A tale of souls and swords, eternally retold...

Here you go, this will be like the fireworks at the end of the garden party (though i still got my free workbench slot for messing around). I really tried to put this together as a slideshow and give it a part "poetry in motion" (c)Le Bello's award-winning quotes, part bloopers reel feel.

Disclaimer : no animals were hurt in the making of these pictures (but Le Bello was, both physically and psychologically ;o)
If you wanna see his cool CAS in full HD glory (sort of ;o), go to the other thread (CAS with a moustache)

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LOVE dat Cupid though. She's so cool!

Awesome pictures as always, especially of the silly Mantis.

Silly Mantis.

Poor Toodoodoo, though he does scare me, with his tail and his melting. D:
 
LOVE dat Cupid though. She's so cool!

Awesome pictures as always, especially of the silly Mantis.

Silly Mantis.

Poor Toodoodoo, though he does scare me, with his tail and his melting. D:

Thanks, Mantisilly for sure, there was dat silly wasp too, but i didn't bother taking pics of her this time around.

I wish i could cut the tail on Too..., but that ain't gonna happen hey ;o) I am quite happy with how the icy look turns out on the next to last picture...

We still have to watch all the replays with Lil Vil today...

BTW, I wonder why none of my latest CAS made it to the banner slider (nice idea btw)
 
Thanks, Mantisilly for sure, there was dat silly wasp too, but i didn't bother taking pics of her this time around.

I wish i could cut the tail on Too..., but that ain't gonna happen hey ;o) I am quite happy with how the icy look turns out on the next to last picture...

We still have to watch all the replays with Lil Vil today...

BTW, I wonder why none of my latest CAS made it to the banner slider (nice idea btw)

Dat wasp IS silly. I vow to swat it.
Yeah, it's a necessary evil. It's easily enough ignored when you look at his face though, oh my.
Banner slider?
 
Glad you loved it,

Hehe, don't worry if all my links above are broken, that stupid 666k site is down again...will come back sooner or later...
I have been messing around a bit in the area of whimsical CAS and i came up with two ideas.

The first one is the Sea Dog (for those who wonder sea dogs where english pirates at the time of Elisabeth I of England. A CAS metaphor of sorts...

The second one is the Scarecrow, once a man, now a puppet half flesh and bones, half rags and vegetable/tation, with still some part of sad humanity

Here are a few pics, including detailed editor shots...

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The Sea Dogs were a particular group of pirate/adventurers. Otherwise we just called them pirates ;}P

But da-aaa--aaaaaa-mn son, that thing is AMAZINGLY well made. Just when I though you'd run out of things to do with that skeleton! Top marks once again.

The Scarecrow is cool, but it's face just looks awkward and unappealing. The clever parts to it are well done - The leafy skeleton, the heart-based muscles etc, but the face I just hate. Merci.
 
The Sea Dogs were a particular group of pirate/adventurers. Otherwise we just called them pirates ;}P

But da-aaa--aaaaaa-mn son, that thing is AMAZINGLY well made. Just when I though you'd run out of things to do with that skeleton! Top marks once again.

The Scarecrow is cool, but it's face just looks awkward and unappealing. The clever parts to it are well done - The leafy skeleton, the heart-based muscles etc, but the face I just hate. Merci.

Thanks, funny you can do a hound's face with a skely and a cat hey ;o)
About the scarecrow's face, thanks for noticing all the little details...
i dunno bout the face, i like his sad face but maybe i shouldn't have used the carrot trick once again ;o)...
a matter of taste, did you notice he's got bird shit on the top of his hat ;o) (from the crow in the thumbnail).

I will be leaving a little something for you in your thread after my next post (i think you requested that one in chat when we fought didn't you ?)
 
Here are videos of very short fights of my best latest CAS.

Make sure you turn HD on in the settings for optimal viewing if need be.

I will also post one of our fights in "CAS with a moustache" thread that shows one of Le Bello's finest.

I will start with what i think is the most ludicrous all of SC5 vids i ever did (if you only have time for one ;o)

Hope you'll enjoy all of them in e-motion ;o)





 
Thanks, funny you can do a hound's face with a skely and a cat hey ;o)
About the scarecrow's face, thanks for noticing all the little details...
i dunno bout the face, i like his sad face but maybe i shouldn't have used the carrot trick once again ;o)...
a matter of taste, did you notice he's got bird shit on the top of his hat ;o) (from the crow in the thumbnail).

Haha, who'd have thought dogs and cats were so related?

I don't think it looks sad at all. Just annoying. But yeah, the carrots and leaves just look odd, though I might be bias because Scarecrow is my favourite character in Batman...
I didn't notice, but now I go! This is one gross cool feature.
 
Haha, who'd have thought dogs and cats were so related?

