Back in 2021, I posted the third and fourth Superhero Sprite Showcases in a single video, mostly because I couldn’t make new video clips the usual way as Anime Studio stopped working (long story) and I had to cobble together a bunch of new ways to make clips in Blender and Magix Vegas. Batman got his solo Showcase a while back and now it’s time for Iron Man to get his. And to make up for it, I’ve added a lot of new and updated clips. That video hit the YouTube Channel last Friday, and here’s the site update with some of the new stuff made for the video:
Custom Sprites: Marvel
– Iron Man: all-new War of the Gems idle stance, improved Data East Avengers 1 idle
– War Machine: improved taunt sprite and added the early version without the uni-beam port. Remember: this armor is from before the movie, it’s not an arc reactor.
– Black Widow: new variants of her debut panel pose
– villains: all new sprites of the Crimson Dynamo v.1, Madame Masque, and the Melter (in his Iron Man & X-O Manowar idle stance)
If you can read this and are wondering why the site is taking so long to load, Dreamhost is still working on the issues that are currently slowing down sites that they host, and that includes ScrollBoss and the rest of my illmosis.net sites. I mentioned this in last week’s mini-update, but I figured it’d have been fixed because Dreamhost usually gets stuff like this sorted out by now. But it’s still going.
While it’s still possible to upload to my account, Dreamhost’s status page says “Content restoration from our backup servers is still underway. Most hosted sites are online, but some users may experience intermittent slowness as the restore continues. We will continue to provide updates as the restoration progresses.” That might mean that the old backups could overwrite whatever I add to the site before Dreamhost’s work is done. So I’m going to wait until that work is done before I add the update.
But the 2025 Iron Man Showcase will still hit the ScrollBoss YouTube Channel some time this weekend. It’s done, but I might work in a few more clips if I have the time. There are sprites I didn’t have time to do, so I might just try to work them into the mix while waiting for the sites to be fixed.
Sprites:
– Captain America and the Avengers: animated flying sprites for the heroes, some enemy drones, partial Giant Robot (Sentinel), and a few more pickup items added.
ToyBoss: I just got the Billy Lee from Syndicate Collectible’s Double Dragon line of 7-inch action figures and took some photos, including some size comparison pics. Updated my Jada Toys Street Fighter roster pic, now that I have Dhalsim and Guile. Now I only need Dee Jay to be 100% caught up on regular figures.
Dreamhost (where my sites’ accounts are hosted) has been doing maintenance all day (and possibly before), so things may be running slowly or not at all. But I uploaded the update a few hours ago just so I could say that I updated on Wednesday like the old days. Maintenance is still going on after midnight and previews for WordPress posts won’t work, so I’m posting what I have now and fix it when everything’s running at full speed again.
Last year I teased a logo for a solo version of a Superhero Sprite Showcase that I planned to just update a little bit, but a rough last half of 2024 kept that (and a lot of other plans) from happening. To make up for being so late with it, I’ve added much more than I’d have done last year and you’ll see that video on the ScrollBoss YouTube Channel next week. A few of those sprites, including some new villains, will be added to the Custom Sprite gallery and image generator. Here’s a preview:
If you need an extra clue, this hero had a sprite added in this week’s update.
