Wednesday morning and I’m taking the bus so I’m going to keep this brief. It’s mash-up time!
More Power Rangers this week! As always click on the picture to enlarge it.
Deema is here as the Yellow Ranger. The poses have been the most interesting part of these mash-ups. The costumes are pretty simple and pretty much the same from character to character.
That’s all for this week! Next week, Nektara makes a go of being a Power Ranger!
Is it deja vu? No it’s another flashback. Isn’t a flashback pretty much deja vu? Well uhhh…It’s Friday! (nice recovery…)
Deema’s back as this week dressed up as a superhero from the DC Universe, but not the one she was dressed as originally. I had little to no interest in drawing the Miss Martian costume again, so I decided to go with a new outfit this time around. As always, click on a picture to enlarge it.
Black Canary is known for her Canary Cry, so I played around in Photoshop to see what kind of effect I could add to represent that.
And finally, a comparison with the original mash-up.
That’s all for this week. Next week Barnaby will be here and he’ll be angry. Hopefully you’ll like him when he’s angry.
Heyhey! It’s Wednesday and the week is half over. Just breezes by when I’m on a three-day workweek schedule. It’s already time for a mash-up but first:
Ranma 1/2 is an anime that is aimed at an older audience. The mash-ups featured here are 100% safe for children of all ages, but parental discretion is advised before viewing the anime or reading the manga with children.
That’s the last time I have to put up that warning as this is the last week of the Ranma theme!
Ukyou is yet another of Ranma’s would-be fiancés although she at least can argue that she has a legitimate claim. Back when Ranma was a little boy he used to spar with “Ucchan” every morning. If he won (and he always did) he’d win an okonomiyaki (think a Japanese style pizza creation) breakfast. Ukyou’s father offered Ranma’s father his okonomiyaki cart as a dowry if he agreed to Ranma and Ukyou becoming betrothed to one another. Genma ran off with the cart and left Ukyou behind. Years later, Ukyou returns to find justice by defeating Ranma but ends up falling in love with him. Ranma calls her “the cute fiancé”.
Here we have Deema as Ukyou in regular and anime-style face. I said in my Shampoo post that as I was drawing this piece I thought that Sass would have been better for Ukyou. That’s because of the costume. Sass has more human proportions with longer limbs than the other characters. Shampoo’s costume didn’t really need those longer limbs to look right but it turns out Ukyou’s does. I had to cheat a little with the proportions to make things look right.
So that’s it for Ranma 1/2. Next week is a new theme! See you next Wednesday to find out what’s coming next!
<dramatic movie trailer voice-over> In a world of weekdays, when Thursday ends, Friday…BEGINS. Age of Animus presents: Flashback Friday! < / dramatic movie trailer voice-over>
I hope you all read that opening with the appropriate amount of gravitas. It helps to set the mood. Now that the mood is set, let’s flash it back, shall we?
At the conclusion of last week’s flashback post, I mentioned that this week’s post would be related to another comic-book-inspired television franchise. That would of course be Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. I’ve found the show to be mostly mediocre. I won’t go into detail here, but if anybody’s interested, I can deliver a more complete review in a future blog.
ANYWAY, those are my thoughts on the TV show. Now for the flashback. Agent Maria Hill only appears in two episodes of the show. She was first featured in The Avengers movie. Deema got her Avengers mash-up later than the others, so the available characters were slim. Her uniform has some similarities with the Black Widow costume. As usual, you can enlarge a picture by clicking on it.
Here’s the side-by-side comparison between the original and the remake. One thing I was surprised with looking back at the original is how many of the uniform details I managed to include.The biggest problem is that the head was too small and the arms are too long. Back then I think I was trying to depict a “realistic” lizard head with eyes on either side.
So that’s it for this week’s flashback. Next week will be Zoë’s turn back in the spotlight. Any guesses as to the costume? Feel free to leave your guesses in the comments and have a great weekend!
