LAST EDITED ON Apr-26-10 AT 10:27 PM (EDT)
 
I was going to sit on this until Phil had a chance to color it up, but you know what, having received it today, I just can't.

So, courtesy of Phil Moy and Doc, here's a little moment in time with our close personal friends, Commander Virginia Shepard and Richard B. Riddick (and special guest star George).

If you're familiar with the way the Mass Effect games handle alignment, you'll understand why I had to call this one Paragon & Renegade.

And you'll be seeing it again, oh yes. :)

--G.
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Sweet.

I actually picked up ME2 a while back on the strength of the works written involving it, and have not in any way regretted it. I'm glad to see it find a home in UF.

LAST EDITED ON Apr-15-10 AT 04:17 AM (EDT)
 
N7 Armor? Check.
M-98 Widow? Check.
Kick-ass squad? Che...wait, you're short a squad member.

>N7 Armor? Check.
>M-98 Widow? Check.
>Kick-ass squad? Che...wait, you're short a squad member.

Ahhhh, who do you think took the picture? She's definately smirking at someone.

Her look says "You're making this into a postcard?! You're sick, man."

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>Her look says "You're making this into a postcard?! You're
>sick, man."

Dear Wrex,

Hello from beautiful Tau Ceti. Weather's nice. Wish you were here!

xoxo,
- Gin

--G.
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>Dear Wrex,
>
>Hello from beautiful Tau Ceti. Weather's nice. Wish you were here!
>
>xoxo,
> - Gin

Dear Gin,

Shepard.

- Wrex

>Dear Gin,
>
>Shepard.
>
>- Wrex

Back in the day, they used to get into these epic SMS loops. If the WDF's internal comms division had charged for text messages on a par with, say, Royal Salusian Telecom's rates at the time, they'd have owed a small fortune after that shore leave on Onsen Prime. Get two giddily intoxicated combat veterans with text-capable communicators on opposite sides of a bamboo wall and you end up with an hour and a half of

22830410.0012> wrex.
22830410.0013> shepard.
22830410.0013> wrex.
22830410.0014> shepard.

--G.
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>>Dear Gin,
>>
>>Shepard.
>>
>>- Wrex
>
>Back in the day, they used to get into these epic SMS loops.
>If the WDF's internal comms division had charged for text messages on
>a par with, say, Royal Salusian Telecom's rates at the time, they'd
>have owed a small fortune after that shore leave on Onsen Prime. Get
>two giddily intoxicated combat veterans with text-capable
>communicators on opposite sides of a bamboo wall and you end up with
>an hour and a half of
>
>22830410.0012> wrex.
>22830410.0013> shepard.
>22830410.0013> wrex.
>22830410.0014> shepard.

Oh god, I'm dying here. That's excellent.

>Oh god, I'm dying here. That's excellent.

[redacted]

Sweet Jesus, and that's how you repay me? Can never un-see!

--G.
the umbra visor, it does nothing
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>>Oh god, I'm dying here. That's excellent.
>
>[redacted]
>
>Sweet Jesus, and that's how you repay me? Can never un-see!

Sometimes I worry that the internet has broken me.

As compensation, please enjoy this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z--ic2lQzg

>Sometimes I worry that the internet has broken me.
>
>As compensation, please enjoy this.
>

The person who created these(there are a handful) also seems to have suffered from the greatest caste of utter boredom ever. As evidenced here,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx37JJ6HyHU

Haaaa HAHAHA Oh, fuck.

I love you guys. Srsly.
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Wrex & Shepard -- Wrex. Shepard. (Noooooo, 2010)

Wrex.
Shepard.

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So, something like this.

Polychrome

>>Her look says "You're making this into a postcard?! You're
>>sick, man."
>
>Dear Wrex,
>
>Hello from beautiful Tau Ceti. Weather's nice. Wish you were here!
>
>xoxo,
> - Gin

"Woah... it's like a postcard!... 'Dear Sarge: Kicking ass in outer space... Wish you were here!'"
"I heard that, jackass!"

Awesome.

*idly wonders if it is sad that she can identify each armor piece* ... Nah...

>Awesome.
>
>*idly wonders if it is sad that she can identify each armor piece* ...
>Nah...

- Kuwashii Visor
- Shield Harness
- Asymmetric Defense Layer
- Off-Hand Armor Pack
- N7 Greaves

Yeah, I wear my "Nerd" badge with pride.

I love her expression. There is nothing quite as devastatingly hot as "Armored woman, bearing weapon, with sociopathic dog, background ablaze".

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I could love you till forever, when I look into your eyes...

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>I love her expression. There is nothing quite as devastatingly hot as
>"Armored woman, bearing weapon, with sociopathic dog, background
>ablaze".

Aw, that's mean. Riddy's not a sociopath. Sociopaths lack empathy and social conscience, can't form friendships, and are incapable of loyalty except to themselves. Their defining feature is their utter callousness. Riddick's just violent. :)

--G.
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LAST EDITED ON Apr-15-10 AT 12:41 PM (EDT)
 
Hahahaha. I stand corrected. I'll tell you, he looks fricken cool, whatever his personality may be.

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>Hahahaha. I stand corrected. I'll tell you, he looks fricken cool,
>whatever his personality may be.

