actually two versions of this skin, the "death hand" shown above, and a spotted version as well.
Elixir and Lady Mastermind are now released.
In the near future I'll probably add my two earlier Elixir skins, likely with smaller sized hexes.
I can't believe I forgot to comment on this. I was going to say those white pants look excellent. Maybe add a touch of shadow where pants meet waist, though. Anyhow, it's very nice.
Quote from: UnkoMan on March 26, 2007, 07:07:44 PM
I can't believe I forgot to comment on this. I was going to say those white pants look excellent. Maybe add a touch of shadow where pants meet waist, though. Anyhow, it's very nice.
lol i really wish you'd mentioned that before I released it. I actually meant to do that but totally forgot it.
Expect an update shortly.
Yeah, sorry. I forget little shadows like that too. You just stop noticing them when you're working on the bigger picture.
Nice skins. :)
Though, to be honest... When I read the title, my mind went "He's a Cleric?" :P
I blame NWN2.
Well in a way he is kinda like a cleric :D I'm just trying to be clever with my titles lately.
I just checked out your site..... and quite frankly you just fulfilled a fan boy's dreams with those New X-Men skins, Hellion looks superb!
Any plans to do a X-23 or any other of the New X-Men?
Actually I've done the entire first set of costumes for the New X-Men, plus the Hellions and New Mutants, and handfuls of the other students. Some are available in my yahoo group, but the others were on the GPL site that went down, so I'll have to put them back up on my new site.
I'll try to get them up in the next few days if I have time.
Due to popular demand Pod skins again!
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/Horsemen.jpg)
Famine IV and Death VI
aka
Sunfire and Gambit
I'm really surprised theres a demand for Black Gambit. It wasn't a very popular story, heck I didn't even like it. However I had other reasons to skin these two, more sinister reasons...
:thumbup:
Sunfire looks good, but Gambit....."Holy Cowbell's Batman!"
All the details with the straps and such, that's a really nice skin
and what are these sinister reasons you have for skinning them?
Man oh man,
You guys skinning do such great work, and I have so much downloading to do!
I can already see I'm gonna have to get a bigger hard drive for all the great work
I've found through FreedomReborn.
Pod, Nimrod and Mystique both look amazing, and your latest work is on par. Keep
up the awesome work :thumbup:
Quote from: murs47 on May 31, 2007, 07:40:02 AM
All the details with the straps and such, that's a really nice skin
You have no idea how frustrating it was to skin Gambit, those little bits drove me nuts.
Quote from: murs47 on May 31, 2007, 07:40:02 AM
and what are these sinister reasons you have for skinning them?
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/mrsinister.gif)
black gambit looks awesome, though his hair seems a bit off. i think it's the lack of bangs, but aside from that, these are two very nifty skins. ^_^
I agree about the hair but i really would use some different hair, i've always thought that hair was dreadlocks not long hair.
Ok well the consensus seems to be that Gambit needs new hair. I'll look into that.
Yeah AA I usually think of it as dreadlocks too, but I do like the front few bangs, it gives it a kind of slack/sharp look. Originally I was going to combine two pieces of hair, the gni one and a more traditional longhair. Then I got lazy because Gambit was starting to annoy me with all the little details.
i notice that sunfire looks like hes wearin tights cause it does match ya know cause his upper body its lighter color
but i'm just a amature ^_^
If you're talking about the cut at the waist, I noticed that when I made the preview pic, not sure how I missed it during production. Might've been that the glow made it more noticeable. Either way I'll fix that up before release.
Also a quick commentary on these two looks:
Sunfire - as many of you hopefully know this design was adapted from the Age of Apocalypse design. It's an excellent design, honestly I think it was one of the best things about AoA. I also think it fits well with Shiro's new role as a villain.
Gambit - I didn't actually read Blood of Apocalypse, but everything I've read about it was terrible, and Gambit's role was possibly the worse part. I actually dislike this costume, though it amuses me somewhat as to me it's the visual representation of the whole story. Now you'll probably ask why did you skin him Pod? Well the answer is a simple as looking at the Ramos cover of X-Men 200 X-Men 200 (http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/xmen/199/XMEN200_FLCOVa.jpg). But Pod, you ask, Gambit isn't Death in that pic. True, but since That Gambit costume had already been done I thought it would be more enjoyable to skin something that hadn't been done and was related to the current events. And now you know the rest of the story.
You also might have an idea of things to come...
...though not next. Next I'll probably do this (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/rockslide.gif)
That Sunfire looks amazing :huh:
Quote from: Podmark on May 31, 2007, 09:43:16 PM
Ok well the consensus seems to be that Gambit needs new hair. I'll look into that.
Yeah AA I usually think of it as dreadlocks too, but I do like the front few bangs, it gives it a kind of slack/sharp look. Originally I was going to combine two pieces of hair, the gni one and a more traditional longhair. Then I got lazy because Gambit was starting to annoy me with all the little details.
if you find suitable long hair for gambit, let me know: the most recent version of my avatar also needs long hair, and is currently using the same dreads as your Gambit is.
I'm thoroughly amazed at the level of detail of both of your skins, as I was actually rereading that story arc to prepare for X-Men #200 and despite minimally enjoying the story (it really was barely decent), I noticed the ridiculous level of detail with gambit's straps and the black tribal-esque marks on sunfire. Simply amazing, man. Looking forward to their release and a possible Gazer (newest War)?
Thanks, yeah I didn't realize it was so detailed when I started skinning it.
There's an off-chance I might do Gazer, but it won't be in the near future. I've got a short-list of characters in front of him. There's little Chance I'll do Pestilence (Polaris) but you never know, I might decide to finish off the set.
The reason I did Sunfire and Gambit was because of the upcoming Marauders story. I'm all X-cited for X-Men 200!
I've re-released my first two Rockslide skins. There are no changes to either so if you got them in the past there's no reason to download them now. This reason is a pre-cursor to my next skin preview, coming soon.
New Preview:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/StrykerRocky.jpg)
On the left side Reverend Stryker. Holy man. Leader. Mutant Hater. Child killer.
On the Right side Santo Vaccarro aka Rockslide. Student. New X-Man. Idiot. And probably the funniest X-character this side of Deadpool.
Stryker was a character I just had to do, taking him and some armed soldiers into the danger room against the New X-Men has been a dream of mine since the Childhood's End arc.
Rockslide has become one of my favorite characters since M-Day. He used to look like the Thing, now he's got his own cool new look. He's a idiot for sure, but I find his comments and actics to be hilarious. He adds a needed touch of humour in what is a very hardcore and action-packed book.
I'd really like some critiques on both these skins. I'm including some pics of Rockslide for comparison. I tried to do my best with the skope but there's only so much I could do with the parts I could think of.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Rockslide.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/Rockslide.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/RockslideNew.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v441/dracine/NewX.jpg
As for Stryker I'd love to create a version with Nimrod's hand, like this pic:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Stryker2.PNG
If anyone knows how I can add a male heavy forearm on the suit mesh let me know.
My next skins will probably be a pair of astonishing characters...
Oh wow. I love Rocky! What mesh did you use btw?
About Stryker, the cowl ( think, I mean the purple and yellow thing) although it's got highlights looks pretty flat. Thing is, it will be hard to really change I think. It doesn't help that it's a mirrored mesh but maybe those dangly bits just need some creases.
Also, his cross looks a little flat. It's hard to see from the picture but did you highlight it? Perhaps just a little more bevel or something like that.
All in in, very nice work
Rockslide is a great character, he is quite funny. New X-Men has been really great after HoM ended and that arc with Stryker was one of the best I've read. If anyone hasn't read it, try it out. Back to the skins..... great mesh for rock, the rock texture is also really well done, you nailed him as well as you could without an actual rockslide mesh. Outstanding! that's all I can say.
Hey pod, is the yellow and purple thing on Stryker skinned directly on? Because you could skope the scarf off of pulp_versatile and scale it to fit the mesh.
Hmmm... short of asking someone who knows how to mesh to make a character specific mesh for Rockslide, I think that's as far as you can go. I would see if you could find a piece that would make the brow stick out to the sides a bit more, and darken the spheres on his mouth to match the rest of the skin. Sorry, but right now they look like bizarely shaped drool or something, rather then rock.
Rockslide looks great! i'm a little surprised that you hadn't grabbed anything off the Doomsday mesh to help him out with the rockyness. as for the brows... if you take a look at Tommy's Lizard mesh there are seperate brows that you could possibly widen a bit!
wow you did such a great job with his belt and pants too. i really like how rockslide isn't a complete thing rip off anymore.
as for Stryker! thats awesome! can't wait to pummel him. you may want to add Hellboys hand of doom, from either texas jack's mesh or jik's, i believe both are seperate mesh pieces so it would be easy to skope in.
hope the tips help.
can't wait for more x-men goodness!
please tell me youre making Armor!
Showoff... hehehe. You rock!
They look great, Pod. Stryker is a cool character - pretty cool that you skinned him. One question though - I'm assuming they haven't been released yet, because the rockslide on your site is the old one (and I don't see Stryker). Of course no hurry - just wanted to make you aware in case something got screwed up.
I want a multi-quote option :(
Quote from: Lunarman on June 07, 2007, 12:22:41 AM
Oh wow. I love Rocky! What mesh did you use btw?
It's a composite skope starting with a base of Thing_effects, then pieces for the thv, Doomsday, and Iron Man mk 21.
Quote from: Lunarman on June 07, 2007, 12:22:41 AM
About Stryker, the cowl ( think, I mean the purple and yellow thing) although it's got highlights looks pretty flat. Thing is, it will be hard to really change I think. It doesn't help that it's a mirrored mesh but maybe those dangly bits just need some creases.
Also, his cross looks a little flat. It's hard to see from the picture but did you highlight it? Perhaps just a little more bevel or something like that.
All in in, very nice work
You're right they both look a little flat, I'll see what I can do about that.
Quote from: Alphanaut on June 07, 2007, 12:22:41 AM
Hey pod, is the yellow and purple thing on Stryker skinned directly on? Because you could skope the scarf off of pulp_versatile and scale it to fit the mesh.
Great tip I'll take a look and see if I can get that to work.
Quote from: Tomato on June 07, 2007, 12:22:41 AM
I would see if you could find a piece that would make the brow stick out to the sides a bit more, and darken the spheres on his mouth to match the rest of the skin. Sorry, but right now they look like bizarely shaped drool or something, rather then rock.
The mouth parts were surprisingly tough to skin for some reason. I'll try to fix them up.
Quote from: detourne_me on June 07, 2007, 12:22:41 AM
Rockslide looks great! i'm a little surprised that you hadn't grabbed anything off the Doomsday mesh to help him out with the rockyness. as for the brows... if you take a look at Tommy's Lizard mesh there are seperate brows that you could possibly widen a bit!
wow you did such a great job with his belt and pants too. i really like how rockslide isn't a complete thing rip off anymore.
I'm using the Doomsday pieces on the forearms, they're just not visible from the angle in the pic. I'll post another pic later so you can see them.
I'll take a look at that lizard brow, I honestly couldn't think of any meshes where the brows were separate pieces.
Quote from: detourne_me on June 07, 2007, 12:22:41 AM
as for Stryker! thats awesome! can't wait to pummel him. you may want to add Hellboys hand of doom, from either texas jack's mesh or jik's, i believe both are seperate mesh pieces so it would be easy to skope in.
