The Perfect Gift

Merry (insert your holiday of choice here)!

It looks like Eva 04 got what he wanted... I wonder if that's good considering his, er, history...

A really simple one... Nothing special here beyond the color filter...

Anyhow... It's almost 3 O'clock... 

Gotta sleep... 

Oh... And a happy new year... Gonna take a rest the last week of the year...

Enjoy whatever it is you celebrate this days!

I don't have anything against Christmas (I celebrate it myself), but I agree on the fact that it is kind of annoying when you are wished a happy something that you don't celebrate...

Zeruel's Attack (part 3)

Done in a rush... To  continue the story started 10 months ago here and continued here...

I have other images planned for this story :D

Since they were taken in the same photo, we can see that the figures are nicely in-scale... 

The BG is from a Revoltech-oriented guide that depicts how to make a hangar for the ARX-Arbalest from Full Metal Panic in paper, like the one I found for Eva 05 that I used in this image...

So... A bit of glow here and there, completed joints, added reflections and voilà!

I've been experimenting lately to do something cool with Photoshop, but I think you will not see results this year (not that there's much left)...

Also I found another hobby: carnivore plant growing!

Damm... To much spare time... 

Next I'll be the loony of the block that lives with a lot of cats... (something I already do)

Witness of the end

I had thought on making this scene a long time ago, but only now that I have time I could make it!

My semester ended yesterday, so now I have a lot of free time... Maybe too much, I made 3 images today (one's for a friend and the other one is a Sephiroth image on my devianArt)...

So, a lot of floating trees and rocks, a building and Eva 02 Beast mode after a hard batlle...

I borrowed the promotional pic of an Eva 02's Entry Plug model to place it outside the Eva...

Also, cutting and pasting many images of a Mari Fraülein, I assembled her in the pose she is seen there (you can see her, rigth?)...

Now, what to do...?

So many figures to pick from...

Battle at Styx

Evangelion Evolution Unit 05 arrived this morning so...

The battle in the main shaft (named "Styx") of the European NERV base "Bethany"...

The BG is from a .pdf file I got that depicts how to assemble out of paper the shafts of the base (there's one of Tokyo-III and many others from different mecha animes)

So, really easy, a bit of dust, shine and sparks...

I wanted to use the angel's head that comes with the figure, but I'll leave the heavy editing for vacations (I want to complete the angel's body using the gashapon I bought some months ago)...

The review of the figure is already on the Youtube Channel...

3 weeks left of school...

Sniper!

Coming to think of it, it's the 2nd time Eva 03 is depicted with this rifle...
Originally it was going to be Eva 00, but I decided that it had too many images in the past weeks...
So I used Eva 03 instead... This one is really easy, I should be doing a documentary investigation and instead I'm writing this!
With that in mind I just added a quick BG... I really like how easy it it for EvaEvos to hold their guns...
Anyhow, Uncharted 3 was released this week... Man I want it...
And EvaEvo 05 is gonna be released in a few days...
Ends of the year are evil.. Everyone releases their crap for you to buy...

Mecanisme de defense

I jut remembered: I have Angel figures!
A bit of PS resizing and perspective and there you are!
Did you noticed Eva 01's hand? It's actually a custom of one of the angel arms of the Eva 03 that was repainted, I added some purple on top to simulate the burnt armor and (though you can't see it) red in the palms...
The ligth whips of the angel are drawn 'cuz no matter what chroma key I used, they were erased when deleting the BG...
Anyhow... This month Eva 05 is released, so the last of my summer job's earning will be obliterared...
I hope that some time passes before anothe figure is announced so I can regenerate my wallet...

Akward...

Happy Halloween!
And strangely, Eva 02 and Zeruel together again in a Halloween-themed image...
They went for trick or treat and, well...
You know the rest...
An easy one... Almost everything but the figure's pics is recycled from older images....
Done quickly to post today (instead of during the weekend)...
Cand hardly wait for December... I need vacations!

What am I, if can't be yours...?

