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Post by Rhannon on May 1, 2012 0:41:10 GMT -9
Ok, deviantArt is not a place for "just " paper miniatures, but I like too sci-fi and fanasy art. ( OT: one of my favorite artists: wiredgear.deviantart.com/. Look "Moving In" ) However, between the meanders of deviantArt, There are also some great (or even nice) paper miniatures. From today: 1 - *Pasiphilo's Paper Minis ( pasiphilo.deviantart.com/ ). Only two for now but at the highest level ( imho ). "He is thinking of creating an entire series or two, but first he wanted to get some feedback on his "prototypes" from the RPG crowd on deviantART" ... so ...
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Post by Rhannon on May 1, 2012 2:07:08 GMT -9
Another author on deviantART is "MADMANMIKE" ( madmanmike.deviantart.com/ ). He proposes some paper figures for " Heroes Unlimited" in Arion Games' style ( stand-ups ), but, like Arion Games, with front and back.
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Post by Rhannon on May 1, 2012 3:48:04 GMT -9
3rd ( note: this is not a ranking list ) "ProdigyDuck" ( prodigyduck.deviantart.com/ ) has many nice single paper miniatures on his deviantART page. fantasy, monsters, super-heroes ... ( Warning!" few, three, have little nudity ) 40 paper miniatures.
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Post by Rhannon on May 1, 2012 8:24:10 GMT -9
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Post by old squirmydad on May 1, 2012 8:37:45 GMT -9
Ok, deviantArt is not a place for "just " paper miniatures, but I like too sci-fi and fanasy art. ( OT: one of my favorite artists: wiredgear.deviantart.com/. Look "Moving In" ) However, between the meanders of deviantArt, There are also some great (or even nice) paper miniatures. 1 - *Pasiphilo's Paper Minis ( pasiphilo.deviantart.com/ ). Only two for now but at the highest level ( imho ). "He is thinking of creating an entire series or two, but first he wanted to get some feedback on his "prototypes" from the RPG crowd on deviantART" ... so ... I like this work, this is a very good level of style and quality, I would support it.
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Post by hereticwerks on May 1, 2012 9:12:29 GMT -9
Wow. these are really nice. Pasiphilo's Paper Minis, especially the Female Elven Sorcerer has a lot of wonderful detail. Using a chunk of foamcore for a base also is a great idea. Thanks for pointing these out.
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Post by madmanmike on Jul 22, 2012 8:48:49 GMT -9
Another author on deviantART is "MADMANMIKE" ( madmanmike.deviantart.com/ ). He proposes some paper figures for " Heroes Unlimited" in Arion Games' style ( stand-ups ), but, like Arion Games, with front and back. Thanks for the acknowledgement. I've since taken down the HU minis as I'm now designing official Palladium® Fantasy RPG 2E miniatures for sale at DriveThruRPG.com, hopefully by the end of August. Here's the teaser image. If they go well I'll be redoing the Heroes Unlimited ones for future sale.
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Post by Rhannon on Aug 3, 2012 0:24:38 GMT -9
Thanks for the acknowledgement. I've since taken down the HU minis as I'm now designing official Palladium® Fantasy RPG 2E miniatures for sale at DriveThruRPG.com, hopefully by the end of August. Here's the teaser image. If they go well I'll be redoing the Heroes Unlimited ones for future sale. Welcome aboard Mike. My personal impressions is that there are some differences between hand-drawn paper miniatures and CG stand up flat figures. But I love both. So I can't wait for your minis ( they are so bright. Lovely ) Please, keep me informed about news.
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Post by Rhannon on Aug 3, 2012 0:37:21 GMT -9
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Post by Reivaj on Aug 3, 2012 4:51:03 GMT -9
Excelent!!