See this is why I love the community. I
really hope I can get that hand to work. Stryker will make a much better Danger Room opponent with the hand of Nimrod on him.
Quote from: detourne_me on June 07, 2007, 12:22:41 AM
please tell me youre making Armor!
I'm making Armour :D
Quote from: sweeten2213 on June 07, 2007, 12:22:41 AM
They look great, Pod. Stryker is a cool character - pretty cool that you skinned him. One question though - I'm assuming they haven't been released yet, because the rockslide on your site is the old one (and I don't see Stryker). Of course no hurry - just wanted to make you aware in case something got screwed up.
Not yet, still in preview stage so I can tweak stuff. Might be up next week depending on how quickly I can fix things up. Still have to fix up Gambit and Sunfire as well.
One last thing...
Quote from: murs47 on June 07, 2007, 12:45:03 AM
Back to the skins..... great mesh for rock, the rock texture is also really well done, you nailed him as well as you could without an actual rockslide mesh. Outstanding! that's all I can say.
I didn't create the rock texture. I found it online, I think it was on Strangefate's website.
You could use texas jack's hellboy arm for the reverend.
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!
You have no idea how much I've wanted to get myhands on a good mesh and skin for Rockslide's new design, AMAZING work there :thumbup:.
I have only one question though... WHY NO X-23??? :(
Seriously, she's in New X-Men and has no mesh at the moment and could really do with Podmak-ification.
Quote from: ghazkul on June 09, 2007, 03:32:02 PM
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!
You have no idea how much I've wanted to get myhands on a good mesh and skin for Rockslide's new design, AMAZING work there :thumbup:.
I have only one question though... WHY NO X-23??? :(
Seriously, she's in New X-Men and has no mesh at the moment and could really do with Podmak-ification.
lol dude you are sooo out of date!
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/X-23prev.jpg)
Did these three about a year ago, unfortunately they're not online anymore, so give me a few days and I'll try to put them up on my site.
:shock2: :eek2:
I guess I'm out of date too. :rolleyes:
lol I've got to get all my old skins back online...
Podmark dude, I want your babies! Those look GREAT!! Please put them online soon. :thumbup:
Quote from: ghazkul on June 10, 2007, 06:13:33 AM
Podmark dude, I want your babies! Those look GREAT!! Please put them online soon. :thumbup:
Having a Rumpelstiltskin moment? Seriously though, these are amazing skins, even if it isn't the first time i've seen.
Um you can't have my babies...ya know when I have some....
Ok, back to skinning stuff. I've started getting some of my old skins online, starting with my Thunderbolts stuff due to a request. I'm having difficulty uploading larger files so it's slow going. You can download the uploaded Tbolts stuff at my site. No new stuff, but if you missed out after the GPL site when offline nows your second chance.
And now a new preview!
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/AstonishingXMen.jpg)
Armor and powerless-gun-totting Cyclops (that'll be one easy hero file lol).
Armor is a character that I have a true love/hate relationship with. As a character in Astonishing I really like her, but I dislike her when she appears in New X-Men. I've got this thing about non-native students in New X-Men, same thing applies to the X-23, the Cuckoos, Bling etc. I like them, but I don't like the fact that they take screen time from native New X-Men characters like Hellion, Surge, or Anole. It's kinda silly but there it is.
I once made a list of my five favorite X-Men, and of course Cyclops was on it (the others were Archangel, Nightcrawler, Rachel, and Bishop in case your wondering, no particular order). If I'm not mistaken this is the first time I've skinned him so it's a bit of special moment. I was also a big fan of the leather New X-Men look, so there's another special bit.
Up next will be some updates, and then I'm taking a break from the X-world, I was offered a very cool skinning oppurtunity.
looking good my friend, glad the mesh worked out for you. i'd maybe work on slims face a bit just to give it a bit more to make it stand out
Astonishing Cyclops and Armor looks great. :thumbup: Just add a visor on Cyclops and he will be New X-men Cyke. :D
Quote from: Podmark on June 09, 2007, 04:26:18 PM
Quote from: ghazkul on June 09, 2007, 03:32:02 PM
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!
You have no idea how much I've wanted to get myhands on a good mesh and skin for Rockslide's new design, AMAZING work there :thumbup:.
I have only one question though... WHY NO X-23??? :(
Seriously, she's in New X-Men and has no mesh at the moment and could really do with Podmak-ification.
lol dude you are sooo out of date!
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/X-23prev.jpg)
Did these three about a year ago, unfortunately they're not online anymore, so give me a few days and I'll try to put them up on my site.
VERY nice X-23, PM! I look forward to her being put up on your site!
You are unstoppable :cool:
These look great man! you are the go to guy for x-men skins.
Did you read New X-Men #39 yet?
Nice job on Armor! I really like her in Astonishing, didn't know she was showing up in other titles too. I wonder if there's a way to 'Skope a force field onto her...?
Quote from: the_ultimate_evil on June 15, 2007, 03:18:40 AM
looking good my friend, glad the mesh worked out for you. i'd maybe work on slims face a bit just to give it a bit more to make it stand out
Yeah the mesh worked great, thanks UE. I'll play with the face a bit, but face editing isn't really my forte.
Quote from: Gokou on June 15, 2007, 03:18:40 AM
Just add a visor on Cyclops and he will be New X-men Cyke.
Well not quite, there was much more to the New X-Men look; pants, shirt. This is just the jacket over blank shirt and pants, with the Astonishing boots and belt.
Quote from: murs47 on June 15, 2007, 03:18:40 AM
Did you read New X-Men #39 yet?
Yep. Poor Pixie :(
Quote from: JKCarrier on June 15, 2007, 07:30:30 AM
Nice job on Armor! I really like her in Astonishing, didn't know she was showing up in other titles too. I wonder if there's a way to 'Skope a force field onto her...?
She shows up occasionally in New X-Men, mostly just in group shots of the remaining students. A skope for a forcefield would be very cool, but I can really think of where to start.
even a something as simple as a bit of a growth or narrowing the eyes would work, from what i've read ( only pick up astonishing TPB) old cycke isnt all there at the mo
Quote from: the_ultimate_evil on June 15, 2007, 02:05:16 PM
even a something as simple as a bit of a growth or narrowing the eyes would work, from what i've read ( only pick up astonishing TPB) old cycke isnt all there at the mo
Well that's the thing, sometimes he's acting like a crazy person, other times he's normal. Originally I planning to have one side of his mouth slightly curled into a smirk.
Whedon described him as always being either completely in control, or completely out of control.
You know, as a big fan of some of the more classic X-Men, I was happily surprised with the New X-Men. Rockslide is such a complete moron, but in a funny way. I especially love when he tries to come on to Lady Mastermind when she comes out of the infirmary in just a sheet. Your skins look awesome x-tremely uncanny by the way.
More great work brother! i'm really happy to see these two!
for Armor, i'm not sure if its possible, but it could probably be done if you adjust the scene root stuff (?maybe?) i think you could skope the armor form the Shade the changing man mesh by Valandar onto her... it looks somewhat similar, and it might even bulk up a bit because of the difference in proportions. I'd love to take a shot at skoping it on a trial mesh, but unfortunately im away from my pc for a while.
And finally updates:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/x-menupdates.jpg)
-Rockslide: added new brows, changed mouth knobs
-Sunfire: fixed waist
-Cyclops: added alphas to jacket, added shade to jacket edges, darkened stubble, added some face details.
-Stryker: added Nimrod hand, added some extra depth to cross, added wrinkles and highlights to scarf-thingy
Let me know what you guys think. If you see anything else that can be improved.
Finding the right hair for Gambit is proving to be difficult. Part of the problem is that parts don't seem to be want to be pasted to the gni mesh I used for Gambit. I think it has to do with the fact that the mesh is french.
If someone wants to skope up an armored Armor, go for it. I'll look forward to the results.
Quote from: Podmark on June 16, 2007, 08:33:05 PM
Finding the right hair for Gambit is proving to be difficult. Part of the problem is that parts don't seem to be want to be pasted to the gni mesh I used for Gambit. I think it has to do with the fact that the mesh is french.
If someone wants to skope up an armored Armor, go for it. I'll look forward to the results.
The troubles you're having with the Gambit mesh can easily be overcome by just renaming the necessary nodes before you copy them.
What mesh is Armor on? I'll see if I can whip something up for her armoured form.
I might have to send you the Armor mesh, it's a skope of Ink's teen jubilee and hair from Tom's tf_fingers mesh, long_straight1 or 2 I believe.
Well I can try renaming nodes, I really hope that works.
Renaming the "Scene Root" to "Scène Principale" should do the trick.
I actually tried that, but in the opposite direction, renaming "Scène Principale" to "Scene Root". But I'll try again, I might have made a mistake.
BTW send me a PM if you want me to send you the Armor skope.
I really like the update to rockslide. I cant wait to see it and some of your older skins on your site
love the sunfiere you did man :thumbup:
everythings looking really good Podmark!
as for the scene principle thing... i always keep forgetting that the e in scene has an accent as well, so you need to rename both parts for it to work.
also you may want to look at the parent nodes too, they may be listed in french as well,
I REALLY like how you've softened the edges of Cyke's jacket with alphas, it gives the jacket more of a puffy look, like it was in New X-men.
Quote from: detourne_me on June 18, 2007, 11:26:57 AM
I REALLY like how you've softened the edges of Cyke's jacket with alphas, it gives the jacket more of a puffy look, like it was in New X-men.
Actually it's not the alphas thats giving the puffy look. I think it's the shadowing on the outer edge.
For the Alpha's I cut the area directly below the front yellow x, which is how the actual jacket is designed. This allows you to see more of the belt. I'm really happy with it.
Ok guys, since no one else seems to notice anymore problems, I'm going to pack up the finished skins and get them uploaded. I'll let you know once they're up. No Gambit just yet. I still have to finish that one off.
Pod,
Since you have done such a wonderful job on Stryker (I'm so wanting to reinact the New X-Men battle in the Danger Room as well) do you plan on making a skin/hex for his followers too - The Purifiers (the robe wearing guys with big guns and techno stuff wired into their heads)?
- CrimsonQuill
Beautiful work Pod. I can't wait to see Armor's armored form.
Quote from: crimsonquill on June 19, 2007, 05:11:16 AM
Pod,
Since you have done such a wonderful job on Stryker (I'm so wanting to reinact the New X-Men battle in the Danger Room as well) do you plan on making a skin/hex for his followers too - The Purifiers (the robe wearing guys with big guns and techno stuff wired into their heads)?
- CrimsonQuill
Actually yeah, I'm not when I'll get to them, but I really want to put some together. The assassin Risman for sure, and probably the girl with the knife who stabbed Frost, then random guys with different faces. Once I get the base costume done it should be pretty easy to do a bunch, I just need to decide on the base mesh. BTW the Purifers are returning in Messiah Complex.
Quote from: AfghanAnt on June 19, 2007, 12:40:14 PM
Beautiful work Pod. I can't wait to see Armor's armored form.
Thanks AA. Alphanaut has sent me a new nif for Armor so I'm going so hopefully I can get the armored form looking good.
Available now at Podmark's FF skin site Rockslide! Cyclops! Sunfire! and Stryker!
I think my upload problems are related to my firewall. I had to turn it off to get Stryker up after having trouble getting Rockslide up. I'll have to check the settings.
No herofiles at this time, I'm not really up and running in my hero file development yet since my computer crashes. If anyone wants power info just ask, I know all about these guys.