The sad, sad ending of Eva 00 and Rei as seen in episode 23...
Eva 00 was tricky to pose, as the hands and limited shoulder articulation (when bending towards the body) would get in the way...
In the end it didn't matter 'cuz the Eva's arms are covered by the light effects...
Now, I was given the Rei outline, and originally she was going to be only a black outline, butI didn't liked the resulto, so I colored Rei; then I tried to make her semi-transparent, but it looked horrible... She ended as she is now...

SPECIAL THANKS: to Cruel Thesis from the Evageeks forum, for his excellent outline of Rei...

Cruel Thesis' DevianART HERE

Counterattack (manga Stage 63)

I saw many different translations for than episode's title, including "countermove", "enemy attack" and "defense line", so you pick, after all, you know what chapter I'm talking about...
So, I reduced the Dual Saw's size to match the one seen in the manga (if you remember from this post's pic, the Saw and the Mastema are bigger than the Evas themselves)...
So, abit of size reduction here and there, a bunch of pics to see wich angle matched the Eva's hand, motion blur, recycled trees and there you go...
Have been makin this image since Wednesday, about 30 minutes a day... Trying to make them on Saturdays it's impossible with the homework...
Anyhow, Halloween coming by... Suggestions for an image?

Episode 22 (or is it 15)

I made it with episode 22 in mind, so let's all take that one as reference...
I had to lower quality to post something today... I have to resume 41 pages about plant cells and a lab report for botany; make 5 papers for cell biology and complete a biostatistics report!
SO, sorry... Eva 00 is not holding the Lance, the bow of the ship in the 1st plane is the one seen here...
Not much in here...
I hope I can keep up with both the blog and my homework!

100

So, 100th post!
A quick one, Ze Bisto on a starry sky...
A starry sky with a big, read, floating "100"...
Wanna know how I made it?
Check the making of video in the Youtube Channel!

Betrayal (manga stage 85)

Phew... This one was one heck of a party... With 8, this image is the one with the most Evas at the same time in an edited image (beating this one, with 6)...
The 85th stage of the manga was released this month, and with the story getting better and better, I couldn't help but to make this image, hahaha...
Now, I of course don't own 6 MP Revoltechs, only 2, so I had to take many pics separately, something that may lead to errors in perspective...
Eva 01 is being held by the 2 MP Evas, as it would be impossible to unite 3 images into a scene like that one; the lower plates were completed and like always, a glowing effect was placed on the eyes...
Eva 02 is also being held by the winged MP Eva; to avoid continuity errors I used the same RGB color combination for the blood and the eyes are not glowing, since in theory, it's out of battery...
The other 3 MP Evas were taken separately and then added...
Let's hope we see the ending soon...
I mean, he already kept us waiting over 15 years...

The 9th Angel's Attack

So... The first one out of (planned) 4 images on this particular scene...
I filled the gaps on the Eva's arm... And that's pretty much it...
EvaEvos take a lot of the editing work off my back as the joints are hardly noticeable, I only have to watch the chroma keys...
Nearing to the 100th post of the Blog...

I'm a Badass!

Yay!
My new F-type Evangelion Unit 01 that arrived earlier this morning!
I Must say, I was expecting something like the MP Evas or the Eva 02 Air version, but it turned out to be a really good figure...
I like the way the small details are printed in the Eva and the elbows are perfectly concealed thanks to the extended armor...
I only disliked the limited hip joint: the extra armor makes impossible for the leg to spin, despite the joint is there...
As of the image I used a cloudy sky and a cold filter... The A.W. Mastema is the one found in the Bandai Model kit of the same Eva, reduced in about 1/4 it's true size to make it match with Unit 01... The impact volts were made with a mixture of spray can, a shine and crack brushes for the ligthnings...
Bit of glow here and there and voilá!

Brains!

Once again, an MP Eva finds himself being destroyed...
I used the spike-launcher-open-pylon, but you can hardly make it out... I think its a little bigger on the top... I added the empty shells coming out of the back (they're shotgun shells actually), added some smoke and drew the spikes on the MP Eva's head...
The blood and gore were made with the splash brushes...
Besides that, nothing new...
Awaiting for EvaEvo 03 and the soon-to-be Eva 04...

