I’ve just completed two prizes for DiCicatriz, one for Character Contest 38 (Random II) and the other for Character Contest 50 (Random III). Apparently “random” is his middle name. Anyway, the first is a somewhat unique addition to Body-Male-Standard — body hair:
I’ve color-coded this screen capture so you can see what I mean. “LineColor” is the torso hair, “color1” is the arm hair, and “color2” is the leg hair. This will allow you to use one, two, or all three of the hair areas by changing the alpha value of the various bits. So if you just want chest hair, turn color1 and color2 to 0% alpha. If you want leg and arm hair only, change line color to 0% alpha, and so on. I thought it was a neat solution, hopefully you’ll like it too.
The second is an emaciated male body for Body-Male-Alternate. I have to admit a morbid curiosity to see what DiCicatriz is going to use this for …
Enjoy!
Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges
What if Amazons were actually Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang members, and instead of being based on the Greeks they were modeled after S&M enthusiasts, and then their Princess Diana came to the Man’s World to investigate new ways to use straps and bad leather clothing? Well then, my friend, you’d get this version of Wonder Woman:
Holy Minerva, that’s a lot of useless costuming bits! My favorite is probably the ingenious use of the bra straps meeting at the sternum, where according to my vast engineering knowledge, they would offer approximately zero support. In fact, I bet wearing a bra like this would actually make the breasts sag more! But that’s ok, because there isn’t anything even remotely accurate about this woman’s anatomy in the first place, including her unfortunately broken hips. Maybe that’s the reason for the otherwise puzzling waist straps.
I mean, the reason other than “straps are hot” according to the fevered adolescent imagination of your average comics fanboy.
The painted-on biker shorts are just … I don’t have words for that. Wow.
Finally, I don’t know why she bothers having the separated “=W=” logo on those jacketless sleeves, as there’s no way in Hades she’s ever going to get both sides of that thing to meet up over her chest. Maybe if there were a few more straps and a winch she could manage it, but otherwise, no. Which is probably by design, because clearly the last thing anyone working on that book would want would be to cover any more of her chest than absolutely necessary.
On a side note, I had no idea just how extensive Wonder Woman’s costume history was until I stumbled upon Carol A. Strickland’s impressively anal-retentive (her words, not mine!) index. If you can swing a few minutes to check it out, it’s interesting reading. It makes me feel bad for the Amazons — all those women on one island and so little fashion sense to go around. Pity.
(Image ©1995, DC Comics.)
Posted in Bad Super Costumes
(From “Ultimate Spider-Man” number 67, ©Marvel Comics.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
I’ve been lucky enough to have spent the last few weeks catching up on the wonders of Marvel Digital Comics, and along with finally watching some of the new “Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what makes for good super-hero entertainment. And animated TV series are definitely a huge part of that.
So I want to know:
Discussion to follow!
Continue reading
Posted in Versus
Finishing up Imp’s prize from Character Contest 33, I’ve converted these three hands from the Modern Warrior mini to HeroMachine 3 Alpha:
Thanks for your patience, and for the suggestion, Imp!
Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3, News & Updates, Previews
I’ve just posted the “Tops-Female-Fantasy-Common” set to HeroMachine 3, a conversion of the previously released male items to fit the standard female body. As usual, if you don’t see it on the list, clear your browser cache. Enjoy!
Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates, Previews
(From “Ultimate Spider-Man” number 98, ©Marvel Comics.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
Known as the Centaur or the Archer to the Greeks, and “The Soldier” by the Babylonians, your challenge for this week is to design a character based on the concepts suggested by the Zodiac sign “Sagittarius“. Some of the traits of a Sagittarius are:
Positive:
Negative:
But hey, we’re not here to find a date, we’re here to create kick-ass characters, right?! Obvious takes would be anything centaur-like, whether with a classic horse or some other beast (or cyborg, whatever), or anything archer-related.
Whoever comes up with the best character will win a) his or her choice of either any item they like to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 version; b) a portrait to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 version, or c) a “sketch of the day” style custom drawing. The rules are fairly simple:
No limit on entries this week, so knock yourselves out. Just make them good!
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
Sorry for the late posting, I’ve been converting Female Fantasy Common items all day and time kind of slipped away from me. But without further ado, I am happy to announce that the winner of Caption Contest 88 is … Joshua!
Joshua, let me know what you’d like as your prize and I’ll throw it on the list. This was the one that made both John and I laugh right out loud the most, so we had to go with it.
I thought these entries were very funny as well:
Congratulations to Joshua for the win, and many thanks to not only the Finalists above, but to everyone who entered. Great job!
Posted in Caption Challenges, Challenge Favorites, Challenges
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
Nerdmudgeon.com