Great releases Podmark! I never thought anyone could pull off a genuine version of Rockslide's new look (he was probably getting tired of being mistaken for the Thing when he had his old look) but you did it! Congratulations!! :thumbup:
So... please put your X-23 skin up soon so I can complete my collection of Podmarkian (just made that word up but sounds pretty good) new X-Men skins and meshes.
EDIT: Urghh.. is it just me or is anyone else having problems using the new meshes, all i get is the big white square. Is it sumthing I'm doing wrong or is it the meshes themselves? :(
hmm the meshes work on my end. However I should have metioned that they have all been converted to ff2. That could be part of the problem
Hey Pod great skins my man :thumbup:.....Did you ever notice that some of the links on your T'Bolts page don't work. :(
Quote from: Blkcasanova247 on June 20, 2007, 11:33:04 AM
Hey Pod great skins my man :thumbup:.....Did you ever notice that some of the links on your T'Bolts page don't work. :(
Are you referring to the lack of links, or are the actual links not working? I'm still in the process of uploading my tbolts stuff so not all the files are linked yet. The reason its taking so long is because I was having upload problems, problems that I think I've now solved.
A note on X-23, she's a tfv hex so her nif is like 3mb, so I've been hoping to skope it to a smaller mesh, but haven't yet gotten around to it. I might just reupload it anyway since there's so much interest.
Uhm... I don't use :ffvstr:, the thing keeps bugging so i stick to :ff:. Do you know a way to convert the meshes from :ffvstr: meshes to :ff: compatable meshes? Or, better yet, is Podmark gonna release :ff: version himself.
If not, could Pod' possibly E-mail me compatable versions?
Great work as usual Pod :thumbup:
Even though they are all pink in my viewer, and my Ctool2 doesn't work right, the meshes look awesome as well. It was hard to tell on the preview pick, but the Doomsday elbow spikes look good too. I wondered what you were doing with Doomsday pieces that you mentioned...
Quality work as usual, Pod. :thumbup:
I did have 1 question though.... When I look at Cyke, there seems to be a second head floating off in front of him. Would that be his hallucination...or mine? :P If it's Scottie's, then I again applaud your thouroughness. A built in target for shooting practice. Huh, who'd a thunk? :blink:
Hey Pod, just checked out your Thunderbolts stuff ... cool! I can't wait to get that Swordsman with face-mask skin.
ghazkul I'll have to reconstruct some ff1 compatible meshes. My decision to switch to FF2 only was partly due to nifskope considerations as there's certain issues with it that just make it easier to go to FF2.
Reconstruction of the skopes will take some time, and getting them exactly the same will be impossible. I'm really sorry about that. I'll let you know when they are done.
Peerless I'm not sure what you mean by a second heat. The skin preview on my site for Cyclops, the face shot is really blurry because ctool wouldn't zoom in enough because the mesh has ropes. There were some options I could have done to get a better pic but they weren't really worth the time.
My comment was regarding when I viewed Cyke in the NifViewer...there seems to be a second head floating off way in front of him. I thought it was either something you forgot to remove, a shot at actually animating a built-in hallucination for him, or ... well, I was very tired when I looked. I'll check it again. Whatever it is, he looks great!
Oh thats the red hood that falls off in the fall animation. Yes I did forget to remove that.
I'm thinking of reconstructing my X-Men section of my site. There's two ways I'm thinking going, 1. submenus by character, ie Cannonball, Hellion, Rockslide etc; or 2. submenu by group, ie New Mutants, New X-Men, X-Corps etc. Any opinions? I'm just thinking that as I add more of my older skins and finish new ones the current page is going to get very large and it may become difficult to navigate.
There's one major drawback to submenu by group and thats when characters can go in multiple spots, take for example Cannonball. He's been a member of the Hellfire Club, New Mutants, Hellions, X-Men, X-Force, X-Corp, and X-Treme X-Men; which group would I put him in? I could just put the different costumes in the correct groups but then I have Cannonballs all over the place.
BTW a trivia question. Which character have I skinned the most? And I mean different costumes, not updating an individual skin.
I recomend by team if you want to take that path, it would make things REALLY easy for people who are out to build a team and also if a character wears the same costume in several teams just link to the same image and downloadable zip.
Character you have skinned the most? Without access to your old stuff that is hard but I think you had the 5 or 6 variants on speedball if memory serves me correctly.
I'd say go with sub groups, With characters that have been in multiple groups just put them with the group the pertains to.
I'm also going to say Speedball cause you've got like 8 of them on tommyboy's site.
how many skins do you have in the works?
LOL man I don't even know my own trivia. I thought Cannonball was my most skinned character. But yes it is Speedball with 7 skins (all available at Tommy's site). Also two of those skins have been updated in the past. I'm pretty sure thats every costume Speedball has worn with the exception of Penance.
The runners-up were Cannonball and Justice both with 6 skins. The Justice skins are all in my Yahoo Group. I'm in the process of creating all new skopes for Cannonballs.
Currently I've created 320 unique skins. Of those I have 9 unreleased original creations, and 5 unreleased skins that have kinda been forgotten. Those Five are Morph (3 versions - need to be updated to Syn's mesh), Firestar (needs to be updated to a new mesh) and Indra (need to skin Armored form).
As for skins currently in the works, I'm currently working on 2 non-Marvel skins. I have the following skopes in some point of development: Cable-current look, Bishop-current, Vulcan cape, Lord Vulcan, Pixie-smaller nif, X-23, Dust, and I just started a series of Cannonballs last night.
New re-releases today: X-23 (3 versions) and Pixie.
No changes to the skins, but the nifs have been changed to much smaller sizes. From 1.4mb to 400k, so I suggest giving them a download even if you have the originals.
Hooray! :thumbup:
me = ^_^
The Tbolts archive page is now fully uploaded.
I've been meaning to ask.....which keyframes do you use for you new rockslide mesh? or better yet which keyframes do you recommend?
also with x-23 as well
lol I don't really have an answer for those questions. I've spent so much time skinning and skoping I haven't actually played the game in a long time.
For preview purposes I was using Gren's male_heavy Darkside keys, but I wouldn't really suggest using those for in-game.
I'm not sure if the X-23 hex will accept many other keyframes, but the Blackwidow ones looked pretty good. They had lots of nice melees which is what you want for X.
Both X and Santo include herofiles but they're not updated to the new meshes, so you'll have to do that manually. The files themselves should probably still be good though.
EDIT: I seem to be in a rerelease mood today as I've just put up an Invincible page with my Atom Eve and Invinble skins due to a request.
Ok so everyone's read X-Men 200 by now right? What? You didn't? You spent your money on the Sinestro Corps Special instead? You traitors! Go to Murs thread you ingrates :P
Anyway I'm releasing Gambit, no change however. I was trying to get into contact with Gni about skoping but so far have heard nothing, so I decided to release him as is. If I get permission in the future, or find another mesh I like I'll probably update him.
I was hoping to have Cable finished when 200 came out but it's a somewhat complicated costume and I'm not quite done yet. I've also been working on some other things as well. Haven't updated Armor yet.
Quote from: Podmark on July 02, 2007, 08:21:54 PM
Ok so everyone's read X-Men 200 by now right? What? You didn't? You spent your money on the Sinestro Corps Special instead? You traitors! Go to Murs thread you ingrates :P
Anyway I'm releasing Gambit, no change however. I was trying to get into contact with Gni about skoping but so far have heard nothing, so I decided to release him as is. If I get permission in the future, or find another mesh I like I'll probably update him.
I was hoping to have Cable finished when 200 came out but it's a somewhat complicated costume and I'm not quite done yet. I've also been working on some other things as well. Haven't updated Armor yet.
haha...too funny. It was a great week for comics though wasn't it? Mystique betraying the the team seemed so obvious that I overlooked and got caught by surprise...weird huh?
I've been looking forward to this skin, glad it's finally out. The details are just mind boggling with all the little straps and stuff. Anyways...great work Pod :thumbup:
Quote from: murs47 on June 22, 2007, 09:19:13 PM
I've been meaning to ask.....which keyframes do you use for you new rockslide mesh? or better yet which keyframes do you recommend?
For whatever it's worth, I used the male_heavy kf's that I also used for the thing_effects version. They're not terribly diverse, but satisfactory for a "clobberin' time" type character. Course, I'm only using 2 melee attacks in my hero file, so how many animations do I need?
Well, I'm finally back into X-Men and totally pumped to hear we'll be seeing more of thier recent costumes from you. Would there by chance be any WIPs screens :rolleyes: , especially Cable's new look and those Cannonball's you mentioned having started.
Quote from: BitBiteOuch on July 04, 2007, 08:06:19 PM
Well, I'm finally back into X-Men and totally pumped to hear we'll be seeing more of thier recent costumes from you. Would there by chance be any WIPs screens :rolleyes: , especially Cable's new look and those Cannonball's you mentioned having started.
WIP? Sure why not, I haven't shown anything in a while.
Here's Cable, obviously lots left to do. The skope isn't final, I'm still making tweaks. This is actually one of my favorite skins I've put together, partly because I'm a big fan of Cable in recent years.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/Cable2007WIP.jpg)
This is Tempo, one of the new Acolytes. This one is actually finished I believe. I put her together on the weekend.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/TempoWIP.jpg)
And Northstar. I was just working on him today. Still need to finish the face and hair, might change the skope abit too. Aurora will obviously follow.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/Northstar2007WIP.jpg)
On the skoping front I haven't really worked on Cannonball lately. Not much to show at this point, but they will be pretty awesome skopes when I get them all done. Been doing some other skopes too, like Exodus and Havok, but I'll show you them once I've started on the skins.
I've been kinda all over the place lately.
Excellent work Pod! Nice Skopes! :thumbup: Is that a VX Northstar?
looking great man!
what i did for my cable skope was take the eye fx from Ink's Longshot, and put it on Cable... it looks pretty good.
The northstar skin is really clean. i like the colour palette a lot.
that northstar is so awsome man!
Those are looking good, very good.....can't wait to see what you come up with for Cannonball. I'm a big fan of his new uniform.
Det is the Longshot eye star shaped? Cable's current eye is just a simple blue glow, not star shaped.
Northstar is on the vxnorthstar mesh...kinda. The actual visible body is the normal vxmale, vx ears and ink's kyle hair. The original body is hidden because it has had pointy ears and the wrong kind of hair, all one piece. Northstar's current look doesn't have the pointy ears for some reason.
:o awesome!
Finally sat down and worked on Armor. Here's what I've got.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/ArmorWIP.jpg)
Let me know what you guys think. I really love this skope btw.
That looks good, nice skin too :thumbup:
But I do have one question. Is the "Armor" always visible, or does it just appear on certain animation?
Looks good, Pod.
Quote from: murs47 on July 05, 2007, 06:51:37 PM
That looks good, nice skin too :thumbup:
But I do have one question. Is the "Armor" always visible, or does it just appear on certain animation?
The armor is always on. My suggestion for creating a hero file would probably be to create a FFX shapeshifting setup for her. I will be releasing both the armor and no armor versions.
Hey, that's cool!
ARMOR IS SO COOL!
man thats sweet!
as for the longshot eye fx.. its just an alpha-enabled plane i think. so if you design the tga as a kind of alpha-y blurry thing, it might look like its just pure energy smoldering
what fo you have in mind for an aurora skope? i could whip one up for you to save time.
