Pretty cool! 
I love the icicles shooting out!
Good! Then I'll keep going until complete!
Yes the icicles are great...
Looking good!
Great action piece. My only critique (if you want to call it that) is the hair color. Any way to make it white to stay true to the characters ingame colors?
Yeah great pose and beautiful action with those icicles. I don't remember if Larissa is bare foot or not ... but she looks like she has boots on your redition.
Great piece though ... looking forward to seeing it progress!
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looking good. cant wait to see the final product
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Great action piece. My only critique (if you want to call it that) is the hair color. Any way to make it white to stay true to the characters ingame colors?
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Thanks, and yes, the hair color is going to be white. It was acting up on me lastnight by trying to apply the original texture maps. It was getting late and I wanted to get the WIP out there for Larissa so she could see the progress. I consider this as the foundation work with lots more work ahead.
It may be my mind set, but for some reason I have those feelings that I just really want to do a good job. Funny, because I wasn't giving myself this much pressure when I did Gamma's pics. I guess the difference is I was toying around when I did Gammas and with this one I want it to be more professional looking.
Anyhow, I'm just going with the feelings, and I'm going to make this piece. I think Larissa will be happy with the finished product if current reactions are of any indication.
Looks good! I really like the costume, the pose and the expression. And as mentioned, the icicles look cool too.
The only things that jump out at me are: (1) somehow the forehead looks a little off -- it seems she's wearing a headband, but my first thought was that her forehead was poking through a hair prop. Maybe change the color of the headband to make that more distinct? And (2) the color of the bracers and boots seems a little too sky-blue, the color clashes a bit with the purple-blue of her skin. I would probably tweak the color of either the costume pieces or the skin to either make them more congruent or go for a more pleasing contrast.
But in general I like it a lot, and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished piece!
I have two things. I would put the icicles at different heights because they look like they are all on the same plane. It would look more explosive. Her forward foot might look better if it were pointed down a lttle more for a classic flying pose.
I like everything else. Great job!
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I have two things. I would put the icicles at different heights because they look like they are all on the same plane. It would look more explosive. Her forward foot might look better if it were pointed down a lttle more for a classic flying pose.
I like everything else. Great job!
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I see what your talking about and I'll be setting the foot back the way it was when I started that part. Chalk that up to over tweaking. The Ice seems to give people problems atm. I'm going to add a swoosh effect behind them and maybe that'll show the true angles of the icicles because they really are set at different heights. The middle icicle is set at .350 and the next two on either side are set at .375 and .025 more for the next set. I may have to do some work on camera angles, not sure, but I'll keep after it. Thanks for the perspective.
Ok, I did some more tweaking and upped the resolution so things should be clearer. I think Larissa is coming together.
The link in the OP will now reflect the updates that were made. If doing the update that way confuses people, let me know and I'll post updates differently.
Edited for a typo...
Looking good!
Nice .. I really like those changes. Did you change the angle of one of the icicles ? the one that was coming straight at us? Unless I'm wrong ... anyhoo if I'm not, you should put it back ... I really liked having one pointed right at me ... was really cool ...
Anyway great work! I like it ...
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I love the changes, this is turning out great.
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Nice .. I really like those changes. Did you change the angle of one of the icicles ? the one that was coming straight at us? Unless I'm wrong ... anyhoo if I'm not, you should put it back ... I really liked having one pointed right at me ... was really cool ...
Anyway great work! I like it ...
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Yeah, I changed the angle on the camera AND on all the icicles. There was one that was too low and looked more like a frozen male organ than an icicle. Couldn't have that! so I moved things around. Thanks for the incouragements. They are helping me get past a couple of issues I was having with this piece. One of them was the hair, but I got past that. Things are now rolling, so I should be done with it this weekend.
Ok, ok, ok. I think I'm done. I gave an update to Larissa for her to check out. I'm hoping she'll like it. If she does, it'll go into my gallery on DA, if not, it'll go into la-la-land....
Awesome! I just have one question. Can I be next?
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Awesome! I just have one question. Can I be next?
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Wellllll, the next one goes to Neobluefox. Neo will be my first male render so we'll have to see how that one goes....
edit: Ok, now to get some gametime in before I start on the next piece!
And now Larissa's gift is complete! I give you Larissa
For this piece, I got a FRIGGIN' AWESOME! I'm so happy I could kiss a Wookie......
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For this piece, I got a FRIGGIN' AWESOME! I'm so happy I could kiss a Wookie......
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Can we get pictures? 
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For this piece, I got a FRIGGIN' AWESOME! I'm so happy I could kiss a Wookie......
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Can we get pictures?
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So you can use them against me in the furture No!
Hi all, I'm posting this WIP to see what Larissa and everyone thinks about it. I've got a few tweaks that I'll be doing before finishing and I know this version is low-res, but if any other eyes notice anything that my eyes are missing, let me know.
I now present the WIP, Larissa