Strogg fans: Good news!
I'm still at it, and slowly more nostalgic skins are added to the available selection. In a new release, expect at least the following:

http://www.tabun.nl/img/gena/strogg_major_skins_1.jpg

Nope, didn't do em from scratch. This is the one time where I absolutely didn't want to go and create a ton of faces out of nothingness, so I did two things I never did before, for Gen:

1. I kept entire parts of the face as they were (actually, the hair mostly, and I traced and detailed Major's face, to get a good base to work from)
2. I photosourced. I took mouths, eyes and noses to create unique faces without spending ages on them. Jezebel's mouth is entirely hand-drawn, but the others are taken (and heavily edited) from photographs of Famke Jansen, Denise Richards and some little known black woman who poses on porn sites :]

heh heh

yeah cause that's the kind of guy he is

 ~

selflessly goes on porn sites to further improve gen

Well, I'm not as much of an artist as Tabun, but I'm feeling like contributing something to the game other than being a beta tester. I'm working towards getting all of the unused Q3A skins (most of them red or blue) into Gen, since I've seen a few requests for those floating around. As a result, I'm coming up with "characters" to represent those, rather than just calling them "arena"... and here's the first.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/Makou/qgrunt.jpg

Nice  

If you'd fully read my post, you'd have seen that this is in the works.

That's also being worked on.  Sarge's old Q3A stuff will be shoehorned in, and I'm going to attempt multiple colors like we have for Doom and Grunt. In a way, Ranger has several skins already available, since you can change the color of his uniform. I know Tab's working on something, as well.

Well, I really would like to change them somewhat, but the whole point of my little side project is to include the omitted/replaced Q3A skins. Changing them at all would be contradictory to that idea. By changing some colors for a "new" skin, however, I can call it a different character instead of just labeling them "arena" -- in this case, you have qgrunt, qgrunt_blue, and qgrunt_red instead of just arena_blue and arena_red.

As far as greys and stuff go, that's generally a no-no. Something like Tabun's Deathknight skin for Keel works out, because he colored it in a way that it's still quite visible. Originally, my Quake Grunt skin was dark brown and grey -- causing it to blend into several maps and create the situation that we countered with Bones by making the default skin fullbright (thank you, Phoenix, and now I don't even see him used! Woo!). There isn't a lot of sense in fixing the problem on one, just to recreate it on another.

This is a story about good ideas that end up sucking. I took a quick look at the Q3A red and blue skins for Doom, and compared them to the Phobos skin. At a glance, they look rather similar. "Great," I thought, "less work for me!" I knew a slight modification would have to be made for it be believable, though -- Phobos is a dark-skinned individual, and the skintone of the red/blue skins was rather pale.

So I whip open Photoshop, and finally get a right color... and realize that they're actually quite different. The Q3A red and blue skins have some parts from the Doom skin, some from the Phobos skin, and some that different altogether, so that idea went out the window.

But, at least I got to have a laugh at Doom's expense, for once. Meet Deimos.

http://photobucket.com/albums/y70/Makou/deimos.jpg
"Pimpin' ain't easy!"

speaking of new slipgaters

when are we going to see jaeger ?

it's cool that ranger is getting an overhaul

and chance of some other slippys

having a girl slippy would be cool

cause uriel isn't upto much

Demios Pink ? dear god noooo

as for coloured plasma,    pimping has never been easier

Tabun, any chance of you remaking the Red/Blue skins of major to be more like the original CTF skins the Female model had? They rocked compared to the new.