| Zealot
 matrixblur  2004/6/3 15:42
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| wanted to try a more stylized effect for a change. took a manip I did of zealot and put her into a Bryce scene and added a .3ds dragon. Brought the compiled pic into Photoshop and played with color. Lots of color. I airbrushed the lava drool in photoshop. using levels and saturation, I got a look thats a bit more "painted" than photorealistic. could've spent more time on the finishing details, but I liked the colors, so I stopped. |
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| Vampirella
Aharmona 2004/6/3 13:14
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| Tera Patrick as the vixen, Vampirella. |
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| Mucus Tick by Winterhawk
Winterhawk 2004/5/13 9:28
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Here is a real quick one I did last night.
Needed a break from my other stuff that I am doing and I wanted to get another Tick manip out of my system. Total work time on this one was a hour and a half. Enjoy. |
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| "Which one of you jerks calls himself The Tick?!?!"
Kallisti 2004/5/10 16:03
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| here's my answer to the May challenge. Barry, also known as The Tick. A rich kid who's dad own's the Superhero Bar where Tick and Arthur hang out, his shield gives him immense strength which enabled him to battle the Tick almost to a standstill. That is, until Tick took his shield away and then punched Barry into next year. The model is shootfighter Ken Shamrock. I think he does a good job of expressing the disgust and rage that Barry feels for the Tick. |
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| Gillian Anderson Challenge By Winterhawk
Winterhawk 2004/5/9 16:39
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This is my entry for the Gillian challenge. I originally was going to do something more like what MissVee did. But by the time I got around to working on it. I just could not think of anything original to do with Roswell porn that would make it funny.
So I went a whole different direction with this one.
Again I was inspired by BA's recent experimentations to create this. I used a whole different method to get this result mind you. See comments for details.
Gillian Anderson as Fairchild. |
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| Chairface Chippendale
Daruma 2004/5/2 1:48
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| Kallisti's Tick picture inspired me to whip out this quickie of The Tick's arch-nemisis carving his name into the moon. Could be better, but for a quick two hour project, I am pleased. |
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| "Lift off!" - Carmen Electra as Jet Girl
BikerBot 2004/5/1 8:31
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Ah, Jet Girl-friend of the Femforce, partner of Rocketman (her hubby), and all around good girl.
I know she is supposed to have a full hood, but how can you hide all that beautiful hair? This was a fun one to do. Especially the signature... |
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| SHREDDER
JustinBLong2003 2004/4/16 23:25
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| This piece took some time. What I first did was scan in a picture of a man. Then darken his skin so it looks like the black under clothing of Shredder. Then I used a image from the disk Visual Reference for comic artist volume 1 of a chrome staute( I also used this on the Martian Queen). By morphing the chrome to fit my ideas. Then I scan in a comic cover of the Ninja Turtles and darken it so that shredder would stand out. Then I illustrated 2 tear. Then I did some glares. Also I did glowing eyes. Enjoy |
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| Cave Girl
Femfan1 2004/4/15 17:55
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| A Golden Age jungle girl character resurrected by AC Comics. The base model is fitness model Amy Fadhli. |
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| "Nap Time" - Brigitte Lahaie as Yankee Girl
BikerBot 2004/4/10 13:40
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After a long day fighting whoever the Fem Force fights, Yankee Girl slips out of her cape for a well deserved nap...
Brigitte Lahaie is an obscure European porn star from the 70s, and she has The Look. Well worth Manipping.
By the time I got around to doing the cape for this one, I was so enamored with her body and costume that I just couldn't cover it up. (That, and I wasn't ready to spend hours on a cape...)
Well, waddaya think? |
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| Freefall
JesterGfx 2004/3/23 20:22
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| Here's one I whipped up of Freefall of Gen-13, thoughts and comments welcome! |
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| Brooke Burke as Homicron
BikerBot 2004/3/14 11:14
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Well, here it is. My first Manip.
*Sniff!* I'm no longer a virgin...
Homicron is a member of an obscure group called the Strangers, which was published in the US by Image.
She has cool bracelets that open up, I guess. (I've never actually read the comic!)
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| montage
BatMic 2004/3/6 9:48
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| the are all pics i posted in the yahoo group ages ago. i didn't want to waste time and space by reposting individually so i created a crude montage of images. unfortunately i no longer have the original images (long story to do with computer viruses) so please forgive the poor quality. |
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| Vampy
Jedifan227 2004/2/23 3:05
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| This is one of the newest...in fact I just did it! I loved this pose and had to use it. Enjoy!! |
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| vamp by batmic
BatMic 2004/2/14 10:54
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| anthor vampirella pic, i tried to make the boots a bit, more leathery and the blood was more of an afterthought. be honest and let me know what you think. |
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| Vampirella
Aharmona 2004/2/12 10:37
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| Lisa Boyle as the fourth installment in my Vampirella series. |
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| Retro Girl by Heroglyph
Heroglyph 2004/2/9 22:26
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| From "Powers" by Brian Michael Bendis and Micheal Avon Oeming. |
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| SAVAGE DRAGON
JustinBLong2003 2004/1/23 15:06
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| This was done with a black muscle man. New background. Added sun shades, and pants. Enjoy |
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| ShadowMan By Winterhawk
Winterhawk 2004/1/21 19:35
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This is the third picture in my Hero's of Valiant series.
