The Ultimate Superheroines Forum

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Umm. Okay. It looks like I started with a rest matrix for the figure, which would be the same for all actors since they need to have the same joint orientation for the script. Each of the links uses the rest matrix and its inverse to strip the parent rotation from its orientation, perhaps creating s...

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The path is defined using a series of marker points. The basic process, unless I miss your meaning somehow, is more or less as you suggest. The trouble I ended up encountering was with the orientation of the base actor. I was able to come up with a way to work around gimbal lock, IIRC, in most cases...

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It's been a couple of years since I hacked the script together, so my recollection of some specifics may be a bit rusty. :laugh: But, yes, I think I used the worldspace coordinates. There had to be a lot of conversion back and forth between world- and localspace though, IIRC. If you have a decent gr...

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If you have a poseable tentacle to test, the chain posing script at the link may or may not be able to help. It has some problems, due to my mathematical limitations. Poser's rotations use euler angles, which are susceptible to gimbal lock. Even if I do the math using matrices or quaternions, the co...

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Several of us collaborated on developing a weight-mapped V4, last year. It's a fairly easy conversion to copy the weight maps to any garments, but character conversion can still be rather involved when there are complicated morphs that might need to be ported. If you're ever interested in exploring ...

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Great stuff, as ever. :thumbup: I've been an admirer of your Poser work ever since the late 90s, and you were the first person to teach me the arcane Poser art of modifying cr2 files. I'm glad you've kept at it. Wish I could bring myself to render more these days, but Poser projects always seem to g...

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Religions in the U.S. seem to be a bit crazy, when it comes to any hint, however vague, of human sexuality in the culture. :laugh: This particular group likely wasn't representative of the formal Catholic stance on the matter, or of Catholics as a whole. They were, however, rather upset about the wa...

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That's pretty funny. When the show was on the air, the Catholic League made a big fuss about the way Burt's manliness fit into his tights. Maybe this amusing advertisement sort of takes that idea and inverts it. I always felt kind of sorry for the Boy Wonder. I remember puberty well enough. :blink: ...

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One of the biggest problems with comic geeks and nerds is that they take the wish fulfillment portion TOO far. They see 'obvious' patterns of suggestive like-minded behavior where none really exists. They suffer from the worst parts of apophenia . Anyone who has talked to Yvonne Craig for longer th...

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Thanks for your wonderful posts, cdrei. They're very insightful and informative. Such a good read. :D Thanks, Biorider. Nice to see another Bat Board denizen. :laugh: I wish such engaging conversations could still be had at that site. :sad: I'm not trying to dominate or derail this thread. I probab...

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I would say that yes, she is lying to someone. I am a big fan of The Avengers with Emma Peel as Steeds sidekick. Emma Peel was a sexual and fetish icon of the time, and Diana Rigg was the sexiest woman alive for a time. Reading her biography, she touches a few bases on The Avengers, an incredibly e...

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One other thing I notice about the actresses and actors who get typed cast is the NEVER look any different no matter what role they take anyway. For example Linda Carter ALWAYS looks the same. Heck Craig had the same exact hair style in a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode that she had as Barb...

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@theScribbler: Well stated. :D Yvonne's e-mail comments to TwoF are difficult to locate. The Bat Trap Homepage is a nice resource, but a bit of a maze. :laugh: Using Google advanced search for "Yvonne Craig knot" on the http://batgirlbat-trap.com/ domain, I found the following comments by ...

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Yvonne certainly has never given any indication that she found anything on Batman erotic, and it would seem out of character for her to suggest such a thing about anything in her career. I'm not sure a practiced professional performer would have any reason to respond that way during a scene. I mean,...

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What a strange thing. :laugh: :blink: It seems like these zentai suits probably would not flatter most people in any community. :laugh: The suits may not be terribly practical as work garments, never mind the problems people might have telling one another apart. But I can't tell whether people would...

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CD Rei, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I can't speak to why some cards of a company are a problem and others aren't. Go figure. The ban on chloroforming is quite real here is the rule on it from C4S under "Open a Sutdio": No Chloroform - You cannot use or imply using any type of chemic...

