See-Shell, Heroic Transparent Spy by BBM

**BlueLobster1979** · September 13, 2007, 11:04pm

Well, some of you knew he was coming from my little avatar sneak-peek, and I know a lot of you saw the awesome, classic-style figure COTU made of him, but now you can see the glass shrimp as you've never seen him before:

See-Shell, in Buffalo-Bill-Man style!!!

Here he is full-color:

and in his stealth mode:

and just for fun, a work-in-progress, pencil sketch just to show the bare bones of the process:

and for those of you who have never heard of him before; See-Shell is a fan-created character created by myself with the help of Skeletoncrew and Galaxy Warrior of COTU fame. His inspiration was from my old avatar, and screen-name of Glass Shrimp.

His bio:
"See-Shell is a member of the Heroic Masters small, but elite, underwater forces. He is a member Crustie Race, the same basic species as Clawful, but of a rare breed that has different and unique powers, and does not share the same cruel temperment. Equally at home on land and sea, the already translucent See-Shell possesses the ability to become completely invisible when it suits his needs. Such as when gathering information on Skeletors' dastardly schemes, or when sneaking up on a couple of Evil Warriors in battle! See-Shell considers it his duty to take the fight to all the evil Crusties, but one in particular has become his nemesis, the deadly Lobscure."

View more images of the See-Shell action figure here:See-Shell by COTU!!!

**Darth Latveria** · September 13, 2007, 11:05pm

He looks fantastic. Do you have a bio to go with him?

**SERPOSsSerpentina** · September 13, 2007, 11:12pm

Wow. Now that's what I call talent! So many of you have it! He looks awesome!

**Doompuppet** · September 13, 2007, 11:23pm

A M A Z I N G ! ! ! !

This is one of my favorites from BBM. Great character idea, great design, great art, great everything! My head exploded five times when I saw it. Here comes the sixth o--

**BlueLobster1979** · September 13, 2007, 11:25pm

Originally Posted by Doompuppet

A M A Z I N G ! ! ! !

This is one of my favorites from BBM. Great character idea, great design, great art, great everything! My head exploded five times when I saw it. Here comes the sixth o--

It might be your pumpkin-head that allows so much exploding!!!

Anyway, thanks for the comment, and yeah, BBM really outdid himself with this one, I am so blown away by how See-Shell turned out, it's unbelievable!!!

Originally Posted by SERPOSsSerpentina

Wow. Now that's what I call talent! So many of you have it! He looks awesome!

Talent? Yes, BBM has it in spades!

Originally Posted by Darth Latveria

He looks fantastic. Do you have a bio to go with him?

Yes, See-Shell's humble bio added to the top-post...

**Buffalo-Bill-Man** · September 13, 2007, 11:31pm

Originally Posted by Glass Shrimp

It might be your pumpkin-head that allows so much exploding!!!

Anyway, thanks for the comment, and yeah, BBM really outdid himself with this one, I am so blown away by how See-Shell turned out, it's unbelievable!!!

I can see the DoomPuppet action figure package saying "With PumkinHead exploding Action!" LOL

I am always pumped when I get to see ANY thing I've worked on go public and this is no exception.

I just really like seeing everyones' reactions.

BBM-

**BlueLobster1979** · September 13, 2007, 11:34pm

Originally Posted by Buffalo-Bill-Man

I can see the DoomPuppet action figure package saying "With PumkinHead exploding Action!" LOL

I am always pumped when I get to see ANY thing I've worked on go public and this is no exception.

I just really like seeing everyones' reactions.

BBM-

Absolutely, Cody, my hat's off to you!

P.S. "Pumpkinhead Exploding Action"

But that would make a great "battle-armor" variant of Attack-O-Lantern...

**Mer-Man's Minion** · September 13, 2007, 11:37pm

That is AWESOME BBM!

**Doompuppet** · September 14, 2007, 12:15am

I just noticed you can see his back shell, etc. through him a little bit. Hah that's cool. And I'm slow!

**Patreek** · September 14, 2007, 12:32am

Very cool indeed! Great work as always BBM! I love it that you got that transparent in there!

**Sky Breaker** · September 14, 2007, 01:55am

I really like him! I'd be scared of a crab man... especially a giant invisible crab man...

I like the bio as well. Not all crab men have to be evil right? I can't help it though, it does sound funny to say the "Crustie" race, sounds like crusty. Maybe Crustacea would have a better ring to it, or a snap, or crackle, or pop, whatever crab men do. Ha ha

**Galvatron** · September 14, 2007, 02:50am

OMG he looks amazing

BBM rulez

**super-munkyboy** · September 14, 2007, 04:13am

Oooh the shiny

Yes BBM, another excellent piece. I especially like the eyes on his shell, or the armour decoration.

ANd I really like the character too, so thats always good

**StarBlazerM31** · September 14, 2007, 10:20am

Wow, that is a really cool character! I really like his coloring.

And once again, BBM has totally blown me away. Awesome job!

**SKELEPIMP** · September 14, 2007, 05:42pm

AWESOME!

or should I say...

Crust-A-Liscous!

BBM has skillz on topa skillz!

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**BlueLobster1979** · September 14, 2007, 06:13pm

See my fan-created character See-Shell here: See-Shell by BBM!!! and here: See-Shell by COTU!!!

**Tyger** · September 15, 2007, 02:55am

That is super cool! A fun character, with another excellent interpretation from Buffalo-Bill-Man. Great work guys.

**Mer-Man's Minion** · September 15, 2007, 03:04am

"Lobscure"?

Somehow I missed that the first time around...I love MOTU-style names.

**Eamon** · September 15, 2007, 11:58am

He far too awesome to have a name like that!

**BlueLobster1979** · September 16, 2007, 12:34am

Originally Posted by Pig Boy

He far too awesome to have a name like that!

You don't like the name See-Shell? Are you kidding me? We deliberated forever over his name... originally Lobscure was going to be his name, but then it was decided that make a better dark, mysterious, villainous name... I'll have to try and dig up the thread where me SC and GW debated out a name for him to show some of the rejects... some of them were quite funny. Oh well, See-Shell is his name, and has been stuck to him far too long to change it now, but seriously give a little time, it will grow on you...

**Mer-Man's Minion** · September 16, 2007, 03:19am

"See-Shell"---I love it! It's so totally MOTU!

**Mike Bock** · September 16, 2007, 03:44am

Oh wow amazing!!

**BlueLobster1979** · September 17, 2007, 05:36am

Originally Posted by Mer-Man's Minion

"See-Shell"---I love it! It's so totally MOTU!

I'm glad somebody likes it!!! I think it's very MOTU also, a little corny, a little clever, very tongue-in-cheek...

___

Well here is the thread where I came up with the names... I guess not all the back and forth got recorded because I just toss out both names in finished form right here

...

Originally Posted by Glass Shrimp

yeah, Glass Shrimp was never intended to be a truly "MotU" name, but I was trying to come up with something to describe him as being a crustacean, so words like crab, shrimp, crayfish, lobster, shell, claw, water, etc, and transparent, like glass, crystal, see-through, clear, etc.

Just putting words together I just came up with See-Shell, which is vaguely on the right MotU track I think...

Another one occurs to me Lobscure, kind of awkward / dorky, but very MotU-ish.

P.S. Here is an image off the net of a glass shrimp, if that helps as inspiration to anyone:

**Yoko** · September 17, 2007, 06:40am

Very Cool Great Job!!! A++

**Goat Man** · September 17, 2007, 09:31am

Such a great character, and amazing drawings by BBM! (as usual) I like it!

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