I don't think it looks sad at all. Just annoying. But yeah, the carrots and leaves just look odd, though I might be bias because Scarecrow is my favourite character in Batman...
I didn't notice, but now I go! This is one gross cool feature.

Taki says : you ... biased ? Noooooo wayyyy ... !

;o))
 
THE LEGEND WILL NEVER DIE (an epitath of sorts)

I thought, hey, why not look back at these hundreds of hours and make some kind of inventory.

I started doing this list and I almost stopped several times because the task seemed overwhelming (but useful, at least for me).

I thought about doing hyperlinks to pics, but that would take me a month or so, so deal with my laziness for once ;o)

Whatever, I made this list, and this probably will seem like another boring wall of text to most of you still lurking, but to me, those names only are worth several hundred hours of my life doing CAS with (retrospectively) a stupidly high level of finickiness.

Not talking about the stupid amount of time sharing my artwork with the same level of passion and finickiness, for my own guilty pleasure (and yours hopefully), in a desperate attempt to safekeep it by putting it on the net (several places for some of the pics).

I know those virtual souls (but are there real souls btw ?) will get old real quick, but i reallt tried hard to give them the appearance of life and the ability to move the viewers (or online duellists)and it was cool to share a common passion with people from all over the world, from Greece to UK to Middle East to Japan to US…

Sure this part time (lol) activity absorbed a lot of my (creative) energy I couldn’t put into other things (like drawing, sports ;o) but all in all it was immensely fun and rewarding.

It is also the first time I am so famous on the internet, I must say, and as shallow as it may seem, I kinda enjoyed it, mostly for some of the cool people I met here

I am really sad some of the people I bonded the most with are long gone, but I know for trying hard to quit several times that CAS creation for sure is addicting…yet is merely a spare time activity like any other form of art not made business, one that doesn’t feed the family and can be frustrating at times, and you can have severe real life issues that require your full attention and energy.

Nuff said, here is the list, the rest can be seen in the slideshows, vids and throughout the soon 70 pages of this thread (most of the links on page one, except the very last slideshow linked a few posts back).

I organized the list a bit, but not much, since it is only for reading for the most courageous of you :

Most of the alternate style versions of the CAS listed here I did not keep, and are not listed here.

Good to know that it nevertheless accounts for at least 30+ more CAS all with specific thumbnails and weapon art (choice, colors and effects)

Those CAS are spread over 3 saves and 3 backups, yet I had to reduce the headcount (as hard as it was for me) ;o)
I have also made and/or kept around 10 recolors that are not listed here (like the black and red iron golem on based on the Asta 2P for instance)

The total amount of CAS listed below is staggering : 220 CAS !
I am almost sure i must have forgotten quite a few, so if you see something missing that you like, let me know and i'll update...

Here we go (RIP means I did not keep it, or maybe it is still buried somewhere in the usb backups) :

Originals :

Cavegirl
Scarecrow
Sea Dog
Alien Pimp
El Luchador
Drunken Master
Goth Nurse
El Pistolero
Minos
Owl Warriors
Pocky Yoshi
Lich Queen
Space Nightmare
C-Ape-Tain Gorilla (RIP)
Orc General (RIP)
Orc Elite
Orc Grunt (RIP)
The Shadow (Dark Leprechaun)
Bozo aka Clown with a Stick
Horacio aka Big Shoe Clown
Rigoletto aka Little Hat Clown
The Geisha
Masai Queen
Dragon God
Dragon God a la Jurassic Park (RIP)
Green Leprechaun
Goldora aka female Grendizer (RIP)
Arctara aka female Grendizer pilot (RIP)
Medusa
Praying Mantis
The Bushman ake Horny Pigmy
Brundle Fly
Le Bello aka Vive la France !
Guruhi aka African God of Death
Alien Hooker
TooDooDoo aka Knick Knack without a hat !
Vespula (Wasp)
Dragon God
Undead Conan (RIP)
Forest Dragon Ninja (RIP)
Alladin (RIP)
Robot Assassin
Leonidas
Roman Messenger (RIP)
Caligula
The Moutain Troll (RIP)
Pirate of the Carribean
Boxing Champ Gorilla
Myrmidead
The Olympic Fencer
Evil Clown (RIP)
Horus aka God of the Sun
Kurogoshi aka Black Widow Yoshi (RIP)
The Jester (RIP)
The Executioner (RIP)
Voodoo Queen (RIP)
Puppet Doll (RIP)
Mayan King
Dollface
Undead Bard (RIP)
Koala (RIP)
Alien Space Marine
Alien Ronin
Zombardaka the Zombie Bard (RIP)
Skelymitsu aka the skeletal version of Mummymistu (RIP)
Skelvantes (aka undead Pirate with a hat)
Skelvantes the Second (aka undead Pirate with snake eyes)
Judge Pas(cuzzi)
Undead Pharaoh’s spouse (RIP)
The French Cook aka L'Oeuf au Plat (Le Bello will translate instantly for you, don't worry)

