Turbo_Ski

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Question is would it be better if they were fighting with each other or fighting along side with each other?

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Either one you want, really. Mel hates pretty much every human alive. She'd gladly team up with anyone, if it helped her towards her goals, but in the end she'd inevitably turn on them. She's a little less plotting supervillain and more a vicious force of nature. She just wants to hurt people.

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Ooh...maybe they could fight atop one of those high-wire gondolas at a ski resort? A 3/4 view of them duking it out, while wires snap and civilian faces press against the glass in panic. Now that's a villain on villain battle.

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oh gawd! That idea is pretty awesome! However I'm leaning more towards team up, since Turbo-Ski teams constantly with a certain someone who is a lot like a Melanie (just minus all the hate humanity bit). Then again we could always go with something dirty and perverse, like maybe ice sex toys...oh yeah I went there.

tried google but my search-fu was too weak to filter out cheat codes and reviews. So I search DA for fanart and came up with these two pieces of that costume.
Military Ivy 1
Military Ivy 2

hope that helps.

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Bumping!

Attention all finalists, you should be getting a PM in your box about the COLOR PROOFS

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OMG its really, really fantastic work! I can't wait till its unveiled here for everyone to see.

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darn it kilo! you're making me anxious!

Happy B-Day Star!

Oh and the mandatory:
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anyway, if you want art of your character (I really should make a quick guide for this) here is a list of ways to get it:
<ul type="square"> [*] First regardless what type of pieces you are having done, you need a site to upload your screenshots and images. I personally use www.photobucket.com for my reference shots since it's free to get an account and I can manage and directly link to my images. There are many other free image upload sites out there, just find the one that works for you.
[*] next you need to have decent reference shots. Below are examples of both bad and good:
+ VERY BAD!!! Make sure there aren't any powers running on you that would get in the way of your costume. Also don't take it at night, the darkness effect makes everything dark blue and harder to see.
+ Bad but workable... This still doesn't give us a close-up view of the costume and certainly doesn't give us multiple angles to work with.
+ Good and very workable! This gives us multiple angles of shots, cropped (in MSPaint) from a screenshot like the previous example, and then added all together into one image. Still we could do better such as the next example.
+ Ideal Reference Shot! To get this kind of shot do the following: go to the tailor on your character and opened the desired costume. Get your first angle shot ready and hit the printscreen key. Next you'll want to open up MSPaint (or any other image editor) and paste into a new document. Do this until you have 3-4 shots and then crop out the unnecessary parts and organize them like in the example.
+ This is crazy ideal, and pretty unnecessary! If it's important to you go ahead and do this with all your character's costumes, but you better off doing each costume individually as a separate file (more web-user friendly that way). [*] Next you'll want to browse through the Art Forums here. There are many people that do free art and sketches for practice, most of the time nothing extraordinary, but good work never-the-less. Browsing through threads here also lets you see what people have commissioned ($paid for$) talented artists to do for them.[*] Commission a piece from an artist, ask around in this forum if you are having trouble finding artists that work for your price range. Regluars like Rowr and Thor's Assassin, will be more than happy to help you out. Also browsing through someone's DeviantArt friends and favorites list will give you good idea of the artists out there.[*] The most important thing that will score you art here is becoming an active member of our art community. Frequently posting and engaging in friendly conversation is what I mean by "active" member. We're a very friendly and welcoming community here, and anything extra you bring with you will be happily accepted by us. Also we are such compliment whores here! [/list]
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anime-influenced? his hair isn't some ridiculous color like blue, green, or red! Where are the giant robots, fan service, and the ridiculously hot childhood friend who falls in love with her fugly best friend? Hehe!

Dark/Dark demon concept -
gender: whichever you prefer or your spirit prefers
skin color: light blue
colors: green/black
Info: Demon that causes deaths at sea. Was king of Atlantis until he went to the darkness and destroyed himself and his people in madness. His cruelty has made him a powerful demonic spirit in hell and has chosen the demon name &lt;insert name here&gt;.
Costume concept: Think a mean looking blue ghost covered with sea-worn clothing. Chains would be a good start, but I would avoid anything pirate-like. Robes, leather, wraps, zombie and plant textures should work well. All demons have horns just about, but keep it small.


