Ieldra2 wrote...
Miranda looks as if someone put her on a rack and pulled at both ends until she was 10% taller - unnaturally long-limbed. I prefer Asakawa's picture. Only Miranda's face is better in Dorknoodle's.
Ieldra2 wrote...
Apparently Miranda's face is hard to draw, so anyone who can do it remotely well has my respect.
Modifié par LuxDragon, 03 août 2011 - 09:46 .
Ieldra2 wrote...
Miranda looks as if someone put her on a rack and pulled at both ends until she was 10% taller - unnaturally long-limbed. I prefer Asakawa's picture. Only Miranda's face is better in Dorknoodle's. Apparently Miranda's face is hard to draw, so anyone who can do it remotely well has my respect.
Jebel Krong wrote...
Ieldra2 wrote...
Miranda looks as if someone put her on a rack and pulled at both ends until she was 10% taller - unnaturally long-limbed. I prefer Asakawa's picture. Only Miranda's face is better in Dorknoodle's. Apparently Miranda's face is hard to draw, so anyone who can do it remotely well has my respect.
it's called art-style. personally i love it and all the different artists' styles - it's a lot more original than just copying the game-style.
hell the original design of miranda was also very stylised:
cr: joy-ang.
Yannkee wrote...
Vertigo_1 wrote...
^^^I just noticed Rach (asakawa on BSN) did that, lol
One of my favorites!
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You can find all her drawings here :
http://asakawa.devia...gallery/8721971
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jtav wrote...
As for Miranda's face, I've received confirmation on that from multiple artists who have drawn her. Strahovski's face wasn't scanned well.
Modifié par Yannkee, 03 août 2011 - 12:24 .
Melrache wrote...
Thumbs up for mah big sistah, Miss Evul Wonder.
Yannkee wrote...
Melrache wrote...
Thumbs up for mah big sistah, Miss Evul Wonder.
I wish she could have some time to make more drawings of Miri.
Me too, She's very talented.Yannkee wrote...
I wish she could have some time to make more drawings of Miri.
Modifié par ParadoxAu, 03 août 2011 - 01:00 .
SE JN wrote...
You guys read this russian article?
http://www.3dnews.ru/games/614349
In an English translation, it roughly states "and not disappearing anywhere is the beautiful Miranda" in terms of squad mates.
Midnight Reyn wrote...
Just wanted to pop in here quickly to say that I received my Team litho in the post today and I love the way Miranda looks in it.
I have her character litho as well, and that combined with this one looks fantastic on the walls (I think the difference in colour palette's really sets the two off)
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Melrache wrote...
Yannkee wrote...
Melrache wrote...
Thumbs up for mah big sistah, Miss Evul Wonder.
I wish she could have some time to make more drawings of Miri.
Yeah, I demand Miri pic for Xmas from her.
Modifié par Yannkee, 03 août 2011 - 01:49 .
jtav wrote...
Anyway, I promised a teaser. The narrator here is not "our" Shepherd but a disabled brother.They filed into the room one by one. I recognized most of them by sight, either from seeing them in the cafeteria every day or from the branch directory. Lucas Krohnbeg, head of R&D at the Chicago office and technically my boss if you went far enough up the chain, though I doubt we'd ever said more than two words to each other. His green eyes looked me up and down as she entered and a faint scowl crossed his lips, as if he was calculating how much time this presentation was going to cost him and didn't like the answer. Teddy Shukla, one of our marketing guys. He smiled a little at me when he came in. His daughter had Morlin’s Syndrome just like I did, and I’d given him a few tips on navigating the labyrinth that was the Systems Alliance health insurance bureaucracy, and we’d occasionally get together for drinks and **** about things like how hard it was to navigate a hoverchair through a department store when displays took up half the aisles. Petra Surkov was in Accounting. She’d been with Hahne-Kedar for as long as the rest of us put together. Her dark hair was streaked with gray and pulled into a loose bun. She didn't look at me directly, but fiddled with her PDA.
There was a second woman I didn't recognize. The first thing I noticed was the way she moved. She didn't merely file in; she strode into the conference room as if she expected to be in charge. Her movements were too brisk and abrupt to be called graceful, but there was no wasted movement at all. The second thing I noticed was that she was gorgeous. Dark hair pooled elegantly onto her shoulders, with a few strands falling artfully in front of her face. Her skin was pale in a way you normally didn’t see outside of film stars who bleached their skin religiously. You didn’t see eyes like hers often either. Plain blue eyes like Johnny's were rare enough, but hers were a mix of blue and grey, dark enough to almost pass for sapphire in this light. I wondered how much it had cost her to look like that. I could barely tell I hand back from a hacksaw, but her close looked way more expensive than what was typical for middle management at H-K. She looked like she should be jet setting in New Calcutta or Bekenstein or Ilium, not sitting in on my presentation. My mouth went dry. It was hard enough keeping in control of my body at the best of times. Public speaking made it worse. Giving the presentation in front of a mysterious supermodel of a woman whose every cell seemed to scream "beyond you mere mortals?” You might as well ask me to take Johnny’s place in the Navy. Slow, deep breaths, that was the ticket.
