| The Wonderful Thing About Tigras
 Angelophile  Marvel Comics  2007/3/19 16:08
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Wow, hard to believe my last submitted photomanip was in 2005. Life just snowballs sometimes and I have a load of unfinished manips which'll probably never see the light of day. To get me back into things I decided to do a quick photomanip of Tigra (although quick is a relative term in my case) for no real reason other than I saw a pic I thought was suitable. I barely know the character beyond her Civil War appearances, so if I've missed some important detail off this piece of cheesecake, I apologize.
The model used is Sabrina Rojas. |
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| "The Next Generation" - Generation X
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2005/7/8 2:40
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I've been working on this manipsince last November/December time, so this represents over six months of work. Pretty much my magnum opus and all that.
So, here's Generation X in all their glory. They are:
Charlize Theron as The White Queen, Kenneth Branagh as Banshee, Milla Jovovich as Penance, Zhang Ziyi as Jubilee, James Marsters as Chamber, Bianca Lawson as Monet, Kirsten Dunst as Husk, J. August Richards as Synch and Dante Basco as Skin.
This was the mother of all frankensteining jobs - don't ask me how many man hours and layers went into this baby - too many to mention.
I hope the end result was worth the effort.
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| "Skin Redux"
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2005/7/3 11:37
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I already produced one version of this image here - http://heromorph.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=3956 but wasn't entirely happy with the way it turned out, so this is the amended version.
It will be going towards the final Generation X team manip, which I'm in the final stages of completing. Perfectionism means I keep going back to change things. ;) |
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| "Mallrat 2" - Jubilee
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2005/6/25 11:24
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I'd actually done a version of Jubilee for my Generation X group manip a few months ago, but when I was compiling the final image I had a sudden attack of perfectionism and decided that the original left something to be desired. At first I was only gonna tweek but I've ended up doing the shot entirely from scratch.
The final image was about 60 or so layers, the coat being the most complicated - it's surprisingly hard to get decent images of a yellow coat so plenty of "Frankesteining" was required to put it together. Adjust Hues is your friend.
Zhany Ziyi (Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) became Jubilee's "actress."
Quite pleased with the end result, got really fiddly, even down to Jubilee's London Underground earings.
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| "Atrophy" - Generation X's Penance
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2005/6/18 12:59
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The final figure for my Generation X manip, Penance has actually come together pretty quickly - it took about three or four hours to complete this image. The costume was maniped from various straitjacket pics, with an unnamed model providing the basic catsuit.
Penance's "actress" is Mila Jovovich. The hair started ut as dreadlocks and I created the spins using Photoshop's liquidize tool.
I'm pretty pleased with the end result - I think the hair's an improvement over the previous Penance figure I did. |
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| "Ice Queen" - Charlize Theron as Emma Frost
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2005/5/28 7:21
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Another figure completed for my ongoing Generation X manip - Almost there now. Just have Penance to go...
I'm pretty pleased with how this one turned out - the manip was fairly straightforwards - a blend of an unnamed model and Emma's costume constructed in part from a statue version of the character. I cheated a little there, but tidied up a fair bit of the detail and, of course, frankensteined the head of the beautiful Miss Theron into place. I can't think of a more suitable actress for the White Queen.
The costume is based on Frank Quitely's version from New X-men.
This is the second version of Emma I was working on for the Gen X manip - perhaps in time I'll finish the other version and post that too. |
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| "Irish" - Kenneth Branagh as Banshee
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2005/3/24 0:07
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As part of my ongoing Generation X group shot, another figure bites the dust - Banshee! Shown here in his Generation X costume. (Okay, I always liked the rather goofy Celtics jacket worn over the uniform.
A fairly straightforward manip, with Kenneth Branagh cast as Banshee.
Still to come - Emma Frost and Skin, then I'm all done. (Guess I made work for myself by adding Banshee and Emma to the mix, but what the hey.) |
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| "The First to Fall" - Generation X
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2005/3/22 0:33
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Another of the figures I'm working on for a complete Generation X team shot, I felt this one again stood up by it's own merits.
