Hi all,

Wondered what everybody used for their VnV character portraits ?

I did some by hand in the beginning and switched to HeroMachine (faster but the end result is not always exactly what you want nor hot looking either  ).

Now i've remade my old PCs using the character creator in Champions Online which produces really great looking results 

I am so tempted to create a City of Heroes account just to use their heromaker.

I got that after some searching on the web and some hassle to make it work, but it's way less easy to use than CO's and nowhere near as pretty.

There was a stand-alonish version of the CO character creator made available for some costume contest but i don't know if it's still available. Was a big file though (2G ).

That's what I used.. the Korean version. The switch to English was a simple registry hack and it worked. You had to do a few odd things first like start the software and stop it (not so easy when you can't read korean). Then you could hack the registry, otherwise it would get over written.

I vaguely remember it.

Fábrica de Heróis is a Portuguese site that may help.  There is an English setting on it.

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I second this suggestion. Pretty cool!

dsumner wrote on Jan 20^th, 2010 at 11:49pm:


Yeah, I've done it a few times.

Back in the day we would often have a professional artist do up a picture for one of our characters at Cons and the like.  I had my first character Nightcrawler drawn by Bill Willingham, Mike Grell, and some other guy whose name escapes me (did some RPG work, I think, but was never huge in comics).

Those same guys (Willingham and Grell) did some of our other PCs as well.

More recently (nearly a decade ago), I had a friend - who does an independent online comic - do up a group portrait for us with the original 6 long-time members of the Guardians.  We've used those images on character sheets, markers, and other stuff for years.

Mostly we just find cool images and use those anymore, instead of commisioning artists.

John wrote on Jan 26^th, 2010 at 8:35pm:


Alas, I wish I still had them.  I no longer have my PCs Willingham image, though I have one of my friend's PC.  I still have the Mike Grell image of my character, though.

If I had a time machine, that Willingham picture would probably be the item I would be most interested in getting my hands on again!   

For some reason it's not allowing me to modify my original drawing (just made a scan that's a little straighter than the one I posted).

That last one was Sabre as drawn by Bill Willingham; this one is Sabre as drawn by Mike Grell (both colored by my friend Greg Chastain).

Cool!
Thanks for posting these.

John, you can download a free trial of CoH, 14 days I think and play around with the creator. While not one hundred percent costumizable, you can create some pretty good likeness'



While it doesn't really replace role-playing, it can be fun on those days you just can't get a group together.

THE ONI wrote on Feb 6^th, 2010 at 10:52am:


Very cool!  Nightstalker is one of my all-time favorite PCs, and I still play him from time to time (like in one-shots at Cons).  If the Dark Warrior looks like Nightstalker, then I'm a fan now as well!   

I, uhm (sheepish grin, looks down and shuffles feet), use Slik (Slick... not Silk) Slander as my alter ego since it was my main ring gimmick during my brief 2-3 year period in indy pro wrestling... I basically just recycle old photos since I've long since gotten rid of most the outfit components except for most of my masks and a few spiked wristbands.

BillytheSquid wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2010 at 11:17am:


  Why not take a moment and put some of your work up on the Art Thread???

BillytheSquid wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2010 at 5:34pm:


If you've saved the image, you can click on the image link, and post it here.

ummm ok that didnt work, I am computer retarded, did I mention that?

hopefully this is better