Yes, it's true...

The format and images on my Mighty M4!! blog are indeed influenced by the comic book corner symbols I admired as a young lad.

I'm only mentioning this one once...

...because it's a secret, but I'm splitting off my showcase of characters I've created to a separate blog: The Mighty M4!!

Why "The Mighty M4!!"?
a) For "Mighty Man and Monster Maker"! Poser and DAZ Studio are like the 21st Century versions of that famous toy. Plus if I learn zBrush like I hope to, I can make more mighty men and monsters! But we'll see how that goes...
b) I wanted a separate place to show my characters. I didn't really want to throw a whole bunch of these pictures up on deviantArt or any of the other sites.
c) For now I want to use this here blog as a catch-all for all sorts of weird and fun stuff, and I was afraid my characters would get lost in the mix.

Anyway, head on over and check it out. No more shall be said about this...

Time to welcome... DOC OPTIK!!

Time to say adieu to Champions Online characters Frostmane and Lasy Sting (sic! Yes, I know! I misspelled my character's name!) as their Closed Beta personas went the way of Doc Mentat before them.

Time to say hello to Doc Optik, the hero with the eye-based powers!






Here we have Defender, offering tips to the new hero on the block:



Funny thing... my screen captures don't seem to grab any of the particle effects depicted in-game. No glowy zaps...

Verminator Pejorative

I'll probably load this up to one of my galleries, but it's kinda late and I'm tired...

Playing around a bit with the Sixus1 Vermin set. Added a couple of giant rat monster pets. I should probably add some bats or something too.

Little Idi Snitmin

The name comes from an old issue of Dragon magazine. Snitmin was (if memory serves correctly) a Kobold who led a group of his people on pesky raids and such; I think he was supposed to have stolen a set of Rings of Flight, which he and his band used on their raids. The name stuck in my head because when I came up with this little goblin, that was the name I used for the file.

Anyway, I posted copies at each of my Gallery sites, but here's a copy with some added text and a new border to give it more of a comic panel feel. Just an experiment with typefaces and line proportions, or something more...?

Gulliver

Gulliver's one of my oldest characters; the idea for him hit me when I was quite young. Initially inspired by a poster I saw in Macy's at Herald Square for the Disney cartoon, "Gulliver Mickey".

I recently saw Ray Harryhausen's "Three Worlds of Gulliver" for the first time, and it drove me to polish off my character portrait and publish it here. Gulliver first appeared in this image, but that was several versions of DAZ Studio ago.

Don't be surprised to see more of him, he said cryptically...