Trike

The logo on his tee looks like Rularuu! 😎 Did you specify that his shirt has a stylized picture of a person throwing trash into a garbage can? I find that makes a difference. On the first iteration of Redd Flagg it turned his bandana into a Cincinnati Reds baseball cap until I told it he was wearing a “red bandana tied on his head”.

His armor looks like laminated wood, which is a very cool idea.

An algorithm wrote that. We are truly all going to be replaced.

The Family, done Frank Miller style.

On a parallel Earth accessed by Portal Corp, the hero Air Force encountered his evil doppelganger who stole the designs for his "smart fabric" flight suit and called himself Air Strike. After several battles, Air Force captured Air Strike and sent him to the Zig. (I did an AE series of missions and everything back in the day.) Both versions of Dayton Wright had daughters. Air Force's daughter Xenia grew up to become Air Speed (above) while Air Strike's daughter Zephyr became Air Raid. This second coming of CoH, which I never thought would happen, has let me play with my legacy characters growing up, like Mighty Lad becoming Mighty Man, and the offspring of previous characters coming to the fore as the next generation of young heroes, such as Bamboom following in the footsteps of his father, Boom-Boom the Panda. Krea is just making it all even cooler.

The other characters from Heartsick's bio, Redd Flagg and Senorita Chupacabra.

One of my favorite recent screenshots getting the Krea treatment: Battleshield fighting her doppelganger. Unfortunately I ran out of credits tonight so I couldn't tweak it. I'll go back tomorrow and try to fix the face and boot on the one on the right.

Quality takes time! Sometimes for my bios I do dumb one-liners (Hercules Jr.) but sometimes I do a deep dive into history and give it a CoH spin, which is frequent. I mean, I spent an entire afternoon just looking up old-timey phones exchanges (like “Pennsylvania 6-5000” from the Glenn Miller song) for Monster Detective before I settled on “Montrose 6-3000”. Montrose because it sounds like monster, the 6 for the Miller song (my dad’s favorite musician), 3000 for Avengers Endgame (“I love you 3,000.”) For something people just blow right past when reading his bio. 😂

I’m enjoying doing “history of” pictures showing the development of fictional technology over time. Mecha Evolution: https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Mecha-Evolution-1037191060 Walking Tank Evolution: https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Mecha-Tank-Evolution-1037200069 So I have been trying for weeks to do a similar “history of power armor”, taking the design from steampunk to nanotechnology but I kept getting stuck at the in-between stage where they have exoskeletons that are like the ones we have now that just surround the body, evolving into the powerloader from Aliens. For some reason it kept getting hung up on the “skeleton” part of “exoskeleton”, giving me endless versions of this: Which are cool, but also a little creepy. I got literally dozens of things like that. I tried dumb ideas like “similar to miniature girders” and stuff. Those were so silly I didn’t bother to download them, except for one that was so out-there compared to what I was asking for it made me laugh: Why it took a prompt that read, “a worker wears an exoskeleton that surrounds their body like miniature girders of a building” and turned it into the robot skeleton of a chimpanzee is baffling. Then I had the brainstorm of using the word “framework” combined with “held onto the body with straps and belts”. Finally! Exactly what I wanted. The moral of the story is to keep plugging away, maybe your brain will eventually kick out the right combination of words to make what you want. Now I just have to pick one or two to use.

Dannngg… I want to read this book, man.

I went to my monthly eye doctor appointment today where they dilated my right eye and then I watched the solar eclipse so I kept looking at it wondering if I messed up my eyes. 😁

Air Speed

The Composer

Heartsick

I ran it through Krea to get this.

Is that upscaled? Looks like a regular screenshot. Or was this meant for the costume design thread?

One of my (many) pulp heroes, the rocket-powered Bullette. As we know, Krea LOOOVES wrinkles, so much so that it put them in her helmet. I kind of dig the weird art deco thing it did with her hat but it's not the character, so I tried to get it to calm down. This is the best I could get. So then I took the prompt over to Bing and it said, "Hold my beer." 😁 Those are the tips of the iceberg. This one, though, isn't exactly right, but it's in the ballpark. Or at least the parking lot of the ballpark. Why it gave her green hair is a mystery. If only the helmet were right, this would be a contender, weird backpack and all. It's still pretty pulpy, though.

Is that the Mystic pattern on the legs? Looks cool, no pun intended.

I heart this.

I’ve always liked your Cyberman design. Super evocative of that style. I just watched Shin Ultraman on YouTube last night, so that whole aesthetic was on my mind. Those are the same experiments I did with the screenie of Badger Boy running from Eochai upthread. Letting Krea go wild is nightmare fuel, honestly. I’m surprised it didn’t smooth out the jaggies between the black and white on the chest. That’s one thing it usually fixes. I wonder if it was interpreting the chest as metal, therefore reflecting the background.

Super Yeti Krea Enhanced screenshot I took the auto-generated prompt from Krea and pasted it into Bing AI.

Hip dysplasia can be brutal.

The thesaurus is key. Flattop, buzz cut, Army haircut…

That first one reminds me of the bicycle helmets you see in Japan. https://images.app.goo.gl/shmyy7t3n7HpZZaf8

Your original costume is amazing. I’m tickled Krea changed his powerset to Spines.