No no, silly Autovolt, of course not; my fetishes are not meant for mortal eyes. Speaking of mortal eyes, here's some wee drafting I did for Elita-1 concepts!; Came out decently enough, albeit head too big/legs too short, but heck you get the idea. She's a combination of bulky and intricate, with a fancy head design and 'cape' compared to the thick torso/legs and such. She's a scientist, so at first I was all: "she needs a funky fancy weapon.", but then I thought: "Nah, give her the goddamn harpoon/shotgun!". Which is cooler! But she still keeps the science fun with a 'hairpiece' that turns into a lil' drone. ] Little bit of Skyla and Elesa in her head decal, and her vehicle mode is based off the Gremlin from Halo Wars, specifically the angular front. There's a bit of BW Depth Charge here too, specifically in her main vehicle having a flying form and her 'wings' capable of shielding her from harm. Who said all wings have to be super-sensitive?!?! All in all, I like how she came out. I wish I had a harpoon/shotgun.
Elita-1 has Pokemon influences? I love the drawings, muy excellente! (four years of Spanish and that's pretty much all I have to show for it)
Even though I imagine Elita as a Dodge Viper, I think we need more truck Elita's, or even truck femmes in general. Also, I'm not sure if the truck's from Cybertron or Earth, but if it's from Cybertron, I imagine her Earth form is one of those support trucks from the Dakar Rally: Also, why does that "hairpiece" look familiar...? Elita's hairpiece drone is a Tiny Toon!
Her cuteness is elite. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Tiny robot that fits on her head is Elita's best friend. OH YES. Quite a lot of my things do, actually. Check out Manda back there, she's got plenty of Rayquaza/Dragonair going on! I love a girl who can truck with the best of them. It's a Cybertronian truck, but that's a nice Earth truck you got there! Elita knows that Decepticons are at their most vulnerable when confronted by toons :3 Anyway, another draft, this time for a certain cycloptic Cyclops. Pretty much a DOTM Shockwave, with lots of ribs and spikes and horns for maximum spikiness. His ribs enclose a glowing section of chest that evokes the image of lungs, he has Insection-esque shoulders and his mouthplate can retract to reveal an unholy proboscis tipped with freaky mandibles. Shockwave does science crap for Megatron, but he's more into psychology; he loves studying people's minds, their motivations and all that, and then he loves to try and break them down, bit by bit, until they have nothing left to offer him and thus are promptly dispatched. He wants to compile all of the minds of Cybertron and create the ultimate intellectual repository. Why? I dunno, he's a fucking weirdo. His appearance is designed to look creepy and unnatural, he loves to scare people by suddenly shrieking at them with that mouth, and overall he is a very polite but very disturbed robot. His cannon has many firing modes and he has a chainsaw for chaining people. He also drinks blood. A very disturbed robot indeed.
Sweet jumping jackrabbits. Shockwave looks like a demonic viking with a major in torture, and a minor in pain. Awesome. Also, more bots need chainsaws. They are awesome
He sails the cosmos in his robo-viking longboat, pillaging planets and stealing sheepatrons. Chainsaws are cool. Shockwave is cool. Ergo, Shockwave with a chainsaw is mega cool. Nah, that thing is a like a shutter, it can rise up or down depending on how he's feeling. And for reading. Here is a draft for a particularly drastic take on Dead End. Like Shockwave, she's all about being bony and creepy, but where he's an unholy juggernaut from hell, she's a lanky spidery horror from hell 2. She's pretty gothic/depressed, with that metal view around her face that can move around depending on how she feels, and 'teardrops' by her eyes. She modified her own appearance to reflect her inner sadness... And also to look disturbing. The long thin arms with crazy claws at the end (Hello, Diaboromon!), spiky double-jointed legs, that weird flexible spine between the torso and hips, the ribs and spikes and such, she's basically a very flexible and agile slice-and-dice grim reaper kind of robot, using them sickles to slit some throats. I know Stunticons tend to be cars, but that bike thing looked really fucking cool and I loved it too much. She also wears a skull on her head. That's not decal, that's actually the physical skull of an Insecticon Marauder, a particularly large and powerful subspecies of the dreaded subterranean monsters. Which begs the question; did Dead End plunge into the depths, do battle with the robot equivalent of a hellish insect-dinosaur-demon and kill it with her bare hands?!?! In hindsight, the skull should be bigger, because Marauders are huge (reaching heights of around 40-50 feet), but oh well.
