Before Vicky, before Michael, in the shrouded mists of time, there was apparently something called Ultramorph Man, based on the P4Guy (I gather, knowing this place - he says with a grin - there was also an Ultramorph Woman as well), that Scoopey used to create this Ares character. The props on this thing are amazing: incredibly detailed (making it a bit of load-in) and textured. My only complaint was the skin texture on the figure itself, so last night I rebuilt it (after creating a mesh for the character in UVMapper -- I swear, I'm getting better with that damn program every day). The body texture needs some work, since UV dropped some of the mesh construct in the hip region, but still, this guy holds his own pretty darn well. Amatuer historian that I am, I guess the point here is -- we have all this great stuff floating around that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. Maybe it doesn't look so great after all the wondorous advances we've seen of late in our characters, but getting these back up to snuff is usually a matter of rebuilding a texture or two, like repainting an old house that's been sitting derelict for a while. Just feeling philosophical today.....

Very nice, I would not have thought he came from Dork at all. Love his outfit. Sharen

The wild thing about that outfit, Sharen? It's not painted. That's all constructed work; the colours come as a result of the colour window, not any imported, painted textures. Scoopey went to some incredible lengths on this one.

It's a beautiful piece. Kevin Smith will be missed.

If i recall, this actor died in an accident this year.

Well, Kev, wherever you might be right now, this one's for you, bud. Cheers, my friend.

Yes kiru, he died in February. He was in Bejing where he's just finished shooting a movie and he fell off a building or something (the reports were rather vague on that, saying it was around a six story fall but not giving details on what happened). He was supposed to be starting a role with Bruce Willis in "Boot Camp" within days...his big Hollywood break. Very sad to see a life cut short like that. Ares was always a favorite of mine on Xena, he did such a good job of being both evil and funny at the same time. Such a shame. This is a great character VS. Is it still available somewhere?

There is an Ultramorph Woman now in the third version created by Confusius I believe she is in the market now version 1 and 2 were on Confusius site may still be there she was great here clothes were morphed from her body

I think so, SciFi. I know I saw it recently, although I can't tell you where. Hopefully someone else will know?

Attached Link: http://www.confusius.net/

Here ya' be. I still use the Ultramorph dork myself along with a zillion more dorkmorphs from Traveler. Though I've acquired Mike & Mike 2, I still haven't used them for a whole lot. Soon, tho...

Attached Link: http://miragegraphicsand3d.com/pages/xena.html

The Ares character.

Attached Link: http://onenews.nzoom.com/news_detail/0,1227,84230-1-7,00.html

Virtualsite, beautiful tribute. here is an article i had saved in my bookmarks.

Cool VS, thanks! Wow...a set of Xena characters to play with!