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Post by madmanmike on Aug 3, 2012 16:55:53 GMT -9
Welcome aboard Mike. My personal impressions is that there are some differences between hand-drawn paper miniatures and CG stand up flat figures. But I love both. So I can't wait for your minis ( they are so bright. Lovely ) Please, keep me informed about news. Thanks. The primary difference that may be unpopular I'm noticing is that because the image is based on a 3D object, the backside doesn't exactly match the outline of the front side, so it won't be possible to cut out the outline as some like to do with their paper minis. For me though, as an experienced Poser and DAZStudio artist, I'm pretty disappointed in the lack of effort I've seen in the 3D minis out there. Zero lighting/shadows, and basic premade library poses. People that don't like what I do think it's a matter of clicking the 'make art' button. For most of the 3D minis out there, that's what they've done. I have an extensive process I run all my renders through in Photoshop to give them the look they have, and I use a custom light set I've designed for the renders. All of my figures are posed by me from scratch, moving each individual part of the body to make the poses they have, and many of them use custom textures I've made for their outfits. As of now I've completed about 110 miniatures to be divided between two packages (probably around 6 bucks each), plus the four in this pic for the freebie sample set, which I expect to be up before GenCon in a couple of weeks. Included with each mini will be a stat card (10 to a page) that gives quick combat and character stats for the Palladium® Fantasy 2E RPG, and each package will have a quick combat rule set so you can just use the minis with the cards for a game in and of themselves. I say I've completed 110 minis, but I still have to work on the stat cards for the vast majority of them; fortunately after today's Doctor visit I now know I have the time to finish this project; I was in a bad accident back in December and today the doctor rated me as too disabled to return to my old job, and suggested that Worker's Comp get me some vocational training for a new line of work. I've been a driver of one type or another for almost 15 years, so I'll be glad to get out of the 60 to 80 hour work weeks and into something new. -Mike
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Post by Rhannon on Aug 4, 2012 3:12:06 GMT -9
Thanks. The primary difference that may be unpopular I'm noticing is that because the image is based on a 3D object, the backside doesn't exactly match the outline of the front side, so it won't be possible to cut out the outline as some like to do with their paper minis. How many explanations. Thank you very much, Mike. Everyone here knows my technical ignorance in terms of computer knowledge and production of images. But I like very much to know. Thanks. Personally I'm learning don't make strict differences between products. I love hand-drawn paper miniatures but I like much CG minis too. I want miniatures with front and back but I can't renounce to PF Paizo's paper minis. I think, for myself of course, that paper miniatures are not a secondary product, as well as all the indie P&P and downloadable products. They are not, for me, temporary pawns to test something but the exact product that I'm looking for. I collect paper minis for a long time but, at the beginning, this was not my main hobby. It has become the main when a few years ago, I had to give up something and I realized I didn't want to leave this. Of course. I agree with you. One of the few complaints that I can do with CG/3D minis is exactly the lack of lighting/shadows ( and brightness for me ) and a bit of poses rigidity. But other than that, many (I am referring to Arion Games' production ) are at least good products. Then there are also terrible things ( or mediocre ) but everything is so. There are ugly things in hand-drawn figures too. Ok, but I was already convinced by first. I hope your convalescence goes well. Mike. And good luck with your next new job. 60/80 hour work weeks? They are really a lot. In Italy work 35 hours per week and already I can't have much free time ... Ciao PS: Excuse me for my inaccurate english. This is not my native language and my school memories are lost in time many years ago. ;D
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 4, 2012 5:32:20 GMT -9
Good luck with rehab. I was fortunate. They were going to put me on disability at the ripe old age of 32, but I insisted that they get me to a different surgical group (the ones that take care of the Royals and Chiefs) and they got me fixed up.
As far as hours, I do the 8:00 to 6:30 M-F, so I can relate to shortness of time. Take care.
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Post by madmanmike on Aug 4, 2012 8:45:28 GMT -9
Thanks guys, I'm glad to be here and look forward to my minis being available.
When I worked for Frito-Lay (5 1/2 years), I was at work by 5AM and rarely home before 7PM, with split days off (usually Wednesday/Sunday). At least once a month I'd be at work for 24 hours straight, and many times would work from 5AM to 7PM on Saturday and be back at work at 12AM Sunday to work until 2PM.
From that job I went to Schwan's Home Service (4 years 8 months), selling frozen food to people in their homes and businesses. That was 7AM to 9 or 10PM daily, and for the first two years I worked three Saturdays a month. When I quit working Saturdays I started coming in later (8 or 9AM), but often didn't get home until after 11PM; yes, many people expected me to come to their homes and sell them frozen food after 10PM (and not just the druggies with the munchies).
When Schwan's moved back to commission sales from salary I knew my pay was not going to be adequate to live on (and never really was adequate for the hours I worked), so I went to FedEx. After a month of being jerked around I finally got a route; go in at 6AM, spend two hours loading the truck, spend 1.5 hours driving to the first stop, spend 11.5 hours running and driving to deliver packages and another 1.5 hours to get home around 12AM. Just as I was starting to get things down the winter rush hit and when I fell asleep at the wheel, it was around 10PM on a Thursday night after 68 hours of work, with two days left to do.
I woke up and could touch the tail light of the trailer I'd rear-ended on the interstate; on the left side - six broken ribs; on the right side - dislocated and broken hip, broken knee-cap, broken ankle and five broken toes. I was pinned for about 45 minutes before they got me out, and within three minutes I was out of it on morphine. I spent two weeks in the hospital in Columbia, MO, then voluntarily spent another week in rehab closer to home at the hospital in Rolla, MO. After five weeks at home I started Physical Therapy and went for an hour a day three times a week for six months.