for those not familiar with this character:Jack Boniface was a jazz saxophone player from new orleans. Unknown to him, he was chosen by a voodoo cult to become Shadowman to fight evil. One night he was bitten by a vampiric Spider Alien. Jack does not know what saved him after her poison knocked him out - only that when he awoke, she was gone. But she infected his blood with a poison that altered his use of the Darque Power when he became Shadowman. Since that night, with each sunset, Jack is overcome by the urge to seek and destroy evil. Drug dealers, in particular, are targets of his nocturnal patrols.
The manip it self started out as a picture of that guy from 2 fast 2 furious. All i really did was add the shirt, hair, and mask. I really like how the mask turned out. |
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| Vampirella
Aharmona 2004/1/2 14:48
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| Aria Giovanni (again) as the vivavicious Vampirella. |
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| The M.O.A.P.
QuantumFX 2004/1/1 8:12
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| Behold... the Mother of All Photoshops!!! |
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| Fathom
Squedge 2003/12/15 14:28
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*updated production notes*
If I keep getting all these compliments, I'll get a big head! (Not that I mind...)
I keep getting asked the question, so here's a pretty basic answer:
How did I do the Fathom pic? Well... I'll try to explain it. I started with the concept. I wanted to do a Fathom pic that both showed her body and her powers in an interesting way, so I settled on the concept of her in water form swimming in the ocean.
I went into Poser and used the Poser 4 Nude Female model, and played until I was happy with her positioning. I relaized pretty early on that I wanted a real face. There are some things you can cheat away with poser, the face isn't really one of those... I wanted the clear lines and a definite pose, though, so scrounging through hours of source pics didn't appeal to me. For some reason, whenever I see a Fathom comic, I think of Claire Forlani, so she was my first (only, really) choice for the facial model. I scrounged up a decent pic of her and went searching for a base pic for the background. I ended up grabbing a pic that someone rendered in a 3d program of the sea bed.
Next, I set about attaching Claire's lovely face to the poser body, both of which I had desaturated. I matched the greys as closely as I could and then inverted the image to a photo negative. I applied the "plastic wrap" filter to the image with a fairly high highlight strangth, a medium level of detail, and a low level of smothness, to give the "watery" appearance. I duplicated the layer, and set one layer to a "hard light" setting with an opacity of 36%, and the other to a "luminosity" setting at the same opacity. The low opacity and layer settings allow the figure to seem transparent but solid at the same time.
Then I created a new, empty layer with the following effects: drop shadow, inner glow, inner shadow, bevel and emboss. I played with the seetings on the layer, changed the opacity to 74%, the fill to 3% and painted hair on her with a small paint brush using the color white. Unhappy with the lack of "motion" of the piece, I did another layer, similar to the hair layer, but with an outer glow, as well, and the opacity and fill set to 100%.
In this layer, I used a specail brush made of lots of individual dots. I "painted" the air bubles around her in white with it, staying roughly around the frame of her body, deleting or undoing any I didn't like.
I added a bit of grain (noise filter) to the background, to make it more photo-real, and then did the logo and signature.
Yes, there are an infinite number of little tweaks I gave the pic all the way through the process, but I can't remember them all without going through each saved version of the image (I save A LOT so that I can remember how I did a particular effect, or go back a step if necessary. Repeating your successes is much easier that way, as is avoiding repeating those elements which are particularly unsuccessful.) This is just the bare bones of how I did the pic.
Whaddya think? |
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| Vampirella
Aharmona 2003/12/2 22:11
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| Unknown as the vixen, Vampirella. |
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| Vampirella
Aharmona 2003/11/12 14:54
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| Aria Giovanni as Vampirella. |
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| Samaritan by QuantumFX
QuantumFX 2003/11/10 20:46
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| Confessor by QuantumFX
QuantumFX 2003/11/9 0:34
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| Velocity
Aharmona 2003/11/4 20:18
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| Elizabeth Jo Anne as the vivacious Velocity from CyberForce. |
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| Jack-in-the-Box by QuantumFX
QuantumFX 2003/11/3 6:11
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| Jack-in-the-Box by QuantumFX |
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| Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
LocalHero 2003/10/20 13:48
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| Oldie for a transgender theme day. Sofia Vergara as a female version of the old british comic character. |
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| The Original Black Cat
BlitzCraig 2003/10/4 19:50
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Flashback from the '40s. If anyone has some advice on how best to do masks like this, please let me know, 'cause I'm not really happy with it...
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