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Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!
I realize this thread is rather ancient, but why start a new article when the original is still available?
A recent thread upon the DAZ boards rekindled my interest in this old project, adapting Aiko 3.0 to resemble Alita/Gally from "Battle Angel/Gunnm". I finally found some clothing that when mixed and matched more or less captured the look of her first Scrapyard ensemble.
The Aiko bodysuit has a MAT setting that leaves the high neck but "scoops" out the shoulders.
The knee braces from the Aiko Body Armor has "plates" that are just about perfect.
And the leg wrappings from the Shadow Dancer set covering Harkonen's free Vampirella boots more or less resembles Alita's wrinkled footwear.
Now I just need to find an acceptable trenchcoat. I will probably opt for one of RoyLoo's items at PoserPros, but does anyone have any additional suggestions?
Sincerely,
Bill
Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!
Quote - From the manga I remembered the stripes under her eyes to be totally black and more evident...
You're right, they do often appear black in the manga. When Kishiro has the opportunity to depict Gally in full color paintings, however, he makes the stripes look like polished chrome. Actually, the stripes are quite different depending upon what sources one views. In the earliest manga volumes when she encounters her first major opponent within the sewers of the Scrapyard, Alita smudges mud under her eyes like war paint. In the one shot anime, her opponent literally "dices" a poor dog. Alita dips her finger into the pooling blood and applies that as war paint. Back to the manga, once Alita has left Dr. Ido and joined the MotorBall circuit (a deadly roller derby like sport), we discover she sports metallic stripes under her eyes. Kishiro has maintained that motif ever since.
Here's another recent render which hopefully shows the stripes in greater contrast. My earlier attempts used only the morphs that came with Aiko. This new version employs Thorne and Sarsa's "Slyphie" head morph at 0.750 combined with the HeadCaucasian dial at 1.000. It allows me to better recreate her "pouty", puckered lips.
BTW, thanks for the kind assessments, all of you!
Sincerely,
Bill
Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!
Quote - Good job!
I modeled this in Max a few weeks ago for a friend of mine that's really into Battle Angel.
Ah, Alita's (in)famous Damascus Blade when she was in the wastelands!
Sharp! (In both senses of the word) And quite accurate as far as I can tell.
Electroglyph also modeled one several years ago (before Aiko 3 debuted) and converted the mesh into a Poser item. I have it, but the Geocities download link he provided is no longer valid.
Sincerely,
Bill
Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!
Here was my take from last year or so. www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php
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together, we can save the world.--Nelson Mandela
An inconsistent hobgoblin is
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Quote - Here was my take from last year or so. www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php
And a remarkable job you did upon her, too! Searching back 8 years through the gallery, there are not that many examples, but of those in the 3D venue, yours is certainly the most faithful. The charging of her berserker body's plasma cutters is most impressive, blasting away the sleeve of her coat!
Tell me, how did you react to Gally not even appearing in the latest two "Last Order" collected volumes? Kishiro has certainly veered upon a tangent, hasn't he? I mean, vampires??!!!
Sincerely,
Bill
Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!
Alita's story is told, so as a writer, he got tired of her and took a break. I can respect that. I still like her,though.
I cannot save the world. Only my little piece of it. If we all act
together, we can save the world.--Nelson Mandela
An inconsistent hobgoblin is
the fool of little minds
Taking "Just do it" to a whole new level!
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Like many others, I too downloaded Aiko from DAZ. She's presented me with the opportunity to render something I've wanted for some time, Yukito Kishiro's Gally from "Gunnm", better known in the US as "Battle Angel Alita". Gally (or Alita) is a full conversion cyborg, an organic brain housed in an otherwise totally robotic chassis. She makes her living as a bounty hunter in the "Scrapyard", a dyspotian slum literally overshadowed by a seeming utopia constructed at the base of a "space elevator". In the earlier chapters of Kishiro's manga, Alita has no memory of her life before being reactivated by Dr. Ido, a kindly cyber-surgeon and outcast of the "floating" city. As she hunts her bounties, she awakens fighting skills, techniques not developed on Earth but Mars. Displayed above is a scenario all too familiar to Alita fans. The poor girl seems to go through cyber bodies like underwear. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but if I remember correctly, she "wears" at least 5 shells since Ido found her. We can only wonder how many she sported before her amnesia. More than once Kishiro has depicted her as little more than a head and an upper torso. At least when she was playing MotorBall, it was under controlled conditions, not from destruction. She's hoisted like an engine block as her "pit crew" tunes her chassis for the next match. One may wonder if the production crew for "Star Trek: First Contact" may have been inspired by those images for the grand entrance of the Borg Queen. Alita has a couple of distinguihing features (behinds the obvious cyber-body). One, Kishiro tends to draw her with pursed, almost puckered, lips. This goes against the usual trend in anime and manga within which the characters have barely defined lips, if any. Two, Kishiro connects the outer edges of the upper and lower eyelids. A recurring motif in much of Japanese cartooning has a noticable gap between the eyelids. Three, after Ido discovered Alita on the MotorBall circuit, she sported metallic bands under her eyes. This is why I'm glad I purchased DAZ's "Bishonen for M3" a long time ago. One of the face textures has an almost identical band under the left eye. Using PaintShop Pro, I selected that region, flipped the copy and aligned the mirrored selection under the right eye. Though intended for Michael 3, the skin appears quite feminine with no hint of male pattern beard stubble. "Bishonen" roughly translates as "pretty boy". I didn't have to alter the texture any further before applying it to Aiko. I had been using the Vorg V3 texture for some images, but for this one I selected one of the Bishonen body armour patterns because it didn't display "robo-nipples". Her spine and "innards" are pieces from Davo's "MadLab 2" set. The "wig" is MayaX's Yuna hair simply darkened. Those of you familiar with Kishiro's works, let me know if a did a decent job. Sincerely, BillTempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!