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).

 

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!

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