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Britain had a mainstream ban on showing nunchaku in broadcast or on video, at one point, too. Some VHS versions of BBC shows were edited to remove the offending items.

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That's a nice interpretation of the scene! Thank you.

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IIRC, depiction of chloroforming is forbidden in some countries, possibly those making up Britain? The major credit card companies are international and may be applying restrictions based on the laws of some nations where those companies are active, applying those laws then to everyone. That's my un...

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I think these actresses are embarrassed about the roles they played in their younger years. Perhaps embarrassed and a bit frustrated. If you've been a serious performer, or at least tried to be, it must be frustrating if your cultural legacy turns out to be that you looked really good in tights whe...

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But without Dr Fredric Wertham's lies and the hysterical reaction to them, we would probably never have seen Kathy Kane, Betty Kane and later Barbara Gordon. Funny how something good can come out of something so bad. One gets the sense that they weren't so much lies as drastic misinterpretations, t...

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Having read Yvonne's book and web postings, as well as every interview I've ever been able to find, I don't think she comes across as a prude. She seems to have a relaxed and somewhat amused attitude toward sex, tolerant and frank without being graphic. With respect to her fans and any sexualized re...

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I've wondered about Batgirl's breaking of the fourth wall in those sequences. Was YC instructed to do that? Was it accidental, did she do it on purpose? It gives the sequences an odd emphasis. Some time ago I made a little loop of the rope escape eye contact sequence, linked here. [youtube]http://ww...

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Heroine should ultimately win, but should suffer temporary defeat. I would only be able to appreciate a project in which the heroine died if some unusually ambitious story was being told and the death served a purpose beyond shock or cheap thrills. But I also identify with the heroine, which may or ...

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I think I have an old 3D model I built, somewhere. It's based on footage from the episodes and is (hopefully) fairly accurate. I'll be happy to share it, if it might be useful somehow as a reference. I suppose one could try to have a physical model 3D-printed from the 3D model, if it came to that, b...

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Which of DC's "big three" superheroines is your favorite? Options are presented alphabetically. Batgirl isn't first because she's my personal favorite.

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Well there's the whole "hot librarian" trope thingy happening, as you note. ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotLibrarian ) :laugh: The character of Barbara seems to be criticized by many fans as variously bland or annoying. I suppose she is left with many ambiguities in her ch...

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I think this offer proved to be a misunderstanding. Adobe is discontinuing the CS2 versions and they were setting up a special case for existing registered users of that software. Or something like that. You still need an existing serial number to activate the software, whether the download is free ...

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I would say, it is simply extremyl funny, campy, ridicolous. Any kind logic is deactivated. It gives you a new way erotic fantasys. A world where you can be so campy and it accepted as normal. Especially for conservative people it is an intresting way to live out their sexual fantasys like they wan...

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What would you say characterizes the bat-fetish or hero-fetish? How is it differentiated from, say, some of the more ornate or decorative forms of the rubber fetish? What are the bits involved? Is it all just about the body packaging, or would it be more deeply tied to the comic book roots of the su...

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Thanks, MightyHypnotic. I had begun to wonder if one needed to get clearance to post images in this forum. :laugh: So I'm glad to know that nothing forbade the effort except the render dimensions. I'll see if I can get some new images together, then. The old ones are now "stale", no longer...

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I agree with Viking. Having Batgirl bring Barbara Gordon's kinks, whatever they may be, to a situation serves to undermine the impact of Batgirl's dilemma. If Batgirl does end up submitting to what is happening to her, she should do so after resisting. She did that in the last video, and it worked w...

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It's not quite what you're asking, perhaps, but I tend to think the most interesting (in terms of peril as well as character) weakness for the heroine is pleasure, or some difficulty in resisting it. Depending on the character, this weakness could put them very much in conflict with themselves, as w...