Armor is FANTASTIC, Pod! I really like how the force field effect turned out!! Very nice work! I can't wait till she is released!
Quote from: detourne_me on July 06, 2007, 05:34:34 AM
what fo you have in mind for an aurora skope? i could whip one up for you to save time.
Well like I said in the skoping thread I'm looking for something with speedster animations, a running streak and flight streak if possible. Body would probably be the vx female (no heels) and I think I'd prefer Tommy's hair_long_wavy (same hair I used for X-23). That's all I think. Hope it works out. Really I just want a companion mesh to go with vxnorthstar.
Armor and Tempo have been released.
:o Podmark that Armor skope is a killer. very nice job on her.
Very nice job on Armor, Pod :thumbup: That must have a tough one, and you certainly pulled it off. I'll also be taking her off my getting up to date thread.
Quote from: sweeten2213 on July 07, 2007, 07:53:41 PM
Very nice job on Armor, Pod :thumbup: That must have a tough one, and you certainly pulled it off. I'll also be taking her off my getting up to date thread.
Actually Armor wasn't all that tough. The costume design is virtually Kitty Pryde's so I took a look at C6's and AA's skins to see how they handled the mapping so that sped things up considerably. The armor was added by Alphanaut (take a bow Alpha, huge HUGE thanks to Alphanaut!) and I mostly just coloured that in blue, theres some highlight to it but that's about it. Still I'm very happy with how it turned out.
Probably the wrong place to post this but I can't find the other thread where you recommended Invincible.
I went and picked up the Volume. 1 hardcover.....and wow! just a pure joy to read.
What the heck was I thinking ignoring this book for so long?
I'll be running to my local comic shop today to pick up the second volume, maybe even the third.
I think you might like the Kirkman's Ant-Man series. Totally different main character, but still great characterization and a good, fun read as well. Issue 10 just came out, but I guess the series is being canceled after issue 12, not much to catch up on.
Quote from: Podmark on July 07, 2007, 12:43:54 AM
Armor and Tempo have been released.
:blink: Oh. My bad. And....SAH_WEET!!! Got 'em! Muchas thanks!
Quote from: murs47 on July 08, 2007, 07:41:38 AM
Probably the wrong place to post this but I can't find the other thread where you recommended Invincible.
I went and picked up the Volume. 1 hardcover.....and wow! just a pure joy to read.
What the heck was I thinking ignoring this book for so long?
I'll be running to my local comic shop today to pick up the second volume, maybe even the third.
I think you might like the Kirkman's Ant-Man series. Totally different main character, but still great characterization and a good, fun read as well. Issue 10 just came out, but I guess the series is being canceled after issue 12, not much to catch up on.
Awesome I love when people realize the awesomeness of Invincible!
I've always had an interest in Antman but never managed to pick it up. I was really sad to hear it got cancelled. I should pick up some back issues or a trade, see what if I like it.
BTW always feel free to talk comics in this thread, especially if they relate to skins I've done, past or present.
Most memorable moment for me was when Mark threw out the garbage in issue 1 and finally gained his powers.....and it finally lands in London in issue 5 or 6 I believe! I was literally laughing out loud. It's all the small things that make this book rock.
As for Ant-Man, he's a character that you love to hate......If he was a real person and I met him, I'd probably punch him in the face for good measure. But for some reason I just have to see what happens next, I'm left wanting more after every issue. I really don't understand the cancellation of the series. After Captain America and New X-Men, this is my favorite title.
Quote from: murs47 on July 08, 2007, 02:55:24 PM
As for Ant-Man, he's a character that you love to hate......If he was a real person and I met him, I'd probably punch him in the face for good measure. But for some reason I just have to see what happens next, I'm left wanting more after every issue. I really don't understand the cancellation of the series. After Captain America and New X-Men, this is my favorite title.
I don't think the book was selling enough. I read an interview with Kirkman about it and he said something that really is true. The further away a book is from the main stuff (Avengers, X-Men etc), and the big events (Civil War etc) the harder it is for the book to sell. Antman is pretty far, he's a new character with very limited connections to the rest of the Marvel U and the book barely effects the rest of the universe and that makes it harder for people to find the cash for it. Still I've heard nothing but good things about the book and I've liked everything I've read from Kirkman (his Ultimate X-Men was kinda wonky though).
Armor is an astonishing and you beat me to Cable. Are you planning on redoing Cannonball to have crazy hair, tooth pick, and metal rivets on his costume.
Quote from: AfghanAnt on July 09, 2007, 01:03:04 PM
Armor is an astonishing and you beat me to Cable. Are you planning on redoing Cannonball to have crazy hair, tooth pick, and metal rivets on his costume.
Hmm never thought of adding a toothpick...I wonder where I can find one.
Yeah currently I'm thinking of giving the current Cannonball the Kyle Raynor hair or maybe something from the Speedball meshes. The collar with the metal rivets is probably coming from Syn's Morph.
AA got me motivated again so here's a WIP:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/CannonballsskopePrev.jpg)
The skin is my M-Day Cannonball from last summer with no alterations, this is really just a skope preview. The skope isn't necessarily finished. I'd like to look for proper boots, I might adjust the collar, there's a possibility I'll change the hair, I've got a couple ideas of how to add a toothpick. The base mesh is Syn's very awesome Nova mesh. I'm hoping to do a series of Cannonball skopes to depict his various diferent costumes.
damn.....that is sweet. One of my favorite X-Men, and that cannonball effect is pretty cool too. Good stuff Pod, can't wait to play with that one. :thumbup:
Forgot to mention, I went out today and got all the trades and issues up to 43 for Invincible, I got some catching up to do, but I think this might be one of the best comics out there. In a matter of a days it has become one of my favorite books of all time. Now that's saying something. Thanks for pointing this book out and recommending it to me.
I have the last skin you did for cannonball, but I'll be looking forward to seeing the new version.
Great job with the skope Pod! :thumbup: It's great that you're gonna skin the other costumes because I seriously "detest" the new costume which you on the other side you did a great skin of. :wacko: :) Go figure. :lol:
Actually the new costume is one of my favorites, but I seem to love everything Bachelo creates these days so go figure.
I want to make skopes for just about everything he's worn, but I probably won't skin them all. I will do updates for my old Cannonball skins though. That's the current one, his X-Force v2 look, First X-Men, Reload, New Mutants, and the B&G costume.
Quote from: murs47 on July 09, 2007, 09:45:57 PM
Forgot to mention, I went out today and got all the trades and issues up to 43 for Invincible, I got some catching up to do, but I think this might be one of the best comics out there. In a matter of a days it has become one of my favorite books of all time. Now that's saying something. Thanks for pointing this book out and recommending it to me.
Good for you, man! You won't be sorry. It's Kirkman at his best writing!
Quote from: Dr.Volt on July 10, 2007, 02:10:28 PM
Quote from: murs47 on July 09, 2007, 09:45:57 PM
Forgot to mention, I went out today and got all the trades and issues up to 43 for Invincible, I got some catching up to do, but I think this might be one of the best comics out there. In a matter of a days it has become one of my favorite books of all time. Now that's saying something. Thanks for pointing this book out and recommending it to me.
Good for you, man! You won't be sorry. It's Kirkman at his best writing!
Yeah, I'm in love with his Ant-Man series, and Invincible is just 10x better.....it's like I've been living under a rock the whole time or something :unsure:
Changed the title of my thread for fun :D
Might as well start a new separate thread for you skins now, sorry Pod ;)
Quote from: Podmark on July 10, 2007, 06:50:45 PM
Changed the title of my thread for fun :D
I hate fun! Change it back! :wacko:
Great work so far, I am really fond of your armor skin and it's cool to see one since she is now on mission with the team.
BTW since you've been doing a heroic skoping job and love the x-men.... any chance we will see a beak skin?
Hate to stray away from Pod's skins, but I guess the thread is kind of inviting. I was wondering about Invincible, I mean I've heard nothing (and I mean nothing) but good things. Seems everyone loves it, and I want to pick up the trades (but can never bring myself to do it), but really, the premise doesn't interest me all that much. I hear so many good things, but from what I know about the storylines and such (which isn't much I guess), it doesn't sound all that interesting. The main characters don't seem all that interesting to me either, but like I said, I haven't read it. What's so great about it? Why is everyone so crazy over it? What might finally convince me to pick up the trades?
It's all about execution of the story and great characterization. That's why it's so good. The premise, or concept, of the book makes you think "that sounds pretty cliche." But once you read it, it's anything but. The unexpected always seems to happen. I'm sure more people will post their 2 cents on why they love the series as well.
I recently bought the first trade last Saturday, about half way through I realized this series was pure gold. So without finishing it, I went on Sunday(next day) and bought the next trade. I finished both that day.....and came to the conclusion that this is one of the best series I have ever read. Went out the next day and bought everything up to issue #43 (trades and back issues)
At least give it a shot and buy the first trade, that's my recommendation.
Quote from: lugaru on July 11, 2007, 04:16:20 AM
BTW since you've been doing a heroic skoping job and love the x-men.... any chance we will see a beak skin?
I'd like to do Beak, I liked him in Exiles, but for the moment I'm going to try and concentrate on the skins I have going on right now. I think someone did do a skope of him, I don't recall who though.
Quote from: BitBiteOuch on July 11, 2007, 09:19:51 AM
Hate to stray away from Pod's skins, but I guess the thread is kind of inviting. I was wondering about Invincible, I mean I've heard nothing (and I mean nothing) but good things. Seems everyone loves it, and I want to pick up the trades (but can never bring myself to do it), but really, the premise doesn't interest me all that much. I hear so many good things, but from what I know about the storylines and such (which isn't much I guess), it doesn't sound all that interesting. The main characters don't seem all that interesting to me either, but like I said, I haven't read it. What's so great about it? Why is everyone so crazy over it? What might finally convince me to pick up the trades?
I agree with pretty much everything Murs said about Invincible. It's a really engaging book with lots of fun characters. I also happen to love the art as well. The only warning I'd give is that it tends to be exceptionally bloody at times.
I think it was Detourne_me who did that beak skope
Pod,
I'm not sure if you mensioned Cannonball's graduation costume as part of the many hexes you might do for him or not. I think the helmet from Ren's movie Captain Americas might be perfect for that costume.
http://images.wikia.com/marveldatabase/images/thumb/a/a8/Uncannyxmenannual_10.jpg/390px-Uncannyxmenannual_10.jpg (http://images.wikia.com/marveldatabase/images/thumb/a/a8/Uncannyxmenannual_10.jpg/390px-Uncannyxmenannual_10.jpg)
I always thought that the design was good for it's time anyway...never understood why an artist never just updated that look since having a crash helmet actually made sense if his powers got shut off.
- CrimsonQuill
P.S. I've fallen in love with Invincible as well not only for Kirkman's writing but because of how unpredictable the storylines have gone.. it's hardly a typical superhero comic. That's my 2 cents anyway.
Ideally, Crimsonquill, I'm going to try and skope all of his different looks because I'm a big Sam fan. However I doubt I'll skin all of them, and that one I probably won't because I'm really not a big fan of it. We'll see.
Been busy at work most of this week so no new progress on anything. I'm off tomorrow so I might try to finish Northstar and maybe do some other work. Also I'm working on an Antman skope for Murs.
I remember you saying you're liking the new New Warriors series in the Comics forum....I'm really liking it too.
