These are some pics of Jet Jaguar that I've made using both City of Heroes and Champions Online character creators. Neither one is perfect for portraying Jet, and at some point soon I'd like to take this as a new project in my own artstyle into a drawing of her on my own, melding the best elements together.
Okay - just to explain some things in general.
Champions Online, while generally superior to City of Heroes in portraying mecha and Powersuit characters, has a curious "hole" in it's repertoire, that of a classic Knight Sabre's style Hard Suit, particularly the helmet! That's why most of these pics are of Jet without her helmet, because the only one I could do... well... It's just NOT a Knight Sabers helm. At. All.
It's also tough to really get that "skintight" look with the various mecha bits without it looking either too layered and built up, or too skintight with nothing that looks like powered armor. Especially for females.
Also - while Champions does do backpacks, and CoH does not, only one of the CO mecha backpacks has wings, and it's kinda angular and chunky looking. I used it anyway, because it was the closest I could get.
You'll also notice that some of the pics done with CO have slightly different armor bits. I was still futzing around with the design elements. Particularly those god-awful big chunky boots in the earlier pics. Just think of them as alternate concepts. The "final" version is the one that I show in flight here (with the boot jets going).
I was rather pleased with the face though. With one slight caveat. CO does have the option of putting round metal coverings over the ears. And I did use them. But the hairstyle I chose covered them up!
More notes down below when I get to the City of Heroes version.







Ok, Jet is much easier to get "right" in my minds eye in City of Heroes in a lot of ways, and absolutely impossible in some key points.
Overall I like the lines of the suit and helmet MUCH better on the CoH version. In fact, she'd fit right in with the "Saber" group that many of us play in the game. (Yes, we've definitely had practice building Sabers in CoH. ^_^)
But the two main things that just can't be done right. One is the jetboots. You actually can have Jet Boots in City of Heroes. It's a craft-able costume piece. But the jets don't come out of the soles of the feet like Jet's do, (or a proper Iron Man for that matter) instead they come off the sides of the calf, which... bleargh... Let's just say I don't do much with jetboot style characters in CoH. It's a purely cosmetic thing anyway. And CoH has some nice things for traditional "no visible supported flight" style characters.
So I did make a version of Jet's suit with the CoH style jetboots just for completeness sake, but I much prefer the boots that I have her wearing in the standing pics.
The backpack is another matter.  There are none in CoH. Correction - there's ONE. And it's only a temp power that you can only have "on" for 30 seconds. Plus it doesn't really fit the idea. No wings. *Shrug* I activated it and put it in to a few pics just for completeness sake.
I am, if anything, even more pleased with her face and hair in this version, AND I could show the ear coverings too! ^_^




Oh - here's something I just tossed in. There's a "HUD" aura you can give your character in CoH. I don't think Jet has anything like this. But I thought I'd throw it in anyway.



I WAS kind of pleased with the last pic here. This was kind of by accident, but you could say it's Jet doing a high-G manuever.


Well, what do you think? Any commentary/criticism?

Bob Schroeck Wrote:

Quote:Jake and Elwood Banzai - the Blues Blazers!

Put them in Fenspace, now!

For a little while there, it looked like all of Yuku was screwed up, but we're back.
(What do I mean by "screwed up"?  I think a DNS entry got messed up somewhere, as I was getting interesting error messages that looked like the URL had typoed even when I linked out of Google to main Yuku pages.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Back To The Future will be playing in AMC theaters this coming Saturday and Monday. Here's a link to AMC's page about it.
My main question: WHY IS THIS THE FIRST I'VE HEARD OF THIS? I already have plans for this weekend! Graahhh!
Edit:
and here's the trailer:

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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Just a few minutes ago I got dumped from Virtue -- and as far as I can tell from both trying to log back in and from trying to reach the COH website to see the server status, it looks like the first night of Halloween just crashed everything at NCSoft all the way down to the calculator in the third assistant accounting clerk's bottom drawer.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I've been thinking (oh no!) on and off for a while about how we love advancing the "now" in Fenspace at the expense of actually finishing any of our stories. Yes, I'm just as guilty of that as the rest of the Collective... but I'd like to change things a bit.

We've got more than a few unfinished and untold stories - the first landings on Mars and Ganymede, the "launches" of Starbase 1, New Yavin, Stellvia, Prometheus Forge, ... heck, every space station out there, the building of the Lunar cities and Crystal Cities, the Boskone War, the SOS-Con that started off the Boskone War, the attack on Serenity-Con, Legend of Galactic Girls - heck, there are still a few major characters that don't have their origin stories completed yet. (looks at self, Bob, Cobalt, KJ, and RL-Mal) Sure, we know from FenWiki articles what happened with many of these, but we haven't actually sat down and written the stories. I can, should, and eventually will do something about Noah's, Leda's, and Noah's angels' origin stories, the launch of Stellvia, and Legend of Galactic Girls (the latter first), but that doesn't take very much out of the "unwritten" pile.

Thus, to encourage going back and filling in some of the holes we've ignored so far, I propose freezing the "now" of Fenspace at October 10, 2014 - the day (a) StellviaCorp declares independence from Earth and (b) Helen Scott is born. (These are two easy-to-identify events that make it relatively easy to indicate in-story whether a work is canon or Infinities.) I do not propose abandoning The South Is Rising, Someone Get A Hammer, but I'd like to see that as the only Infinities story we work on for a while.

This would not be a permanent freeze - just a measure for a few months until we get some of the backlog cleared.

If we do this, it'll encourage people to go back and tell some of the stories that we only allude to in the FenWiki. It'd also make it a bit easier for some of the wayward members of the Collective to return if they don't need to learn a decade's worth of in-story history that happened while they were away. However, it would also put a crimp in some folks' creativity if we say "please don't write a story set after September 2014," and that's a very important consideration. So...

Thoughts, everyone?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11593005]Stone Age door unearthed by archaeologists in Zurich

Hmmmmm... Hey, Blackaeronaut, I think I found the other end of that door your Fenspace characters found/made!
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

New costume pack, to be available on Nov 3rd.

Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ3xlzf0CIo

I was heading out of the Vanguard base last evening, when I saw THIS -
It's the wrestler Zangief from Street Fighter! Damn near letter perfect too! How'd he do the chest hair? Chest emblem - one of the "Lion" ones, I think, all colored in.


I followed the guy over to the tailor to get that screenshot, then he changed to another costume (to edit I suppose) -


Itza MARIO!! ^_^
The only nitpick I have is that, since it's CoH you really can't do the whole "super-deformed" body style.
So I guess this is the EPIC HEROIC UBER PLUMBER MARIO!!! from the same universe as Gurren Lagaan! (Or something like that. ^_^ )
(Oh and in case you're wondering, that's Kara Skye all but completely hidden behind the guy, there.)

If you haven't seen the anime Squid Girl yet, I recommend it.  Admittedly, all I've seen so far is the first episode, which is all that is up for public viewing on Crunchyroll at the moment. (linky)
Our main character, the titular Squid Girl, has come from the depths of the ocean to subjugate the human race, to prevent them from destroying the ocean.  The first step, conquer the local beachfront restaurant for use as a base, using her amazing squid powers.  I don't want to say more, to avoid any spoilers, but I wish I could give her a hug.  I felt so bad for her, especially after [REDACTED].
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.