The Energon Pub

Here's a long over due update from me. I'll be slowly updating more over the next couple of days. I'll also start adding some of my stuff to the finished thread.

Optimus Primal




A fight between Nemesis and Airazor

Destructor wrote:Hiya again, friends, I put a couple of quick lines in the middle of a class this morning, and I could add more details (though this model still can't be built because I just jumped from beast to robot mode without considering a proper and possible transformation pattern xD).

Well, folks, here it is, this is an idea of how the menacing snake lord, Megazarak does look!

Now, it's obvious that this character is inspired by Universe's Megazarak, so his color pattern shold be the same, his alternate mode is the Jormungand serpent, a gigantic python that's black with red stripes across its body.

If some fixes can be made in order to make this design more possible, I'll do'em, it's just that I put the concept I had in my head in the paper ^_^

I think it looks pretty sweet man.

Got an Alt mode pic?

TFM

"CAT FIGHT"!!!!

And that idea right there is the perfect sure fire ways to sell a comic idea, Have two Fems duking it out on the cover, Shin we salute you.

TGping wrote:I agree with X-9 on the megazrak pic, the arms don't seem like they are practical. it doesn't make sense to have two ungainly appendages. one is more understandable, cuz its more of a weapon thing, while if he had two he wouldn't be able to pick up small things. unless he has alternate arms and these are like "attack mode" arms.

well, I don't think they're inappropriate, I just think he needs to have something a little more practical for robot mode. I just suggested retracting them as a start, since it's not a huge change.
maybe if the skull halves split into 4ths to form 2 "fingers" on each hand.

It isn't much - but here's some progress on Snarl:



.billy

I see that you're using the D&D monster manual for the dragon design
It looks more like a dragon than a gargoyle. But it's still cool looking.

Watch the old Gargoyles cartoon. Snarl is more in the Bronx vein. Looks great by the way BBA.

i really like snarl, but BBA is this one of ur harder drawings to do, seeing the amount of detail put into it?

Mest4life135 wrote:i really like snarl, but BBA is this one of ur harder drawings to do, seeing the amount of detail put into it?

Adding detail isn't necessarily the hard part - DECIDING WHAT details to use is the hard part.

For instance - the pelvic area took me a while to decide what to use.. I still might change it. I don't like the way it turned out.

.billy

shinmusashi44 wrote:I see that you're using the D&D monster manual for the dragon design
It looks more like a dragon than a gargoyle. But it's still cool looking.

No manuals here..
TFM decided to use this gargoyle as reference:


My rendition:


Everything remains the same - minus the wings. Snarl will have "wings" in robot mode.

.billy

wow
beastmode kicks ass BBA !

to fix the pelvic area I usually apply a little crotch-thrust

but seriously elogating the crotch area mayhelp you to achieve the look your going for.

A fight between Nemesis and Airazor
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Hey, what happened to birds of a feather flock together. Is there a continuation to that saying I missed?

TFmaster wrote:...
I think it looks pretty sweet man.

Got an Alt mode pic?

TFM

Here's a sketch I made a couple of days ago (Though its proportions suck, Snakes have their heads wider in the jaw joints, but I wasn't looking at a book when I did this one xD, and it was made like in five minutes xDDD), I'm planning to take out the scale armor as well.

http://www.tfmaster.com/forum/files/fanfic_megazarak_sketch_201.jpg

About Megazarak's robot mode, the main problem I have now is the fact that the serpent's body is waaaaayyy too long and it's also very narrow in comparison to its lenght, so the transformation pattern becomes a pain to design

The idea I had in this design was that the snake split into two parts, the fron body and the tail, the fron body split at the head and neck to form the arms and shoulders (I put the two halves of the head as hands to make it look more original, after all, there're several guys that have both of their hands to become else a head or a tail of a beast, like BW Megatron, Energon Divebomb or Galaxy Force Undermine).

The chest is formed mainly for four pairs of plates that are placed at the sides of the former body to make it wider.

The back part of the snake's front section splits into two parts as well to make the legs, which have moved plates as well to make them wider in the lower legs.

Finally the serpent's tail attaches to the robot's back to turn into its tail.

Now that I think it better, I could come with a better transformation pattern that won't be such a pain as I though, when I draw it I'll post it here ^_^

BBA- That real gargoyle pic you posted in in the same style that Wizards of the coast uses for dragons. So its still the same style It looks like they made it accually. But like i said before good work none the less.

I really like the Optimus Primal; he looks pretty cool IMHO!



And that's a nice fight scene between Airazor and Nemesis; some quality work there.

And great progress with Snarl BBA; it's never easy designing and drawing out a figure...

Great job everyone!

Here's Warpath that Weremole of the TFW2005 boards created a while back.

lines by me
created by weremole

Warpath

Funny, he looks more like Razorbeast. Cool design, though.

He's not meant to be G1 warpath Some else thought he was G1 warpath. They just have the same name. And Weremole based him off of Razorbeast.

Aaah, that explains it. What about naming him Warhog?

and am I missing something, is he a mythic or just a beast war type character?

I can't remeber what the beast was called, but there was a giant bore that the greeks hunted. Can't even remember how that story went. Disney had a version of the story on the hercules cartoon way back though.

Destructor wrote:

TFmaster wrote:...
I think it looks pretty sweet man.

Got an Alt mode pic?

TFM

Here's a sketch I made a couple of days ago (Though its proportions suck, Snakes have their heads wider in the jaw joints, but I wasn't looking at a book when I did this one xD, and it was made like in five minutes xDDD), I'm planning to take out the scale armor as well.

http://www.tfmaster.com/forum/files/fanfic_megazarak_sketch_201.jpg

About Megazarak's robot mode, the main problem I have now is the fact that the serpent's body is waaaaayyy too long and it's also very narrow in comparison to its lenght, so the transformation pattern becomes a pain to design

The idea I had in this design was that the snake split into two parts, the fron body and the tail, the fron body split at the head and neck to form the arms and shoulders (I put the two halves of the head as hands to make it look more original, after all, there're several guys that have both of their hands to become else a head or a tail of a beast, like BW Megatron, Energon Divebomb or Galaxy Force Undermine).

The chest is formed mainly for four pairs of plates that are placed at the sides of the former body to make it wider.

The back part of the snake's front section splits into two parts as well to make the legs, which have moved plates as well to make them wider in the lower legs.

Finally the serpent's tail attaches to the robot's back to turn into its tail.

Now that I think it better, I could come with a better transformation pattern that won't be such a pain as I though, when I draw it I'll post it here ^_^

How about these for inspiration?

http://tfu.info/1999/Cybertron/Corahda/corahda.htm
http://tfu.info/2000/Maximal/Nightviper/nightviper.htm

hmm... I thought there were more snakes than that, but those are the only ones I see at tfu.info today. *shrug*

Also, if you want to go with the front half splitting to form arms, how about making the arms hidden inside the neck? The head and neck split and seperate from the arms, then, based on the sketch in your link, the apparently-segmented head and neck halves become "snake swords", a la
Ivy's weapon from the Soul Calibur games?

That leaves the arms attached to the back half of the serpent, while the rest of the tail seperates to become chest and legs, with the head emerging from within the severed part.

The Giant Boar is part of greek myths. It was Hercules 4 labor to kill it. The full name for the boar is Erymanthian boar.

shinmusashi44 wrote:The Giant Boar is part of greek myths. It was Hercules 4 labor to kill it. The full name for the boar is Erymanthian boar.

So does this mean he's like the startrek red shirts? You there going to die the moment they leave the ship. Hey that can be part of his charcter! he's afraid to leave the ship cause a madman with a bow is waiting for him outside