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  1. Project XIII: images from my campaign

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    Here's a manip I made for a fellow player. His character is still in development' date=' and I made this to try to help and inspire. It's unsolicited, though, so I'm not sure if he'll want to use it.[/quote']

     

    I like trying to figure out the sources of your images. This one is Diablo and Brother Voodoo?

     

    - Bill

  3. Build me Looney Tunes!

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    Most important' date=' the Roadrunner has no attack power, except for perhapse a presence attack, when he comes up behind the coyote, goes "Beep! Beep!" and startles the coyote into harming himself.[/quote']

    Actually, I think that's Flight, Usable As Attack, Only for levitation *up*. Always a convenient overhanging cliff around when it happens, too.

     

    Or, maybe, Superleap, UAA.

     

    - Bill

  5. Why does Image Comics s[tin]k?

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    Image Comics /then/ gave you [bleep] like CYBERFORCE. Image /now/ gives you stellar product like INVINCIBLE. :)

    Well, this is good to know. I was confused by the Image-bashing, which Invincible is one of my favorite books (and many other's as well, given that they've sold out of the Invincible hardcover and are having to print more!)

     

    I'm not familar with Image /then/ since I've only been back to reading comics in the last couple of years.

     

    - Bill

  6. Character Art

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    That's the plan' date=' unless some fan beats me to it based on the art previews we've put up.[/quote']

    I've got one, but it's about 10 Megs compressed. I'll be happy to send it to you, Dave, or to anyone if you give me the 'OK'.

     

    - Bill

  7. Character Art

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    BlackWyrm Games has posted a full gallery of the color pulp and golden age character artwork from The Fires Of War' date=' over at blackwyrm.com.

     

    I have but two things to say:

     

    (1) I'm really looking forward to this book. I was very impressed with the Algernon Files, and think y'all do a great job on the genre. What's the expected release date?

     

    (2) Oooohhhh... Dinosaurs!

     

    :)

     

    - Bill

     

    P.S. I thought I was going nuts! You posted this same message to the Pulp Hero board, and I replied to it there, not realizing where I was. Then I saw the discussion on the Champions board, but my post was missing and no subscribed message notices. Whew! Glad I finally figured it out.

  8. Character Art

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    BlackWyrm Games has posted a full gallery of the color pulp and golden age character artwork from The Fires Of War' date=' over at blackwyrm.com.

     

    I have but two things to say:

     

    (1) I'm really looking forward to this book. I was very impressed with the Algernon Files, and think y'all do a great job on the genre. What's the expected release date?

     

    (2) Oooohhhh... Dinosaurs!

     

    :)

     

    - Bill

  10. Game Maps and Counters Exchange

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    Neat pictures

     

    This site has a TON of classic Marvel portraits in perfect pose for making little stand-ups. I'm not skilled enough to attempt this myself, but figured I'd post it here and maybe someone else could run with it.

    Nice! I have a little Python program I wrote to take images like this and turn them into cardboard heroes. I'll try it on some of these.

     

    Thanks!

  11. I need a certain type of catastrophe

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    There was a story/book awhile back (I want to say it was connected to The Andromeda Strain) that told about a petroleum product-eating organizm that came to Earth either by space exploration or maybe a meteor. Or maybe it was about a virus that ate oil slicks in the ocean that went nuts. Awwww' date=' I can't remember.[/quote']

    Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason's Ill Wind. Scientists release an organism that is supposed to help break down and oil tanker spill in San Francisco bay. It migrates into all petroleum products, and the world goes to crap :)

     

    - Bill

  13. Iyo: The Most Underrated Or Underused Character In Comics

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    You must be speaking of some other Brother Blood' date=' one who isn't the creepy character that Johns is writing. He's certainly not a whiner by any means, though admittedly rather mother obsessed.[/quote']

    Not me, man. I was just answering the question of who the "he" being referred to was. I've been very much enjoying the current Teen Titans run, but I think part of that is the fact that I didn't read the title before about a year ago, so I have no idea if any continuity/back story is getting messed up.