And riding Predacons. Love the skull/skeleton look to her. Love her long, twisty arms. Love the look of her. Especially love how there's like a face on her chest and shoulders.
Just as I've found my favourite brand of coffee. Thanks muchly! She's very lovable. Nihilistic, but lovable. Many faces for much sadness, many faces for much scything. She auditioned for the role, but lost out to some cheeky prick called Zelda or something. I just want robots to look cool, no matter the cost. Anyway, here is a quick doodle I did for some special friends of mine; "What a bunch of a-holes." These six robots and their lord and saviour Wheeljack form the principle good bot cast of Transformers Meta. They're a bunch of happy robots on a happy adventure to find energy and slap Starscream and his band of stupid cons around. Jazz is cool, not crude, and he's the leader of the bunch. You may also know him as The Lieutenant, right-hand robot to Optimus Prime himself, and though he is the shortest robot in the Autobots, he's a swift and versatile fighter who'll kick aft and look sexy doing it. His visor hides his optics, and no-one knows what colour they are; what else could he be hiding? Bumblebee is the ray of sunshine in this bag of bolts, an enthusiastic and adorable, albeit trouble-prone/useless, robot who keeps everyone perky. He rolls around on wheels, attacks with stunners designed to, well, stun and is best friends with the local dinosaur. Hound is the calm and collected lieutenant to the Lieutenant, an experienced scout and a master of holograms and trickery. He's a culture-lover, a tree-hugger, a cheap-ass G1 clone and the mentor/parental figure to Bee. He tends to be the most level-headed of the bunch, and always has something meaningful (alternatively pretentious) to say. Wheeljack is the weird and wonderful inventor of the crew. As enthusiastic in the battlefield as he is in the lab, he's always dreaming up new ways to invent cool stuff, kick ass, save the day and look good while doing it. And he does look good while doing it. He's a tow truck, he's a smart bot and you should love him. I know I do. Ratchet is the medical marvel and the moral bastion of the bunch. Dedicated to being the life-preserved and the life-debater of the crew, he's not very much in battle, but he makes up for it in his talent with healing. Sometimes though, his obsession with moral ideals leads him to neglect basic courtesies, most often seen in his prejudice towards Grimlock. Where Bee is a tiny bubble of happy, Evac is a gargantuan who is friendly but nervous/insecure. He wants to be as great a medic as Ratchet, but he also wants to be as strong as his size ought to suggest, and he's also the only one who flies, so he winds up with a fair amount of responsibilities despite his youth. He tries his best, he really does, and I hope he does well. Grimlock is the brute force of the team, the vicious fire-breathing unrelenting space T-rex, and doesn't concern himself with Ratchet's petty morals or Jazz's idiotic considerations for the locals. Twisted into a dinosaur by Decepticon science shenanigans, his mind is a raging inferno only barely restrained, and he wants nothing more than to unleash it on bad bots. Despite this, he has a close and genuine friendship with Bumblebee, the little buddy who judges him not for being a grumpy dino. These bots and all their friends can be found in Transformers Meta, which is a filthy liar that barely, if ever, makes use of the word meta.
