| lonely knight in Gotham
 cmeza  2004/6/30 21:56
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Salutations Heromorphers. This is my first submission (be gentle).
To be honest, if someone had said to me that Daisy Fuentes in a bat costume with a cape stolen from Alicia Silverstone on a background of Paris (minus the eiffel tower) would make a good idea for a manip, I wouldn't have believed them either. |
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| Wonderbutt-2!
JunFan 2004/7/2 17:31
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| Just a quickie to celebrate those wonderous stars and garters!!!! Happy 4th everyone!! -Leif. |
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| Superman 2
Jedifan227 2004/7/5 21:44
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| I found this base pic and thought about doing another Superman. The base was poor but I tweaked it the best I could. I think it turned out well. As always, comments appreciated. Enjoy! |
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| TRIBUTE
Billy 2004/7/6 16:58
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| well, i know he came back...but i thought this was a cool idea and it turned out pretty much like i pictured it to...let me know what you guys think...thanx and enjoy! |
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| DARK KNIGHT
Billy 2004/7/8 17:38
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| Well, i been trying to creat a manip of bats...but he has got to be the hardest one to make so far...he rarely smiles....and models rarely scowl....oh well, that aside let me know what ya'll think, and enjoy! |
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| Shikari
B 2004/7/8 21:31
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| Okay, here's a few more pics. Uma Thurman, heavily modified, as Shikari of the Legion of Superheroes. This is... okay. I wasn't originally going to post it here, but the 90k version on C2F is... well, it's crap. I wanted to post the full version somewhere. Shiny stuff done with a curve, everything else is standard costuming and/or recolouring. The background's Bryce, but I don't really like it now. Too generic. And I suddenly noticed that she's not casting a shadow. Oops. :p |
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| Batgirl
B 2004/7/8 21:43
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The Cassandra Cain Batgirl, Frankensteined together from a couple photos, background in Bryce.
Another piece I wasn't initially sure about posting. But what the hell... This was one of my earliest attempts at a cape, and it shows. The fall of it is all wrong, and it doesn't cast a shadow. Shame, cause I think the costuming is otherwise pretty good. I really ought to do another version of Cassie, to do her justice. Eventually. :p |
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| Gallery of the Endless: Dream
B 2004/7/8 22:16
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This is Dream of the Endless, of course. The face was once Johnny Depp, but I doubt you can tell any more. (But would anyone look like Dream does?) The skin and eyes were recoloured. The whole face was stretched out a lot, and deep shadows added in strategic spots to create the appropriately gaunt look. The hair was done from scratch, as were the chest and cloak. The ruby was made using the same texture I used for the diamond effect for my Emma Frost piece, and then smudged, burnt and dodged a lot.
The text is taken from the prologue to Season of Mists, in The Sandman #21. I think it's the best description of Dream that Neil Gaiman ever wrote. And the same section also has fascinating descriptions of most of the other Endless... So there will be more of these. Eventually. |
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| Updated Birds cover
Gnetsurpher 2004/7/11 0:10
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| This is the updated version of the origianl birds 59 cover i posted a few days ago. A zipper and latch has been added to Black Canary, as well as some shadowing to get rid of her Uni-Boob. She is now anatomically correct, so to speak! |
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| Anniversary
B 2004/7/11 0:11
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Might as well post all of my Batman related pics...
This is Bats visiting his parents' grave on the anniversary of their murders. It was the response to a challenge to do a piece with dark lighting. It is, indeed, really, really dark. Apologies if you have to play around with your monitor settings to see it properly!
This was ninety-something percent Bryce. The main things added later were Bats' cowl and the edges of his cape, as well as the rain effect. I did this only a couple months ago, but with the benefit of hindsight and C2F reviews, I probably should have done more post-production.
Overall... There's a number of problems with it (I'll let you guys look for them this time, LOL), but I still quite like it.
More later. |
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| CZJ as Wonder Woman
Squedge 2004/7/11 0:12
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Another of my older manips. Couldn't go into too much detail on the process.. It's been too long.
Head is CZJ. Body is some unknown model. Clothes are painted on (except the boots which were just recolored and touched up --badly.)