Everett's actor is J. August Richards from the Angel TV show, while the costume combines a few dozen layers of Daredevil, various leather motorcycling gear and protective armor.
The 'rainbow' effect was created using the Gradient Glow and HSB Noise filters in Photoshop Eye Candy. |
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| "Synergy"
Angelophile Original Characters 2005/3/18 0:05
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Well, I haven't done anything for a while and this is a present for a good friend and talented artist, Cybercat. She's posted some art here in the past.
The subject is the character she plays on Denied Destinies Mux and previously X-men End Times mux, Zandra aka 'Synergy', a mutant EM manipulator.The actress she thinks fits her best is Angelina Jolie, so here she is in all her glory.
A fairly quick manip, took about 3 hours, but I kinda like it.
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| Ravage Transformers Movie Concept
Angelophile TV and Movies 2005/1/27 13:11
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Coming from some discussion on the producer's boards for the upcoming live action Transformers movie about what Ravage could transform into now that size-shifting has been ruled out, the idea was hit upon to maybe have the former cassetticons become various types of motorcyles. The idea for Ravage was that he could become an ATV quad bike. So, just to prove it could be done, I did it...
He's my take on the concept. |
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| "Hayseed" - Generation X's Husk
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2005/1/6 0:14
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Another of the manips I was working on for my Generation X team shot, again I figured this one stood up as an individual image - or did after some tweaking. No major special effects, just a recreation of Paige's current X-men costume - I think it looks pretty good after a few initial problems.
Paige's actress is Kirsten Dunst, as with the earlier manip I did of her. |
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| "Hollow Man" - Generation X
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2005/1/6 0:13
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I was working on Jono as part of my ongoing Generation X photomanip (it's coming, slowly but surely), when I realised that this pic of Jono kinda worked by itself as a standalone image. So like the other manip I did of Monet, I stripped this out and set it up as its own image. Pretty pleased with the end result. His bio-nuclear psionic biokinetic field was almost as much of a bitch to manip as it is to spell.
I used James Marsters as a Jono's 'actor'. |
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| "Little Miss Perfect - Redux"
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/12/25 15:32
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| Thanks to everyone who made comments on the previous version of this pic. Some good points raised, stuff I wasn't sure on myself, so I've reworked it some. Added detail to the trim of the costume, resized the head, lowered the shoulders and played some with the neck. Hopefully this will meet approval better than the first! :) |
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| "Excalibur - The Sword Reforged"
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/12/9 4:59
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I started off just intending to do a manip of Callisto, but as usual decided to give myself a little more of a challenge. Callisto herself was pretty challenging, lots of tentacles for her new look. Her 'actress' is Carrie Anne Moss, Wicked is Jennifer Love Hewitt, while Magneto and Xavier are based on the movie versions played by Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.
The completed image was around 90 layers in photoshop. Maybe next time I should keep things simpler. ;) . |
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| "Fame" - U-Go Girl, Orphan and Doop (Nov Challenge)
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/11/8 3:15
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Okay, this is one of the manips I've been working on some time, but the November challenge theme prodded me to finish it off and submit it. Here we have the world's favourite mutants, U-Go Girl (depicted by Jennifer Jason Leigh) and The Orphan (Jude Law) along with Doop (a King Edwards potato) on the cover of Hello! celebrity magazine. Time just seemed too highbrow for them.
Even managed to sneak in Phat, (depicted by Eminem, who else?)
All work was done in Photoshop CS, the costumes Frankensteined as usual from dozens of different sources. Another manip that weighed in at around 120 layers.
I appreciate any comments. |
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| "T'ief in De Night" - X-treme X-men Gambit
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/8/23 14:10
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As usual, been working on this a while with varying degrees of success. I almost scrapped the entire piece, but decided to persevere and I think things fell into place. Here Mutant X's Victor Webster has been cast as Gambit.
This was about 80 layers in all, the coat was a sunnuvabitch to manip/frankenstein together.