I was wondering as soon as Marvel started revealing more of the characters if you wanted to team up and skin them all. So far it looks like there's about 10 of them. It probably wouldn't be a while since issue 2 just came out last week, but if you're interested let me know.
Actually I was just thinking the other day that I would love to skin some of these guys. I'm really impressed with the New New Warriors book so far. It really surprised me.
So yeah I could certainly get on board with that. We could probably do Wondra (Jubilee) and maybe Nightthrasher (whoever he is) right now but the others would have to wait for better reference.
The groups that have most interested me in regards to skinning are MC2, New Warriors, Thunderbolts, the X-Universe and from DC Young Justice/Teen Titans.
Yeah, it's pretty good....I think it's setting itself up very nicely. It really has that rebellious feel to it.
I don't know if you want to split it up, or we both work on the same skins....never skinned with someone else so I don't know how it goes. I know you've got a bunch of stuff on the table right now with your Cannonballs :lol: and other stuff. So, we can wait if you want, it's all up to you.
I should do some practice, I'm not too good at catching the younger look that you do so well with your skins.
I've worked with Matrix and Afghan Ant in the past and both those times we both worked on each skin. But I was mostly doing bodies with them doing face work and some touchups. Splitting up the characters might be the better way to go in this case.
In other news I've updated my site! A few rereleases, in my new DC page I've added four modern versions of Jade, and in my X-Men section Nightcrawler and 2 versions of Mercury.
Quote from: Podmark on July 12, 2007, 12:29:41 AM
I've worked with Matrix and Afghan Ant in the past and both those times we both worked on each skin. But I was mostly doing bodies with them doing face work and some touchups. Splitting up the characters might be the better way to go in this case.
In other news I've updated my site! A few rereleases, in my new DC page I've added four modern versions of Jade, and in my X-Men section Nightcrawler and 2 versions of Mercury.
4 different Jades....nice. :thumbup:
Whenever you're ready to skin the NW let me know, also, which base skin to use.
EDIT: Young Justice/Teen Titans are something that interest me as well.
Hi, Podmark!
I totally hate to bug you with this because I'm usually able to figure out how to get things to work, but I'm having a hell of a time getting Surge to work with any set of keyframes I try. basically, i can't, and i have no idea why. is there anyplace you can direct me to that has a working set of keyframes for this skope/mesh that works for FF2?
The New Mutants version of Surge includes the keyframes as it's the complete mesh, the New X-Men version just has the hexed nif. Do you have both?
ha! um, well, um, now i do! (i didn't read the readme as closely as i thought. oops!)
but, to prove i'm not a complete idiot, i finally figured out something: i said, "hey, if one man is going to all the trouble of skinning all of these New X-Men guys, he must really like this book or something."
sooooo...i went and bought the first three trades of the changeover...and read 'em...and wow! you're dead-on about this book! great stuff! so that's why i've been messing around with things you've released a while ago -- i had to catch the hell up! :thumbup:
Marvel just got a new reader on one of their books!
Excellent! Always great to hear new people are picking up the book.
Yeah Pod, you've got great taste in books.
Out of curiosity what's your pull list look like, I want to see what other comic gems I'm missing out on.
My pull list:
Buffy Season 8 (I only recommend if you were a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show)
Invincible
Teen Titans (Which I don't recommend at the moment)
Cable and Deadpool
New X-men
Spider-Girl
X-Men
I think that's it. Although I'm picking up the Fantastic Five mini. I'm seriously considering getting New Warriors, and maybe Avengers the Initiative. I keep a pretty close eye on most of the X-titles and some other books too, looking at online spoilers and preview pages.
cable and deadpool as well as spider-girl have always been a fav of mine. I havent been too into the x-men recently. My comic stores kind of suck here so I usually just by trade paperbacks. I am sad I missed this newest Apocalypse arc
Ok guys, I'm going to crosspost this with my request thread.
I'm nearly finished Northstar, but I want to change the hair I'm using to something more resembling this:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/nh2.jpg)(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/nh1.jpg)
Anyone got any ideas?
Quote from: Podmark on July 12, 2007, 10:25:55 PM
Ok guys, I'm going to crosspost this with my request thread.
I'm nearly finished Northstar, but I want to change the hair I'm using to something more resembling this:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/nh2.jpg)(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/nh1.jpg)
Anyone got any ideas?
Maybe the hair from tommyboy's recently released Hulk mesh? Maybe.
I don't know about the hair but have you consider doing sabertooth?
Quote from: murs47 on July 13, 2007, 06:32:03 AM
Maybe the hair from tommyboy's recently released Hulk mesh? Maybe.
Hey i gave that a try and it's looking pretty good!
Quote from: AfghanAnt on July 13, 2007, 07:12:06 AM
I don't know about the hair but have you consider doing sabertooth?
The most recent costume yeah. I'm not a big Sabretooth fan so he's a bit down my list. Did you want to team up for him? I'm sure you could give him an excellent face!
Yeah that might be cool. I have few things I need to finish but I can put them on hold and I would really like to work with you on the Carey's X-Men.
Quote from: AfghanAnt on July 13, 2007, 02:50:56 PM
Yeah that might be cool. I have few things I need to finish but I can put them on hold and I would really like to work with you on the Carey's X-Men.
What did you have in mind? Something similar to the Deadly Genesis skins we made together, doing costumes and you doing faces and touchups/additions? Or do you want to try something different. Did you want to do updates to Mystique and Lady Mastermind with me?
I just have the hair and the streaks to do on Northstar, then I'd like to finish up Aurora. I'm expecting them to be part of either the new X-Men lineup or Omega Flight at some point in the next 12 months. Actually I'm all but certain Carey wanted them as part of the lineup but I have a feeling they were snatched up by someone else. Also I'm near positive Husk will be part of the new lineup. There you have it my predictions! :D
Anyway I'm working all weekend, and work exhausts Pod, so I'm not expecting much progress. Here's hoping though. Also slowing my skinning work, I'm trying to reread all my Harry Potter books before the new one comes out (on the 21st) I'm just past half way on the Goblet of Fire now. I don't think I'm going to make it :(
Hey, I wasn't sure if I should put this on your thread or soemwhere else, but either way when I load up your new Armor_skope in my CharacterTool I get a "Unable to open character file" message, followed by a "alert: CDataLoader::loadNIF, Unable to load Nif fallback thing" message. I'm sure this is just my problem, nothing to do with your skope/skin, as it also happens with Rev's new Vixen skope, but whats the deal? Anyone else got this? Also, if this is in the wrong place, sorry, no problem moving it.
Quote from: BitBiteOuch on July 14, 2007, 10:50:08 AM
Hey, I wasn't sure if I should put this on your thread or soemwhere else, but either way when I load up your new Armor_skope in my CharacterTool I get a "Unable to open character file" message, followed by a "alert: CDataLoader::loadNIF, Unable to load Nif fallback thing" message. I'm sure this is just my problem, nothing to do with your skope/skin, as it also happens with Rev's new Vixen skope, but whats the deal? Anyone else got this? Also, if this is in the wrong place, sorry, no problem moving it.
You may just need to convert it.
http://alexff.com/eznif.php (http://alexff.com/eznif.php)
But I'm using :ff:
don't tell me its :ffvstr: exclusive :(
Oh....I'm not sure about backwards compatibility. Sorry.
Yeah the problem is that it's already been converted. I made the decision when I started using nifskope to go to FF2-only support, because it's much simpler to nifskope that way.
As it is I can't recreate the full Armor skope myself, because Alphanaut added the shade body to it, and I'm not sure how he set it up.
Sorry.
I just saw the new solicits today, judging by your new avatar so have you. What do you think of the new retro uniforms for the New X-Men? I kind of like them....Hellion looks crazy powerful on that cover.
Is your avatar Prodigy? I can't tell.
I LOVE that cover! I love the new uniforms and I will definitly be skinning them, but I'll be waiting for better ref picks. However I think Hellion without Red just looks wierd.
Yep the av's Prodigy, but I've created avs for all 9 kids and will be switching them every few days. Prodigy is my favorite of the kids so I started with him.
Yeah, that cover is amazing. I really think Skottie Young was born to draw this book. The other artists are great as well, but I think his style is perfect for this book. I think Hellion looks bad expletive on that cover and the lack of red doesn't bother me.
It looks like Pixie made it ^_^ but where's Elixir :unsure:
Yeah I am really impressed with Skottie's work. When I first heard he was coming onboard I groaned, but he quickly won me over with his sketches and his attitude toward the book. He really took alot of care imbuing each of the kids with the right look and energy. I honestly believe he was born to draw Anole and Pixie. Too bad his run is almost over.
Look closely at Pixie in the cover and you'll get an idea of what happens to her in the next few issues. And I'm sure Josh is still around, I'm not entirely sure why he isn't on the cover.
I just read issue 40.....and now I have a very good idea of what's happening to Pixie. Great issue..this arc has seriously surprised me, more then likely due to the development of the 2nd tier characters of the book.
Yeah it's given me some serious skinning inspiration.
I was fooling around and made a sig out that new New X-Men cover, thought maybe you'd want to check it out. Feel free to use if you want.
(http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8514/newxsighf9.jpg)
QuoteYeah it's given me some serious skinning inspiration.
I suspected it would, I was considering skinning Nehzno but I'm not sure if that was something you were going to eventually get to. My idea was to make a two-pack.....one where he is skinny and calm, and the other where he is ginormous, a face full of rage, and having his tattoos glow.
Just something I've been wanting to do but have held off cause I know how much love you have for the series.
Thats a very nice sig, I think I will use it :D I'll set it up later tonight.
I'm pretty pumped up to do Vic and Santo, and Pixie too, but I'm really waiting to see them in costume. I'm not big on skinning them in plain clothes. So it might be a while til I actually do skin them.
Same issue with Nezhno, although his costume was kinda shown back in 23. I really like your idea of doing two versions. I won't be getting to him anytime soon so if you want to skin him go ahead.
I'm trying to learn gmax now which I'm going to use to supplement my nifskoping. One thing I want to do sometime in the future is do teen sized skopes for all the kids. I worked out some resizing data a while back with Peerless but I haven't tried it yet.
Had a feeling you'd like it :lol:
I think I will skin Nez, when Marvel finally reveals him in an actual uniform I know you'll be all over it in a jiffy ^_^
If you ever got to creating those adolescent sized meshes, I would have to say a New X-Men mod is necessary someday.
I've put some thought into doing a New X-Men mod. If I ever sit down and learn EZscript that's what I'll be working on.
ooo, a new xmen mod would be most interesting.
Gentlemen, we really have to talk this weekend. Besides finishing a few skins I've started. I think I would be interested in a New X-Men mod as well if we included Carey's X-Men. I am really enjoying those two title currently.
this could be very interesting
Oh....yeah! This could be sweet!
oh jeez.....look what I started :lol:
Hmmmmm......count me in :D
um, well, i have nothing to offer here creatively, but i can promise you i'm one person who would definitely play it!
umm is this still pods skin thread :P
hehe.....Pod's going to kill us! :rolleyes:
It went from skins to comics to a mod. Yeah, pods gonna kill ya'll
*kills everyone!*
Oh wait I actually wanted to talk to them....
*brings everyone back to life*
Guys I'll say this again comics, mods, are good to go in my thread as long as they're somewhat related to the topic or me :D
So the idea of a New X-Men mod has really grabbed people's interest. I've actually been thinking about doing one since I installed FFX, but it was really more of a dream rather than an actual plan. I don't know how to scprit, but I looked briefly at EZscript and I think it's something I could probably figure out.
