New Marygold Skin

Well, it took a while, but I finally (nearly) finished my first complete skin project! At last I have something to contribute to the Unreal Community from which I've been taking for so long.


A little background info: I've always liked Hide's Marygold model and related skins, but I wanted to create a skin that was my own. After permission granted by Hide to skin his model I went to work. I pulled various style cues from my own 2D works and some model kits created by Kip (mainly this model and this one) and started sketching out ideas. The finished skin is pretty close to the original sketch.

Her name's Felina Haynesworth, a member of an underground group named COABEL that's bent on finding a way to end the Tournaments. It seems odd that someone from this group would actually be a participant till you realize that she's there with the mentality that killing all the Tournament fighters will end the Tournament for good. Of course this is against the will of the COABEL superiors as Felina is acting on her own will.

Team skins are already prepared, and I have yellow and green versions on standby for CTF4. I don't know if I'll include those yet. I'm also pondering the idea of some special color skins. I've messed with her scale a bit, so she's actually a little shorter than her Cat 'sisters'. I may also do a voice pack for her if I have time and am able to.

I doubt I could ever make a living doing this... I'm waaaay too slow. I think I have about 40 hours in this one over the last 3 weeks, which is utterly rediculous compared to how fast some of you guys here are, but hopefully I'll get faster the more skins I do.

Hope everyone likes her.

Oops... almost forgot. Here's a link to more screenshots:

More Screenshots (CAUTION: Large Images @ 1280x1024)

The pack is almost done. Submission soon!

Thanks you guys, glad you like what you see so far

As of late last night I've got 8 skins total (color variants) for the pack: Original, Red, Blue, Green, and Gold teams (for CTF4), a Dark suit, a Light suit, and a suit I've called "Pinky". Each skin has a different color head texture as well. I'm thinking the pack is going to be kind of big, so I might release it as 3 different sets.

I don't know if I'll do more skins for Marygold. I may do facial variants, at most, for now. I want to do a skin for Little Eris, though. It'll be similar to this one in terms of the outfit and possibly the color scheme since I have a little background story going already.

Ah, seems I forgot something else, too... Thanks, Hide! Without the SDK I don't know if I would have ever finished. It made things a lot easier to visualize.

I've got more last-minute Christmas shopping to do, but after Christmas I'll post images of the color variants and send the skin packs in your direction, SaD.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

I dare you to make a male cat skin using any of the available models out there. Also, show me those five thousand female cats. I'd like to download them.

Believe me, if there was a male cat I'd consider making a skin for him.

If you want to learn how to skin, ask your friendly and helpful Google search engine, or use the links provided on this very page: http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=142806

You know, for someone with "I hate furry haters" in their sig, aren't you becoming what you yourself hate?

If you wanted one bad enough you'd go and figure out a way to MAKE your own .png and .psk files. If you don't like what I've made, would you mind keeping yourself out of this thread? You don't see me going into your renamon request thread and saying it's a crappy-ass idea.

A big thanks to everyone who likes it . As promised, here are some pics of the variants. Except for the original color, they are all individually selectable for team or non-team play so you can frag a green Felina or a Pinky Suit Felina as you please.
Larger images can be found here.

Brief descriptions of the suits:
Original: this is the basic suit assigned to lower-ranking COABEL fighters.
Red: red team variant
Blue: blue team variant
Green: green team variant for CTF4
Gold: gold team variant for CTF4
Dark Suit: a suit colored for darker or firey environments, usually assigned to COABEL special forces.
Light Suit: a suit colored for snowy and bright arenas, usually assigned to COABEL special forces.
Pinky Suit: semi-transparent areas replace the normal colors, for those who like that sort of thing (as going nude is going a bit far IMO, so I don't do 'em)

All that's left to do is complete the portraits and finish up the .upl files. I wanted to do a voice pack but that's going to have to wait. It'll be submitted as a model since Felina's smaller than the other cats.

Without the completed portraits, the ZIP is at 8.22MB. Is that too big? I'm guessing it'll be in the neighborhood of 9-10MB when all is complete. Just a short bit more everyone .