Now I have arthritis in my big toe, and a substantially weaker right leg than my left thanks to it (I can press 250+lbs with the left, but struggle to press 180lbs with the right ). There's a carbon-fiber insert in my shoe to prevent the toes from bending, that should reduce pain, and if Worker's Comp will agree to it, I have a consultation with a foot surgeon on Thursday to see if there's some kind of surgery that can reduce the pain. Monday I talk with Worker's Comp about that and the possibility of vocational training to do something else besides drive.
I'm thinking Computer programming....
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Post by madmanmike on Aug 4, 2012 8:46:46 GMT -9
Good luck with rehab. I was fortunate. They were going to put me on disability at the ripe old age of 32, but I insisted that they get me to a different surgical group (the ones that take care of the Royals and Chiefs) and they got me fixed up. As far as hours, I do the 8:00 to 6:30 M-F, so I can relate to shortness of time. Take care. So you're in KC? I grew up near Truman Corners in South KC, and went to high school in Shawnee Mission..
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 4, 2012 9:17:52 GMT -9
Ah, so you grew up near the Truman Farm, eh? Small world. I live over by the stadiums.
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Post by madmanmike on Aug 4, 2012 9:52:19 GMT -9
If you leave the stadiums and go south on Blue Ridge, the very first left goes to a set of apartments with a bunch of fountains out front; that's where my sister and her first husband first lived together, before buying their first house about a mile further down that road.
It was a serious mind job to grow up in the Ruskin school district expecting to get stabbed or shot in high school and then move to Overland Park, KS and attend high school at Shawnee Mission East; from a school with four or five fights a day to a school with two or three fights a year that ended with the parents suing each other in court.
Moved to Steelville, MO after high school and met my wife; After living a year and a half in KC we moved back down here to Cuba and have been here ever since. Hard to justify city life when it's so nice out here.
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 4, 2012 10:26:29 GMT -9
My former in-laws lived in Cuba, before they decided to settle down to a quieter pace in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. I actually went to college in Rolla, and in my college days had my stomach pumped twice at that hospital. Ah, the stupidity of youth ...
Wishing you the best
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Post by madmanmike on Aug 4, 2012 12:21:44 GMT -9
Wow. I wonder how much smaller this world can get before we're all cast off into space?
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Post by dcbradshaw on Aug 4, 2012 12:55:06 GMT -9
Wow. I wonder how much smaller this world can get before we're all cast off into space? I live in Brookside, that's how small! Vermin King, how did I not know you were in KC??? And how did this thread turn into a KC Metro reunion???
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 4, 2012 15:51:08 GMT -9
Maybe we can get Glenn Williams back for the State Fair and we could have a Cardboard Warriors Day at the Fair ... LOL. I had no idea you were from Brookside, either. Talk about a small world
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Post by madmanmike on Aug 8, 2012 18:20:56 GMT -9
Well, things seem to be going my way.. The Worker's Comp lady approved my visit to the surgeon, although I had to move the appointment back a few weeks while I wait for the previous trips mileage check, and she's looking into where to send me for their evaluation to compare with my doctors before sending me to school.
But more importantly, I should have the time to finish my minis project, and today my publisher approved the freebie sample set, so it should be up shortly, possibly by the end of the week. I'll put a link here when it's done.
-Mike
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 9, 2012 13:28:53 GMT -9
Excellent news
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Post by old squirmydad on Aug 9, 2012 21:03:03 GMT -9
All good news, and welcome to Cardboard-Warriors! Feel free to start your own thread to showcase your work, ideas, color commentary.
In Kansas news; My wife and I have tons of relatives in the Perry, Topeka, Lawrence, Tonganoxie, and KC area.
Browns, Ellises, Masters, Calhouns, Boldens - all part of the Grand Clan of Squirmydad.
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 10, 2012 4:44:52 GMT -9
You'll have to let us know when you are down here for a family reunion. I know several Alaska folks that come down here for deer and turkey sseasons, also. Another fine reason to visit the heartland. Right now my only relatives in Alaska are the Pages.
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Post by gigglestick on Aug 16, 2012 18:45:53 GMT -9
I think Talzhemir is the wife of Jeff Dee (Artist/co-creator of Villains and Vigilantes...he did a lot of early D&D Artwork and also did the original Carboard Heroes Superhero Set. Talzhemir did some artwork and paper minis for thier new games.)
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Post by madmanmike on Aug 17, 2012 2:49:43 GMT -9
Interesting. I know Kevin Siembieda did some of the art for the original Cardboard Heroes sets.. He tells me it was a real pain; back then they didn't really have the tech to reduce an image well, so they had to draw them at only double scale. All that detail in less than three inches...
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