Ewzzy's Efforts - ?Blue Demon!

[ghazkul]

Daaaamn man, I love them!! El Gorgo is one of my faves!!
Have you ever eread Spinnerette? (http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/) It's kind of new, but still amazing!! I've tried doing sum webcomic stuff, but I wanted to start there, but failed.
I hope there's more El Gorgo stuff!

[Ewzzy]

@Tap: I ended up not going with the smoking feature. I'd have to leave it in his mouth or hand and even then the smoke was a bit too powerful.

@Ghazkul: I've never heard of Spinnerette. I've heard of the band Spinnerette. In fact you can see on my last.fm page they're in my top 10. Based on name alone I'm going to give that comic a good look.



Here's a preview of my next skin. A no-prize to who-ever figure out which corner of the web she's from.

[Ewzzy]

I can't imagine a naked lady getting less of a reaction. You may not have cared much for my skope preview but you'll bow down before, Penny Devlin, Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N.

[Artemis]

very nice work on this fine lady Ewzzy. Even the guns look beautiful.

[spydermann93]

Very nice!

[The Hitman]

I was gonna say that your skope looked an awful lot like Penny Devlin... GREAT JOB!

[Ewzzy]

I did some more work on Penny, but the only real improvement is that her boobs look better. Yay me? You'll see it later.

I also was working on effects for Axe Cop but my scale was WAAAAY off.


Check out my blog update on compression and how it ruins Minute Man.

[Ewzzy]

What did I tell you? Don't her boobs look great?


Final version of Eddie Devil

I just uploaded all my new skins to my FF Sub-Site along with my new essay on skin compression.

[Amazo Version 2.2]

Really liking both of these. Nice texture on Eddie's shrt and jacket. And to answer your question...

[BentonGrey]

Fantastic work, Ewzzy!  I really like Eddie Devil.  You made his colors really "pop."    Good work on the girl's face as well, she's got a pretty intense expression. 

[Ewzzy]

I spent a while in Blender trying to export this guy correctly. He started as a male_basic mesh. I'll probably try and skope a trench coat and guns onto him before I'm done.

@Benton: I actually didn't want her to have such an intense expression, but I'm really bad at faces. I had a much more subdued palette at first on both of them, which looked more "realistic" but that's the only thing at all realistic in what I do so i through it away and added a "vibrance" filter to force the colors to pop. You can see the difference if you look at my first draft of Eddie to the final release.

[Ewzzy]

Updated at 2 AM. Now to bed.

[Ewzzy]

FACT: I own an authentic El Santo mask purchased in Tijuana. No seriously.

[spydermann93]

Both Solomon and El Santo are amazing! Keep up the awesome work!

And I don't know what it is, but I love the way you skin your characters. They have that 'webcomic' feel to then.

[murs47]

Very nice, the cloth work on Solomon is especially well done.

[daglob]

FACT: I own an authentic El Santo mask purchased in Tijuana. No seriously.

Ahhh! Beat me to it. Looks good. I guess I'll just have to finish the Masked Medic and release him.

[The Hitman]

Any chance we can get a turtleneck-and-slacks or leisure suit variant on El Santo?

[Cyber Burn]

I could have sworn I commented here recently, sorry Ewzzy.

You've established a really strong niche for yourself here by skinning so many non-mainstream characters, and eveerything that you have skinned shows an amazing quality in it's detail and depth. Beautifully colored, as well. Really impressive Ewzzy.

[Ewzzy]

@Cyber Burn I actually thought for a while that people must just hate Solomon Stone since nobody replied. Ha!
@Hitman I intend to put together a turtlneck-suit version as well as El Hijo Del Santo from the cartoon (http://blog.ewzzy.com/2010/07/santo-contra-los-clones.html) including Jet Boots and lazer cuffs. That will probably be based on Ren's Owlman mesh.
@Daglob I thought I heard you mention you where doing an El Santo. I've just been on a real Lucha kick lately so I couldn't resist.
@Murs The cloth work is distantly related to skins I did a long time ago based on Gni's work. I just keep recycling parts from my old work until I start thinking it looks bad or I lose the PSD.
@Spyderman I'm not sure what a "webcomic look" is but really I just try to make my skins really vibrant with smooth lightly texture surfaces.

NEWS: I had my work machine's windows installation die last night, but re-installing windows has become a seasonal event for me anyway. (last time was around Christmas) The good news is I save all my work to an external hard drive. Better news is I actually have a new machine coming that is top of the line and will greatly enhance my ability to work on skins. (more importantly my freelance graphic design jobs)

I also just noticed that my Penny Devlin skin doesn't seem to work in game. My skoping must have gotten out of hand. I'm likely to take another stab at her and re-release alongside my finished Solomon Stone skope. I've gone all out with him and you'll really enjoy his extras. I've got big plans in the future which may or may not come to be.

Spoiler

El Santo y Blue Devil, The Middleman and Wendy Watson, selections from The Venture Bros cast, and a preview of my own webcomic!?

[Scorpion13mk2]

Ah!

AH!!

AAAAHHH!!!

*jumps out window*

[The Hitman]

@Hitman I intend to put together a turtlneck-suit version as well as El Hijo Del Santo from the cartoon (http://blog.ewzzy.com/2010/07/santo-contra-los-clones.html) including Jet Boots and lazer cuffs. That will probably be based on Ren's Owlman mesh.

Nice. I really enjoyed the El Santo cartoon when it aired (mid-2000's Cartoon Network Mexico?), and can't wait to see that version of him done, as well as the ridiculous "business casual" look. I've been a big fan of your work for a while now, and this recent batch of skins are excellent. Keep up the great work!

(And a new webcomic? Awesome!)

[BentonGrey]

Was El Santo the fellow who did the "Sampson and the Vampire Women" movie that showed up on MST3K?

[Scorpion13mk2]

Was El Santo the fellow who did the "Sampson and the Vampire Women" movie that showed up on MST3K?

The very same.

You wanna whip up some vampire ladies and vampire wrestlers, Glob?

[BentonGrey]

Also....Ahhhhhhhhh!

[President Raygun]

Wow, luchadores and Venture Bros., that's like Christmas in July.

[daglob]

Was El Santo the fellow who did the "Sampson and the Vampire Women" movie that showed up on MST3K?

The very same.

You wanna whip up some vampire ladies and vampire wrestlers, Glob?

Got vampire ladies at Character Obscura. I was trying to figure out how to do the Aztec Mummy.

[Scorpion13mk2]

OH SWEET JESUS!!

http://drmcninja.com/archives/news/axe-cop-and-dr-mcninja-to-team-up

[spydermann93]

Oh my God! This is bound to be awesome!

[Ewzzy]

Life has been busy and FF sadly has taken a back seat. I had a few hours to kill today and whipped up something for my fans.

[BentonGrey]

Hey, very nice work on that suit, Ewzzy!