Murs47
"murs is cool!" -previsionary
Posts by Murs47
Ultimate Wonder Woman Contest Finale
Oct 1st
Vamp's Winning Design
It is with great pleasure that I announce Vamp as the winner of the contest. A blend of a military uniform and combined with a super hero costume really fits my written concept for the character. So, congrats to him.
I’d also like to thank Naitvalis and John Jr. for participating. They both did an excellent job with their designs and concepts.
I’ve got some more contests in mind with a little variety but I’m going to hold off for the time being.
UDCU: Where art thou?
Aug 25th
As you may, or may not have noticed, the UDCU page is down. It’s because I hate all of you. I’m under valued, under appreciated, and under paid. I demand monies via PayPal! Shower me with flowers and introduce me to your sisters (if they are of age).
All kidding aside, the site will be down while it goes through some maintenance. The urge to continue and finish this project has been itching me for a while. That said, when the site’s up and running again, it’ll have improved content (updated/new skins).
I did want to run a contest on designs for Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter. What do you guys think would be a serviceable prize to the winner of such a contest?
I’ll end this post with a small preview:
Ultimate DC
Skinning Tutorial: Logo
Jun 24th
Prev mentioned I should demonstrate my process for creating logos for my skins, so I did… in a very brief manner. It starts in Adobe Illustrator and ends in Adobe Photoshop.
Have a question that you want to see covered? Go here and submit! Video Skinning Tutorials
Skinning Tutorial: Boots
Jun 15th
John Jr. said:
Murs, how you did the boots of your Red Son Superman? Most of skins (including all of mine) has the boots looking form fitting, like spandex. Your Red Son Supes has a great leather feel and no muscles showing in his boots. How you did that?
Have a question that you want to see covered? Go here and submit! Video Skinning Tutorials
Skinning Tutorial: Hair
Jun 9th
LP said:
However, the thing that I believe all skinners could aid from is different techniques in doing HAIR, for both male and female meshes.
This same method can be applied to female hair.
Have a question that you want to see covered? Go here and submit! Video Skinning Tutorials
Skinning Tutorial: Color
May 26th
Podmark said:
I have a question Murs, how do you colour your base? Like going from your original base to the blue tone you have for the Spidey 2099 skin you did.
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Skinning Tutorial: Highlights
May 23rd
Freedom Reborn member John Jr. asks:
“Murs, how did you make the (perfect) highlights on your Spidey 2099 skin?”
I don’t know about perfect, but this is how I go about doing them. If anyone would like me to go into more detail, just let me know.
Just a heads up: I’ve been fighting serious allergies so I’m sorry for any coughing, sneezing, sniffling, and throat clearing.
Have a question that you want to see covered? Go here and submit! Video Skinning Tutorials
Highlight On: Bucky Barnes
Apr 8th
The only constant in the world of comics is the illusion of change — anonymous
If the quote above is to be taken into consideration, then you wouldn’t expect anything shocking to happen in the world of comics. Well, a few years ago, the fan community was alarmed to find out that Captain America, aka Steve Rogers, was shot dead and he was going to be eventually replaced. Despite the fact that Captain America has died and has been replaced several times before, this particular instance struck a chord with people. Was it something truly unexpected? Was it the fact that Steve died in such a mundane way? Who knows, but it had fans taking sides and older fans spewing vitriol. Now that Steve is back and the mantle he once held is now secured by Bucky Barnes, I figured it’d be a great time to look at the transition the character of Bucky has made; and with that in mind, I sought out Brubaker fan, Murs of 47, to give us his thoughts. These… are his opinions and if you hate them… then he’ll be at the corner store on Monday. 
Darkest Reign
Nov 28th
“In Darkest Reign. In undelivered plight. No Marvel idea shall be executed right!” – one of murs47′s braincells
Everyone loves an underdog. So, when I read what Marvel wanted to do post Secret Invasion I was pretty excited about the position it would put our heroes in. A villain becoming the director of the planet’s global security force certainly puts our heroes in a corner. Norman Osborn with absolute power = super-heroes dying, mutants being enslaved, or any other horrific act we can think of, right? No, it doesn’t. It means we’ll be reading about an underachieving psychopath that probably couldn’t put paper in a printer.
So what went wrong? First off, the simple decision of labeling this short era was a mistake. That in itself raises expectations dramatically. But more importantly was that there was no loss of hope for heroes overcoming this “Dark Reign”. Yeah Norman was legally in charge but he lost every single battle in every single title. He, his Thunderbolts, and Dark Avengers pretty much got beat up by Deadpool. Deadpool is in an idiot! How is he manhandling the planet’s best clandestine operation and its most dangerous operatives? How!
Marvel , what you had in your hand was a golden opportunity to put our heroes back to square one and make them the underdogs again. Instead, you failed. Nice job!
*sigh* At least Secret Warriors is awesome.
Greetings from Murs47
Oct 11th
FRP is proud to announce that I, Murs of 47, will start blogging about stuffage on FRP! But what is stuffage? Stuffage is a broad description of the goings on in our everyday lives. However I’ll be narrowing down the stuffage to topics that relate to Freedom Force, movies, art, comics, and Prev’s erotic film collection. Excited? Damn right you are!
Come to think of it, what does blog mean? It sounds like the noise people make when they vomit. “Oh my god dude! I drank a whole fifth of vodka and started blogging everywhere!” Makes perfect sense of course. Blogs are just people spewing out their balderdash pretending like someone gives 2 cents and a nickel. So why am I doing this then? Therapeutic treatment for my neurotic behavior? Probably. Sometimes you just gotta get things off your chest. And I still haven’t fully recovered from the emotional damage of Steve Rogers’ death. So this is perfect for me.
Anyways, more words of wisdom coming soon!