Thursday, November 20, 2014

Magik - Marvel Now


Magik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magik_%28comics%29) is the little sister of Colossus and an X-Man in her own right Artificially aged in a demon dimension as a child, she's missing just enough of her soul to be creepy, which might also explain why she decided to start taking fashion advice from Marvel Now Emma Frost.
Getting The Look
Marvel Now Magik has one of those big, impractical, glowing swords you see in a lot of fantasy MMORPGs. Once you have that the rest of this look is pretty easy to put together (OK, except for the shoulders. The shoulders are hard).

Friday, November 14, 2014

Gamora


Before she was a Guardians Of The Galaxy movie star Gamora was just your everyday alien, space-chick, cyborg, assassin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamora). The adopted daughter of Thanos she's known for two things: being the "deadliest woman in the universe" and wearing an outfit that even Psylocke thought was too impractical for combat.
Getting The Look
The hardest part of putting Gamora's look together is getting just the right shade of green in the costume palette to match her skin tone. Even then, because of the way light reacts differently to costumes and skin in the game, sometimes it will look perfectly matched and other times it's a little off.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Marrow


Marrow is a child of the 90's bad girl era of comics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(comics)). She was rewarded with a place on the X-Men after killing a bunch of humans (that's not even a joke). A mutant, she has 'uncontrollable bone growth' powers that let her pull bone knives and other fun things out of her body to stab you with. She's currently enjoying a resurgence as a member of the new X-Force.
Getting The Look
One of my favourite things about DCUO is that you can create characters like Marrow that you're probably not going to see in an official Marvel game.

Marrow has had quite a few different looks for a character that hasn't appeared in a huge amount of comics. This version is based on how she looked just after she joined the X-Men (and was prettied up from her original appearances).