DUDESOFT'S PROFILE

Brass Man
The leader of the Legion of Zeroes. He has a suit made of polished brass, and has a very cumbersom time moving or talking.

The Lash
A member of the Legion of Zeroes. Has the ability to create magical whips out of thin air. He's the protagonist usually, has a profound love-hate relationship with Silver Cable.

Silver Cable
A member of the Legion of Zeroes. She is a pro mercinary, fully equipt with consealed weaponary and sharpshooting techniques. However, her lazy and bitchy nature keeps her indoors; favourite activity is watching soap operas.

Dumb Devil
A member of the Legion of Zeroes. Has super hearing, and terrible eyesight. While he isn't completely blind, he absolutely refuses to buy glasses. He is in love with Electrified. Dumb Devil is also a terrible Stupor Hero defense attorney.

Electrified
A member of the Legion of Zeroes. At one point, she was nailed by a bolt of lightning while standing near a nuclear waste drum. Since then, she's had a trail of smoke billowing from her bald head. Her initial relationship with Dumb Devil spawned from his incapability to see her bald ugliness. Electrified is a trained ninja, taught by a man in a shack in the woods.

Slow Silver
A member of the Legion of Zeroes. Can run at the speed of a snail in the winter. Can walk as fast as lightning. He is seldom seen at Legion of Zeroes HQ, because he's walking somewhere. Has no real attachments to the Zeroes.

Frank
A frankenstein monster that owns the apartment building the Legion of Zeroes blew up. He is seldom seen, since The Lash locked him in the cellar.

Blue Lighthouse
Lives in Brass Man's closet, searching the internet, building bombs, or lurking in general. He has a so-called magical ring from a toy capsole dispensor, it is shaped like a lighthouse. Whether or not the ring is magical is an enigma, much like most things related to Blue Lighthouse.

Broken Arrow
A tom cat with the super power of having an extremely long tail. Not officially a Legion of Zeroes member, but they still feed him milk and kippers.

Blunder Woman
A member of the Injustice League, a real hero team that saves the day on occassion. Unlike the Legion of Zeroes, who occassionally go to the corner store. Her powers are undisclosed at this time.

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Step One: Basic Frame
Important here is to visualise what you want to draw in the end. Using that mental image as a guideline, draw the head and body shapes. These can be vague, or specificly shaped.


Step Two: Advanced Frame
Now that we have our general shape, start adding more outline shapes. Where will the legs be standing? what are the arms doing? If there's a weapon; how will it sit? Using boomerang-ish legs and arms connect to the squarish circles of the hands and feet. Don't stress out on porportion.

Step Three: Details
Start adding the hair, facial features, fingers, clothing and other details that you want on your Hacker. Weapons should be fun to draw!


Step Four: Sticker Outline
This outline should consist mostly of straight lines. Around the rounded surfaces (EG: the bazooka sight) rounded edges are OK. Don't conform too tightly or loosely from the base image, and don't worry about being perfect. Part of the sticker outline's beauty is in the imperfection!


Step Five: Inking
Here, my tutorial may differ from your execution depending on the image software you use. For me, it's the freeware GiMP. For sake of clarity, I'll explain how I go about the following two stages.
With GiMP, it's possible to make multiple Layers. Each layer acts like an independant image atop another... So, on a new layer, begin to ink.


Step Six: Colour
Once your inking is done, erase/delete the original Layer (the one with your sketch). On a new layer (above the ink layer) fill in your colours however you see fit. When done, move the colour layer below the Ink layer, merge the ink layer down (so the two layers coexist) and voila! Our very own Bazooka Knight Hacker!


Important notes when colouring:
-Avoid using too-dark shades.
-Do not use pure black, it will end up looking like a shapeless blob inside the heavy outline inking.
-use simple colours, and keep it clean. Hackers were designed to be scaled down to icons or otherwise. The less detail, the better it will scale!

Step One: Shape
A simple circle will do.


Step Two: Decide the Shape
Another simple step. Basically crop off the bottom third of the circle, with a rounded edge.


Step Three: Details
Add some eyes, and shine. Round the bottom corners, to get rid of points.


Step Four: Shadow and Touch Up
Finish things up with a shadow, and whatever else you want to add.


Step Five: Inking
Nothing too special here. If it were used for something specific, I'd make an extra layer for the shadow. I did add a layer for the surface shine.


Step Six: Colour
One solid colour will do. A separate layer for ease of colour changing.


