Pic Fed Evolution
The genesis of pic fed evolution is here with the digital wrestling figure sandbox. As a wrestling content creator, I wanted to create a system to make the pic fed process easier and more modular. This tool attempts to evolve this traditional practice into a digital experience. This experience makes it easier, more convenient, faster, and cleaner to create wrestling pic feds than ever before. Along with that, the creation suite allows you to create your own custom figures, scene props, and even scene layouts. Build your way!
This tool is an all encompassing system to do the following:
- Create digital action figures
- Create custom props to use in figure staging
- Create custom setups for figure staging
- Take high quality digital images for your Action Figure fed
As this tool is in the infancy stages, I crave your feedback to make it a deeper experience.
Figure Creator
This tool fails to exist without this mode. The single most important aspect of pic fed, is the assortment of action figures in your collection. The figure creator allows you to build your custom figures out to your liking. The system is equipped to allow you to build a figure by morphing the head sculpt and adjusting the colors of the assets. You can also take this a step further by importing your own custom figure parts and custom textures. Use this to bring in your own head sculpts, body parts, and attires and simply disable the body parts you no longer want to see. Once created, these figures can be used in your scenes to pose to your delight.
Prop Creator
The Prop Creator is used to craft custom variations of built-in 3D models. Use this to create your own ring, printouts, stage elements, crowd panels and more. I wanted to give you a good amount of flexibility here thus, you can import your own images for many of the assets. Once created, these props can be placed around your setup to your heart’s desire. Instances of the props are all connected. Therefore, changing the designing on one will alter all instances in use!
Setup Creator
This is the fun part for me! The setup creator allows you to build your fantasy stages or replicate real arenas. Take your custom props and place them all of the place. Hang pictures on the walls, place 10 rings in your setup, and more! These setups are then available to be used in the Scene Creator mode to spruce up the backgrounds or foregrounds or your images.
Scene Creator
This is the primary system that you will be using in Pic Fed Evolution. Scene creator is your spot to pose and frame your images. This system uses a combination of Figures, Props, and a Setup for your environment. The premise is simple:
- Choose an environment setup
- Choose figures to be in your scene
- Create a frame
- Pose your figures
- Place the camera
- Update the frame
- “Rinse and repeat”
Once you’ve gotten all of the frames that you want captured, you can either screenshot each frame individually or screenshot them automatically. There are some quality of life features included to help out your process such as Duplicating, Cycling, and Deleting frames as well.
The upcoming Steam Workshop integration will be used to share custom figures, props, and setups with the community to expedite your growing collection and enhance your pipeline
Game Discussion
Steam User 15
Still early into my playings around with Pic Fed Evolution but am impressed by how in-depth some features are. It couldn't be any more of a niche tool, but I dig that because I have a long history with wrestling figure/pic feds going all the way back to childhood, having had a few of my own back in the day and used to look at/read others' pic feds on some of the most amateur GeoCities-esque webpages the 2000s could possibly produce!
For that, I'm all too happy to give this one a thumbs up for the huge nostalgia throwback it has given me. Also when I spend more time with it, I may produce a fed and stick it on an old school webpage!
My only real gripe with it right now (as of writing) is that some major props and stuff are yet to be added, but it just came out so I'm very positive they will arrive pretty soon. Also one suggestion/idea I have is, IF possible, adding some figure pose presets would be neat!
Anyways, this is a really fun idea and I look forward to seeing where it goes!
Steam User 0
For short... I draw female wrestling matches. I was hoping to use this as a posing tool to create references for my drawings. Now I am waiting to see if I can get a refund.
So, you may be wondering...
Why do I RECOMMEND this?
-The way this tool is built and designed, I feel it has lots of potential (importing custom textures, models, etc.).
-If there's a slider, it has the option to add a specific numeric value too (that's awesome).
-Posing is easy and feels natural, specially if you've used posing tools before.
-In general, everything feels easy to understand and seems to work without issues.
But then WHY AM I REFUNDING THIS?
-I am no 3D modeler and I needed specifically female models to take advantage of this tool.
-I was hoping to scale/morph specific body parts to get sort of a stylized figure... but my only option is to make my own 3D modeled parts.
-Ironically, though the posing is great, I feel the main issue about this Pic Fed Evolution is camera control. Using the keyboard feels impractical, imprecise and tedious.
As you may notice, this review comes from a guy expecting to get a "pose reference" tool specifically designed for wrestling. However, it doesn't improve or help my creation process (yet)... But being fair, it is a great "Pic Fed" simulator, so I can't give it a thumbs down.
I'm hoping to see this grow and to come back to it when that happens. I only wish I could give more feedback to the dev(s) somehow, there's a lot I'd be willing to share.