Raven is very nice, yes...

As for the use of the bubba pic, that's just evil, KK. I love it!

I look forward to introducing Bubba to my players...particularly the habitual elf player...

ShadowDragon8685
You have a good point, you got me on that one I guess I was just inspired.

I'll go ahead and ink up Margho's character then and the Love Troll.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Bubba the Love Troll is hi-larious. Can't wait to see it get inked.

Bubba the Love Troll was posted and today I said something to a friend of mine who has decided to run a few games so I get a chance to play. all I can say is after my coment about my dwarf not being the biggest threat when his troll npc sees the team. His response was bah I'd go for him just so I could pull a Bubba the Love Troll action on your dwarf!

That is so wrong in so many ways thanks for putting such great ideas into my friends head ShadowDragon8685 I may just need to hunt you down and kill you now

Squinky keep up the most excellent work!

Oh man, sweet art. I'm both horrified and deeply, deeply amused by Bubba the Love Troll

I'm feeling self-indulgent tonight, so I'll add my current gal to the list.

Ally: Caucasian human female, definately on the small side - 5'1"-ish. She's 18, but looks a few years younger, both in build and in facial features. Just past shoulder-length pink hair, somewhere between curly and frizzy (hair dye starts to do that after a while). No 'ware, as she's a technomancer. She's the resident rigger/hacker/mechanic, loooves tech and gadgets (and guns, although she only owns three). Style is something along the lines of Japanese decora meets cybergoth - girly (in the '80s cartoon-pop bright colours and chunky plastic jewelry' sense, not the 'lacy frilly lolita' sense) paired with big black combat boots and old-school oversized data goggles. Insatiably cheerful (which I think horrifies one of our other players entirely, and thus makes me even more gleeful).

I made a Candybar pixel doll of her a while back, but it doesn't quite do her justice - the Candybar clothes selections are entirely too full of sparkles >.>

...Leela has quite a story behind her.

As a character, she was a total blast (sorry ) to play. Though 18 at the time of her SINLess career, she had the nature and outlook of a 12 year old combined with a genius intellect, an uncanny inventiveness, a magnificent gift for music, and a penchant for making things go *BigBadaBoom* [her words]

I was actually able to play Leela to her retirement from the shadows which culminated with a Nova Hot (in the classical sense) Debut at New Royal Festival Hall (we adapted the performance rules from Shadowbeat). By that time I had invested over 70 Karma just into her performance, music knowledge skills, & Charisma.

In the follow-up story (part of which was run as a campaign) she went on to become Europe's most celebrated keyboard artist and became an inspiration for her nation's (Croatia) fight for freedom from nearly ten years of occupation and unrest.

Yes, there can be a bit of brightness in the shadows once in a while.

Now that I'm no longer the GM for our group, thanks to a well timed TPK, I present Hitomi.

Created in anticipation of the release of Corporate Enclaves and my first (as a player anyway) street level game in Tokyo, she is a college dropout and go-ganger/aspiring OnmyÅ?dÅ?.

Ooooooh, niiiiiiiiiiiiice!

Well, as per my previous posts I was originally using DAZ Studio to do the work - but after many months of working with that tool and figuring out exactly what I could do and not do, I switched over to Poser and Carrara Pro.

I've also scoured the web for models, hints, and tricks for what has turned into my other addiction.

Here's what I'm thinking her bike looks like.

DAZ3D makes both DAZ Studio (which is free), Carrara 3D Express, and Carrara 6 Standard/Pro.

DAZ Studio is $0
Carrara 3D Express is $90
Carrara 6 Standard is $250
Carrara 6 Pro is $550

e-frontiers makes Poser, which runs $250.

If you've never worked with any 3D packages before, I'd recommend either DAZ Studio or Carrara 3D Express to get started with. Both are good programs, capable of rendering the image I just showed you with no problem.

...Is Express 3d upgradeable to Standard/Pro or a standalone? Important when shelling out the " "

Also who makes & what does Daz Studio go for

(for my X-Mas wish list of course...)

DAZ Studio is free, made by the same folks who make Carrara.

Carrara 3D Express is upgradeable to Carrara 6 Standard for $160 or to Carrara 6 Pro for $460.

Unless you want Network Rendering, and a few other high end editing options - there is no need for Carrara 6 Pro.

Free
DAZ Studio - $0

Mid Level Program
Carrara 3D Express - $90

High End Program
Poser 7 - $250
Carrara 6 Standard - $250

Professional
Carrara 6 Pro - $550

...great.

Thanks very much for the info and link. I'll download Daz when I get home tonight.

Squinky, Sorry for the slight [Derail].

...we now return you to the originally scheduled Character Drawings thread currently in progress...

I used to play with poser a bit, but the most I ever used it for was making a template for walk cycles and making pixelized versions off them for my adventure games....That and making dudes with giant junk....cause I had too...