Some fun...

Step One: Shape
We're going to need a few new shapes for this guy. You'll need a circle for the head, and nose. A nice sized sack for the body, well you get the picture... since it's right here. The idea with this stage, as always, is setting yourself up with a guideline. As you can see on the face, the typical cross wrapping around the face to help center the ears and nose.


Step Two: Let's Get Going!
The shape is ready, let's bring it together! You can jump the gun, and connect the dots, as you can see in the image below, or draw some more shapes or lines to help you figure out where things ought to be. Another idea is making a frame or skeleton (though I'll get into that another time.)


Step Three: Grind Out Details
In retrospect, this is a pointless step. However, a lot of tutorials move a little quickly, so I'd love to step away from that.


Step Four: Final Touch
Work out the kinks, if you need to shift some shapes, or rework your image, this is as good a time as any.


Step Five: Ink That Smurf!
Black ink for his body and weapons... I used different layers to ink the sword colour, but that's just me. Another option I've yet to successfully pursue, is inking the various body parts separately on individual layers with an appropriate colour for what you'll be filling in. Disney does it, and it looks great.


Step Six: He's a Blue Smurf
This step is familiar... colouring! Look kids, we're... kids again!

Step One: Shape
To decide its shape we need to decide how Cactuar will stand. This will be a pompous Cactuar. Use two circles near each other for the approximate shape of your Cactuar.


Step Two: Stand Up, Cactuar! Stand Up!
Next step is giving our little fellow some arms and legs. Draw two circles between the gap of the original circles. These two new ones will be the base of the arms, and thus should be small. Now, draw a circle a little away from the base 'arm-pit'. And another slightly away from that, to form the arm... start, middle, end. Place your circles according to where you imagine the arm will be posed.
The same thing goes for the legs, except here, the base-circles will be inside the bottom original circle. Follow?


Step Three: Holy Cactus
Next off, we need to give our Cactuar a mouth and eyes. The eyes will be in the middle of the upper circle, on the sides. If you need guidelines, draw a crossbar to help you.
The mouth, for now, will be two more circles. The top one will start in the lower-middle of the top original circle. The second mouth-circle will be in the middle of the bottom original circle. See the diagram if this is confusing.


Step Four: Bring it Together
Now it's time to connect the dots. I prefer to start with the body 'pickle' first, and work out the arms legs and mouth afterward.


Step Five: 1,000 Needles... OK, Just 3
On the top of your Cactuar's head, sprout three needles. Two arched lines to form a tip. Pretty simple stuff.
From the base of each needle, start drawing a line down the Cactuar, to the base of its body. Then, down the middle of each appendage draw another line.
Lastly, draw a happy-face curved lip line beneath the Cactuar's mouth. That's it, we're ready for the ink! -----Or are we?


Step Six: (Optional) Creativity
If this is your first Cactuar, I'd highly suggest finishing it in a naked form. If not, then let's play dress up. Pick any character from TV, movies, comics, cartoons, or videogames, and sketch out the outfit (or have an image handy). Now, use your core Cactuar as the guideline to that character's outfit.
Some notes to be reminded of:
-Cactuar are plants and have no shame. Don't be afraid to be silly.
-If a cactuar has evolved too far into a character, its skin may have changed. In which case, remove the vertical lines from its body.
-Don't worry about covering the Cactuar's mouth. It's not as if they can talk, or breathe. Some just make random babble, but this can just as easily be emitted from the eye holes.
As an example, I've drawn a Sonic the Hedgehog Cactuar with a copy of our base image.


Step Seven: Inking
Your standard inking session is now in progress. I prefer to use a larger brush for the outline, and smaller for the vertical lines.


Step Eight: Green
One colour fits all. You can decorate your Cactuar's colour as you see fit. I choose a solid green for this, due to time restraints. That's all folks. A Cactuar!

Question:
Are we perfect?

The Story
The newest and final member to join a secret priori, Canaan, seeks true vengence. To this, he'll have to cut through the other members to reach his goal.

The Settings
Castle Damian and the nearby coastal beach, on a mysterious World in the Take Down Universe.
*To set this apart from previous Take Down titles, the Panda of Truth merely mentions a few other medias, as opposed to full on cross-overs.

Ideas
With one hour to work with, I decided to focus on gameplay over story. To keep with Take Down's current gameplay style, I opted for RPG battles. The slight twist is that you don't control anything except a support character. You pretty much have to babysit the party, while they chop through the enemies.