SS/Inv fighter concept -
gender: normal male
skin color: whatever you want as long as it's a normal skin tone
colors: varies
info: &lt;insert name here&gt; was normal guy living in Paragon City with his only daughter. His wife died a few years back when the Devouring Earth attacked the theater she worked at and some reckless heroes took the entire building down with their powers. His wife was found in the rubble and &lt;insert name here&gt; grew to hate the heroes and their supporters. Only thing keeping him from taking his revenge was his love for his daughter and her love for the heroes of Paragon City. All was fine until the fateful day he had been dreading for weeks came, he was going to take his daughter for a public tour of a longbow base as an early birthday present. The tour ended in tragedy when a crazed villain hid himself in the tour group and exploded his body in a kamikaze attack on the base's generator. Longbow threw &lt;insert name here&gt; into their jail cells for investigation with no one telling him if his daughter was alive or not. After several hours, they came to take him to interrogation again and he made his strike against the escorts and escaped into a nearby lab. In the lab he found numerous body enhancing drugs and technology, along with a high powered energy gun that was able to cut through his bonds. He injected one of the drugs that was labeled "TANKER" and grabbed a longbow outfit from a locker. He tried to find his daughter but all he found were some of her clothes at the site of the explosion. Filled with rage, &lt;name&gt; punched the wall and was astonished at the incredible damaged he dealt to it. He rampaged through the base and was eventually captured and thrown into the Ziggurat prison as a super villain. Arachnos busted him out and he now roams the rogue isles beating up any self-righteous vigilante that gets in his way.
Costume concept: one idea would be to have him in a filthy longbow outfit, but I prefer street clothes here. tanktop shirt with wrapped gloves and either blue jeans or tucked in pants.

just got to learn to think out of the box. Try different basic themes such as tech armor, darkity dark dude, plant, insect, etc. Trying different concepts will get you some great original ideas for your main costumes.

You are always welcomed to do any of my characters:
Turbo-Ski
Sarix
Project Reaver
Lady Farsight
Shadow Blaze

My very first hero and lvl 50 character, Shadow Blaze, is seeing use again with the dawn of the STF. Well during one of the runs, I got a Tech Wing recipe drop and decided to buy the rocket boot recipe and upgrade her old Runic Energy Containment (REC) Suit. The end result was this. After that I decided to make a new costume that she story-wise starts using AFTER Kraticax is unsealed. I still wanted to use the new costumes pieces and figured she would repair some of the parts of her broken REC suit and use them to increase her strength. Here is the front and back views.

That is one mean as heck scythe! I loves it!

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YAY! Welcome back Wombat! We missed you!

Great piece there!
Caption: "So this is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment...."

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ooo! that one's good!

here is another idea that came to me today, kind of a give back to those who did free art for me deal.
- Turbo-Ski placing bombs in plushies of certain characters and putting them into a toy donation box.

Happy B-Day Crestent!

Wow very nice!

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Equal rights for us Fire folk! Prejudice I say! Prejudice!

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I plan to commission pencil piece of Massacre Mel and Turbo-Ski later this year probably. Question is would it be better if they were fighting with each other or fighting along side with each other?

I so love this! I'm honored that you choose my character to do art of!

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Dude? How could you leave ME outta that!??! =P

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clearly you were too hot for this piece!

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Just letting you know I haven't died. I am conceptualizing Turbo Ski's Scythe. I'm quite happy with the results so far. It is very... unique.

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Cool! I'm looking forward to what you come up with!

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ROFL!!! Thanks for including me in this one! Looks fantastic! I just loved the concept and glad I could get my hand on some snow boobies! ha ha ha ha *snort*

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I figure you would be most appropriate as my accomplice.

Snow BOOBS!

A gift from me to all my fellow icy art collectors
Ladies of Frost by Liz Chesterman (AKA SyrusB)

I'm VERY pleased with how it came out and I hope everyone (especially those in it) are pleased with it too.

From left to right: Ms.Frost, Larissa Rasputin, Snowman Frost, Turbo-Ski, Frosty Femme, and Aurora Frost

updated my Project Reaver MTG card to be less broken.

Very awesome piece!

dang it now I'm hungry for burritos!