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Supers inking

on November 25, 2010

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Some avian race for a Marvel Super Hero RPG game. If they look like late 90's supers...it's because they are.

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Ultron redesign

Just to show that the creative process is less orderly and linear than explained this week.

This week we'll plunge into Concept Art . Basically, when a movie, a cartoon, a video game or a comic is made, someone needs to think the shape and function of things in this virtual environment. Starting from the characters morphology, costumes and objects, to the architecture of the surrounding buildings or the shape of the scenery and even the creatures that live in it. The more detail and thought is put into it the more convincing that created world will be. In fact, the more the world is fantastic or far from our own reality, the more effort it takes to make it feel real or at least plausible. So for the next 7 days I'll show you some of this creation process through the redesign of some already existing superheroes. And here is The Wolverine . Tackling Wolverine because i really hate the place where Marvel comics places this guy: #1 X-men. Logan was not meant to be this leader, spokesperson or even the mutant icon he turned out to be. I personally preferred when Wolvi

Theme defined lines

The idea of the phasing costume didn't come out of nowhere, when i first pondered about keeping or ditching the cape, i could only remember the jokes about caped heroes being killed by entanglement... Fortunately this guy's powers enable him to phase through stuff, completely removing the unpractical side of wearing obtrusive clothing. With the idea of a phasing costume in mind, i envisioned something layered, something that allows for several looks without the need of changing. But what about the lines? Well i simply continued using the diamond icon but not as a shape but as a suggested shape in the diagonal pointed cut of the wardrobe. I really liked the cape flowing from the diamond on the chest, unfortunately i didn't like the restrained angles it could provide me when i followed the shape. But since my shape was now 3D, it had interior angles that i could work with. I knew that i was walking the good path once i noticed my icon along with my layered cape lines made

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