Incase it wasnt obvious Fresh Monkey Fiction's Amazing Heroes line was a big motivator there.

Here's an unrelated project I never cooked up a catchy name for, but it speaks for itself. Masters of the Universe styled figures based off the big named Image heroes! Maxx, PITT, Shaft, Diehard. This was alot rougher around the edges because I wanted to see how well the designs would lend themselves to this style. Rumor has it Liefield modelled his characters off his MOTU figures and that inspired this idea to begin with.