Manip: 'X' by Trinityofone

[anna_luna]

Ok, trinityofone managed to push all my artistic buttons with her latest fanfic, X.

Written for the sga_flashfic challenge 'Superpowers', the fanfic is a wonderfully well meshed X-men Movieverse SGA Fusion, that every self-respecting SGA and X-Men fan should go and read immediately.

That said, on with the art:







Poor Radek looks like an alien monster and John looks incredibly angsty.

The original picture can be found here.



This is the emo!Rodney to go with the emo!John. Hmm leather.

The words 'Take a Stand' were part of the original advertising. I left them because: 1. They don't clash with the theme of the fanfic and 2. you could really tell where I had removed them and it looked really bad.

I wish I could have had my boys in more traditional Atlantis Uniform, but alas! This is as far as my manipping skills go.

EDIT: In case someone besides in_the_bottle is having problems seeing these, here's an alternative to Photobucket:

http://pics.livejournal.com/anna_luna/pic/00001f58/
http://pics.livejournal.com/anna_luna/pic/00002871/

Comments

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD!!!!!

I am dead of awesome. Those are GORGEOUS. I love all three of them in the first one—Radek looks incredible, and Rodney haunting, and yeah, John's emo, but he IS emo, so it's perfect. And then OMG, Rodney in LEATHER. And with the claws. And did I mention the leather? I have GOT to get them into some of that!

So, in short: bliss! You rule. Thank you SO MUCH!

[anna_luna]

:D I'm glad you like them! And I'm glad Emo!John works for you!

*grin* I just noticed that Rodney actually has the bulk to fill out Wolverine's outfit! So much Rodney love.

Also, do I have your permission to post a link to these in the sga_noticeboard?

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

Cool as hell, and wow, yeah with all that shading, the heal tool must have sucked completely. I really really love the second one.

[anna_luna]

with all that shading, the heal tool must have sucked completely

Exactly! It looked as if I had gone over it with wax crayons or something.

I'm glad you think the second one works, Rodney looks so good in leather and he has the bulk to fit in Wolverine's outfit, so it was easy to make it look natural.

[aurora]

HOLY SHIT.

You're just brilliant. Yes. So cool.

[anna_luna]

:D That's... sort of sweet actually. I'm glad you think it looks alright! And Rodney in leather is definitely coolness made flesh.

[celli]

Whoa. Awesome.

[anna_luna]

:D I'm glad you liked it! This fandom makes me do the weirdest things...

(Ok, I think I finally got this comment right)

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

Oh my freaking god.
I love this fandoms, I love trin and I love you for this. It's awesome.

[anna_luna]

:D I'm glad you liked it! This fandom does a allow a lot of wackiness, whatever crazy thing you want to do, this fandom encourages you!

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Gah! I give up. I've been trying for the last 30min to get the pics to load, but apparently, photobucket hates me. Had the same problem last night when I was going through icon communities and anything on photobucket just refuses to load.

:(

[anna_luna]

There, there, no problem, I just uploaded them to my LJ gallery(oh, the joys of the paid account!):

http://pics.livejournal.com/anna_luna/pic/00001f58/
http://pics.livejournal.com/anna_luna/pic/00002871/

Enjoy!

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

GUH. That Rodney one is HOT BUSINESS. *applauds*

[anna_luna]

:D I'm glad you approve! Rodney is really so *all-purpose* you can dress him up as practically anything and he looks good in it! Plus... leather... it is sort of self-explanatory.

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

Love Wolverine!Rodney, I've been looking back over your other fan art, It's great, very funny :D I've friended you if that's ok :)

[anna_luna]

:D Friending is fine, unfriending too if you get bored with my ramblings.

I'm glad you like my insane art! I think all us fangirls have a special place for Leather-clad!Rodney in out hearts!

Also, love your icon, even though it moves a bit fast... Oh, Doctor... I can *so* see him distracting people with 'Look, a Llama!'.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Love them all.

Wow.

[anna_luna]

:) I'm glad you like them!

Blue!Radek has a special place in my heart, as do Emo!John and Leather-clad!Rodney.

[teh-gandu.livejournal.com]

Oh my freaking God. So, totally, totally awesome. You rock.

[anna_luna]

*blush* I'm glad you think so! Strange enough I didn't even think twice before turning Radek blue (or putting Rodney in leather.. but who thinks twice about that? :D )

[shara50.livejournal.com]

Very Very Cool.

