Erratica Reduex

Mako, the utterly most important character of the other night's Golden Sky Stories. Just ask her. Drawn by the GM, the day after the game. Her visual concept is not "cute sexy catgirl in sailor fuku", more like "Why's that girl in the 50 year-old schoolgirl outfit staring at me? Didn't some horror movie start this way?"

Mako in game was completely, utterly deadpan. Whether it was suggesting they sell the Fox's shrine to raise money, or urging her bird friend to eat more, she was completely expressionless. Despite being selfish and standoffish, she has a good heart. Maybe. Not that she cares or anything.

The fish she is carrying was carelessly left in a display tank in a restaurant- obviously the didn't want it if they were just going to be leaving it there. There might be a girl at the local school who forgot her lunch today, and will come back to class to find a perfectly delectable meal wriggling and flopping on her desk. Not that she's Mako's friend or anything, she was just passing by. And a cat will do what she wants.

OK, so I admit it: as a kid I liked playing with my G.I. Joe (original large size) and Johhny West dolls action figures. I also like perusing art site for interesting character designs, and one of my favorite parts of WoW and City of Heroes were the character builders. 

That's why I've been having a lot of fun with Anime Character Maker 2, It's a nice simple program where you can select from a menu of features and clothing, and come up with a basic character design fairly quickly. In some ways the choices are fairly limited, but it's a nice start, and it'll be easy to add more features in the next several versions of this, so it'll be interesting to see where this goes.And as a quick way to churn out basic characters, it's not bad.

As an example, just for fun, here is an anime version of my character Zanne from my current D&D game. The trick was getting the proper absent minded expression for him.

I think we've all seen it. The book cover, illustration, or painting on a fantasy topic where you just have to stoip and ask yourself, "Did they mean to do that? No, it's too earnest, too unreflective." But still, you have to wonder how the artist didn't know they were making something quite unlike what they intended.

For example:

"This is My Toxic Cloud Spell."




"Those flying phalluses! I can't look!




"Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?"



(I'm actually not sure if that last one is intentional or not. But I still say it's probably the best portrayal of Miles Vorkoskigan.)

So does anyone else have any accidentally funny fantasy pics to share?

Tebe Interesno shows where guitars come from. And knowing is half the battle.

Note: Tebe Interesno is the journal of my favorite Russian modern surrealist.

If you ladies are still strapped for costume ideas at this late date, well, there's this original idea from a Japanese designer:





This is one of a collection of 15 chemograph plates from Military Costumes in Old Japan, by Kazumasa Ogawa, published in 1895.

 I've stumbled upon a character template graphics system in the style of the famous Heromachine, only using templates in the style of the DC animated universe.  This is something whereby one can seriously waste away an entire weekend making superheroes.   the only disadvantage is that the site is not in English.

The character generator

(Note: "Criar!!!" is the Enter key.)

English translation for the buttons


User's Guide


A thread of people making various heroes.  this has some massively fun depictions.  It not only has some recognizable superheroes, but also fantasy characters as well.  It even includes the obligatory outraged post by an annnoyed "real artiste". 

Currently, this recognizable trio is my favorite:





this is going to totally blow my weekend.