And they'll have the best times of their pathetic lives. I'm amused that you made him the shortest and the leader of the pathetic dirty... sevensome? He also looks like a cat with those ears, which is kind of cute, and hilarious. Group shots must be fun. Also, I'm assuming his optics are actually red. Just a thought... Bumblebee is friggin' adorable. Those eyes, the "ears", the smile... holy shit, he's cute. I also love the fact that you colored his optics the brightest. Really shows how innocent he is in this war. What a hippie. That bio describes both him and a hippie perfectly. That's probably no coincidence. What if I don't love him, huh? You can't tell me who I should love and shouldn't love! *Pouts in the corner* Just kidding. He looks worried in that picture though. Probably realized that his latest invention is about to blow up in his face. He looks pretty happy for a Noble Bigot. So Rescue Bots Blades finally decided to hulk out (physically, not emotionally) and prove his worth against the Decepticons? Also, "his youth"? How old is he? Love how you made him just a T-Rex and a tanker truck instead of robot, T-Rex, and tanker truck. Though I would love to see a triple changer like that someday. Then why call it that? Actually, I shouldn't be asking that because we already have a canon Transformers series that doesn't live up to its title. *coughPrimecough*
Abso-fudging-lutely. Yeah, I just wanted the hilarity of the big boss being the littlest one. Can you imagine him talking to rookie Evac as a commander, despite the fact the bot is over three times his height?! Dun dun dun! Yeah, Bee and Hound are the lovable cuties. The happy hippy and his adorable kiddie bot! Wheeljack is love. Wheeljack is life. He's worried more people will pay attention to the adorable bee or the cool dinosaur instead of him Ratchet's a decent bot. He just needs to get his head out his ass. After leaving the Rescue Bots, Blades lapsed into steroid abuse. Ashamed and horrified, he changed his name and adopted a new identity to hide the sins of his past... All I ever wanted was a truckasaurus. To be fair, Prime had the decency to feature some guys called Prime in it. Anyway, TFM, I pretty much named it meta 'cause, you know, meta is a cool word. And it's my name. But there was going to be a point where we'd find out that the word 'meta' actually has meanings to Cybertronians beyond the human definition. My ass just didn't get there yet. Youth is somewhat different between humans and Cybertronians. Evac is 4 years old; if he were a human, he'd be a child. Despite this, he's an adult by robot standards, with a developed spark, a proper body and a pretty good mind on him. All things considered, he's a mature, if somewhat inexperienced and insecure, robot. Now this will lead into a long shit, so bear with me. Basically, as the war went on and robots kept killing each other, both sides realized that, at this rate, they'd run out of fodder. They could just use drones all the time (mass-produced Cybertronians without sparks), but drones have their limitations and are not as intelligent or as intuitive as a true-sparked Cybertronian. The spark is more than power, it is learning, instincts, autonomy, divine almost, and Cybertronians cannot bear the thought of having their species reduced to mere drones. Their solution, therefore, was to take the new sparks generated from Spark Wells, sources of life dotted throughout Cybertron, and put them through a new process called... the Infusion Process. You see, the spark defines the body of a robot; a young spark is weak and can only power small 'childish' frames. Robo-children, basically, incapable of supporting weapons or transformation. As it gets older, it gets stronger and can thus power larger and more 'adult' frames, which can be outfitted with weapons and stuff. The idea behind the Infusion Process was to take new sparks and pump them full of Energon to force them to grow and grow until they'd reached a point where they could power an 'adult' body capable of supporting weapons and stuff. This meant that new sparks could be swiftly converted into new soldiers without all the hassles of 'childhood'. Fantastic; you don't have to waste time rearing it up the long way, you can pop it into a developed state and slap it into a fully-outfitted body. But it is highly controversial; after all, you're cruelly stripping the robo-childhood from it to make yourself a new soldier. That's fucked up, and Cybertronians, even the more depraved ones, dislike it profusely. Alas, they tolerate it for the sake of keeping up their numbers. tl;dr, young sparks are being forcibly grown up into adult sparks, which means that fuckers like Bee and Evac are adult-robots despite not having many years under their belts.
I can just imagine Jazz marching up to Evac, ready to give him a piece of his mind over one of Evac's rookie mistakes... and the audience is laughing their asses off because Jazz looks to be about the size of a kitty compared to him. Oh boy. That should be a sitcom. Noooooo... It's okay Wheeljack, I was only kidding. Red Foreman can help him with that. That's pretty dark. Well, you got one. Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. I see. Will they break the fourth wall, though? I probably shouldn't have asked, but at least there's an explanation as to why there's child soldiers in the Transformers multiverse. Also, I wanted to ask: Is it okay if I draw a group shot of your Autobot cast and post it on my art thread?
Never was there a finer group of heroes than the crew of Zeta-1. Except maybe the Avengers, but besides them, Zeta-1 is the best! Love your version of Grimlock, Evac, and Jazz. I'm especially a fan of your decision to not give Grimmy a classic robot mode. Very cool.