As for characters well I've skinned all of the main cast before so it's certainly possible on that end. Might need to do some villains and a few other characters though. The bigger question would be what kind of missions would you be interested in. Original ones, or missions that follow actual events from the comics? We could easily include the X-Men AA.
I'm not saying I'm definitely commiting to anything yet, but I'm open to talking about it.
*takes off halo and angel wings*
ahhh, feels good to be back :lol:
Yeah, you have skinned pretty much everyone......but I'm willing to help skin what you haven't. I'm sure others would be willing to lend a hand as well.
My idea for the mod in the broadest sense would be to start out as the X-Men (Carey's line-up) but the mission goes wrong and you then play as the New X-Men to rescue them. I'm sure one of you will come up with an even better idea I'm just throwing that out there.
What were those advanced humans that lived in the huge boat called? The ones that were after Sabretooth.
I have the first issue they show up in, but can't seem to find their name skimming.
And I like your idea, seems interesting.
Edit: Found it. The are called Niños de la Cámara- Children of the vault.
After re-reading it I am throughly ticked of about the careless mistakes in grammar
Edit2: Dang it podmark got it first
They were called The Children.
Ok here's my list of New X-men I've skinned. Not all of them are online:
Prodigy
Surge (2 versions)
Wind Dancer
Wallflower
Icarus (2 versions)
Elixir (4 versions)
Hellion (2 versions)
Mercury (2 versions)
Dust (2 versions)
Rockslide (3 versions)
Tag
Wither (2 versions)
Anole
Indra
Pixie
Preview
Trance
Specter
Dryad
Quill
3-in-1
X-23 (3 versions)
Armor
And n the villain side
Stryker
Nimrod
I was just on Skottie Young's site and read this about his New X-Men cover:
"Here are my a peek at my latest covers. First up, my farewell cover to New X-men. Issue 43 will be my last issue, so I wanted to see what I could pull off on the last cover. And, I just wouldn't be me if I didn't go out like I came in...with redesigns. I wanted to look like a team visually so I took the costumes of 2 of my favorite incarnations, New Mutants and Generation X, mixed them up and...well you're looking at it."
:( It seriously sounds like the redesigns were just for the cover....but, that doesn't mean they can't be skinned ;) And a New X-Men mod would be the perfect reason to do that. :D
I think it would be a good idea to do a mixture of original and comic based missions. That allows for some flexibility/creativity and let's players get a feel of what's in the comic. Just a thought.
Here's another idea..........Magneto's eventual return is inevitable in the comics one day, but why not have our own original story of his return. Due to mutants current endangered species status, Magneto decides it is now a must to create a new empire and safe haven for mutants(i.e. Asteroid M, Genosha) He sees the New X-Men as an extremely powerful group of mutants, potentially.
He uses his words of wisdom and inspiration to persuade them into following his movement. He could make certain arguments such as:
"Professor X does nothing to help our kind, instead he flys away into space...a coward."
"Sitting around in a mansion will not save our race, the humans will eventually come for you, they will find a way, they always do."
Sorry, those aren't very well thought out quotes but you get what I'm going for.
Eventually the New X-Men find meaning in his words and join his cause. They still adhere to the morals of X-Men such as "no killing" and setting themselves as the good example. But they go out on missions such as destroying Sentinel factories, go face to face with Stryker(again) and his followers by bringing the fight to them instead of waiting for him to strike first.....and of course, eventually a confrontation with the regular X-Men.
Also, Magneto lead the New Mutants at one point so the use of those hybrid New Mutant/Gen. X costumes would be very fitting cause it would have some relative connection.
ehh, I think I typed way too much :banghead:
a mission with the runaways or young avengers would be real cool
Yeah I haven't yet heard that those costumes will be used in New X-Men other than the cover. I hope they are most people seem to like them. I'll still skin them though, they are just too cool not too.
I've got a couple of really nice ideas to recreate some of the actual events of the comics, and I think some original missions would also be good. I especially like the idea of having the Young Avengers and maybe even the Runaways or New Warriors involved (neither of which have been skinned yet).
I'd really like to do a mission where the kids fight the Purifers, and another against Nimrod. I'd also like to try one where you'd have to fight the Marauders. It'd be fun to see how the kids would do against them.
you have to start the mod with a danger room mission against magneto and the old school brotherhood or juggernaut
Those sound like some solid ideas Pod, do you plan on using those NM/GX hybrid redesigns or their current costumes for the mod?
Well the mod is still not a certain thing at this point. As for which costumes I'm not sure. If I went with the regular ones I could pretty get started now, but otherwise I'd have skin the new looks. Personally I really want to wait and see if the costumes will actually be used to get them accurate. There's pretty much no detail below the knee on the cover and I'd have to guess what Santo and Sooraya are wearing.
We'll see.
[spoiler](http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8590/ramosnewxmenyt5.jpg)[/spoiler]
DUDE! WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT?!!
EDIT: Ohh I found it, didn't realize there was a con this weekend!
So it's still possible these uniforms could be official......they look a lot more GenX-ish here though.
Is Ramos going to be the new artist?
EDIT: I found a very high res version of Skottie's New X-Men #43 cover if you want that as well.
Yeah the costumes were confirmed as official a few weeks ago. Young said they were designed as a merger of the New Mutants and Generation X uniforms from the begining, and I love them. Ramos is doing the crossover issues then he's moving onto Runaways.
Sure I'd love a high rez 43!
EDIT: huge [spoiler]CABLE'S ALIVE![/spoiler]
Yeah.......stupid Joe Q and his big mouth ruining things for me.
A fan asked if there was going to be more Bob, Agent of Hydra, and he said no. The nerve. :angry:
Can you link me to the article where it's confirmed these are the new uni's. I'd love to read more about it.
High rez NX#43 [spoiler](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/NWXM0043_cov.jpg)[/spoiler]
I think it was in one of www.comicbookresources.com x-positions. I don't remember which one though. It was just a simple question and answer.
I just noticed that Wolfcub and Match aren't on Ramos' cover. Nehzno looks massive....and really cool.
Quote from: murs47 on August 11, 2007, 03:18:20 PM
I just noticed that Wolfcub and Match aren't on Ramos' cover. Nehzno looks massive....and really cool.
Nope and neither are Blindfold, Loa, Trance, the Cuckoo's, Indra, Bling!, Onyxx, No-Girl, Armor, or Ernst. That's the entire student body.
:doh: I completely forgot about all those characters. Whew.....I was worried Match was going to get whacked. But the reality is you can't have all the characters on the cover.
Is Onyxx still in critical condition?
Nah, Onyxx is fine, though him and Bling! were considering leaving the school during the Facility arc.
I love Match, if there wasn't so many other great characters ahead of him I'd love to have him on the team.
I'm still waiting for a cover that shows the whole student body on it, that would just be cool.
Well, Podmark, what can I say? I believe I've already told you how much I like your work. Not only because of its quality. But also because you usually skin 2nd or 3rd string characters (some of them, have only been skinned by you).
From Nimrod to Armor, everything is extremely cool. Armor's skope turned you amazingly well in my opinion. Too good to be true. Then, to have Stryker, or new Rockslide in my computer is simply great.
I'm also glad you decided to skin those costumes for more popular characters. For FF, I tend to collect as many costumes as I can from each character. And being a Gambit fan, it's nice to have Death around, even though that plot didn't live up to the expectations. And, finally, I must say that Sunfire is quite stunning.
Keep it up!
Thw new Xmen's new costumes look great, mixing new style characters with classic chararcters. Will you be creating a skin/mesh for Anole, Rockslide's lava form (I know it was only around for a bit but it looked great) or some of the non-New Xmen secod string students?
Just one other small question also, will you be doing any new skins for the Fantastic Five? The new comic book shows some of the new characters besides the ones you have already skinned, the skins are amazing by the way,like the Grimm children, the Human Torch's son and the Invisible Woman's F5 Costume?
Yeah I definitely want to skin Anole and Rockslide, and I'd like to get more of the secondary cast skinned too.
I'd like to do the rest of the F5 too. Don't really know when I'll find the time right now though.
Hey Pod, what's your opinion of that New X-Men#44 cover by Ramos?
Well considering Ramos is one of my least favorite artists, I like it. The colour work is fantastic, some of the best I've ever seen. I really dislike his Hellion though, and I'm not big on his Anole, looks too animalish. His Rockslide and X look great though.
Ramos really exaggerated the boots though, I'm not big on that.
Yeah, Hellion with a little sleeve-less jacket was a bad call. I really like his Gentle, a lot actually. His Pixie is a lot more skinner friendly then Skottie's version...still like Skottie's more though. What do you think of Elixir on that cover? I do like that there's more detail in the boots, but like you, I'm not too big on the size of them.
Josh looks decent, but it doesn't really look like Josh. It's the face, it's not Josh's face. Actually Ramos didn't really capture any of the characters in their faces.
Well no new skinning news thanks to a combination of lack of time, skinning burnout, and other interests. Additionally I'm going out of town next week and heading back to University the week after, so chances are you won't be seeing much skinning from me for a while.
I apologize to anyone who was looking forward to any of the various characters I've talked about doing, and urge anyone who may have been holding off skinning a character because they were expecting me to do them to go ahead and skin.
Hopefully I'll get back to some skinning in the near future.
No New X-Men? :(
Quote from: murs47 on August 26, 2007, 09:56:25 PM
No New X-Men? :(
Not yet anyway. I'm out of town and won't have my computer. Not sure how much time I'll have when school starts.
[spoiler](http://images.comicbookresources.com/news/x-position/sixteen/newxmencvrsm.jpg)[/spoiler]
Whoa! Very nice work from Mr. Finch there. :thumbup:
Yeah I saw that yesterday. I'm not really a big Finch fan but this pretty good. Not big on the way he drew the boots, or Rockslide, or Anole's arm, but otherwise I like it and it's nice seeing different artists draw the New X-Men. New issue is out next week I think :)
Nothing to report on the skinning front, I'm getting the bug back but my time is kinda limited.
Hey Pod, have you read issue 42 yet?
Quote from: murs47 on September 19, 2007, 02:04:23 PM
Hey Pod, have you read issue 42 yet?
Just finished actually. I liked it, some surprising stuff in it.
[spoiler]Indra the youngest kid in the place, I figured it was Pixie but I can believe it. It's kinda nice to see him getting some use. Nice revelations on Rockslide, Anole, and Gentle's powers. Predator X is back that ought to be good. And then Nori, geez what's up with that. And what exactly didn't Santo know about Vic? ;) Young's art took on a Bachelo-esque property in this one, which is ok in my books.[/spoiler]
Those interested in what I've been up to go check out the hexing forum. Now.
Quote from: Podmark on September 19, 2007, 02:34:55 PM
Quote from: murs47 on September 19, 2007, 02:04:23 PM
Hey Pod, have you read issue 42 yet?
Just finished actually. I liked it, some surprising stuff in it.
[spoiler]Indra the youngest kid in the place, I figured it was Pixie but I can believe it. It's kinda nice to see him getting some use. Nice revelations on Rockslide, Anole, and Gentle's powers. Predator X is back that ought to be good. And then Nori, geez what's up with that. And what exactly didn't Santo know about Vic? ;) Young's art took on a Bachelo-esque property in this one, which is ok in my books.[/spoiler]
Those interested in what I've been up to go check out the hexing forum. Now.
