X-Furs Issue #2

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Oct 102012
 

It’s that time of week again, when the Animus Funnies merge with pop culture icons to produce MASH-UPS! This week, we conclude our look at Marvel’s X-Men. Let’s get right to it! As always, click to embiggen.

Professor Cyran Xavier is a strong believer in mutant rights, being a mutant himself (if only he could figure out how to unglue the wrench from his paw). It is he who assembled the X-Furs to assist him in his quest for good. I chose Professor X’s hover-chair specifically so I wouldn’t have to draw wheels.

Redcrawler has the power to teleport himself from place to place. Here he is appearing with a BAMF.

Deelocke is a martial artist with psychic powers which she can manifest among other ways as a psychic knife and her butterfly shaped psycho-blast.

Finally, we have Zoenix. Formerly known as the mutant mouse Zoë Gray, the Zoenix came into being when Zoë merged with the Phoenix force given her a huge power boost that she ultimately could not control. I really dig how the fiery phoenix effect turned out.

That’s it for the X-Furs! Come back next week for something new!

X-Furs

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Oct 032012
 

Greetings Animusians (trying out names),

For this week’s mash-ups, I chose the X-Men. At first, I was going to call them the A-Men, you know because prayer humor is cool. But I don’t use the word “Man” in Age of Animus so I had to throw that sweet pun out. I switched to A-Furs, but that was too far removed from the original name so I’m using X-Furs.

I’m enjoying trying new things as I explore different themes. In the Street Fighter mash-ups it was fighting stances and poses. This week, I’m further exploring the effects I started using in the Masters of the Universe mash-ups. Be sure to click to embiggen the pictures for a clearer view.

First up, we have the leader of the X-Men, Oonch-clops.Here he is firing optic blasts through his ruby visor.

The first preview I put up featured Mouser. I didn’t get see any guesses on Facebook as to who he was supposed to be. The answer is Kitty Pryde’s pet alien dragon, Lockheed. Kitty Pryde’s code name is Shadowcat and who’s the shadiest cat in Bree? Sass of course! Here she is phasing through a wall while Mouseheed opts rather to plow through it. I’m not rightly sure how I managed the dust effect, because I haven’t been able to duplicate it since.

The second preview sketch I put up on Facebook was of Nektara. I left out the X on her belt to make the theme less obvious. In full colour, I hope that it’s clear I was gunning for Rogue. Nektarogue is a lot less gimmicky, but I really like how the pose worked out.

Gamrick is a wily cajun who likes to throw supercharged playing cards at his enemies.

Last up for this week is Barnassus, whose mutant power is to morph from fur to metal. He has a lot of the shiny metal techniques I used in the Masters of the Universe mash-ups.

More X-Furs next week (be warned, there will be no Wolverine).

 

A New Challenger Appears

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Sep 262012
 

Wednesdays, Mash-ups, let’s do it!

Today we conclude our look at Street Fighter. I couldn’t for the life of me remember what the game says when a new player joined in but I think this is it. If I got it wrong, please let me know.

Some of you may have been expecting to see Ryu last week, seeing as he’s the main protagonist of the Street Fighter franchise. Well, I wanted to keep one big name for the second week…actually, I just didn’t get to drawing him until Thursday. Anyway, Todrick was my first choice for Ryu. His energy ball didn’t turn out quite the way I had hoped.

Following up, we have Deema as Sakura.

Then we have Ibuki. Ninja thief girl? That’s totally Sass.

Finally, we have Barnaby as Balrog, or M. Bison as he was known in the original Japanese.

So that’s it for Street Fighter. Next week: New theme! Bet you weren’t expecting THAT huh?

 

World Warriors

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Sep 192012
 

Wednesday has snuck up on us again and that means one thing around here: MASH-UPS!

This week’s theme is Street Fighter. A quick check shows that I haven’t tackled video games yet (Tron doesn’t count) and that’s all the reason I need. This theme got me to play around a little with poses, specifically fighting poses.

First up is Nektara as Chun-Li. Chun-Li was one of my go-to characters in Street Fighter II because her combos were easy to do. This was probably the most difficult pose to figure out. I had to cheat a little with the length of Nektara’s legs to get it to work at all.

If you take Green Rich and add a military look and straight blond hair, apparently, you get Guile.

Zoë gets to play Cammy. I bet you didn’t know that Zoë had such killer abs huh? Me neither! She’s wearing a beret just like I did at Comic-Con this year!

Vega (or Balrog as he was known in the original Japanese version of the game) is played by Cyran. Why Vega for Cyran? Well, the claws gave me a way to incorporate wrenches in his design and the ears could replicate Vega’s long braids.

Finally, we have the main villain of the game, Big Oonch is M. Bison, or Vega for those of you more familiar with the original Japanese version. The problem with Oonch (and Cyran) is that he has no legs to speak of, which means that I couldn’t give him M. Bison’s cool shin guards. I think he looks good without them though. It’s all about the hat!

Okay, that’s all for now. Come back next week as we continue duking it out in the streets!

You Can’t Stop the Signal

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Sep 122012
 

Hey folks! It’s Wednesday! Let’s get to the mash-ups!

Last week we started to look at the cult favorite TV show, Firefly, focusing on the crew of Serenity. This week, we’ll conclude that look with the rest of the cast.

Inara Sass is a Buddy. That is, she’ll be your friend for Shinies (had to clean up her profession for an all-ages site). I think I managed to give her a certain elegance here. I’m glad about that.

Shepherd Wrench is a fur who turned to the Bible for guidance after some dark times in his past. Naturally, he keeps those a secret, but every once in a while, he lets slip some useful information that a shepherd shouldn’t normally be privy to.

Oonch Tam is a doctor. Top three percent of his class even though Todrick isn’t totally convinced of his smarts. He’s totally dedicated to the protection of his sister whom the Alliance is determined to get back. I’m a little disappointed with how he turned out. I used a brush that was a little too thin to ink him. Otherwise, he’s solid. Simon wears sunglasses in just ONE scene the very first time he’s seen in Firefly, but it gave me something to cover his eyes. So yay for that!

Deema Tam is a little off-kilter. Nobody knows exactly what the Alliance did to her. She’s a brilliant girl. She sees things before they happen and it terrifies her. It’s weird drawing Deema looking unhappy, but I made up for it in the poster.

That’s it for this week folks. Next week, new theme!

 

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