Help with the Gingerbread Man

bravehoptoad

Here's my speedster, The Gingerbread Man. I'm having some trouble getting him to look much like a cookie. Any thoughts?



The costume file:



I made him as flat as I could, and chose the colors as much as I could to look like icing. But I feel somehow I'm missing some idea to put him firmly in the realm of delicious-tasting cookie.

jonesing4

Power Gem (in the chest emblem category) set to red (or another candy color)?

Did you get the Santa costume set? Those mittens might look good on the hands, though the fur around the wrist might look crummy. (EDIT: oh for crap's sake, that was totally unintentional. I mean the fur might look BAD.)

I'll look at it more when I get in game later. I'd try messing around more with tights patterns that have a 'raised' look in their bump mapping; the "Classic" sets, so forth. Maybe you can find a good one with thick stripes that look like icing, but you definitely want the white to be raised.

Really cool concept and a good-looking character already, though.

bravehoptoad

Cool. I didn't even know there WERE pants with raised icing-lines.

One thing that won't be apparent from just firing up the costume creator is that his feet have treads on them. UGH...so un-cookie like, and I have to look at those treads everytime he runs.

diplomacyman

The name of it escapes me but I'm sure there's a tights pattern that gets a diamond shape on each kneecap, that might help the effect.

Also you have give him super-speed, "can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!"

drgmstr

Hmm I am not a specialist when it comes to costumes like this, but maybe the clown nose to have like a gumdrop nose? And maybe either cracked skin or the earth form aura to make it look like a cookie texture or his body is cracking and crumbling like a cookie would?

zedbrightlander1

Hey bravehoptoad,

Do you have any if those Gingerbread Men Becomes (those 15 minute Christmas give-aways)? For comparison, I mean?

Also, if you can get a few and keep them handy, it might make a cool trans-formative power. Costumed hero to pure Gingerbread. Just an idea.

I think I've got one or two in my hideout bank I'm not using if you want them.

bravehoptoad

That's a good idea, about the clown nose. I wish I could get rid of his nose and ears altogether, but barring that, a clown nose might be right.

I didn't know there were Gingerbread Man becomes! They stole my idea! Oooooo....

I wonder if someone took a screenshot of this Gingerbread Man?

biffsmackwell

That's the one from the Become Device. And yes, he has Super Speed.

zedbrightlander1

bravehoptoad wrote: »

That's a good idea, about the clown nose. I wish I could get rid of his nose and ears altogether, but barring that, a clown nose might be right.

I didn't know there were Gingerbread Man becomes! They stole my idea! Oooooo....

I wonder if someone took a screenshot of this Gingerbread Man?

Check your in game mail.

Anyone know if there are Permanent Gingerbread Man Becomes?

biffsmackwell

I don't think they ever made a Become that only came in limited varieties.

scorpagor

biffsmackwell wrote: »

I don't think they ever made a Become that only came in limited varieties.

Yes they did.

All halloween and christmas becomes have a limited version which lasts only 15 minutes.

eiledon

Become Gingerbread Man Limited - Random reward from opening [Stocking] from Xmas Event.

Become Gingerbread Man - Random reward from opening [Holiday Grab Bag] (rare box from Xmas Event) or purchased in the Questionite Store for 200,000 Questionite

bravehoptoad

biffsmackwell wrote: »

That's the one from the Become Device. And yes, he has Super Speed.

Ooo...so jealous. There's no way to get a head that round in the costume designer. Or feet that stump-like.

eiledon

bravehoptoad wrote: »

Ooo...so jealous. There's no way to get a head that round in the costume designer. Or feet that stump-like.

not in game atm but there are feet that look like stumps or elephant feet in the tailor.

bulgarex

Do you have an origin in mind for your Gingerbread Man? In case you weren't aware, in the Champions Universe it's possible for fairy-tale and nursery rhyme characters to have a real existence.

zedbrightlander1

What about the snowman's head. Can it be recolored and flattened?

eiledon

I threw up a potential ginger bread man over on the Costume A Day thread

jedite2012

Can use the earth aura that cracks your skin..looks like the gingerbread man is crumbling away

serpinecoh

The DJ Madbot / Snow Man heads are sort of passable with the right colors but the bag pictured above probably is a better target. The sliders just don't send the first two far enough and they both have elements that are problems (the solidity of the former and the nose on both). The below is about the best I could pull off with a Snow Man: The biggest issue in some ways is that the eyes and mouth are color linked.