Flashback Friday – Thor

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Sep 052014
 

Good morning folks. It’s Friday and I’m going to work. That hasn’t been true since June and I’m telling you, it’s rough, man. Oh well! Let’s power through the day. What better way to start than with a flashback?

It’s Marvel AND Big Oonch week this week. We had Big Oonch as Star-Lord from Guardians of the Galaxy on Wednesday and we’re concluding with Big Oonch as Thor from the Avengers on Friday.

Okay, so actually, I went with the costume from The Dark World for Thor this time around, just to be a little different. He’s a little ganglier than I intended, but I still think he turned out nice.

ThorHere’s the comparison to the original mash-up.

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That’s all for this week. Kitty (Cobra) returns next week. I’m always curious to see your guesses on who’ll be playing who below in the comments.

Flashback Friday – Agent Deema Hill

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May 232014
 

<dramatic movie trailer voice-over> In a world of weekdays, when Thursday ends, Friday…BEGINS. Age of Animus presents: Flashback Friday! < / dramatic movie trailer voice-over>

I hope you all read that opening with the appropriate amount of gravitas. It helps to set the mood. Now that the mood is set, let’s flash it back, shall we?

At the conclusion of last week’s flashback post, I mentioned that this week’s post would be related to another comic-book-inspired television franchise. That would of course be Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. I’ve found the show to be mostly mediocre. I won’t go into detail here, but if anybody’s interested, I can deliver a more complete review in a future blog.

ANYWAY, those are my thoughts on the TV show. Now for the flashback. Agent Maria Hill only appears in two episodes of the show. She was first featured in The Avengers movie.  Deema got her Avengers mash-up later than the others, so the available characters were slim. Her uniform has some similarities with the Black Widow costume. As usual, you can enlarge a picture by clicking on it.

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Here’s the side-by-side comparison between the original and the remake. One thing I was surprised with looking back at the original is how many of the uniform details I managed to include.The biggest problem is that the head was too small and the arms are too long. Back then I think I was trying to depict a “realistic” lizard head with eyes on either side.

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So that’s it for this week’s flashback. Next week will be Zoë’s turn back in the spotlight. Any guesses as to the costume? Feel free to leave your guesses in the comments and have a great weekend!

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Flashback Friday – Black Widow

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Apr 042014
 

The date is Friday. Actually, it’s Thursday but this won’t be posted until tomorrow when it will in fact, be Friday, a day of flashbacks.

Captain America is coming out this weekend and I’m doing a Marvel flashback. It’s almost like I planned this. Now if I had planned this WELL, I’d have done my Captain America flashback. But hey, Black Widow is in the movie so it still works! As always, click on a picture if you wanna enlarge it.

Finding the right pose is always a challenge. I don’t want the characters to just be standing there, but I want the details of the costume to be mostly visible. I went through a lot of Black Widow pictures (Scarlett Johansen is pretty) and finally settled on one where she was in a sort of martial arts battle stance. I just turned it a little so that we can see Nektara’s face.

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Here’s the comparison piece with the original mashup.

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Next week is a Star Wars flashback! Come back next Friday to see which one!

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Flashback Friday – Iron Cat

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Dec 272013
 

Hello and good day to you friends! It be Friday and that can only mean a new Flashback! Let us see what we shall see, shall we?

So this week, we jump back to the release of the Avengers and the set of mash-ups I drew based on the designs featured in the movie.

For the first look back at the Avengers, I decided to go with Sass as Iron Cat since I hadn’t featured any redoes of Sass designs yet. The first time around, I had her holding the Iron Man helmet. This time I simply used layers to draw her with and without the helmet on. My characters don’t have fingers so I tried to include a paw pad on the power gloves. I’ll say that making things look “techy” still isn’t a strong suit but the result is still striking to me. As always, you can click on any picture to embiggen it.

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Here’s the comparison with the original. You’ll notice that this time I remembered to give her a tail. I also chose a different armor design. There have been so many. Sass is more serious about being Iron Cat this time around or has she become blasé?

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So that’s all for this week. Next week, is a look at a real American hero (even if I’m Canadian).

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