Hey Jack are you going to be doing some character pics as well?

from what i hear, DAX 3D is not that user friendly and a great pain.. i guess as far as free 3D programs go, Blender is what you should go with.

Nightlife - possibly.

Shadowfire - If you're talking about actually creating 3D content, then yeah... Blender is the way to go. But the newer versions of DAZ are much more user friendly than they were in the past.

...@Shadowfire Thanks. Looked at the site. Will download tonight after I get home. I did notice that without the figure plug-ins, Daz by itself is pretty difficult to use for building 3d images from scratch. However A lot of the other features like the lighting and camera angles are really nice. (just been working with rudimentary shapes to get used to the various tools). The only downside I noticed is you have to be online to use the help files.


@Smilin_Jack. First, is there a downloadable Help file like The Gimp and Inkscape? I am strictly Wi-Fi when not at work (Comcast's rates are information highway robbery) so my time on line is limited to how much caffeine I can handle (e.g. hot spot cafes).

Second, can you import images from other sources like scans or Blender into Daz?

Maybe we should just start an "art tools" discussion thread so that we don't keep derailing Squinky's.

I call dibs on being Jack's first 3D character potrait.

...out of courtesy to Squinky., there should have a new thread started for art requests from a different artist.

...I agree though, it would be interesting to see how some characters look in 3d

Squinky- Bad ass picture of Phoenix! This will definitely go into her character dossier.

Sorry for the long delay in the reply... I was off gettin hitched.

...I pretty much lost one of my best long time players/GMs this way.

Bummer dude. Sounds worse than my problem then. I think I've finally got my issue figured, but I am have spent way too much time under my house

Here is:

Marghos' Raven

Nice pose and she looks good, its truly beautiful picture of Raven, thanks again Squinky.

...yes, most excellent.

Beautiful and deadly, a perfect combination.

Was actually on briefly last night to take a look but didn't log in since I had a really lousy connection that kept timing out on me.

BTW just downloaded some more graphics tools this weekend.

Very nice image, Squinkerz. Feels very...

I dunno, I kind of get a Half-Life 2/City 17 feel from it. Nice job.

Thanks Guys!

As always Squinky, amazing work. I bow down before your greatness.

<edit>
In the spirit of a game that has needed a remake much sooner than now (20 years later) I made a character with a cybernetic left arm that had a grappling hand. Since you do awesome work on cyber (no really, it looks amazing) I was wondering if you were willing to try your hand at it?

The basics would just be a tall human with an obvious cyberarm that has a grapple hand. I'd love to see what you can do to it with your imagination.

On that same vein really fast, the new Bionic Commando looks awesome... I can't believe it took them 20 years to make a new one =/

I will add it to the list then ...eventually.


Here is:

Bubba the love Troll inked

Wah-hah-hah-ha-haaaaaaaah!

That is perfect. Hi-larious, even. I wuv it, I wuv it! Wahahahaah!

[/goingtothespecialhell]


So, what's next?

...that is so wonderfully wrong...

...for all the right reasons

[added to my DA faves]

Great work as always Squinky Oh and just saw some new art for Missions great stuff as well.

Like I said before alot of your art work really makes the Missions pop for the players.

Its awesome to hear about that Caz, thanks for letting me know. And always thanks for the feedback guys.

Also, Here is:

Bastards Phoenix Inked

Oooooooooooh, I like it, I like it! Mmmmm. Very nice. ^_^

Nice sword, but why is it black?

...agreed, very nice indeed. I think the black blade makes for an interesting touch. After all, a phoenix is reborn from the ashes of its own death.

BTW, seeing the comments on (and havening viewed) your Missions work, it set me to thinking...

...I do not ever remember seeing an illustration (that I know of) of my favourite SR fluff personality, Neil The Orc Barbarian.

...possibly one for the back burner?

Excellent job on Phoenix!

Added to my DA favorites!

Glad you liked it

Here is:

Chase Sketch

I've put on some decent non shadowrun work lately on there if anyone wants something to look at

So you're branching out, eh?

Okay. I've got a challenge for you, if you choose to accept it.

Take any (or all, at your preference) of the following Half-Life 2 characters, and re-envision them as Shadowrun characters, taking care to make them recognizable and keep their iconic schtick.

Dr. Gordon Freeman
(Either crowbar or Gravity Gun would be acceptable)

Dr. Eli Vance
(His left lower-leg is a curving prosthetic)

Alyx Vance
(Her hairband and Alyxgun/a shotgun would be iconic. As would her denim vest.)

Dog
(Dog is Dog.)

Barney Calhoun
(Iconic because he wears the uniform armor of the enemy metropolitan police force)

As opposed to the games where players can get away with being a riggerdecker-shamurai?

..yeah something like that. In my old college gaming group we had a nickname for such characters:

the "Pool Cleaner" (try to get the maximum number of dice pools a single character could have).