Shield Crush

Originally, Rebuild's Eva 00 was gonna be here, but then I remembered that in the new movies, Ramiel had a different shape when firing it's doom beam, so the scene was changed to the Tv version...
Accordingly, I changed the ESV and Rebuild 1.0 Eva 00 for their NGE counterparts...
All of that was really easy, the beam's blast and the fire on the back were a bit trickyer...
I completed the back's spinal cord armor and applied a bit of glow over the angel...
As usual I reused the stars from other pics...

Have you seen the pics of the completed Revoltech Mark VI?
Can hardly wait!

Page markers #7

The last Eva units... Couldn't post last Wednesday 'cuz I was making a level on Little Big Planet... Took me the whole day! When I realized it was Friday... That thing is addictive, hahaha...

Anyhow... Eva 03 breaking wires, 04 among flames (I'm starting to think he's an arsenist) and Eva 05 with the tail of the 3rd angel...

I guess I'm done with these... I'll make one for Ze Bisto and the Released Eva 01 when Mark 6 is here...

Page markers #6

Just so that I'm not called an elitist...
This is my RD in it's first lead...

Pretty much the same as in every other one... Didn't have to erase any neck joints, only to recolor the black ones of the shoulders, knees, hips and torso...

I decided to keep him... Don't expect much from me for this one ¬.¬
He has an owner, and according to Toy Story, that is enough for a toy...

Now: go bring water from the well in the woods RD!... No! I don't care it's pitch black!
Pop quiz! Do you know from what book is that line?

Page markers #5

Despite I said that it would be 1 image split in 3 page markers, I couldn't do it... Why? Well, to make it short, perspective issues...
At the end I came up with these, all of wich ended up being testbeds for unused tools...
The clouds in Eva 00's image were edited with a tool called "Spherize"; under normal circumstances it would have "inflated" the image, however I used it backwards to give the impression of looking at the image as if painted in a bowl...
In Eva 01's, the trees have the motion blur, not the Eva; this stills give sthe impression of movement without distorting the figure itself...
Eva 02's used the perspective tool to make the angel's "wing" on the sky...
Anyhow, did you noticed on what is Eva 02 standing?

Page markers #4

I actually recycled an old, unpublished picture to make this one, hahaha...
This one was easy to make, and despite the resolution of that old pic is not what I may have wished for it made the work easier: I just had to erase completely the old BG, hide the joints and add color and details here and there...
I first came up with the idea of the split image when I was drawing the sketch of what will later be the battle Vs. Rebuild Sahaquiel (those are gonna be 3!) and I thougth "how about a set of only two?"...
In theory, since they're the same size you can print on one side Eva 02 and in the other one the MP Eva...

I wonder if anyone that visits this blog has printed any of these...
I've printed 3 'cuz I read a lot...
Do you?

Page markers #3

In retrospective, the blue Eva 00 should've been paired with unit 02, as it appeared before Eva 03...
Anyhow, the order of factors doesn't alterate the result...
This time Eva 00 IS holding the Lance of Longinus, however, I had to improvise the BG 'cuz I noticed too late that I didn't had any building to place that matched the Eva's perspective!
Eva 04 was easier, it was originally gonna be posed as Iron Man (landing on it's knee with the fist on the floor) but due to the figure's, ejem, articulation limitations, it couldn't be done...

Ps: Already pre-ordered EvaEvo 03!

Page markers #2 (or is it 3?)

Part 2, I guess...
Supposing this post counted as #1 (back then, a #2 wasn't planned) then this ones is #3!
Anyhow, I tried to make 3D molds on Eva 03's cross with Corel but when I tried to pass then to PS they went odd, so much had to be redone...
Don't you love Eva 02's pose of "Yeah, I caused that fire 'cuz I'm cool... Got a problem?"

