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Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:26 am

They're looking very good, although the Huffer one seems to be to complicated, mostly with the eyes.

Oh yeah, was bored so I did a take on the logo (used the Airrazor/Nemesis cover for this):

I love Photoshop's gradient tool.

Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:31 am

shinmusashi44 wrote:Heres some Faction symbols for the Sect characters. These will be all walls and items through out Cybertron. Do any of you see any changes i should make to them? Also should the symbols be more than one color?

Wheeljack's symbol doesn't have a straight line on the edge, so it will look distorted whenever you go to mirror it. Also, G1 Cartoon Ironhide had round ear things too.

Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:21 am

Ra88 wrote:They're looking very good, although the Huffer one seems to be to complicated, mostly with the eyes.

Oh yeah, was bored so I did a take on the logo (used the Airrazor/Nemesis cover for this):

I love Photoshop's gradient tool.

The top one is WindCharger

Yeah the eye came out funny looking cause the pen sucks. I was at work and used a normal pen so it doesnt look all that good. Also nice job on the logo

Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:26 am

jimsloth wrote:
shinmusashi44 wrote:Heres some Faction symbols for the Sect characters. These will be all walls and items through out Cybertron. Do any of you see any changes i should make to them? Also should the symbols be more than one color?

Wheeljack's symbol doesn't have a straight line on the edge, so it will look distorted whenever you go to mirror it. Also, G1 Cartoon Ironhide had round ear things too.

Not sure what you mean about wheeljacks symbol. Give some detail as to what you mean. And yeah i knew ironhide had the ear thingy too, i just didn't want to many of them to have the ear thingy.

Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:02 pm

Because the left side of the wheeljack picture is not a straight imaginary line like the others when you mirror the image, there is either going to be a gap by the chin, or a gap in the forhead. Here's an example of the gap in the chin.

Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:14 pm

You know, im stil not following you. They are sketches, they dont have to have straight lines. When i draaw the whole image it will look fine. Plus i don't mirror my images nor know how, or even understand why i would. Im not trying to sound like an ass (im not i swear)

Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:17 pm

I think Jimsloth like the rest of us is hust used to seeing practically finished pieces from you.

Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:17 pm

Oh and i forgot to say, thats cool that you mirrored them. Could you do that for the other 4 so i could see how it looks...please

Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:45 pm

as soon as I get out of this computer lab and back home where I have photoshop and can mirror them correctly. That last one was done with Windows Paint and I can do much better in 2 min.s of work.

And by "straight line" I was talking about the axis of symmetry (sp?). The other faces, the half way point of their face, all the lines end on the same imaginary line. Thats the axis you mirror on.

I need photoshop because windows paint will only mirror on 90' angles, where photoshop will let me freehand twist the images into the right angle.

Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:07 pm

Cool can't wait to see them

Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:19 am

Didn't have time to crop down the bottom of the image, late for work, fix it later, but here it is:

Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:11 am

Haha - I mirrored them, too!

.billy

Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:44 pm

Nice work! jim and shin. teamwork and cooperation, those are the predacon watch words.

Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:04 pm

here's a croped version. I also touched up the center of the faces and reworked prowls helmut a little. His head just looked wierd mirrored. Way too narrow a face and wide a helmut. If you like it more now too, I'll delete the last set of heads I posted.

Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:29 pm

Those came out really nice. And i see what you were saying about Prowls symbol. Now you have to go mirror everything else

Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:04 pm

shinmusashi44 wrote:Those came out really nice. And i see what you were saying about Prowls symbol. Now you have to go mirror everything else

OK, I'll make you a deal, I'll go back through all the old drawings, find the ones of your Mythic actionmasters that need mirrored if you do me one favor. Back on page 1 of this tread is a design sketch I did for a minoutaur Ironhide. I've never gotten around to doing a good dynamic pic of him. Would you do a sketch of him for me?

Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:19 pm

Yeah i remember that pic. Sure i'll draw it. But ya gotta give me some time. But i can have it around this weekend.

Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:25 pm

sure, whenever, can't wait.

Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:52 pm

Ok heres some more of the "Prowl" character for the Dark Ages. I canged up the leg transformation. I works like BW Neo Longrack now. Where the back half of the horse leg comes down and forms around the bottom half of the leg. The bottom part still has the horse leg in the armor. So theres parts (armor) the comes out of the back hald of the leg and forms around the bottom half. Also anyone have any good ideas for a name for this character? And no im not calling him Prowl

Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:44 pm

I really like how thats coming along. Not sure on the name yet, I'll get back to you, but here's the first one of your mirror pics, The Royal Guard:

I tweeked the fembot's eyes n helmut, I hope you don't mind. Its just sometimes straight mirrors don't look quite like what you would hope they would. It looked more out of proportion before.

Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:59 pm

Not bad at all. Thanks for that, it helps with the ideas i had in my head. Now i don't have to draw them out.

Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:17 pm

Another thing is for the femme bot you might want to cut the space between her whole body down a bit. Maybe not around the chest... But just the whole rest of the body on general.

Not thinking straight atm, so sorry if you don't get what I'm saying...

Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:29 pm

Shade wrote:Another thing is for the femme bot you might want to cut the space between her whole body down a bit. Maybe not around the chest... But just the whole rest of the body on general.

Not thinking straight atm, so sorry if you don't get what I'm saying...

You're saying he figure isn't very girly, correct Rikku?

Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:31 pm

Yeah. Rather very butch... And not in a complimentary way either. It's like they took Ironhide and bloody transgendered him. >.>;!

Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:49 pm

Shade wrote:Yeah. Rather very butch... And not in a complimentary way either. It's like they took Ironhide and bloody transgendered him. >.>;!

HAHAHA, ok, I think the hips are a bit big, but the tummy looks thin, and I don't know, maybe the Fem Ironhide should be a bit butch, save the thinner femmbots for the ones for Ratchet. Whatever. On with the show, here's the Sentry. I may rework the Captain's abs a little though, it looks Wierd. I'll try to modle it more after the one in the lower left of the pic.

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