3Ps costumes :

Natsu :
Red Ninja
White Ninja
Shaolin Natsu
1001 nights (RIP)

Kilik :
The Cheyenne War Chief
Aquilon

Patroklos :
Cybercop (RIP)

Ivy :
Calamity Jane
Persian Warrior (RIP)
Spetsnaz (beret) RIP
Spetsnaz (fur hat)
Carnaval (RIP)

Voldo :
Red Ant
Tarentula (RIP)

Zwei :
Elvis

Algol :
Pharalgol aka the Pharaoh
Spec Ops
Darkmare
Train robber (RIP)
Grendizer

Elysium :
Cupid

Hilde :
Hildegaru aka Asian Samuraï
Disco Queen
Atlanta (Queen of Atlantis)
Mandraxia aka Magician Leix
The Queen
Madame La Marquise
Robocop
Persian Hilde (RIP)

Astaroth :
The Escaped Convict
The Djinn
The Caveman

Pyrrha :
The Sexy Cook

PyrrhaOmega :
Pyrobot (RIP)
Vampire (Human Form)
Vampire (Bat Form)
Ghoul (RIP)

Misturugi :
Black Knight
Ronin (RIP)
The Warlord
Aged Mistu aka White Beard and the Dragon
Zatoichi aka Blind Samurai (RIP)
Grand Vizir
The convict
The convict w/ sedge hat (RIP)
Yakuza Mistu (RIP)

Cervantes :
The Undertaker
Lord Dracula
The Rancher aka Barbecue Cervy
El Che

Alpha Pat :
Comedia Del Gato

Viola :
The Pixie

Tira :
Lulu Belle
Lulu Belle undressed
Bounty Huntress
Teeria

Raphael :
Lord Belmont (Castlevania)
Top Hat Winged Vampire (RIP)

Edge Master :
Barbarossa
Barbarossa with skull hat (RIP)
The Sultan
Santa Claus
The Sheriff
The Biker
Leonardo da Vinci
Yankee General

Leixia :
Shadow Dancer (RIP)
Leixplorer aka Jungle Leix
The Squaw
The Squire
Barbie doll

Yoshimitsu :
Mummymitsu aka the undead Pharaoh
The Burlesque aka Yoshi Clown
Yin Yang Yosh
Kabuto Yoshi

Maxi :
Shaolin Maxi
Maxi’s father

Nightmare :
Green Sauron
Hellmare
Waspmare (RIP)

Siegfried :
Christopher Columbus
Launcelot of the Lake
Space Sieg (RIP)
Kaine aka Vampire Sieg

Xiba :
Royal Guard

Recreations :

Master Chief (Halo)
La Bella aka female Damp
Mars Attacks (RIP)
Conan The Barbarian
Cat Woman
Marcus Phoenix (RIP)
Hellboy
The Shadow
Skely Leprechaun (RIP)
Striped Ewok
Brown Ewok (RIP)
AsokhaTano (Clone Wars, RIP)
Elder Khajiit (Skyrim, RIP)
War (Darksiders)
Hitman (RIP)
I-robot (RIP)
Jason (Friday 13th)
Zaïus (Planet of the Ape)
King-Kong
Tali (Mass Effect) RIP
Spawn
The Joker (Dark Knight)
Urban Pred (full face mask, RIP)
The Predator (Predator)
Harley Quinn
Batman (RIP)
King of Predators (Predators)
Stick Around Arnie (Predator)
Bumblebee (Transformers)
Blue RyuHayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)
The Hulk (RIP)
Ghostrider (RIP)
Tiger Lee (RIP)
Black Ryu (RIP)
Khajiit (Skyrim)
Dragonborn (Skyrim)
Alien Queen (RIP)
Taki (SC4)
Alien Grunt
The Dwarf (Golden Axe)
The Dwarf unveiled (Golden Axe) (RIP)
Kratos (GOW)
Rock (SCIV)
Rock bare-hands and Apron (RIP)
Bruce Lee (Enter the Dragon)
Bruce Lee (Game of Death, RIP)
Kick Ass
Gatling Kick-Ass (RIP)
Little Girl (Kick-Ass, RIP)
Adam Jensen (Deus Ex)
Pocahontas
BrainGremlin (Gremli ns)
Darth Adder (Golden Axe)
Darth Vador unmasked (Star Wars)
Diablo (Diablo I)
Lich King (WoW)
Neytiri (Avatar)

La Fin...if you show any interest, i thought i could put together a last collection of pics with all the thumbnails (i also love doing thumbnails)
 
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