The Energon Pub

by **TM JAF** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:30 am

Hey gang,

I've been meaning to post this for a while. This is a commission I did a month or so ago. It was requested that I create an Alicon guard that had joints and appearance of a G1 toy. I had to make up a transformation since the toon cheats that quite a bit. Here's the result.

The beast...

And the bot...

Once the Seibertron galleries are functioning, I'll do a full upload of images.

by **Autobot Shade 0066** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:21 am

Thats pretty awesome. I can dig it.

by **piranacon** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:46 am

wow thats a nice bash

by **DTM** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:04 pm

Very cool

by **Greyryder** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:26 pm

Slick! I like it.

by **TM Mench0y** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:44 pm

awesome details, looks like a very extensive transformation as well. How big is the fellow by the way?

News Credits: 1 · by **NebulanFree** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:27 pm

Very neat.

-Neb

by **pezley** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:27 pm

seriously one of the best bash's i have ever seen, not from a technical standpoint ( not to sound rude and it is VERY good ) but for originality, seeing something no one else has tried and having it at such a high standard always amazes me.if the arcee im working on comes any where near the quality ill be more than happy

by **TM JAF** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:57 pm

Thanks for the compliments! It's about as tall as the G1 Gnaw (a little larger).

by **Tramp** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:24 pm

That is definately a sweet piece of work. Well done.

by **rhinox555** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:26 am

Not very accurate to cartoon.
but WOW! it's definately what they should have looked like in the cartoon.

by **Primus_feather** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:56 am

Nice use of Xevoz Bits, man I miss those

by **ptitvite** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:27 am

rhinox555 wrote:Not very accurate to cartoon.
but WOW! it's definately what they should have looked like in the cartoon.

Cartoon accuracy is somehow impossible.
Watched TF movie sequence with the universal greeding...
These guys morph alot when transforming, makin it impossible to be truthful to cartoon. Even more, I'd say that the cartoon is not accurate if there is such a thing.
Anyhoo, this kitbash is great and the results are impressive!
A collectors item definitely

by **TM JAF** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:49 am

Yeah, "cartoon accurate" is a bit of an oxymoron because these characters change so much from frame to frame, heh. However, if using the original reference drawings for the show/movie, one can get a good idea of what a character was supposed to look like.

Thanks for the comments as usual! Here are some WIP shots:

Initial design sketch:

This shot has the first tail version which was eventually scrapped.

by **ptitvite** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:28 am

These pics look great
You did an amazing job on this guy
My 2 cents: I'm not too crazy about the pink or maybe it's only because of the camera flash. I really hate to give negative comments and it's not usually my way but it's only a color issue.
I know I can't come up with a fine project like this so It may be best if I just shut up!
Props to you!

by **TM JAF** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:25 am

Don't worry about it Ptitvite! I love all critiques. I wanted to match the purple/pink used on the G1 Gnaw but it came out a little more pink. This custom was designed to compliment Gnaw.

Thanks again for the interest.

by **DTM** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:47 am

Pink looks cool on it, to my opinion

by **TM Mench0y** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:02 pm

I think the color looks good, I like the cartoonish look. I just got more respect for this custom once I saw the designs you made for it, that's what I call jumping out the page.

by **jimsloth** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:37 pm

I love the wip pictures. Looks like a negative of the character. Where did those legs and waist come from?

As far as finish goes, yes, very g1 toy look. I'd like it more without the sticker type details to be more g1 toon, I rip most of the stickers off the old toys anyways, but if he's being displayed next to a Gnaw with all the stickers it only makes sense.

by **Ramrider** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:22 pm

I'm not 100% sure on the waist, but the thighs look like Cyb Crumplezone to me.

Brilliant job, JAF! Like you said, it's almost always impossible to define 'toon-accurate', but that looks pretty faithful in both modes! And it's a brilliant use of some really random parts..!

by **TFLobo** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:00 am

Awesome work Jaf!

I love all the detail work on him!

by **Glue** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:55 pm

All the details look great and that bot mode looks terrific. It looks like the hip joints should be behind the alt's shoulders, but I'm presuming that might be the animation cheat issues you were running into. This is a great design, though and makes me wanna copy it, hehe.

by **rhinox555** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:50 am

Ptitvite wrote:
rhinox555 wrote:Not very accurate to cartoon.
but WOW! it's definately what they should have looked like in the cartoon.

Cartoon accuracy is somehow impossible.
Watched TF movie sequence with the universal greeding...
These guys morph alot when transforming, makin it impossible to be truthful to cartoon. Even more, I'd say that the cartoon is not accurate if there is such a thing.
Anyhoo, this kitbash is great and the results are impressive!
A collectors item definitely

Yeah,well the beast mode is the same in every pic,and the only real changes the robot modes have is wether or not they have teeth.