[spoiler]I think what Santo meant by was that he didn't know Vic was so sensitive to the word sissy. Just a guess.
I actually absolutely loved this issue, nothing major happened just a lot of characterization. It was all the small things really. Like Wolverine taking Pixie to the danger room, then later you see him chasing her screaming "$@#%ing unicorns!" :lol: Great stuff!
About Rockslide: Is he like an ethereal from that controls a rock golem? I got a bit confused on that part.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Yep pretty much. The exact term was psychic entity, which essentially means his mind just floats around until it creates a rock body for itself. It's a nice idea that isn't too far a stretch from his original powers.[/spoiler]
Quote from: Podmark on September 19, 2007, 02:34:55 PM
And then Nori, geez what's up with that
[spoiler]Ok, I thought you were talking about Nori ignoring David, then suddenly kissing him. But I just re-read the issue and OH SNAP! :o That's not David she's kissing!
Total brain fart on my part :rolleyes:[/spoiler]
Quote from: murs47 on September 19, 2007, 08:30:12 PM
Quote from: Podmark on September 19, 2007, 02:34:55 PM
And then Nori, geez what's up with that
[spoiler]Ok, I thought you were talking about Nori ignoring David, then suddenly kissing him. But I just re-read the issue and OH SNAP! :o That's not David she's kissing!
Total brain fart on my part :rolleyes:[/spoiler]
:o :o :o
PAY ATTENTION!! :angry:
:unsure:
[spoiler]I really have no idea why my brain registered Hellion as David[/spoiler]
Anyways, have you given anymore thought to a possible New X-Men mod?
Quote from: murs47 on September 19, 2007, 09:43:40 PM
Anyways, have you given anymore thought to a possible New X-Men mod?
No not really. I don't really have the time to do it right now. I'd still love to make it happen.
I made a skin!
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/Riptide.jpg)
Nothing special, I just had a skope idea for Riptide and needed dip my toe back into skinning to get my many skopes out. I must have been pretty rusty because this skin was really annoying for such a simple design.
I'm glad someone is keeping up with the mainstream characters.
Hey, Riptide! I like this character. Thank you.
Cool ... I was hoping someone would do Riptide like that. Has that been released?
not yet I'm still playing with it.
Today I've skinned one of my favorite X-villains:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/Exodus_Prev.jpg)
Comes in both Brooks and Ramos versions.
I've always loved Exodus. Is this a new look for him? I remember him having golden armor and shoulder pads.
Still, the skins are wonderfully done. Nice work, Pod'!
Yeah it's his most recent look.
Hey pod, im digging this skin, it looks really nice
2 lil things that are disturbing the nice skin.
1) i am not sure i love his hair, it seems that is makes his forhead so large, doesn't he have bangs or anything? dunno how to express it in english, but it seems werid
2) cape cliping, i know you cannot fix that, i spose its a mesh issue, but it would look better if u skined a portion of the cape on the shoulders, so when it clips you can't really tell, cause you will be seeing the cape skined underneath too.
Aside from thoose 2 tiny issues i loooove your skin man
Yeah I hear ya on both of those. I really like the hair with the exception of the forehead issue. I'm going to look into some possible solutions to that.
Since I took that pic the cape clipping has bugged me. I'm going to look into skinning the shoulder, it may or may not be a reasonable solution, it depends on how the mesh moves. I have to check it out.
Quote from: Podmark on October 12, 2007, 08:47:00 PM
Yeah I hear ya on both of those. I really like the hair with the exception of the forehead issue. I'm going to look into some possible solutions to that.
Since I took that pic the cape clipping has bugged me. I'm going to look into skinning the shoulder, it may or may not be a reasonable solution, it depends on how the mesh moves. I have to check it out.
For the hair, short of skoping some bangs, try adding shadow under the hair. It should break up the forehead nicely.
what powers/abilities does exodus have?i'm not familiar with him.
Hey, I was thinking if Riptide was ever done for FF the other day. :)
edit: Oh as well as the other members of the marauders, and four horsemen of Apocalypse. :P
Nice skins as usual Podmark. Great work on Riptide and Exodus. :cool:
I've repositioned the hair on exodus and it's better. I'm going to add a shadow and if necessary I might try some different eyebrows and all that should take away the forehead issue. No pic but it looks much better with the repositioned hair.
Exodus is an odd character as he's sometimes portrayed as ridiculously powerful and other times he kinda sucks. His abilities are to drain psychic energy and lifeforce from others to give himself enhanced strength, speed, reflexes, flight, telepathy, telekinies, energy beams...and probably a couple of things I'm forgetting.
I'm positive Riptide has been done before, along with the rest of the original Marauders. I did Riptide because I had a good skope idea (it's based on Tom's Red Tornado). There's a chance I might do a couple more Marauders if the mood strikes me.
Just letting you guys know that I'm bogged down with school work right now, but I'll have time on the weekend to finish these off and get them out. I'm also planning to release Northstar as well, who's been finished for months while I was working on Aurora.
In other news it looks like I'll be doing a third Exodus as preview pics for X-Men 205 show that Bachelo has come up with his own variant on that costume.
Have you seen this yet? I think it's really cool.
[spoiler](http://comicsmedia.ign.com/comics/image/article/827/827571/x-men-messiah-complex-one-shot-20071019042900702.jpg)[/spoiler]
I actually saw that a couple of weeks ago, but yeah it's very nice. I love Cheung's art. Obviously the New X-Men are going to get a lot of play in the crossover. Though I keep hearing people speculate Nehzno dying. Also in the latest X-Men preview, Blindfold predict s bad things for Hellion (who's been shown stabbed in a preview pic), Pixie and Nightcrawler.
Quote from: Podmark on October 20, 2007, 09:58:30 AM
I actually saw that a couple of weeks ago, but yeah it's very nice. I love Cheung's art. Obviously the New X-Men are going to get a lot of play in the crossover. Though I keep hearing people speculate Nehzno dying. Also in the latest X-Men preview, Blindfold predict s bad things for Hellion (who's been shown stabbed in a preview pic), Pixie and Nightcrawler.
Where can I see these preview pics of Hellion?
....I wish I had more time to skin..... <_<.....all the recent comics and events really have the me itching for it.
He's being stabbed by Lady Deathstrike. It was here on the wizard universe
preview:
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazi.../006089236.cfm
4 sites showed the same preview, but each got a couple exclusive pics. Anole is being attacked in the CBR one.
Newsarama:
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=131899
ign.com:
http://comics.ign.com/articles/825/825308p1.html
CBR:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/ne...m.cgi?id=12046
Thanks for the links. ^_^
The first and last don't work though.
I lifted them from another board, but I remember checking them before. They might have expired or changed.
This link works for the CBR one:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12046
And the wizard one:
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/006089236.cfm
There ya go. At least those two are working for me.
Thanks Pod. Poor little Julian...all those holes at once looks like it equals = instant death.
What are your thoughts on which X-Man gets killed? Even before I saw the pic of Nightcrawler in the snow, I had a feeling he would be getting offed. He just seems to be the least most interesting X-Men at this point in time.
Won't be Nightcrawler. If it was going to be him they wouldn't have shown a preview pic of it. He'll get hurt but he won't die. I'm kinda leaning on Bishop and Archangel (2 of my favorite X-men, actually Kurt is too...I'm not doing well here). I could see Caliban or Hepzibah going too, but they're rumored to be in the new X-Force. Maybe Charles but I doubt it. And a last possibility: Cyclops (my favorite X-man).
There's no confirmation at this point but it's expected that the Astonishing arc ends before Messiah Complex, and Kitty hasn't been seen yet in MC previews. Someone from the Astonishing trip to space isn't coming back and so the suspicion is that it's Kitty. If Kitty is gone, I could see Colossus going.
Quote from: Podmark on October 21, 2007, 12:33:02 AM
And a last possibility: Cyclops (my favorite X-man).
Without Cyclops, there is no X-Men. So yeah, he's my favorite as well. I don't think Marvel will kill him.
But, you're right about Kitty; I haven't seen her in any previews as well. I could see Marvel taking out Bishop, but Angel, no. I just feel a lot can be done with Warren.
Quote from: Podmark on October 21, 2007, 12:33:02 AM
There's no confirmation at this point but it's expected that the Astonishing arc ends before Messiah Complex, and Kitty hasn't been seen yet in MC previews. Someone from the Astonishing trip to space isn't coming back and so the suspicion is that it's Kitty. If Kitty is gone, I could see Colossus going.
I thought Carey said Messiah Complex takes place before Astonishing?
Quote from: AfghanAnt on October 22, 2007, 12:16:19 PM
I thought Carey said Messiah Complex takes place before Astonishing?
He might have, and that's what I've always thought. But I've hearing conflicting things so I'm not sure.
I just read NX #43.............Santo was laugh out loud funny on multiple occasions. :lol:
Great issue. :thumbup:
Yep I loved the whole thing. Pretty inspiring too, I'll probably have some new skins/hexes coming up soon.
Quote from: Podmark on October 31, 2007, 08:30:30 PM
Pretty inspiring too, I'll probably have some new skins/hexes coming up soon.
I thought as much, can't wait to see them. :D
EDIT: I still have all that face work I showed you of the kids....and a few other things as well, I think.
One thing that's been bugging me is the new uniforms. Young Ramos and Finch all do them different to some extent. Makes it hard to settle on a design for my skins.
Quote from: Podmark on October 31, 2007, 10:33:02 PM
One thing that's been bugging me is the new uniforms. Young Ramos and Finch all do them different to some extent. Makes it hard to settle on a design for my skins.
Just go with the ones you like. They're your skins, have fun with them. Plus, they're all "official" uniforms.
Heck, make them all if you want.
Quote from: murs47 on October 31, 2007, 10:35:14 PM
Quote from: Podmark on October 31, 2007, 10:33:02 PM
One thing that's been bugging me is the new uniforms. Young Ramos and Finch all do them different to some extent. Makes it hard to settle on a design for my skins.
Just go with the ones you like. They're your skins, have fun with them. Plus, they're all "official" uniforms.
Heck, make them all if you want.
LOL I'm a design prefectionist. I always try to get things as exact as possible.
Well, looks like you'll be doing them all then. :P
EDIT: Did you ever finish that Risman skope, or are you waiting for better reference pics. I really like the new Purifiers design that was showed in MC.
Haven't done anything with it since I showed you. Was there anything really missing or needed improvement? I need to take a close look at the new designs.
I'm going to choose one design Ramos or Young. I prefer the Young version, but the Ramos one is going to be used more so I haven't decided yet. I'll be doing two Surges because she changes her shirt in the next issue. Might do two Hellions one with and one without the jacket. Hopefully I'll get started this weekend.
In other news I made a Mercury skope the other day. It's based on TJ's symbiote mesh so it has morphing weapons :D
QuoteIn other news I made a Mercury skope the other day. It's based on TJ's symbiote mesh so it has morphing weapons biggrin
Sweet! ^_^ That'll be cool looking, especially in-game.
For the Purifier skope that you showed me, I think it just needed a little more clothing to the upper body so it looks more like a robe (or whatever it's called) and a hood.
The original design didn't have a hood, so I'll make a second version :D Have to find some baggy clothing somewhere....
I'd probably go with the Ramos one as well. I like how he adds slight variations to each character's uniform.
(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6916/purifvl1.jpg)
I love that pinup. If you want one like that I could give that a try. But I don't think they're using that exact design in the books. I'll be making hood version though.
