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This is completely and totally incredible. I often get inspired by the costumes I see to try different things and come up with my own spin but I seldom see one I just wish I could rip off outright. Well done.

And I won't be ripping it off...but I really do wish I could.

Thanks, man!

As a starting point for alternate animations, I think this is a great idea. I'd love it if I could choose a tech-based animation for my tech heroes or a spell casting animation for my magic origin heroes. I know some people will say "my magic origin hero doesn't cast spells!" but if you get 5 different animation choices for your powers that are origin-based, one of them will probably work as well if not better than what we have at present.

First and foremost, please give us some open hand attack animations specifically to be used in conjunction with a "no claws" or "natural claws" option with the claws set. Please. With alternate animations being on the table, the old "closed fist animation" argument against such a choice is no longer valid.

I may come up with many more of these but for the rest of this post, I'm going to focus on the Broadsword. We have a lot of great options for weapons customization with this set but it is a reality that the forms for these various weapons aren't really the same so I figure why not give us alternate animations based on the various choices. If you mix and match animations, you could really create unique styles of blade handling.

Examples:

Chinese Broadsword: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxNZsIPlOSg

Chinese Dao: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU0RhruNwdc

Chinese Jian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88XLM...eature=related

Additionally, I'd love to see fencing swords added to our choices with animations based on those movements. Fencing seems more about stabbing than slashes but the posing and the sword flourishes would make for some interesting animations.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRTl8...eature=related

Fight doesn't really start until about 1:58.

Additionally, I wasn't able to find a very good example but I know that techniques for scimitars are quite different than western swords. Some animations for those would be wonderful and would likely work well for a number of the other options.

I'd love to see these additions to the game and the promise of mixing animations for various attacks could make for some fairly unique fighting styles. Thanks for asking!

If that is accurate, they need to put more people on the problem. This really needs to be settled on launch day.

Yeah, that whole contest really turned my sleepy little dA page into a hub of activity. I could barely keep up with my stacks from the people I watch...now I have the new addition of notes and messages. I'm not sure I'll do this again...but it's kind of fun and some serious contenders are starting to appear.

The most street greeting I've ever gotten. And I once spent a birthday in South Central.

The most accurate. Thank you.

This, coincidentally, is how I insist friends and admirers refer to my birthday.

This is how my mother always referred to my birthday.

Most Shakespearean. Thanks.

The day was a very good one. Thank you all very much.

Yes, I've been really quiet lately....so it is no small wonder that the name isn't recognized. It's nice to be remembered your birthday!

Ha! Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Six years and I believe this is my first Happy Birthday thread...unless I missed one before.

Thanks, VexXxy!

Yeah, I thought Night Sparrow came out quite nice. I like the changes he made to her mask and kind of like how he interpreted her color scheme to make that side cutout on her boot. The only odd thing he did was give her shiny boots and flat gloves but he was happy to correct it.

Thanks for taking part! I'm glad we could get this one done...he really did a great job. You just love it because Ghost looks the most awesome...floating there all cosmically.

Done and done. Edited to add the info I thought I'd already added.

That's no Dalek. It's a console...that just happens to look like a Dalek.

I would have rather the Dalek be a little less obvious but we had a color correction to do on Epoch and since the rest of it looked so awesome, I let it slide. I didn't explicitly say to hide it and kind of thought it would be implied due to the previous BTT commission. What I forgot is that Bakart's world doesn't revolve around me and my characters and he probably didn't remember.