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Blood Red Arachnid

By Blood Red Arachnid,
Posted on: 2012-04-04 13:31 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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Full-size (1680x1050) version here.

One of my "theme concept" creations:

The Extracurriculars were students at a school for superpowered girls in Galaxy City, when the meteors hit ... and their teacher went bad!

Center: Dahlia Danger (Dual Pistols/Devices, Technology Blaster)

Top Left, in sneakers: Energy Ellie (Energy Blast/Mental Manipulation, Magic Blaster) from USA
Top Left, in blue beret: Flavie Faker (Illusion Control/Force Field, Magic Controller) from France
Bottom Left, in blue and gold: Raisa Razor (Claws/Willpower, Science Brute) from Ukraine
Bottom Left, with bow: Tabitha Target (Archery/Darkness Manipulation, Magic Blaster) from Scotland

Top Right, with knives: Dorotea Dagger (Dual Blades/Super Reflexes, Natural Stalker) from Mexico
Center Right, with tail: Mental Miyuki (Psychic Blast/Kinetics, Mutation Corruptor) from Japan
Center Right, in blue: Kinetic Keisha (Kinetic Melee/Regeneration, Science Scrapper) from USA
Bottom Right, with bat: Betty Beatdown (War Mace/Invulnerability, Mutation Brute) from UK

 

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Cute. Sounds like an Anime group.

 

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Dude. Betty Beatdown is a FANTASTIC name.

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yay a catgirl!

 

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Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid View Post
It is somewhat stereotypical core theme that I must have seen a half-dozen times,
Oh, no doubt, but I gotta have some reason for these girls to be a team

I do have another team with a more involved story, but there's 12 of them in that group (only 10 shown in the linked image) and it's gonna take me a while to make all those wallpapers.

I just wish there was a way for me to log all of these characters in at the same time so that I could set up a true group photo.

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but alas it sounds like it could be an awesome idea if it is done well. I like the artworks and character designs.
I've discovered since I started playing a few months ago (and others have confirmed) that making new characters and designing their costumes & stories is almost as much fun as actually playing the game. So I've come up with a metric buttload of characters, most of which I'm probably never going to level past 20. But even if I end up not playing them much, I still have a blast making wallpapers out of them in Photoshop. I used to make wallpapers featuring female Japanese celebrities (like this), and got really really good at it (I had a Web site for them, some years ago, that got close to 1,000,000 hits before I got bored and shut it down), and now this game is giving me a chance and the motivation to relearn all the old Photoshop tricks I came up with back then.

 

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Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko View Post
yay a catgirl!
I was thinking of you

 

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Update! I've been slacking on my wallpaper-making (darned employment getting in the way). But I popped this one of Betty Beatdown out today:



Full Size here

 

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Originally Posted by Mister Rik View Post

I just wish there was a way for me to log all of these characters in at the same time so that I could set up a true group photo.
for a group photo you could try to make clones of them in the AE and set as allies or whatever and then collect them all on a map and follow your main player. its not aaassss good as being able to pose them all, but you might be able to have some of them with weapons drawn or what not, and pick a map you like easier with fewer characters but i took a screenie with about 15 characters on follow once XD and it kinda just loooked like we were all at a conference talking in small groups.

 

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Hey, that might be worth a try! I haven't spent any time trying to make anything in AE, but it's something I've been meaning to try my hand at. This could be good practice.

 

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Originally Posted by daveyj3 View Post
for a group photo you could try to make clones of them in the AE and set as allies or whatever and then collect them all on a map and follow your main player. its not aaassss good as being able to pose them all, but you might be able to have some of them with weapons drawn or what not, and pick a map you like easier with fewer characters but i took a screenie with about 15 characters on follow once XD and it kinda just loooked like we were all at a conference talking in small groups.
Or you could just use demoedit and
get them all in whatever pose you want.

Nice wallpapers and yay alliteration!


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What's "demoedit"?

And thanks

EDIT: Googled "demoedit" and found it. Alas, it appears to be a Windows program, and I play on a Mac. I have a Windows 7 laptop, but the screen size is much smaller than my Mac's so not really suitable for my wallpaper-making purposes.