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The material used only stretched one way, as opposed to two ways like with modern spandex. This required that it be carefully tailored, with the fabric in each panel of the pattern oriented to stretch in the correct direction. Yvonne was also more or less stitched into the thing, apparently. Initial...

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Ooh, thank you. High praise, coming from yourself.

Free for download by yourself or anyone else with Poser 5 or greater, too. Mind you, the version posted is... not quite as developed as my current build. I really need to regain upload server access.

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Yeah you can model it in poser. Just make a geometry of two capes and make sure they don't intermesh. I just didn't bother for my model. The modeling is no problem. The trouble comes if you want to use the resulting two-sided cape in the cloth room. I had to design a cape specifically for the purpo...

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They're calling it a "spandex" now, because that's what the equivalent product is being sold as. Or such is my understanding. One of the chief suppliers of information to the board, who is in personal contact with Yvonne, has assured me that it is essentially the same thing as lurex. I'm w...

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At the 1966 Batman Message Board you can learn more than you ever wanted to know about the Batgirl costume. Apparently the material was a form of lurex, a precursor to spandex which only stretches one way along the weave instead of both. I think it's also a rougher material, with a looser weave than...

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perhaps it is a base instinct. I would call it a "primal desire", all about power and powerlessness, strength and weakness. But the same meaning may ultimately be intended. :confused: The author or audience of the material could just as easily be identifying with the victim/heroine as the...

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I recall reading once that the most prevalent sexual fantasy was "forced sex". I don't know how valid the assertion may have been, or whether, if based on valid research at the time, it may have since been discredited. At any rate, it's hard to see a clear line between "forced sex&quo...

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I've found that it can help to watch all or most of a project like this with the sound off. I tend to expect a montage of scenes with, at best, a weak structure which only vaguely links them together. It would be nice to see something which is better-structured. I need to get Christina's Wonder Woma...

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Yeah, it was a slight disappointment, but, based on the Supergirl release, I knew basically what to expect. :confused: (Umm. I always thought the "confused" smiley meant sort of "Meh", which is how I use it here....) The lesbian scene was better than the others, but the acting wa...

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It's a bit off-topic, but when I think about how female characters have to be treated as emblems for an ideology in recent times (always tough, never frail), I think of the two versions of Night of the Living Dead. The character of Barbra varies drastically between the two versions, with the shell-s...

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Mr. X is right, as he usually is. In the current era, contemporary culture, pop culture particularly, is being repressed from both the left and the right, albeit in different ways and for different reasons. The 1966 Batman should be assessed in context of its era, as you're doing, but there may be m...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwaYXwD7_IY I'm not sure where the moaning is, at your link...? The German dub of the material is interesting enough. :thumbup: I assume any moaning would be part of the foreign language voiceover. One could just as easily edit a clip of the show to add lascivious soun...

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Since I can do attachments, some old vidcaps from the scene highlighted in the video. Possibly the apparent cameltoe moment is captured in the third image. The first two compare resolution differences for the same frame from the best available bootleg DVDs and then a clip shown in a Catwoman documen...

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Top of the rankings, illustrated. It's... perhaps a bit unusual (not to say squick), even for the gang around here. :laugh: The rest are less strange, but I'll have to reflect on how they actually rank relative to one another. Umm. I tend to overthink these themes a great deal, yet somehow that's ne...

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I'm going to try to upload some vidcaps of the moments I mentioned. Hopefully this will work, this time. If not, hopefully someone can tell me what's going wrong, as I've had problems before. I will hopefully be attaching five 640 X 480 images, three from Surf's Up, Joker's Under and two from... I c...

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If there's a cameltoe moment in this clip, it's hard to discern at the available resolutions. I'll wait for a DVD (still hoping :laugh: ) to check the sequence again. I've studied the Batgirl costume in the episodes at 640 X 480, as well as the similarly designed and cut Catwoman costumes, mainly fo...

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I suppose it would matter how the idea was conveyed in the material. It could easily be crude and tasteless, detracting from the story or performance (depending on medium), or merely an unnecessary distraction. Personally, I would see most heroines as fairly well-adjusted people in most respects, me...

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