This is the current state of my Balro... err, Valarauko Fire Demon. I still have to make flame props for the forearms, wing "arms", and tail, plus the flaming sword and flaming whip, and loincloth... Getting ready to work on the Joint Parameters, then the morphs, then the props.

Note: Yes, I know about the seam and "stretchies" on the arm... they're being corrected as we speak.

That is nice work. So the flames are a prop, and aren't done in postwork? Did you use Eye Candy to create the flame texture?

No, all I did was use four levels of color (dark red, medium dark red, orangey red, and light orange) in successively smaller brush sizes, then "cleaned up" the outermost edges with the eraser tool, then gave it about a 5 pixel Gaussian Blur, on top of a black background. BAM! Texture. Then I desaturated it, and increased the contrast slightly to add a bit more "depth" to the flames (not quite as translucent), for use as a transmap. And, actually, the flames on the neck are part of the actual neck geometry. Since it spand the Head, Upper neck, Lower Neck, and top of the chest, it pretty much had to be to flow right. And, yes, there will be morphs to control the size and direction of each of the flames, as well as expression morphs. I did the lower jaw as a separate body part to reduce the number of morph targets needed, as well as add a small bit of realism to the working of the jaw action.

Balro.. ERR or Bloodthirst.. err nm! Looks great ; )

No, it's definitely not a Bloodthirster... Bloodthirsters wear armor (pansies), and have their boss's rune all over 'em. Plus, they themselves aren't on fire. 8-D

val -great job i think this is killer

Okay, here's a newer image - with Mike in thip's robe, for scale...