I cleared my throat. “Thank you for giving this time to me today. I'll be as brief as I can. You all know that our omni-tools and Haptic interfaces depend upon semi-solid holograms they can be interacted with almost as if they were physical objects. But we can use that technology for more than interfaces. Change the frequency a little bit, and the holographic light becomes virtually indistinguishable from a fully material object. We can create alter our kinetic barrier emitters to produce a second layer of armor alongside normal shields, effectively doubling protective capability without the use of bulky new equipment."
Everyone’s eyebrows went up, even the mystery woman's. I chose to take that as a good sign. Increasing shield capacity was vital if we were going to stand up to the pirates that have made the Traverse their personal playground. The Alliance couldn’t or wouldn't increase garrison forces to the level we needed, so I had to come up with a way to make the soldiers we did have more effective. It was the only way to keep another Mindoir from happening. I rattled off a list of technical specs, forcing myself to speak slowly and enunciate every syllable. The Morlin’s made me sound like an overly caffeinated chipmunk when I got too excited, and there were few things more exciting than bending the laws of physics and making them do what you wanted.
“Would this new armor of yours protect against environmental hazards?” Kohnberg frowned. “The Alliance has been extremely interested in anything that’ll protect against heat and cold extremes."
"Not any more than your average kinetic barrier. The focus is on stopping gunfire. Once the system is perfected, I estimate it'd be able to absorb double the impact.”
“Pity,” David muttered. “We could make a killing selling that to survey themes on hostile worlds. Chip into Devlon’s market share."
I could feel my voice getting higher and higher. "This isn't about survey teams. This is about outfitting our troops to fight slavers and pirates!”
Surkov shook her head. "Current Alliance policy is to depend on fleet, not garrison, strength to protect the colonies. It's extremely unlikely they would purchase this in large enough numbers for us to make back our investment in a timely manner."
“Then we convince them that they need this." I glared at David. "Isn't that your job? It’s technology like this that could stop another Mindoir!”
I saw David and Surkov exchange sideways glances. I knew what they were thinking, that I was doing this because what happened on Mindoir, that the holographic armor was a product of misplaced grief and guilt. Maybe there was a little truth to that. Johnny was training to shoot the batarian bastards. Nothing could bring Mom and Dad back, but he was at least doing something about the people that killed them. I was too crippled to do anything except doodle ideas on napkins and hope they worked.
"The shortsightedness of Alliance brass aside, your ideas are very intriguing.” The mystery woman's voice was cold with a faint accent. English or Australian. I always got Earth accents mixed up. She even sounded filthy rich. "So, tell me, Mr. Shepherd: what do you need to move beyond the idea stage?"
Arijharn wrote...
Melrache's avatar is exceptionally distracting imo. Actually funny story, that segment is probably my favorite out of Chuck season 3 for a huge portion of that season...
ANY Strahovski avatar is distracting but Yannkee usually has the best ones.Arijharn wrote...
Melrache's avatar is exceptionally distracting imo. Actually funny story, that segment is probably my favorite out of Chuck season 3 for a huge portion of that season...
Ghost Warrior wrote...
ANY Strahovski avatar is distracting but Yannkee usually has the best ones.Arijharn wrote...
Melrache's avatar is exceptionally distracting imo. Actually funny story, that segment is probably my favorite out of Chuck season 3 for a huge portion of that season...
Then I guess Hackett is too.strive wrote...
Zaeed is really hard to get right too.
She doesn't have to be in Cerberus to be an equal to Shepard IMOjtav wrote...
Here's a question: what should the romance continuation be "about?" What should the conflict be? I'd have her worry that she can't be an equal partner to Shep since she's lost a great deal in leaving Cerberus.
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jtav wrote...
What I think will happen: she stuck Reaper tech in him. Can you forgive her?
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Modifié par MASSEFFECTfanforlife101, 03 août 2011 - 06:06 .
LuxDragon wrote...
I think the conflict will be on several factors:
1) Romance in ME 1
2) Which objective is more important and what choice you'll make that conflicts with her opinion
3) What sacrifices are 'acceptable' and what isn't
As for her self-worth, remember, Shepard lost a lot as well. He's standing on freakin' trial. I'd say he was about to hit rock bottom until the Reapers showed up. I'm with Vertigo, she doesn't have to be in Cerberus to be his equal. She's an equal on her own merits.
I'm dodgy on the whole Reaper tech thing. Where would they get it? How would they know what to use to put inside him without any adverse reactions? Why put very, very, alien tech inside when the goal was to bring Shepard back exactly the way h/she was?
And no, I sincerely doubt two years is enough to study Reaper tech or you may was well say we unlocked how mass relays worked, figured out indocturnation, and how to build an army of husks from toilet paper in a few months.
We're talking decades of research and tests, not a few miserable months. Remember, most of the time was spend rebuilding.
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