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Papa-Pills In reply to Montalve [2010-03-17 19:19:57 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, she was a too teenaged. The long hair works, though. I'm just glad she got the Jenn Seal of Approval.
Her legs keep bothering me. I'll upload a fixed version later.
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Dualmask [2010-03-15 14:28:34 +0000 UTC]
She looks even better than she did before. I like her fun pose and the face is gorgeous. Her hands seem a little small and the position of the feet looks a bit awkward, but the design works.
I might enlist you to help me design some villains for Jet Dancer to tackle. One thing that always spurs me forward when it comes to working on a story is designing villains...the fact that I kind of lost interest in Jet's old storyline tells me that I didn't come up with the right bad guys (or girls) for her to tangle with. Or perhaps I just didn't design them properly. Nothing better than anticipating a showdown between two rivals... unless the villain sucks.
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Papa-Pills In reply to Dualmask [2010-03-16 03:20:35 +0000 UTC]
Those ladies you designed are amazing. It'll be hard to top that, but I can certainly do a few pieces for you. I'm down with that. The only thing I can suggest is making costumes match personality types. I'd also make them more anonymous by giving them mask...hi-tech gear, but still sexy.
Oh, I'm not happy with Siren's feet. I'll edit it later on. Promise. Hands, too.
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Dualmask In reply to Papa-Pills [2010-03-16 03:32:13 +0000 UTC]
The thing is, those girls look pretty good, but they've got nothing behind them aside from looks, with Fallen Wing the only real exception. I mean, sure, I could do some kick-butt fights to start with, but they don't have depth yet. Plus I don't want Jet Dancer's universe to be all about hot chicks beating up hot chicks. I'm an action junkie but I also like a little depth, something you seem to have a knack for when it comes to coming up with characters. You're absolutely right about the costumes...when I first made up the girls, it was just about designing exotic outfits (or lack thereof) and crazy weapons to match. Now they need a little something more.
I totally understand since you're just doing a design for now; the feet aren't a major big deal. I would be more concerned with more design work. Heck, when I was designing the WCL characters, quite a few of them didn't look all that good, but I knew I couldn't spend forever making sure the drawings were perfect as long as I was okay with the specific details. Refinement can come later. Don't get caught up doing so much design work that you forget what you're designing for.
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Dualmask In reply to Montalve [2010-03-17 17:32:41 +0000 UTC]
Well, my main problem is really that I don't know what my character's "world" should be all about. I designed a fun character and gave her an interesting set of adversaries, but I keep running into roadblocks when I try to tell a story because I'm never happy with the "why".
The characters/universe come from here - NSFW and I've had quite a few ideas surrounding them, but I always lose interest in the story ideas I come up with when I try to develop it. Yet, the characters are fun to draw.
My basic idea was about women whose bodies are organic but powered by nanomachines or something that makes them stronger than most humans but still in need of the natural things that humans need (food, sleep, sex, etc.). Some are good and some are evil, yadda yadda. Jet Dancer is the main character, Fallen Wing (the girl with the wings near the bottom) is the villainess, but outside of that, all my thoughts are random.
And like I said to , I don't want it to just be about girl-on-girl violence, but the characters came from this series so it's only fitting that I start here.
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Montalve In reply to Dualmask [2010-03-17 18:24:53 +0000 UTC]
just for food for thought... have you seen "Mai Hime" or "My Otome" animes?
Haven't checked your drawings yet... the concept you paint me is similar in basic concept...
let me check it and lets see what can we do... I will toss some ideas to your side and we can chat about them... my email is emontalve at gmail dot com
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Dualmask In reply to Montalve [2010-03-17 18:36:36 +0000 UTC]
Its funny you should mention that; I started watching that show just recently (I was actually watching Volume 3 just last night!) but I've been caught up in a school project that's making me concentrate more on producing art than on planning stories for the time being. Because of that, I didn't even think of making the connection between that concept and mine...they do have some similar themes!
Alrighty, sounds like a plan...I'm focusing on my Jet Dancer character and concept for my Game Art and Design studies so I kind of need to get somewhere with fleshing her out. My email is dualmask at gmail dot com, but I'm honestly much more efficient at responding to notes here on dA than at checking my email (which I habitually do once a day at most).
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Montalve In reply to Dualmask [2010-03-17 20:26:40 +0000 UTC]
general ideas in your mail
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