Custom Transformers squad profile art
Posted: 2004-07-15 06:25pm
I figured I'd post about this in A&P now that is' been in Cybertron for almost a month and on Seibertron.com for a few days.
Anydangway, I developed my own team of Transformers, the Rodimus Maximus Squad, initially for the Seibertron.com game Heavy Metal Wars. Once I thought up some detailed background info on them, I decided to write up some detailed bios and custom art and finally create a page with all the profiles for the squad.
Rodimus Maximus Squad Page
The profiles contain short information on bios, alt modes, and weapons, with images for all weapons and modes for each Transformer. The images' proportions and designs are a bit of a compromise between a clunky 'action figure' design and a more streamlined 'cartoon/comic' design, which gives me a bit of leeway depending on which direction I want to take them for future use (either creating custom figures or getting them drawn in the style of the G1 TV show). So it's more like a crude version of the art from the old instruction manuals, I guess.
That's about it for now, though I've considered adding intended tech specs (not HMW stats) and maybe a timeline of the squad's service (I'll have to research some things like the Great Shutdown, the end of the war, and how the hell G2 fits in). I haven't exactly decided what I'm going to do with all this, actually. I'd love to do a series of comics set in the early '90s, but I certainly couldn't draw it myself, and fanfiction just isn't my style. So I'll have to wait and see whilst I finish brainstorming the squad's post-war fate (of which I've done a lot of finalization of story and setting and completed some artwork, which I must admit is inherently superior in detail and complexity).
Seibertron.com Thread
Anydangway, I developed my own team of Transformers, the Rodimus Maximus Squad, initially for the Seibertron.com game Heavy Metal Wars. Once I thought up some detailed background info on them, I decided to write up some detailed bios and custom art and finally create a page with all the profiles for the squad.
Rodimus Maximus Squad Page
The profiles contain short information on bios, alt modes, and weapons, with images for all weapons and modes for each Transformer. The images' proportions and designs are a bit of a compromise between a clunky 'action figure' design and a more streamlined 'cartoon/comic' design, which gives me a bit of leeway depending on which direction I want to take them for future use (either creating custom figures or getting them drawn in the style of the G1 TV show). So it's more like a crude version of the art from the old instruction manuals, I guess.
That's about it for now, though I've considered adding intended tech specs (not HMW stats) and maybe a timeline of the squad's service (I'll have to research some things like the Great Shutdown, the end of the war, and how the hell G2 fits in). I haven't exactly decided what I'm going to do with all this, actually. I'd love to do a series of comics set in the early '90s, but I certainly couldn't draw it myself, and fanfiction just isn't my style. So I'll have to wait and see whilst I finish brainstorming the squad's post-war fate (of which I've done a lot of finalization of story and setting and completed some artwork, which I must admit is inherently superior in detail and complexity).
Seibertron.com Thread