     

    This thread has been interesting to me, but I don't have much to contribute to it, due to the fact that I took a 15 year hiatus from reading comics. Back in the 80s, I read Marvel comics pretty much exclusively. When I started back about a year or so ago, I was annoyed by the multitude of X-titles, and started reading DC (plus Astro City). So I can't comment on the current state of old Marvel characters, and I don't know who's missing in the new DC. And, frankly, I'm just fine with that :)

     

    - Bill

  15. Storn's Art & Characters thread.

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    I find that Storn's' date=' Zircher and Mark Williams really defined the Champions line. Truly wish they were more involved then the new line of artists (would maybe get me to buy some of the newer books again.)[/quote']

    I'm not sure about Zircher (Phil?), but Mark Williams passed away in 1998. I found a web page with details written by a friend of his a while back, but can't find it now. He also worked on some movies (notable, Aliens), so he has an IMDB entry here .

     

    Edit: Found the bio webpage .

     

    - Bill

  16. Interesting Megastructures

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    And perhaps read Indistinguishable from Magic by Robert L Forward.

    Another good read is "Bigger Than Worlds" by Larry Niven, in one of his short story collections (A Hole in Space, maybe?) It covers large, world replacing structures from asteroid bubble worlds to galaxy-sized Dyson spheres with the living area on the *outside*. I'm especially fond of the cosmic macaroni.

     

    Also, this is an interesting article on his web page that compiles books using world-size structures. (EDIT: Oops, it's also just a link to a copy of the article Nyrath referenced above).

  17. Animated Series Style Character Images

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    Aware of that. I assumed that the "Roy G. Biv" remark was a reference to the Rainbow Raider' date=' a Silver-Age Flash villain.[/quote']

    Actualy, it wasn't, since I have no idea who Rainbow Raider was. It was closer to a reference to a Beakman's World character. Bada-bing, bada-boom. But it was mainly just a reference to his color scheme :)

     

    - Bill

  20. A black hole in orbit: what would it be like?

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    Didn't it turn out to be a neutron star that was only 2 feet or so across?

    You (and Hyper-Man) are thinking of the Niven short story "There is a Tide". Louis Wu finds a planet with a 'moon' that is a five feet or so diameter sphere of neutronium. Meets up with an alien race (the Trinocs) who make the mistake of getting too close. From a distance, the 'moon' produces tides just like Luna does here, but the gravitational gradient is *incredibly* steep, so don't get too close.

     

    "Neutron Star", OTOH, is Beowulf Shafer's orbit of an actual neutron star in a GP hull packed with, among other things, a bunch of explosives courtesy of Sigmund Ausfaller.

     

    This ends my "Niven Nerd" fact of the day :)

     

    - Bill

  21. Animated Series Style Character Images

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    Anyone know of a less expensive art program with layer capability?

    Try the Gimp (http://www.gimp.org). It is free, and works well. It supports layers, blending of layers, import of photoshop files, etc., etc. It's really quite impressive. I think most of my problems using it stem from the fact that it is the first sophisticated image-processing program I've used.

     

    - Bill

  22. Animated Series Style Character Images

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    I am modifying existing images...adding details when necessary...compositing and playing around with them. I got a lot of templates from the DCU site' date=' but it's been down for a while. Try a Google search for words like 'BTAS,' 'fan art,' 'image,' 'template,' etc. You should hit something.[/quote']

    The DCUA site index page is down, and the site is not yet officially open for business. However, there is a page with a bunch of galleries, located here. There is also a page of templates.

     

    Does anyone have good tips on making these images? I've tried doing it with the Gimp (a free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech image processing program), but I have trouble. The program's fine, I'm just very iffy with it, especially in controlling the mouse. Do y'all use a tablet? Or just careful mouse work?

     

    - Bill

  25. Longest Running Thread EVER

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    But you'd finally have a place to put an airbag.

    I have a recent copy of Discover magazine with an article on the computer museum out in California (Palo Alto, I think). One of the pictures is a big air traffic controller console with a built in cigarette lighter.

     

    Makes me want to get one of these.

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