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Take Down : The Panda of Truth

The Questions
Does experience define our personalities? What if one were to be born without experiences. A clone. How can a clone have a personality, if there had been no experiences? Do clones have a destiny? A purpose? A soul? What is a clone, if nothing more then a golem?

The Setting
The Hydra War that once nearly consumed the Universe in Darkness is simmering to a calm. People are returning to their usual lives, and trying to forget the screams. And now, just when things seem to be over, Darth Vader and his Empire comes back to haunt the Universe and win a victory for the Darkness.
The Keyblade Trinity is still lost to time, as was destiny, for one year. In their absence, Darth Vader and his new cohort, George Lucas, have launched what they dubbed "the Clone Wars."

The Story
After a long haul of R&R from fighting in both the Sloth Wars and Hydra War, Muscle Man, Princess Noname, and Sean Connery have started up the 8-Bit 4-Hire. A mercinary unit that live for adventure and the fast life on the World of Slothel.
When a mysteriously hooded figure assigns them with tampering in the DNA pool of the clone factories across seven worlds, Muscle Man thinks nothing of it.
But as it turns out, this mission has more beneath the skin then he previously desired.

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Take Down : Lambs of Destiny

TAKE DOWN LEGACY
2000 years from the present day, historians try and discover the past.
Why had the Universe been all but destroyed? Every planet and living thing aside a select few has gone.
The night sky is black and empty.
When a freak accident causes a historian to travel back in time 2000 years, strange things begin to occur. Out-of-place mix-ups that should not have been, take form. Did this accident alter history? Can anyone alter the end result or is it pre-determined by Fate?

Episode I - Asgard
When historian Omochao accidentally gets sent back in time, everything in recorded history goes nuts.
Megaman.EXE enters the Real World, only to help Princess Zelda search for a lost frog. When Leon joins the hunt, it gets difficult, as MM.E's Internet associations begin to annoy and bewilder his new friends.
Eventually, the trio meets Tommy Vercetti, and through him a drunken Black Mage named Waltz.
The search for the Frog gets lost. Leon wants to help Tommy Vercetti for some reason, and Megaman.EXE is trying to find out what day it is. Helping Tommy Vercetti pays off, as the crew finally finds the Frog that Princess Zelda was seeking. But at what price?
This is the introduction to the Take Down Legacy series.

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Take Down Legacy Ep.1

Remix Version
An enhanced and expanded version of TDL Episode 1 that was released some months later, including additional areas, spells, cheats, music and minigames.

Remix Download
TDL Ep.1 Remix

TAKE DOWN LEGACY
2000 years from the present day, historians try and discover the past.
Why had the Universe been all but destroyed? Every planet and living thing aside a select few has gone.
The night sky is black and empty.
When a freak accident causes a historian to travel back in time 2000 years, strange things begin to occur. Out-of-place mix-ups that should not have been, take form. Did this accident alter history? Can anyone alter the end result or is it pre-determined by Fate?

Episode II - Muspellheimr
One year before the events of Episode I, a witch named Sankerion was killed by a man named Slayman. After this, together with Winnie the Pooh and Poppa Smurf, Slayman claimed and sealed the Take Down, Rod of Destruction, in the Temple of Time. In doing so, Pooh, Poppa and Slayman were lost to time.
When Captain Omochao meets Slayman, he is unaware of this, and the circumstances that brought the hero back into existence. The mystery of Slayman's reincarnation may possibly be at the heart of the destruction of the universe. Can Captain Omochao alter history, or will he be trapped in the past, forced to experience the end of all?
Meanwhile, Megaman.EXE, Leon, Waltz and Frog are lost on a barren World, where the sky is black and star-less...

Screens
All screens are kind of out of date. No point showing them here, since all the graphics were updated so far.

Worlds
Le Monea City (Underground)
Bedrock (The Flintstones)
Peanut Town (Charlie Brown)
Ant Hill (A Bug's Life)
Middle-Earth (The Lord of the Rings)
Silent Hill
Dracula's Castle (Castlevania)
Star Destroyer (Star Wars)
Area SG-1 (Stargate SG-1)
Race Track
Depending on demand, patience, and interest; some other Worlds may also be included. Naruto has been cut from the story though, so don't ask.

Status
No idea what the percentage or whatever is, but pretty damn far along.