As always, comments welcome! |
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| "Just Call Me Misty" - Generation Next
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/7/31 2:57
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Okay, obscure character time, but I couldn't resist when I saw the base pic as an advert for Game Boy Advanced. Vincente has always been a favorite of mine that was criminally underused. He was in the 4 issues of the Age of Apocalypse based Generation Next, then vanished from the radar. This version has the young Jeremy Irons cast in the role. Dunno why but he seemed to suit.
A real quicky this one, taking an hour or so rather than a month or so that it seems to have taken me recently. ;) |
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| "Alone" - Milla Jovovich as Penance
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/6/26 4:11
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It's been a while but at last I managed to finish a new manip. This time of Penance from the Generation X Series.
I won't deny this one's been a challenge - I started out with a pic of a nude Angie Everhart and built up the costume from various other pics. I think there's about 50 or so layers in the costume alone. Her spines are a blend of sea urchin's, porcupines and any other spikey images I could find.
The model is Milla Jovovich, about the only one with that otherworldly quality that Penance needs.
Comments appreciated! |
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| "I'm a Cop!" - Keith Hamilton Cobb as Bishop
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/3/16 2:02
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| Another old manip, but I figured I hadn't posted in so long I better remind you guys I'm still alive. ;) Suggested by a friend, this is Keith Hamilton Cobb (aka Tyr from Andromeda) as the X-men's Lucas Bishop. Not a bad bit of casting. |
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| "Black & White" Marvel Team-Up (Sage & Emma Frost)
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/2/14 12:57
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Didn't come through in time for February's contest, but I decided to go ahead and finish the manip as a personal challenge. My take on the Marvel Team-Up cover using Emma Frost and Sage from the X-men comics.
More frankensteining used on their costumes, which I'm pretty pleased with as (for once) I've stuck true to canon. Lot of work went into Sage's costume. By comparison Emma's was easy. (Probably since there's so little of it ;) Comments appreciated as always.. |
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| "Twilight" - Thandie Newton as Nocturne
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/2/13 4:07
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Nocturne, the alternate reality daughter of Nightcrawler and the Scarlet Witch from the Exiles comic was a character I felt would be challenging as a photomanip. And, to be honest, it was inspired by a photo of Jolene Balock in subdued lighting from Maxim. The pic seemed to suit so well I was inspired to produce this photomanip.
The angles have all been changed to allow Nocturne to be clinging to the rockface rather than sprawled on the floor. Colourations were changed in Photoshop as per usual. All in all she's ended up looking rather like her Granny Mystique which is no bad thing. |
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| "Hardwired Goddess"
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/2/9 5:21
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A portrait I have produced inspired by a character from X-men End Times mux (Telnet xet.vulpine.org 2104) played by a friend of mine. This is Kelly Hiraga, otherwise known as Hardwire, technopath, daughter of the mythos Old One Nyarlathotep and currently, for the second time dead.
The image uses Zhang Ziyi (from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) as a model for the face, model Kona Carmack for the body, while the metalic effects are both inspired by and blended with elements of Giger's work. |
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| "Memorium" - Maggie Q as Psylocke
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/2/5 6:47
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Originally I planned to produce an image of the early Psylocke from the X-men comics, but gradually that changed to producing two manips of Betsy then and her more recent incarnation (in the body of an Asian ninja). In the end though, the latter took over completely. (It was a lot easier to find pictures of women in leather than pink chifon. Go figure.)
A large number of pictures were used in the creation of this manip - The legs are Sarah Michelle Gellar's, the torso created from a number of leather tops. All in all it's a bit of a mix mash, the only 'complete ' element is the face of Hong Kong star Maggie Q as Psylocke's actress.
(Edit - Tidied up the hair and arms where they looked a bit blurred, as well as trying to standardise her flesh and leather tones.) |
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| "Bad to the Bone" - Fairuza Balk as Marrow
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/27 3:27
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Another old pic but one I'm most pleased with. This photomanip takes one of the most underrated X-men characters and uses Fairuza Balk (The Craft, American History X) as her 'fantasy casting'.
