Comments on: Mechanics of Creation 4: “Females ONLY!” Poses Post

By: darkvatican

darkvatican — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:50:57 +0000

Ah-hah! THERE’S the how-to for the running woman! I still like the “sit back” one the most. That one is too hot. *Singing to himself* “Useful tips from HK – oh yeah!”

By: Hammerknight

Hammerknight — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:03:08 +0000

@Imp Yes.

By: darkvatican

darkvatican — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:37:31 +0000

This is good stuff, Damien. Very good stuff, I must say!

By: The Imp

The Imp — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:05:39 +0000

@HK: I guess what you did there is place some appropriately sized circle insignia (flesh colored) over the muscle lines, right?

By: Hammerknight

Hammerknight — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:59:34 +0000

@thejay you can make the muscles go away with Hero Machine 3. Here are some examples. The last one is a recipe with 5 pages, I hope they will help.
http://img411.imageshack.us/i/thatlook.png/
http://img14.imageshack.us/i/sitback.png/
http://img38.imageshack.us/i/naughtyu.png/
http://img33.imageshack.us/i/femalerunningpg1.png/
(5 pages for the last one)

By: Damien Stadler

Damien Stadler — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:00:49 +0000

@ TheJay: I know that it’s not a perfect fix. You can only do so much stretching boy parts until they’re the size of girl parts. But it IS better than nothing for the time being, no?

@the Imp: Not bad Imp! Though may I say–Jeff didn’t give us much to work with head-wise, did he? I only ever use the one (top row, #4) for females myself.
My advice to get REALLY good at females fast– flip through a magazine until you find the most awkward pose imaginable, then duplicate it. I mean, can you imagine one much harder than that gun pose? I was on that for like two days! Ugh.

By: thejay

thejay — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:56:33 +0000

That love of yours is clearly visible, HK. You too Jeff and Damien.

Now, for the party spoiling. As much as I really like these tutorials (masking stuff inside transparent rectangles? Who’d-a-thunk it?) you offer hard-work methods for an application which should make life easier for the serial Heromachinist. Those rectangles on the thighs does not solve the masculinity problem; eventually, it’s easier to fix that in Photoshop. I know Jeff would eventually release all those chick illustrations unto the program (can’t wait) and so far you’ve offered us great pointers, but today’s advice gets us into a whole lot of sweat (not that I wouldn’t want to mix ladies and sweat… but on different circumstances).
But bottom line, keep on the good work!

By: Hammerknight

Hammerknight — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:18:53 +0000

Thank you Ky2030, but I am no genius, just someone that love to do art and share with others.

By: The Imp

The Imp — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:16:28 +0000

Hey Damien, here’s one, using some of your tips:

http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=59919&d=1246140879

By: Ky2030

Ky2030 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:46:14 +0000

But the thing is when Jeff does finally make a full released version I doubt it will ever be finished.

My thought is instead of doing a 3.x or a 4.0 he will just keep us wily little users (almost typed losers then) giving him item ideas and the such.

Though granted there maybe be cause for a 3.x or 4.0 upgrade if there was something major to change on the programing side of things.

But still this program is going to be like a cheap tv soap opera…never ending.

Where else can you get a pretty much full functioning character visual creator where if the item you want isn’t there you can email the programmer/artist and he’ll put it in (eventually). And then add the fact you have geniuses like HK and Damien here pumping out tutorials and the like. Plus the fact of the competitions showing us what the program is capable of.