Custom Content Challenge: April 2015: The Hyborian Age

[Legacy_GunnersaurusRex]

               

To be fair, Conan does his best to strike a blow for the feminist cause – exhibiting to the world the indignity through which many fantasy heroines are put on a daily basis, by adventuring in his underpants...

 

And Shemsu, yes I can do a version of the holdable standard without the banner – I just didn't want to flood the thread with too many images of what is essentially the same model.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Proleric]

               

There's a distinction between gender equality and feminism. Equal freedom to express our sexuality however we please, without harming anyone, is different from insisting that everyone conform to some sexless norm.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               

To be fair, Conan does his best to strike a blow for the feminist cause – exhibiting to the world the indignity through which many fantasy heroines are put on a daily basis, by adventuring in his underpants...

 

I don't think that it's accurate with the Hyborian universe.


OK, Conan stories make emphasis in things that are considered masculine stereotypes; Being strong, being brave, violence, etc...


And that stories could be more popular among men. But been oriented to a certain audience, don't means that they have to be offensive for women....


BTW:  GunnersaurusRex thanks for the standards...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               

Conan is a product of the Pulp Fiction Era which began in the late 19th century (1896 to be exact) and ended in the 1950's - the same era that also gave us the Lost World, John Carter of Mars, and Tarzan among others. Pulp fiction was one form of artistic expression that directly resulted from the changes that were occurring as the world transitioned into the Victorian Age. Many people saw the world as becoming too complex and feared the new social philosophies which were rapidly changing the way people lived and worked. Pulp fiction offered a more simplistic view of the world and allowed readers to escape the realities of modern life and return to a simpler, less enlightened time.

 

That being said, I certainly don't see Conan as having much to do with championing feminism. If anything, in his relationships with women, Conan was somewhat of a lout, viewing them more as conquests than anything else. However, there is Belit and Red Sonja, who are definitely R.E. Howard's nod to feminism. Yet, we have to remember that in the original Conan stories written by Howard - and the only ones that matter - both women were footnotes. so what was Howard saying there about feminism?

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_GunnersaurusRex]

               

Heh, it was meant to be an off-hand joke about the protectiveness of fantasy armour, not a serious analysis of gender roles in the Conan universe (which I don't know nearly enough about to comment on). Wasn't intended to be taken seriously - couldn't you tell from my inflection and tone of voice?

 

Moving on, how do I know which 2da lines I should use when submitting these things? Is the answer in the CC makers group that the Amethyst Dragon mentioned in the first post? Or somewhere else?

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

               

Speaking as a feminist, I can say without reservation that I unabashedly prefer Red Sonja over Atlanta.  As for the second part, the beauty of the human body--male or female--never will go out of style.

The point of that was to show the silly video. '>

 

*le sigh*

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_AzurDraak]

               

That picture is sooooo wrong. I mean, take a close look. That sword is straight and too wide to fit in her curved scabbard.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_3RavensMore]

               

The point of that was to show the silly video. '>

 

*le sigh*

 

Heh.  I didn't watch the video.  '> 

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_GunnersaurusRex]

               

Thats one of the nicest looking round shields ever 

 

Thanks! If anyone wants the photoshop PSD file for the texture to make their own versions with different logos, I'd be happy to send it (along with the model)

 

How about the classic comic Conan battleaxe? (variants: bronze, silver/steel, brass/golden, black iron, battle dents/blood drips/smeared gore)

 

 

Here's my attempt at making the axe from that picture:

 

 

It's still a work in progress - think I need to do a bit of playing around with the specular settings to make the metal a little more shiny, and lengthen the spike on top a bit.

 

Might add a little more length on the bottom as well. At the moment the axe is just a top and a middle piece as in the picture it's pretty much the same all the way down after the axehead.

 

If I have time I'll do a greataxe version as well. And some more gory/bloodstained variants.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

OK, I've got the images to work with yesterday (see images companion thread to this one to know what I am talking about). Textures are done. There will be 3 more large maps and 5 small placeable maps from me. The small maps will just be ordinary placeables i.e. no scripts and just rest on ground. I will be including the small textures in a separate folder so that if more complex mapping is required you can use them for custom maps for use with my micro maps v2 package.

 

As Tuesday is the last day of March, I'm giving fair warning that I may be a day or two late with these.

 

TR

 

PS Still no ones done Conan, Red Sonja or the Humongous Snake from the first Arnie movie...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_PLUSH HYENA of DOOM]

               

AzurDraak:- OBVIOUSLY the sword she's holding does not fit in her scabbard. BLATANTLY this is because someone stole her scimitar so she had to instantly grab the nearest mighty broadsword and kill everyone in sight to ensure she got the crooked larcenist responsible... Her male friend is looking so worried because, in his supreme imbecile way, he's hoping she doesn't realize that it was, in fact, him who borrowed her scimitar to cut the cheese and bread for the sandwiches for their journey - which she's told him not to do a million times...

 

Not that I in any way intended to mutate this thread into a serious discussion of feminism, which would take up too much room, it's interesting how any mention of it still provokes reactions. Which is a pity, in a way.

You'd think, if you were hopelessly naïve, that the human species would have outgrown farcical little prejudices based upon gender, skin colour or whatever by this point. Unfortunately, they will only become a thing of the past when humanity is also a thing of the past, being an integral part of "human nature", (however enlightened some of us like to think we are).

Humanity is at heart divisive, with an in-built NEED for easily defined and recognized "enemies" and "inferiors". There must always be someone to blame for things, someone to hate, someone to look down upon lest man otherwise have to admit he has responsibilities and that he's actually, all things considered, a bit rubbish really...

 

(Please do not take this post to be a call for serious debate upon human nature or the thread'll go heinously off topic and everyone'll blame me and hate me and look down upon me... though as I'm 6'8" they'll have to stand on a big box to do the latter.)

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Drewskie]

               

However, there is Belit and Red Sonja, who are definitely R.E. Howard's nod to feminism. 

 

And, of course, Valeria who appears in the last of the conan yarns "Red Nails".

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shemsu-Heru]

               

 

"Steel isn't strong, boy. Flesh is stronger.

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What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?"

(Thulas Doom - Conan the barbarian 1982)

 

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Thulsa Doom's helmet from the 1982 movie; Recreated by myself and added, eh well, as helmet model...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_LostChangeling]

               

Thought I'd share a link to a Youtube vid showing the intro of the early 1990s Conan animated series.  '>

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=HT3cl4GJIDs

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_GunnersaurusRex]

               

Nice helmet, Shemsu-heru.

 

Anyway, I've finished the axe from the picture Caracian posted. Changed the model to be wider towards the bottom – I tried to do one with the grip coming off at the bottom as in the picture, but just couldn't get it to look right. Ah well, I suppose it's comforting to know that Conan has the same problems with his battleaxe that I do with my squash racquet...

 

I also did a version covered in gore as suggested:

 

Yes people, it's official – entrails are the new black!

 

 

 

 

Also available in bronze!

 

 

 

 

And here's a shot of the different variants from the toolset.

 

 

 

 

HOORAY!