The body model is Angelina Jolie, taken from a Tomb Raider publicity still. Bones came from various sources. |
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| "Class Reunion" - The New Mutants
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/24 14:29
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Finally finished this piece which has taken me just over a month in all to complete. Would have been done sooner but kept adding more characters.
In the end from left to right, with their actors and actresses, the characters are Sunspot Aka Roberto DeCosta (Wilmer Valderrama), Mirage Aka Danielle Moonstar (Karina Lombard), Meltdown Aka Tabitha Smith (Christina Applegate), Magma Aka Amara Aquilla (Unknown), Wolfsbane Aka Rahne Sinclair (Kiera Knightley), Karma Aka Xi'an Coy Manh (Jaymee Ong) and Cannonball Aka Samuel Guthrie (Christopher Masterson).
All work was done in Photoshop 7 using a mix of visual effects created with Photoshop's own filters in conjunction with Eye Candy 4000 and Alien Skin Xenofex.
Hope everyone agrees the end result was worth all the work. |
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| "Free" - Heath Ledger as Angel
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/21 1:49
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Continuing my posting of my older manips.
A photomanip that sprung to mind for no particular reason other than it will get a few friends of mine swooning. :)
The actor Heath Ledger (of A Knight's Tale fame) seemed to have the right features and 'look' for Warren as I imagined him. His face was a basis for the manip. The body came from a random tailoring site, while the feet came from another image. The background was also found randomly on the web. The wings are an amalgamation of those worn by Alan Rickman in Dogma and some worn by Jennifer Lopez for a FHM photoshoot.
The image was compiled in Photoshop 7 and finished off using the Little Fluffy Clouds filter.
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| "Ecstacy" - Angelina Jolie as Stacy X
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/14 5:02
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Continuing my posting of my older manips while I play catch up with my New Mutants pic.
Stacy isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I was just beginning to really like the character when she was binned from Uncanny X-men. So this is my tribute to a character with a lot of potential. Got to love the self proclaimed 'first X-man to make a living on her back'.
The snake skin effects were produced with photos of various snakes from the web,combined with other reptile pics, and then imported with use of the opacity and hue and saturation control panels in Photoshop 7.
The background image came from a performance troupe called the Fluffgirl Society. Don't ask me what they perform, I didn't dare guess from the pic.
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| New Mutants Taster
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/12 15:27
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Just a preview of the manip I'm currently working on - this is the part for Dani Moonstar that I finished tonight.
Hopefully it leaves people wanting to see more. ;)
Comments always appreciated so I can get it right on the final version! |
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| "Intangible" - Lacey Chabert as Shadowcat
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/12 3:18
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Since I've been a bit tied up working on a new manip, I have a couple of old pieces still to post. This is one of them. Obviously inspired by the comic look for Shadowcat, Lacy Chabert sprung to mind after her appearance in Lost in Space and she seems to have the right look for the young Kitty Pryde.
Images came from various sources - the clothing is a blend of actual clothes and in some places simply the manipulation of skin with the Smart Blur tool to give a leather effect. The basic pose is Kelly Brook, and for once I didn't do an awful lot beyond adding clothing, combining various elements from fashion websites. |
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| "Mall Rat" - Victoria Jolly as Jubilee
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2003/12/16 11:28
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I'd been toying with the idea of a Jubilee manip for a while, but didn't get around to doing anything about it until fairly recently - for Jubilee's actress I've used model/actress Victoria Jolly who seems to have the features and youngish looks that Jubilee has always had.
I've had fun with this image, lifting elements from around 30 other model pics to create the image - for example, the coat is actually made up from 3 different jackets, the top Jubilee is wearing is from Christina Aguilera, the legs are Donna Air's, the hair came from a style catalogue, the hands belong to Krista Allen and Pamela Anderson - there's the usual Frankenstein's mix of body parts there. |
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