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thedude255 — DU: Freedom War: Blaze

Published: 2012-06-10 13:35:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 2571; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 73
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Description I'm going to try and make an entry for this month's challenge if I have the time to do so. With VC falling in on the same month I will be more focused on my entry for that, but will have a week to spare too perhaps to spend working on the June challenge of Deviant Universe.

This is Blaze, twenty years from now when the world has fallen to the might of Enforcer's, led by former Thunder Force's Pixel. I think for my entry with Blaze, I will make her a leader type in the future, having banded together survivors much like 42X.

Rather then make a plan of attack, Blaze instead tries to keep her people alive, already knowing the future is bleak with every day spent alive a blessing (or perhaps a curse). I'll go into it more should I have time to make a full entry, along with how the heroine meets her end to meet the challenge requirements.

I tried to alter Blaze's image naturally with it being twenty years later. I kind of like the look I've given her. I wanted to keep her hair the same but it made her look too young still, and so I opted for shorter hair and luckily it does seem to have put a bit of age on Blaze, which is required since it is 20 years later.

I'm curious to see where this challenge goes so hopefully I'll have something made by this month's end, so there might be a full ten pages from me or... hopefully less XD

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You can see my entry for this challenge with this version of Blaze right here.

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Pretty grim challenge!

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Comments: 22

TtfnJohn [2012-08-02 06:21:12 +0000 UTC]

Blaze, thankfully, is still Blaze, not that I thought you were going to change her too much. I'd always pictured her as in the 18-22 range before so for me the shorter hair moves her to, lets say 38. Jack Benny's eternal age.

Gravity hasn't had much of a way with her. It often doesn't with a woman with small to medium sized breasts. It could also be her upper body armour.

it's good to see her intelligence, determination and skills intact and even grown.

General now it she? It fits. As, I suspect, will some of the darkness that always surrounds her. Not darkness as it will she turn evil but that she is, still, if the need arises, capable of going there for the greater good. I'm sure her view of the world has stayed the same as has her sense of betrayal by the likes of Pixel, Slade's compounding mistakes and Rufus's presence the last time we saw her as she made her plan.

Twenty years on.

She's one of my fabvourite characters to come along in comics and graphic novels in years.

It's too bad the feather is gone, that was a good touch though 20 years isn't kind to feathers. Just ask dead birds or dinosaurs!

I'm happy to see her back!

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thedude255 In reply to TtfnJohn [2012-08-02 10:57:39 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much once again for the very kind comment. In truth this is just an alternate version of Blaze and not actual canon story. It was part of a challenge in the Deviant Universe group to age our characters twenty years and cast them into this post apocolyptic world where Pixel is destroying all the heroes and villains alike.

In such a reality, I tried to age Blaze to fit it. I probably didn't age her enough as she still looks reasonably young in the actual 10 page comic. Her outfit was designed more or less to fit this apololyptic timescale, that plus her leadership role in this future and her age. There is a link on the description above that can lead you to the 10 page comic if you wish to read it, but I do warn it is a rather grim comic strip.

Luckily as I said this is not a canon story, but I think there are things I can take from this version of Blaze that could easily work for the true canon Blaze of our time

Thanks once more for the comment and the !

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Prototype278 [2012-06-28 23:24:25 +0000 UTC]

Dude... Nice.

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thedude255 In reply to Prototype278 [2012-06-28 23:59:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Glad you like it

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Prototype278 In reply to thedude255 [2012-06-30 14:26:56 +0000 UTC]

Indeed. I'm just wondering how you do the 3d art. Is it a program you draw out like you would a pencil? Or is it a code format that you punch in and it draws it out for you?

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thedude255 In reply to Prototype278 [2012-06-30 19:09:11 +0000 UTC]

I guess in a loose sense its a little more on the pencil side of things. I'd actually say its more of a sandbox. The items I use are not designed by me but others, I have software in which I can compile characters using various clothing items and provided models. Creation is a little bit like character creation in a game. It is then a case of posing said models to how you desire.

Look it up, I use Daz3d, you can find it on google

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Prototype278 In reply to thedude255 [2012-06-30 19:18:03 +0000 UTC]

Awesome. I'll look into it. Thanks for the info.

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Kostmeyer [2012-06-17 18:27:51 +0000 UTC]

Nice redesign for post-apocalypse Blaze! Nice backstory - looking forward to seeing what happens next if you get the time to do any more.

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thedude255 In reply to Kostmeyer [2012-06-17 18:43:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I do have a plan, I'm gonna start working on the first few pages soon as it might take the full 10 for what I have in mind. I kinda intend to make Blaze look very strong in this entry... which makes a bit of a change

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Kostmeyer In reply to thedude255 [2012-06-17 18:51:45 +0000 UTC]

She does pretty well! But I like the idea of her being a defender rather than a fighter in this - rejecting the superheroics to save the normal humans is a good storyline. Wish we had more time in this setting, but I'm intrigued to find out what is lined up for next month!

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thedude255 In reply to Kostmeyer [2012-06-17 19:03:45 +0000 UTC]

Yah. I'm very curious. Whilst I enjoyed the last big storyline arc in Deviant Universe I felt a little bit let down personally by the end and how little influence many of the entries had upon it. I certainly can't blame mja42x for it though as I imagine its a hell of a lot of work to manage so many entries and what not. I'm sure you have just as much experiance having to deal with Secret Wars

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Kostmeyer In reply to thedude255 [2012-06-17 19:11:49 +0000 UTC]

Yeah exactly. I drew a lot more pages trying to bind all the little storylines together, and it just isn't sustainable, so I understand!

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Branded-Curse [2012-06-10 13:58:35 +0000 UTC]

Wow! Pretty cool design!
So you really are planning on participating here AND in the Colosseum with only a couple of weeks left?
You must be in an art frenzy, my man!

I myself hope to participate in the DU Challenge as well, even though I doubt I will get there.
If I do, I wasn't planning on using Rufus. So he could be dead in this future, if you wanna work with that.

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thedude255 In reply to Branded-Curse [2012-06-10 14:01:59 +0000 UTC]

If I can. I will be primarily focused on the Colosseum entry naturally. Already trying to work on making a Goth and getting the scene right If I finish it handy enough I will then try and work on this DU challenge if I can and if I have the energy. Don't want to overdo it you see after all.

Glad you like the future design of Blaze. I see you're in the same boat as me for seeing if we can get an entry in for this month's challenge. I'm very curious to see what you have in mind if you get the time

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Branded-Curse In reply to thedude255 [2012-06-10 14:15:33 +0000 UTC]

Already decided that IF I get there, I will do little more than the death scene.
Two pages, more is impossible to even think of

As for whom to use ... let's just say I would turn a villain of mine into a hero

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thedude255 In reply to Branded-Curse [2012-06-10 14:19:09 +0000 UTC]

0_0

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Branded-Curse In reply to thedude255 [2012-06-10 14:29:16 +0000 UTC]

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mja42x [2012-06-10 13:54:50 +0000 UTC]

Very cool future design. Blaze always looks good

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thedude255 In reply to mja42x [2012-06-10 14:02:06 +0000 UTC]

Cheers!

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Lecter-the-Mu [2012-06-10 13:44:46 +0000 UTC]

Not bad future design for Blaze I think the jacket is a good addition

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thedude255 In reply to Lecter-the-Mu [2012-06-10 13:51:21 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like it! Hopefully I'll work on this more if I have the time. I need to focus on a certain thing first though >>

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Lecter-the-Mu In reply to thedude255 [2012-06-10 13:52:26 +0000 UTC]

I think I know what are going to focus on next

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