Surprise Post #1

2 quick works...
More page markers!
Now I intend to make one for Every figure I own, including those that may be bougth before I finish them all...
So, let's go in order OK?

The Ultimate Battle

Finally!
Over 1 and a half years after it's original conception, this image is done!
Now, with over 30 working layes, this image surpases The Girl With the Red Eyes as the most complex work yet...
The Zeruel is the recently arrived Gashapon (true size, about 1/3 of Eva 00)...
The Nerv pyramid is the same used in here, with the top removed and some other minor details added...
Eva 00 was quite a challenge to pose, good it's rigth foot is hidden in the trees, or you would have seen my hand holding it: the revo stand would hide a part of the figure... By the way, the missile CAN be dissasembled... It's hollow...
Eva 02 required nothing special, except for the joint erasing and motion blur...
The water reflections are one for the trees, one for the angel and one for each Eva, besides the water movement details...
The building has been featured a lot as well as the fire brushes...
Anyway... Out of school already... I was thinking in posting 2 images per week during this period...
Only time will tell if my idleness won't get in the way...

Shito no Katachi [Shape of Angel]

Just Received the Angel's Shokugans and EvaEvo 00...

It has and amazingly detailed Zeruel miniature, you'll be seeig this one here :D

As for the Evas, well, not a big deal... Ramiel...

Tunniel, Sahaquiel and Samshel... All look awesome! Specially Sahaquiel...

The 7th angel, Clockiel... In the end I had an uncanny amount of bubble gum...

"Calling": manga Stage 84 (part III)

Making the odd perspective of page 7 from that chapter was challenging, specially because of the Blog's horizontal image size vz the vertical manga page...
It has been some images since I used many Evas on a single image (last post doesn't count, they weren't edited)
Anyhow, standard croma key erasing, a bit of motion blur, some blood on Eva 02...

I was itching to do this image since I saw the spoiler online... A nice twist on the way the manga adaptation of The End of Evangelion is happening, don't you think?

I really don't care if Asuka dies, or if the wacky theories come true and someone other than Ritsuko ends shot on Terminal Dogma...
It'll be a win if giant naked Rei, or better yet, the whole "Komm Süsser Todd" scene occurs in the manga...
Waiting for EvaEvo 00 to arrive...

UPDATE: corrected Eva 02's blood color to blue... Had colored it red, hahaha...

The advent of DOOM!

So, my Robot Damashii Eva 02 finally arrived...

Package #666... A hint of what was inside...


The part that holds the leg with the hip is supposed to spin with the black part... For some reason, the one on the left doesn't... The plastic only twists dangerously...

He said it want's his...
On the brigth side, it has nice shoulder joints ans the way the pylons move is really original...
The details on the head and the weapons is suberb; the material the hands are made of is perfect ans the minimalisctic box is great (I must say, Revo's are pretty carnavalesque)...
Unfortunately I find it's head sculpt rather flat on the sides and the upper arms, at the level of the black lines of the biceps, annoyingly flat...
It took a while to make the feet articulation bend, besides all the above-mentioned issues...

Oh, and...

Those hips!!! Too many donuts!

Sorrow

Rather gloomy... Originally the Eva was supposed to be figthing Sachiel, but given the fact that I hardly know the actual size of Eva 05 compared to the other Evas, it deemed impossible to me to figure out how big the angel was supposed to be...
After that Eva 05 was gonna be either on the city or in a forest, but that seemed too clichè, so I went for a hand drawn scenario...
I had already used the water splashes, clouds and water brushes; here, I downloaded a snow brush for this image... A bit of motion-blur and we have a little blizzard!
After I finished the image and watched it carefully I wondered, so I ask you:
What do you think the Eva (or by default, its pilot) is thinking?

Stop motion Test #2: Ze Bisto!

A quick stop motion I made...
Sorry for the shaky camera /:D
Enjoy!