The toughest work on the piece was with the background, cause this chick was posing in this old putt-putt course or something, and the "cave" walls had holes in the plaster where the chicken wire and stuff showed through... |
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| Starro the Conqueror
SilverAgeMage 2004/7/11 0:12
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The Justice League of Americas' first recorded
cosmic baddie is sending a mind-controlling starfish
your way! |
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| Z71-Catwoman
Z71 2004/7/11 0:23
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This is now my 3rd try. I think I'm getting better.
My Catwoman is a very personnal view of this heroine. |
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| Wonder Woman
DPerceful 2004/7/11 0:46
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Started out with seeing the model (Nikki Ziering)...i liked her look and smile (although i didn't use a smile pic). The original pic was fairly clean....so minor touch up there. The hard part was she had clothing all around her neck and upper chest area. I had to clone and heal it out and recreate things like the collar bones, neck muscles, and various skin textures (anything below the chin and above the breastplate was recreated for the most part). I also made the skin a little more milky and warmed it using the dodge tool. The underlaying costume was originally a grey paint job. Shaded and lighted and used the color balance to get my colors. a little noise to create the textures...used a 1 pixel dodge and burn brush to create the seamwork. The breastplate and waistplate were created using a grey layer. I then highlighted and shaded them and used the color balance to create the gold color. I decided to go with a layered breastplate as opposed to creating on giant piece and curving it. The bracelets were created using the same techniques. I added some little sparkles to the metal with a doged outer glow. I added the larger face in the background and highly contrasted the image for a different look, it jsut needed something. Once finished I ran the entire image through levels, colors, and variations to get the finished product. Thanks to C2F artist Zac for his help....dan
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| Wonder Woman
matrixblur 2004/7/11 0:46
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| An edgier, sexier WW for the times. Always said I would never do a Wonder Woman manip; there are too many out there already, but I came across this costume and thought it should be represented. I frankensteined this one quite a bit, because I already had the exact pose I wanted in mind. What took the longest time to do, was to find the perfect face and hair. Took me a couple days to find the right celeb face. Can you tell who it is? |
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| Mary Marvel By Winterhawk
Winterhawk 2004/7/11 0:56
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Another one done for a request. I don't remember who asked me to do this one but Here it is.
Just like the last time, I did Mary Marvel ( http://heromorph.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=657 ) I used Adrianna Lima (Mmmm, Yummy) as the base model. I did most of it last night and finished the cape off this afternoon. Nothing Special, Just another quick one. |
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| John Stewart
DPerceful 2004/7/11 18:42
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Basically found a Poser model of John Stewart and whipped it up in Poser 5. Posed him and rendered. That's it for Poser.
Photoshop: Created the entire background in Photoshop (it's an old space background I did a while back, found it useful here). Slapped John in the pic and touched him up in photoshop. I smoothed out the suit, evened up some muscle lines and took some liberty with adding some division lines and some minor seams to the suit. The power signatures are my standard outer glows set to linear dodge. Added the text with a black backdrop so it would deaden the brightness of the stars and not take away from John. Thanks to B for the input. |
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| Huntress by Heroglyph
Heroglyph 2004/7/11 18:43
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| This is the Silver Age, Earth-2 version of the Huntress, the daughter of Batman and Catwoman. |
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| Supergirl
Tazman 2004/7/11 20:55
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| this is also a reworked manip |
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| Robin the Girlwonder
Tazman 2004/7/11 21:26
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| I had to rework the cape.(because someone pointed it out to me.) And I cleaned up a few spots here and there. |
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| Supergirl5 by batmic
BatMic 2004/7/12 14:05
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finally finished this. i had to shrink it down quite a bit to make a more managable size.
this is my most frankenstiend piece ever!
in total, this is a mix of seven pics and i am really pleased with how it came out.
phew! on to the next one |
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| Junfan workout#2
JunFan 2004/7/13 14:12
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O.K. This is me being REALLY lazy! I'm currently working on a large project, so I'm just re-hashing old stuff to stay active. Sue me.  Enjoy! -Leif. |
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| Justice League of Amazons
JunFan 2004/7/13 14:32
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| I'm on a roll!!! Here's another older one. Sort-of a gender-swap thing going on. Sorry it's kinda big, couldn't bring myself to compress it further. -Leif. |
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| Kelly Brook as WonderWoman
JunFan 2004/7/13 15:27
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| I LIED!!!! (insert insane laughter here) The madness consumes me! One last cheesecake post tonight. Peace! -Leif. |
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| Superman - Believe!
