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Mogwai Prime wrote:Try making one that isn't transparent through the whole image. It seems to me that it loses too much detail that way.

More like this?

This sounds cool! I will try some Helicopter-Alt-Modes when I'm at home ^_^

SSJMihoshi wrote:Another couple before I go have dinner. I've been playing with 2 ways of doing the pre-movie bots:
1) Grab their toy images from the galleries here. Most of the faction symbols are easy to photoshop out, but I ran into a problem with Bluestreak, since he has one on a window.
2) Try and find photos of their real-life alt-modes. So far I've been lucky, but I probably won't be able to find them all
Which would you prefer?

Either works, however as an example, I made jazz (yeah I know I screwed the dropshadows up lol) but I think I may swap him out for a normal Porsche as with the numbers and stripes etc, he's just too distinctive as Jazz to be usable as a generic car.

Your one works far better, even if its a more modern model.

SSJMihoshi wrote:Cassette:

From: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/g1-1984/frenzy/874/1/35/ and http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/g1-1984/frenzy/874/1/86/

SSJMihoshi wrote:Another couple before I go have dinner. I've been playing with 2 ways of doing the pre-movie bots:
1) Grab their toy images from the galleries here. Most of the faction symbols are easy to photoshop out, but I ran into a problem with Bluestreak, since he has one on a window.
2) Try and find photos of their real-life alt-modes. So far I've been lucky, but I probably won't be able to find them all
Which would you prefer?

Cassette:

From: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/g1-1984/frenzy/874/1/35/ and http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/g1-1984/frenzy/874/1/86/

Datsun 280Z (AKA Bluestreak):

From: http://www.dat280z.com/

Either will do go wild Remember we need robot modes, weapon and armor graphics also. Find guns and melee weapons. Find armor and stuff too.

Mogwai Prime wrote:Either will do go wild Remember we need robot modes, weapon and armor graphics also. Find guns and melee weapons. Find armor and stuff too.

Awesome. I agree with Psychout that some of the toy graphics look too distinctive. So I may end up using both ideas, trying to find the oldest possible cars.

And I'm not sure how to portray armor. Do you mean shields, or are you looking for tiles of different colors representing the different levels? (Iron, Duranium, Electum, etc.) Hmm... perhaps I could make some standard graphic of a robot torso/arms and give it the different colors/sheens inherent to each level of armor?

Edit: Oh, and to combat the distinctiveness problem, I'll be doing the other cassettes as well. I may also tweak the colors of the detail sections to get new color combos. ^_^

Nissan Skyline GT-R R34


Got it from here.

Delorean


Got it from here.

Toyota Supra


Got it from here


Looking back over, the Delorean and Supra shadows seem to be messed up, but they should be there *Head scratch*

I've been trying to do one of these, but I've never really worked with a photo program before. I downloaded GIMP, and it seems full-featured and all, but I just don't know how to do certain things. Maybe the terminology is different than PaintShopPro, and that's what's throwing me off from the Tutorial. The video tutorial is just too much for me to follow.

Roadblocks so far: How do I know what the background color is for Seibertron?

How do I "promote" a layer?

How do I set a layer to black and white?

BMW 5 Series
my current alt mode (well kinda, not sure if you guys would care for a police version, but i can make one if you want it)

This is an example of the custom paintjob thing I mentioned earlier.


When that image is placed under the car instead of a solid colour, this happens.

Lorekeeper wrote:I've been trying to do one of these, but I've never really worked with a photo program before. I downloaded GIMP, and it seems full-featured and all, but I just don't know how to do certain things. Maybe the terminology is different than PaintShopPro, and that's what's throwing me off from the Tutorial. The video tutorial is just too much for me to follow.

Roadblocks so far: How do I know what the background color is for Seibertron?

How do I "promote" a layer?

How do I set a layer to black and white?

I have never used Gimp, but I know some users have you might want to go through the posts and get in touch with someone who has.

I updated the walkthrough with the hexcode for the HMW background color.