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| BE Animation Screenshot from DeviantArt |
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| Screenshot from 2nd Animation: She Gets Muscles! |
Ms. Muscles has been one of the most popular characters that I've
created. She's gone through a number of changes over the years, and I
thought it might be worth walking through her history and development to
chronicle her journey so far
DEVIANT ART
The genesis of Ms. Muscles lies with a Breast Expansion animation that I created for my
deviant art page
. For this animation I made a character with blonde hair who looked
sort of like Supergirl. She wasn't muscular, but had huge growing tits
and a red cape.
After I posted a BE Animation of this character
to my deviant art page, I received a request to do a similar animation,
but involving FMG on top of Breast Expansion . So I created a second
animation, this time tweaking the character so that on top of growing
huge tits, she also grew huge muscles. This really was the birth of Ms.
Muscles, although she wasn't named that yet
I was busily creating comics for my
strongandstacked.com
website when a request came in asking for a comic featuring the
character I'd had in my deviant art FMG animation. A woman who would be
a super hero with massive muscles and boobs
MS. MUSCLES ISSUE 01
I took the deviant art
character I'd created and came up with a back story for her. She was a
Mammazon, from the planet Mammazonia. The females on her home planet
could fly and had super strength. They also had the ability to
transform into a fairly normal (but very busty) form that didn't have
huge muscles. But at will they could hulk out into a super boobed
hypermuscled form.
In that first comic, Ms. Muscles had the look
of the deviant art character. She had long blonde hair (Super Kyra hair
for Poser). Her boobs were created using injectors from Will Dial
(they are freebies in the renderosity free section) . And her muscles
were a combination of some hypermuscled morphs that
Stone3D had created coupled with Victoria 4 morphs.
Things
came together pretty well for her look except that when she was hulked
out, her face looked somewhat like an overweight person's face. The
reason for that is that the Victoria 4 morphs I was using to hulk her up
were full body morphs that not only bulked up her torso and muscles but
had the somewhat undesired side effect of bulking up her face
MS. MUSCLES ISSUE 02: CAPE PROBLEMS. HAIR PROBLEMS.
While
working on the second issue of Ms. Muscles, I realized that her long
hair was causing me many headaches. When she muscled up, the hair would
crash through her huge muscles into her body. The hair crashed into
her cape even when she wasn't muscled up.
And speaking of her
cape... that was crashing into her muscles too. So a pattern I started
following for many subsequent Ms. Muscles comics was to come up with
something that destroyed her cape during each issue. Sometimes it
caught fire and burned off. Sometimes an explosion blew it off.
Basically whatever I could do to get that damned cape off so I didn't
have to deal with posing it in a way that didn't crash into her muscles
and through her body
The hair was something that I kept long for this issue. But next issue...
MS. MUSCLES ISSUE 03: BLONDE AFRO
I
was so tired of dealing with her long hair that in Issue 03 I gave Ms.
Muscles a new hair style. I guess you could describe it as a blonde
afro. It's a product that's called Helios Hair for Poser and Daz
Studio. It had the virtue of being short and not colliding with Ms.
Muscles huge muscles.
I did get some feedback that people didn't
like the new hair. And people liked the cape :) But for a while I had
Ms. Muscles sport this new do and I had her go sans cape as much as
possible
MS. MUSCLES ISSUE 09 : LEAVING EARTH
Ms.
Muscles continued to have a similar look from issue 3 onward - the
short hair, often no cape. But the storylines did change and evolve
over time.
I did a number of stories where Ms. Muscles was doing
various things on her adopted planet of Earth. But eventually I wanted
to kick off a storyline that would take her into space and would
ultimately lead at some point to a showdown between her and the Queen of
her home planet Mammazonia
In Issue 9 I took the plunge and got
Ms. Muscles off world. I had her taking on some warships in space.
This brings up a problem that I've had with Ms. Muscles, and which I
think has been a problem for Superman writers for years. You can get to
a power level point with a character where nothing ends up being a
challenge for them.
In Issue 9 I had Ms. Muscles tossing around
huge starships that weigh thousands of tons. If she can do that, its
starting to get to the point where the sky is the limit for her. What
could possibly be a challenge?
MS. MUSCLES ISSUE 10 : GIVING HER A CHALLENGE
I
decided to give Ms. Muscles a challenge by having her chained up with
chains made from some hyper dense material and then having an antagonist
use a super powered menacing drill/sextoy on her.
I'm not sure
how much peole liked this story - in issue 10. It involved essentially a
rape of Ms. Muscles with the aforementioned sextoy. And eventually it
involved Ms. Muscles killing her tormentor using that sextoy. It
departed a bit from the previous stuff I'd done with Ms. Muscles where
she didn't usually kill people - at least not in a close up and personal
way like this
But I wanted to experiment around with her doing different things than she'd done before and so I tried this
MS. MUSCLES ISSUE 11 : A NEW LOOK ACHIEVED WITH TWO BODIES
After
issue 10, I wanted to give Ms. Muscles' look an overhaul. I knew people
liked the long hair. So I wanted to bring that back. And I'd always
wanted to solve the problem of having Ms. Muscles face kind of bulk up
when her body hulked out
I'm amazed at Tigersan's ability to
create hypermuscled hulking women who manage to have a normal sized non
bulked out beautiful face . He's a virtuoso of digital sculpting. I'm
not. But I wanted to at least solve the problem of Ms. Muscles' face
being big and bulked out. The solution I came up with, which I put into
place in issue 11, was crude but effective
I ended up using two
Victoria 4 models for every shot. I had to pose both models in lock
step. Both models had the same textures on them for skin etc. But one
model was hypermuscled and bulked up while the other model was normal
sized and non muscular . I used visibility settings to make the head of
the hypermuscled model invisible, and everything EXCEPT the head on the
regular sized model invisible.
So from issue 11 onward. Ms.
Muscles' head is coming from a normal sized model where I hide the rest
of the body. And her hypermuscled body is coming from a second model
where I make the head invisible. Two models kind of merged together.
It
makes it kind of a pain in the ass to pose her. Because I have to pose
each model separately and make sure they stay in sync. But it achieves
a regular sized beautiful non hulked out face coupled with a
hypermuscled body.
For issue 11 to explain her hair being long
all of a sudden again, I decided to make it a kind of prequel story
showing Ms. Muscles landing on Earth for the first time. When I resumed
the normal storyline in issue 12, I stuck with the long hair and didn't
really explain how it got long. But I made the decision to just use
the long hair from now on for her, and the new face.
ISSUE 13 : BIG ARMS
I'd
gotten some feedback that Ms. Muscles had the perfect body... ALMOST.
Massive tits - hell yes. Huge hulking muscles - mostly. The one area
that I received some complaints about were her arms. They just didn't
look buff enough
So in issue 13 I took a crack at making them
bigger. MUCH bigger. And I think it worked out pretty well for her
whole look. All I did was just increase the scale of her arms. And the
bulked up very nicely
And this is the look I've had so far from
Issue 13 onward. Long hair. Normal sized beautiful face (achieved by
using one model for her body, a second model for her normal sized
head). And huge scaled up arms.
WHITHER MS. MUSCLES?
I
try to get back to the Ms. Muscles storyline from time to time among
the other stuff I am working on for my websites. My rough plan for her
is to have her move toward a big showdown with the Mammazonian Queen.
After that - I'm not sure. But she definitely is one of the anchor
characters on strongandstacked.com.
I'm always happy to hear brainstorming ideas for what to do with her