LocalHero 2004/7/14 9:53
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Just keeping my hand in with manipping really. Here we have Marcus Schenkenberg (whom I've used before - see my 'Blink' piece) as a younger Man of Steel. Had to do a fair bit of cleaning up on the original image as there was a lot of text to remove. The costume was made by first creating a composite texture made up from three separate elements - leather, faux suede, and chainmail (much reduced in size) - to try and give it some texture (similar to spidey's movie costume which I love the texture on the blue sections) Then I created a layer to apply the texture. Using the lasso tool to create appropriate areas, the texture is applied at various angles to match the body shape at that area. I then mask of the extra leaving the areas that would be the suit. Using the same mask I duplicate the original model layer, tweaking the muscles and smoothing/smudging where necessary. this layer is then duplicated again with the original layer's mode was set to multiply and the second layer's mode set overlay. The logo was created from scratch in vectors a while back for another project, simply here reduced and distorted to fit the chest then used to create selections to apply the soft embossed feel.
I tried to give the cape a believable flowing feel, not sure if I did, but I like how it turned out. It started with a solid block of color on a layer behind supes. Using the lasso tool I created gradually darker blocks of the red (using HSL adjustment) to give the feel of folds in the cape. The same method used to create supes shadow on the cape. Then used free hand soften tool to blend all the shades together. Over the whole lot applied a gradient fill to darken the cape further where it curves over the shoulder to light at the bottom. The actual shoulder pieces are on a layer to the front of supes, again beginning with a couple of solid blocks of color. Used gradients, the lasso and HSL to create the tighter folds and wrinkles (where it's stitched/joined to the costume). Over the whole lot I introduced some granularity. This had the effect of giving the cape some texture post smoothing.
blended in the flag in the background to further enhance the 'belief in something larger than yourself' feel.
Edit: Added more creation notes on costume and cape. |
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| Superman to the rescue
BatMic 2004/7/14 10:26
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thought you all might be interested in this. superman was lifted from a comic so that's why he looks abit cartoony but the main thing i'm quite proud of is the explosions, just a little tweaking like the adding of a lens flare at the point of origin and the reflection on the plane.
it was quite a fun piece to do actually, makes a nice change from T&A pics. |
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| Gallery of the Endless: Delirium
B 2004/7/14 20:21
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I said I was gonna do more of these, didn't I? Here's Gallery of the Endless #2: Delirium. Unlike the folks at C2F, you guys get actual legible text, ain't that great?
Del's my second favourite member of the Endless, and my first choice for the sequel to Dream. The model's Chloe Sevigny. I recoloured her skin, and did all the hair, clothing and jewelry from scratch. So were the butterflies, though those were partly based on photo reference, except for one. I'm inordinately fond of the safety pin she's wearing on her necklace, for some reason. The background is just random splotches of colour. I had something else in mind, but the text ended up obscuring it too much. I actually created it by making a copy of the pic, blurring the hell out of it (gaussian), adding a lot of noise, blurring some more (radial) and then using a fairly random curve. Try it, you can get some fascinating Jackson Pollock stuff that way.
The text is from the same source as last time, the prologue to Season of Mists in The Sandman #21. |
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| Harley Revisited
Billy 2004/7/17 18:08
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| well, here's ms. Quinn once more...the last time i did her was on ms paint...well here she is again, only this time on photoshop 6. please let me know what you guys think of her...and please enjoy! |
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| Powergirl
JunFan 2004/7/17 19:40
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| She can rough me up anytime.... |
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| "Riddle me this!" Paris Hilton as The Riddler
BikerBot 2004/7/18 19:13
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Paris Hilton as The Riddler. As you can see, she's stolen a certain Gotham bus, and giving last minute instructions to her henchmen...
_A lot_ more effort went into this one. The bowler, the cane, the effin' front window - took most of the weekend. I'm tempted to post the base just so you can see the work involved. maybe some day I'll add the henchmen outfits. I also thought a Bat Signal viewed through the windshield might be cool...
Sorry for the repost, but the title was wrong... |
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