Heh, yeah, I'm very pleased with his appearance here. True story: in the reference photos of Wedge's parents' dog Lucy (yeah, the model for Riddick is a girl dog; so nu, most Lassies were boy collies), that box on her collar is some sort of electronic fence or anti-barking device, I forget which. I forgot to mention in the image spec that the artist could disregard that, so it appears on Riddy in the resulting art. No idea what it is there. Wedge suggests it's a vocoder. :)

--G.
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>that box on her...
>collar is some sort of electronic fence or anti-barking device, I
>forget which. I forgot to mention in the image spec that the artist
>could disregard that, so it appears on Riddy in the resulting art. No
>idea what it is there. Wedge suggests it's a vocoder. :)

Hmmm. Battle computer with throat-mic. Transmits to Shepard's/teammates' visors.

...Or to an orbital weapons platform. >:)

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Riddie: Ok EDI, just painted your target for the cannon shot.
EDI: Urinating on the wall does not count at 'painting the target'.
Riddie: Go with what works. 'Sides, how do you expect me to hold a targeting laser?
EDI: ... Firing in five.

*shatter*

Ok, now THAT is made of awesome.

-- Slider Da Feral

WAAHAHAHAHA! *THAT* is the kind of stuff I was talking about!

I think border collies have the perfect disposition for work as an 0861/13F.

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Andain -- Beautiful Things (Album)

Got up early, found something's missing,
my only name.
No one else sees, but I got stuck;
it seemed forever came.
Stop pushing, move for just a second.
then nothing's changed.
Who am I this time, where's my name?
I guess it crept away...

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*LMAO*

And to get back to the original subject, cool pic.

LAST EDITED ON Apr-26-10 AT 10:30 PM (EDT)
 
More to come, but I wanted to share this before I go messing with What's New.

Colors and presentation by our very own Phil Moyer!

--G.
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Yaaaay!!! This makes me happy in extreme ways!!!

Can't wait to se what else is cookin'! Thanks for posting this chief.

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Shepard. Wrex.

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>Yaaaay!!! This makes me happy in extreme ways!!!
>
>Can't wait to se what else is cookin'!

Hmm. Thirty-odd hours later, a strange silence is upon the land. Well... okay, on the off chance that people are watching the board but not clocking the New feed:

Or, if you'd rather the one without the caption and Phil's may I say extremely clever background trick,

--G.
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>>Yaaaay!!! This makes me happy in extreme ways!!!
>>
>>Can't wait to se what else is cookin'!
>
>Hmm. Thirty-odd hours later, a strange silence is upon the land.
>Well... okay, on the off chance that people are watching the board but
>not clocking the New feed:

It's been one of those weeks....and i saw the feed and look. Sorry. It is all sorts of awesome...

Trigger Argee
trigger_argee@hotmail.com
Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - HST

Great art, as always, from the trifecta of awesome. The postcard formatting is beautiful, that's exactly how I saw it in my head. PJM's coloring is always improving. Very cool stuff.

I know not of this feed of which you speak. I saw the link on the EPU "what's new" page.

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Queens Of The Stone Age-- Go With The Flow(Songs For the Deaf, 2002)

It's so safe to play along,
Little soldiers in a row.
Falling in and out of love,
Something sweet, to throw away.

I want something good to die for!
To make it beautiful, to live.
I want a new mistake,
"Lose" is more than "Hesitate".

Do you believe it in your head?

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>I know not of this feed of which you speak.

There's an RSS feed of the What's New page (it's linked from there and also the front of the site). I don't use RSS myself, so I don't really know how it works, but it's there anyway. Dave worked hard on it!

This whole thread is turning into "Gryphon solicits credit for the rest of the team", given that I had nothing to do with the actual making of the art (apart from designing the spec and gathering up reference data) or the RSS feed. :)

--G.
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>There's an RSS feed of the What's New page (it's linked from there and
>also the front of the site). I don't use RSS myself, so I don't
>really know how it works, but it's there anyway. Dave worked hard on
>it!

I double-checked the What's New page, and sure enough, there is an RSS link. D'oh. I never did catch the RSS bug; I'm actually trying to spend more time *away* from my computer, than in front of it.

I see this trend continuing, albeit without much success, now that I'm enrolled in college...

>This whole thread is turning into "Gryphon solicits credit for the
>rest of the team", given that I had nothing to do with the actual
>making of the art (apart from designing the spec and gathering up
>reference data) or the RSS feed. :)

C'mon, dude! Part of a director's job is calling for a round of applause for the hard-working team that let's him get the work done. I think it speaks volumes about this peculiar subtype of geekery that there are so many talents committed to it's success.

We do appreciate all of the hard work, even the stuff that's not so easy to see or recognize.
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White Zombie -- Black Sunshine(La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Volume One, 1992)

Gripping the wheel, his knuckles went white with desire. The wheels of his Mustang exploding on the highway like a slug from a forty-five. True death; 400 horsepower of maximum performance, piercing the night! This is Black Sunshine...

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>C'mon, dude! Part of a director's job is calling for a round of
>applause for the hard-working team that let's him get the work done.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I was whining on their behalf, not because I don't think they deserve it. Of course they do! :)

--G.
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>Oh, don't get me wrong, I was whining on their behalf, not because I
>don't think they deserve it. Of course they do! :)
>
Your right. KAI the whole crew who aquired this one!!!

Speaking of art contribution, I've got materials set aside for the EB-1 build.

If it's permissable, I'll be using the thread where that conversation took place to talk about it.

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