Something I've found incredibly fun and creatively satisfying lately is the practice of creating costumes for my character based on different eras of comics and the styles that are associated with them.
Here's an older image of my main in Silver Age, Modern Age and Future Age versions:
Emerald Titan Through Time
I've got an updated Silver Age, a Golden Age and an "alternate universe" (Think Marvel Ultimates) style that I'd like to get screenshots of as well.
Anyone else do this?
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Emerald Titan's modern age costume is fantastic!
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Thanks I was actually admiring your avatar in another thread, I'd love to see the full version
Updated Emerald Titan Costumes
The "Modern" version is my main costume that I wear 80-90% of the time, definitely my favorite.
The character was originally created before MMO's and when CoH came around I rebuilt him as best I could, actually managed to improve the costume design.
And then improved the design again when I adapted him for Champions.
Doc. Britain (aka British Hero) was a character I brought over from CoH, but haven't played him for a while and his costumes kind of stalled at Silver Age. You've inspired me to at least design modern, future and alternative costumes for him now, and maybe start playing him again .
Here are his Pulp Age, Golden Age and Silver Age costumes.
He was originally a Radiation/Dual Pistols/Speedster Defender in CoH, the idea being his ability was to control peoples metabolisms, hence the slow/hold/weaken debuffs and also his own superspeed, and as a side effect, he had extreme long life which spanned the era's. Then when I thought about it logically, if he's constantly superspeeding himself, he'd have a drastically shorter life compared to others... plus I got bored of the Defender AT, so rebooted him just before CoH closed. Read the story here
When I recreated him in CO, I just ignored the logic and went back to the era spanning costumes... hey, it's science fiction
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Yeah, Titan has regenerative abilities, so I've been playing with the idea that he could be as old as the Golden Age.
The Alternate Universe one is definitely a nod to the "Ultimate" Marvel comics.
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and a very good reference for when people host CCs and people ask what Gold and silver age is...i have to admit sometimes i forget what "Age" i am making.
(BTW, Modern and Future are my favs, but Golden is so well done too!)
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Here are the classis and modern versions!
Glad I could help If you do make some, come back and post some pictures!
Thanks! Modern and Future definitely get worn the most, in that order. If I had to list them by personal preference it would be Modern, Future, Alternate, Golden, Silver. Thematically, I love the golden age one, but I rarely wear it.
Outstanding! I love it. Good choice of colors too.
So top row there's the original 3 costumes, Pulp Era, Golden Age and Silver Age which i'm kind of setting in 30 year jumps, so 1920's, 1950's, 1980's.
Then for the new costumes there's Modern Age (aka Liefeld Age), Future Age, and Alternate Universe, which would be 2010's, 2040's, and... erm, the Alternaties .
In the Alternate Universe, Doc. Britain is actually from a race of Galaxy travelling adventurers of the planet Bri-Tain... yeah... sorry.
Hope you like
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Awesome!
Bri-Tain, haha, love it.
I definitely dig the "Modern" era version, you managed to evoke the Union Jack without actually using it, and the subdued lower half is well done.