It always amuses me how we have these long discussions in my skins thread :P
Quote from: Podmark on November 01, 2007, 10:03:45 AM
It always amuses me how we have these long discussions in my skins thread :P
Sorry about that Pod. Completely unintentional. I got a bit carried away. Thankfully I kept it on the topic of your skins though.
QuoteBut I don't think they're using that exact design in the books.
Yeah, I just like how it blends their design in the MC one-shot with the their design in the last two issues New X-Men.
.....................
I need to start using the PM feature a little more :lol:
meh it doesn't bother me much either way. PMs is probably the better choice though.
Just to be clear anyone can chime in if have any comments on any of this, or anything else. My thread is not an exclusive club....but what if it was .......... I gotta stop watching Scrubs :P
Quote from: Podmark on November 01, 2007, 10:50:15 AM
Just to be clear anyone can chime in if have any comments on any of this, or anything else. My thread is not an exclusive club....but what if it was .......... I gotta stop watching Scrubs :P
:lol:
Stop daydreaming Dr. Dorian. :P
I'll never stop watching that show, it's too great. :)
This is the last year, sadly. Actually I only got into over the last year, borrowed some DVDs and was totally hooked. I now sometimes do the whole gaze off into space and comeback with some random comment thing for fun.
nnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :angry: :( :o Why?
I got into about 2 years ago the same way. My old manager invited me over some beers and he stuck on the season 1 dvd and it was automatic :wub:
I think the crew is just packing it in. I know ratings have dropped so I think they want to get out while they still have an audience.
Anyway Scrubs aside, here's an actual preview! In my thread! It's a miracle!
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/podmark/NXMuniprev.jpg)
This is my prototype for the New X-Men's new uniforms (which I believe were created to make things easier on the artists in the crossover). The design is entirely based on Young's art, I might change it, might not. Course I started with David because he's my favorite...even if he may be going evil :(
An actual preview! :o
:lol:
That is looking good. I like how the gauntlets and boots aren't overwhelming like Ramos' and they're a dead on for Skottie's design. The only thing that slightly irks me are the kneepads. They seem a bit too rectangular, narrow, and long. But it looks good so far.
David go evil? Could be interesting. I think he's just going through a bad break up though. Poor little fella.
Yeah kneepads look a little long. I'll double check but I think the knee pads are supposed to be rectangular. I've got a couple of changes in mind but this is probably pretty close to done.
The thing about David, in 43 Kitty is talking about Josh and saying that he might be the next Magneto but the panel shows David looking in on Nori and it looks a bit creepy. He's got all his skills now and back during Academy X he saw a potential future that ended with him as a villain. There's a lot of speculation right now that that may happen now.
Yup, I'd say it's pretty close to done.
I remember that story about David. He was almost Lex Luthor like.
really really nice
:blink: Dude! Someone other than Murs posted in my thread!!
Nothing new to post yet. Put together some more New X-men skopes and I'm probably going to work on some skins this weekend.
nice work can't wait to see the new uniforms :thumbup:
hehe but Murs lives in this thread :) we dont want him evicted now do we?
Fools! Who dare posts other then I? :angry:
(So that's what it feels like to be Dr. Doom) :lol:
I'd post if I knew anything about the characters you skin. :) My secret desire is for Podmark to skin characters I've read about.
not quite like Doom you need to speak in 3rd person
Quote from: Xenolith on November 09, 2007, 03:38:41 PM
I'd post if I knew anything about the characters you skin. :) My secret desire is for Podmark to skin characters I've read about.
So which characters have you heard of? :P
I'm mostly skinning X-Men stuff right now, but there's always the chance I'll do something else.
i'll poke my head in here, since you guys are joking about other folks never posting in this thread!
just wanted to say, "thanks again," Podmark, for your efforts/dedication to New X-Men. again, i started reading it because you were so bullish on it, and it is easily one of my favorite books to read each month.
i picked up all the trades from the changeover to New X-Men, and now i'm getting the singles.
i think it's great how you've kept up with the multiple costume changes the group has had in such a short time. needless to say, i'm fairly excited about the possibility of seeing some Purifiers one day, if/when you ever get around to it! (i saw the picture up higher in the thread.)
How about silver age x-men and their foes? That would be very cool.
speaking of X-foes, I would love if you (or anyone for that matter) could skin the costumes of the rarely used foes such as Unus and Vanisher (and his several costumes). I think that was one of the major problems I had with my OG X-men mod. *shrugs* just a suggestion.
I actually have Unus on a to skin list somewhere, but my skinning time is very limited so I probably won't be getting to him anytime soon.
One thing with my skinning is I generally try to follow 3 rules: 1) The character hasn't been done before, 2) If it has my version brings something new to the table (ie newer mesh etc), 3) or I just really want to skin the character or I'm doing a set that it fits in. The vast majority of silver age characters have been done by other skinners so I tend to do newer characters and costumes.
The Purifiers is likely to be done by Murs rather than me.
Ok guys I've got some bad news. Some of you may remember that I've had computer problems for the past year. A quick summary: my good computer went down with an unknown problem that I was never able to figure out, and now my current computer, an almost decade old machine with fan problems has died. So I no longer have a computer, and I currently don't have the funds to fix them or get a new machine. As an additional problem I'm fairly sure I knocked out my hard drive in the process, meaning I've lost all my psds and files. So it looks like this is the end of my skinning career.
I had a good run. I don't have my records to check but I finished over 200 skins and learned alot about graphics in the process. Maybe in the future when money isn't so tight I'll be able to return, but I'm not sure when that will be.
I'd like to thank a few people in particular; Unsung Weezer especially for designing my av, Afghan Ant esp for our collaborations, Next Legend for being a good friend, Ultimate Evil esp for helping me find my most recent hosting, Matrix esp for our collaborations, Paradox for his base, Murs for turning this thread into an odd hybrid of skins and discussion, and of course C6 for being a constant inspiration. Also those who have hosted my work, Hellscorp and Death_head (I think that was his name been a long time) at Villains Reborn, Volt and ElectricFreedom for considering me as a memeber, Nightdragon and Dragon Force, Randy, Mike and everyone at the GPL. Also the many meshers who've taken my requests or I've worked with; Beyonder, Texas Jack, Bobby69/Vertex, Tommyboy, Renegade. I'm sure I'm missing some people. And of course those of you who have taken the time to check out my skins.
It's been fun,
Pod
Hey man, whatever happens, don't get discouraged. Life is a funny thing, sometimes strange things happen.
I'm not saying goodbye though. I've seen too many people give up or say they aren't coming back into it (like C6 :rolleyes:) and we always pull those suckers back in somehow. We'll do the same to you, just watch :twisted:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Wait a minute. You're still going to be around here posting and stuff, right?
Quote from: murs47 on November 16, 2007, 05:20:45 PM
Wait a minute. You're still going to be around here posting and stuff, right?
All the time :)
Quote from: Podmark on November 16, 2007, 06:29:22 PM
Quote from: murs47 on November 16, 2007, 05:20:45 PM
Wait a minute. You're still going to be around here posting and stuff, right?
All the time :)
Oh thank God! ^_^
Still sucks to see you "retire" skinning though. I'm gonna miss posting in here. :(
Hopefully your computer loss won't be problematic for school.
Quote from: murs47 on November 16, 2007, 06:50:41 PM
Quote from: Podmark on November 16, 2007, 06:29:22 PM
Quote from: murs47 on November 16, 2007, 05:20:45 PM
Wait a minute. You're still going to be around here posting and stuff, right?
All the time :)
Oh thank God! ^_^
Still sucks to see you "retire" skinning though. I'm gonna miss posting in here. :(
Hopefully your computer loss won't be problematic for school.
Shouldn't be a big problem.
I sure well see your wonderful skins again pod. And Tomato's absolutely right...you never know what's around the corner...so enjoy this impromtu vacation from skinning my man. :)
Quote from: Tomato on November 16, 2007, 12:56:12 PM
I've seen too many people give up or say they aren't coming back into it (like C6 :rolleyes:) and we always pull those suckers back in somehow. We'll do the same to you, just watch :twisted:
Right!!!!! :twisted: :twisted:
You know what I just realized? No New X-Men skins. :(
shame your hanging up the boots mate. but you have to do what you feel is right. hope it works out for you
It's really sad about what happened to your computer Podmark. I can only imagine what it would be like to lose all that work/collection you had. Don't lose hope. :(
Very sorry to hear about this Pod. You've come along way in those 200+ skins.
Quote from: Tomato on November 16, 2007, 12:56:12 PM
I'm not saying goodbye though. I've seen too many people give up or say they aren't coming back into it (like C6 :rolleyes:) and we always pull those suckers back in somehow. We'll do the same to you, just watch :twisted:
I don't recall saying I would never skin again...I said semi-retirement.
Quote from: Courtnall6 on November 18, 2007, 07:17:34 AM
I don't recall saying I would never skin again...I said semi-retirement.
Aha, I was right...again. *face palms tomato*
Anyway, sorry to hear about this sir Pod, but it saddens me that we won't get to see any more awesome skins from you.
And yet, I say, 'tis not too late to have a whip-round or set up a "Save Podmark's Skinning" fund. 'Tis true what the advertisements say: a little in abundance is a lot. Who's with me? :)
ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat
Quote from: ow_tiobe_sb on November 18, 2007, 10:52:51 AM
And yet, I say, 'tis not too late to have a whip-round or set up a "Save Podmark's Skinning" fund. 'Tis true what the advertisements say: a little in abundance is a lot. Who's with me? :)
ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat
That's ok OTS I can't ask anyone to do that for me.
I am sorry to see you stop skinning, but have a feeling that some how you will find a way when you get that skinnig bug again as so many have other have before. I hope that it's sooner than latter and you have a stroke of luck to get back on your feet again or your computers feet if that makes sense <_<. And I am glad hear you are still going to be hanging around.
whatever is you decide i sincerely hope is the best for the future POD
And i know we will be seeing more of you anyday, sooner or later
I feel like a donkey's butt for jumping on the bandwagon but I know how you feel. I've got a lot going on right now and I wish you all the best Pod. It has been a honor to work with you in the past.
Pod, dude, your skins were some of the best. Good luck with the computer issues, and let's hope this is more of the "extended vacation" kind of retirement from skinning than the "buying the house in Florida" kind of retirement.
I'm retiring.
From reading retirement threads! :(
It's too depressing!
But thanks for everything Podster.
Mark, sorry to see you cease skinning, you've done some great work, for which, thanks.
Hey Pod, sucks to see you retire but thanks for all your Marvel stuff .... as a big fan of Thunderbolts, finding out that you'd nailed all those characters was great. Also, the really interesting stuff you managed to release for the X-Men, which looked great in FF, actually got me interested in the X Universe again!
Good luck with your future interests and may your first child be a masculine one.
-jw
Quote from: Jakew on November 21, 2007, 02:24:21 PM
Good luck with your future interests and may your first child be a masculine one.
-jw
Um ok. But I got no problem if it isn't.
:lol:
Not another one! Well Pod, thanks for all the excellent stuff you've created man, and good luck in your future endeavors. I hope you won't be offended when I say that I hope you wander back this way again some day, as your work will be missed. :D
Quote from: BentonGrey on November 29, 2007, 09:17:51 AM
I hope you won't be offended when I say that I hope you wander back this way again some day, as your work will be missed. :D
Certainly not. If not for my current problems I'd gladly skin again.