♪ Tumbling Down, Tumbling Down, Tumbling Down... ♪

Done in a rush, hahaha...
I have some biochemistry homework that curiously, I'm enjoying to make!
I have to make a history featuring "enzymes"... Wacky?
Indeed, fun to make?
You bet!
I'm making a short comic old style (that is, hand-drawn; hand-inked)... I'll see if I can post it here later...

Now, on this week's image: a MP Eva... They're featured too little for the plot importance they carry in their short appearance, much like Kaworu's...
Anyway, the stars and moon are recycled from the Eva 02 Trick 'r Treat Halloween image...
The Lance, if you see carefully, is made longer by repeating segments...
I think the Rei face of the Eva came out like, well...
Some mercy!... My hand aches from drawing 24 pages!

Revenge

After a long wait (vacations caugth my Eva on customs) Eva Evolution Unit 01 arrived today!!!
I already had the BG done, so I just had to photo the figure and erase the croma key, hehehe...
I love it! The EvaEvos are way funnier than the 2.0 mold...
And I bougth a Robot Damashii to compare them (once it arrives, it hasn't even been shipped yet)...
Anyhow, the Eva launchpad on the left is from a SEGA real action figure I borrowed from a friend and the pyramid was made on CorelDraw...
I'll see to use the Sachiel base eventually....
I also finished the Eva 00 Bandai model kit I bought last July... Still not good, I suck at those...
One week before the release of EvaEvo 00 and the angel shokugans!
Can hardly wait!

Gendo's Angels

Coming to think of it, I never watched that show, only the movies...
In any case I think it's an iconic image of the 70's...
A quickly made one, no joints to hide, no plates to re-draw...
Gendo and the pyramid were made on CorelDraw, the rest are brushes...
Hoping for evaEvo 01 to arrive this week to complete the other image I'm making...

Bio-Contamination!

The battle between Eva 03 (both in the Tv series and in Rebuild) is the one I use the most for my images... I tried to digitally elongate the arms, but they turned out really weird so I used the original pic... Incidentally, Eva 03 and 00 were poser together, not photographed separately and then fused in a single image... I added the contaminated Entry Plug and the pollution goo that emanated from the Eva's arm... Next week's image is almost done (ah, the free time of vacations!) and there's already one in progress ready for the arrival of EvaEvo 01!

Crap...

Sorry...
I departed to a Metheorology trip on Thursday and returned Saturday nigth, I was way too busy with the rest of my homeworks to do this week's drawing...
I'll make an extra one to compensate during vacations...
3 days left for that...

In other news I re-ordered my Eva 01 Evolution... You may remember, the one I ordered back in January was "lost" in mail...
Will be here in about 15 days...
I also have my pre-order for Eva 00 Evolution and this. I hope to get Samshel, Clockiel, Tunniel, Sahaquiel and Zeruel at least...
I originally asked to have Eva 01, 00 and the Angels shipped together, but for some reason, the Angels and th Eva 00 will be sent in May, and they will send Eva 01 alone...
I didn't want to pay for 2 shippings, but well...
I'll review everything once it's here...

You are (not) alone

Sometimes the best things are the most simple ones...

I went easy this week specially since the college's psycologist diagnosed me with and early stage of OCD, hahaha... Originally there was gonna be a tribute image of Advent Children, but proved to be really hard to make (error in the croma keys)...

Will make it for next week...

Anyhow, the Blog's monthly visit counter reached a new peak last month!

and we're closing to easter holidays!

2 weeks without school!

Ambrassadrice Rouge

OMG! A picture without trees in it! After the sad, sad, dissapointment of having my Eva 01 Evolution "lost" in mail, I changed my Eva 02's shipping service to EMS; got here in about 10 days, which is a record for mexican mail...
This image was very easy to make, there are very few joits or other details to erase or hide. I still can't make the crossbow's "magnetic field" lines rigth...
Anyway, I'm upoading the video review of this figure to Youtube rigth now (HD, so it's taking eons!) I'm really satisfied with this figure, can't hardly wait for Eva 00 and 03 to be released (and 01 re-ordered ¬¬)
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picture edited on May 6th; edited sky color and crossbow's magnetic field