Bill_CCHKK

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
Bill, I think that this might be the page that you mentioned.
 
I miss Mark's work. I think it's what really got me into Champs all those millions of years ago.
 
 
EDIT: I guess you already found the page.

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

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

Re: Animated Series Style Character Images
 

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

Re: Superhero Images
 
Libra
 
My first Dark Champs character

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

Re: Superhero Images
 

 
The GIMP is a very nice piece of work. Took me a bit if work to learn, as I'm sure Photoshop does as well, but most of that was concepts and terminology since I had no experience with any full-featured image manipulation programs.
 
Just one man's opinion, of course.