[anna_luna]

:D Thank you very much! John, Rodney and Radek are so great to work with...

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, those are amazing.

[anna_luna]

:) Thanks a lot! I'm glad you like them! I had a lot of fun making them.

[berlinghoff79.livejournal.com]

Do you mind if I salivate a teeny tiny bit on the second one, because *sigh, squee and guh* LEATHER!!! Rodney in LEATHER!!!!

They are gorgeous, btw.

[anna_luna]

Salivate away... actually your icon sort of made me dizzy because I kept trying to focus on the leather...

Me loves my boys in leather.

Thanks a lot!

[beeej.livejournal.com]

Holy moly, this is fantastic! Radek especially looks so perfect! *dances with glee*

[anna_luna]

*Joins the glee dance* What? It looked like fun!

I'm glad you think Radek looks ok! He was the hardest one to manage, mostly because his skin kept coming out shinny and looking ugly.

Thanks a lot!

[girly-curl-3.livejournal.com]

God, those are great! But I really, really especially love the rodney one. GUH. That doesn't even look like a manip at all.

[anna_luna]

That doesn't even look like a manip at all.

:D That's the greatest compliment a manipper can hope to get!

Thanks a lot! I'm glad you like them. Rodney looks so good in leather. Me loves.

[damson.livejournal.com]

Oooh OOH OOH OOOOH!
These are So Cool OMG.
:bows down to you:

[anna_luna]

No, no don't bow! Just join the Rodney In Leather Appreciation Society(RILAS)!

I'm glad you liked them!

[ruinsofmysanity.livejournal.com]

*dies of GUH* rodney... and that pose... and the... guh.

[anna_luna]

:D Rodney inspires so much fangirling... all these things are his fault!

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I could stare at these all day.....

::wipes drool::

[anna_luna]

:D Thanks a lot, I'm glad you approve!

Rodney is so drool-worthy, even more so in leather...

[zoerayne]

These are fabulous!

[anna_luna]

:D Thanks a lot! I'm glad you like them! I have a great time putting my boys in the strangest situations...

[pentapus.livejournal.com]

AWESOME. All of them, but especially the slice of Rodney on the right because wow, the expression at the claws--NICE. I love the way Rodney's hair in the bottom looks a touch... wolveriney. *delight* :DDD

[anna_luna]

I love the way Rodney's hair in the bottom looks a touch... wolveriney. Well spotted! actually it *is* the original hair, the only pieces that are Rodney's are the hairline and that bit I cut and pasted at the front.

Thanks a lot for the lovely feedback!

Personally the first one is my favorite, because I got the lighting on Rodney right so his eye looks really blue and he is staring sort of lost. And because I got to use *alien!monster!Radek* he looked so bad in the original complete manip (I was going to erase him), but once I cropped it, it worked!

[theladyofshadow.livejournal.com]

These are awesome!

[anna_luna]

:D Thanks a lot! I'm glad you like them! It was such a good concept by trinityofone... I couldn't resist!

[insanity--inc.livejournal.com]

Wow....I wouldn't have thought of Rodney in the Wolverine roll but...yeah...it works. Now I must go read the fic that goes with this.

And here I thought I'd be bored tonight.

[anna_luna]

I wouldn't have cast Rodney as Wolvery and maybe that is why I don't write good fanfic, I mean trinityofone made it so believable and perfect and I loved it.

And here I thought I'd be bored tonight.

I case of boredom, turn to the fandom!

[tzi.livejournal.com]

I want to marry you when I grow up *_*

[anna_luna]

Wow! Thanks! I haven't had many marriage proposals so far! (maybe it's because I like to draw/manip/graphic two men as a couple?)

[veracity]

Wonderful art, my dear. I love Zelenka! I'm just waiting to see the tail twitch. *grins* I loved this. And Emo!John. *grins* Isn't that the normal for the flyboy? ;)

[anna_luna]

Oh! Tailtwitch! *loves* and the disappearing!

Thanks a lot! I have a personal love for Emo!John, he's so dysfunctional and guarded and then Rodney can just blast through his barriers as if they weren't there in the first place.

[laetitia-g.livejournal.com]

Pretty cool!

[anna_luna]

:D Thanks a lot! I'm glad you liked it! The world is always better with more Leather-clad!Rodney in it!

and I am of course perving over furry!Radek...