Okay, so I know I said I wouldn't do any Autobots or Decepticons from the movie or third season... but this guy ain't exactly an Autobot or Decepticon, is he?



Hrms... wonder how long he'll take to skin and animate...

Who are you? :P

Welcome back Val, spiffy Quintason (sp?) WIP.  :thumbup:

Welcome back!

And that is one awesome alien.

Doesn't he appear in the last episode of beast wars as well?

 :charonwow !

Quote from: Night Dragon on June 16, 2007, 12:09:33 AM
Who are you? :P

Welcome back Val, spiffy Quintason (sp?) WIP.  :thumbup:

Heheh, thanks.

And it's Quintesson, actually.

Quote from: Lunarman on June 16, 2007, 12:15:33 AM
Welcome back!

And that is one awesome alien.

Doesn't he appear in the last episode of beast wars as well?

Not as far as I know. The only non-Terran, Non-Cybertronian life forms that show up in Beast Wars are the Vok.

BTW, for size reference, he's about the size of the "Autobo Car" meshes - you know,like Bluestreak and Sideswipe.

Guilty or Innocent?
Innocent!
(dumps hapless robot into pit of ravenous sharkticons)

That's a very ambitious project, Val. Here's what I would be doing if I tried that:  :banghead:

guilty or innocent


superb work as always val

Welcome Back Valandar!   that guy looks ridiculously cool...   i'm guessing he's a sort of judge of souls or something?
sweet stuff,  have fun animating!

Quote from: detourne_me on June 16, 2007, 02:34:12 PM
Welcome Back Valandar!   that guy looks ridiculously cool...   i'm guessing he's a sort of judge of souls or something?
sweet stuff,  have fun animating!

Not quite. He's from the 1986 Transformers animated movie.

The idea is that in the ancient past, the Quintessons are a bio-cybernetic race that either created or enslaved the Transformers (they claim they created them, other sources claim enslaved), and mass-marketed them as servants and combat machines across the galaxy (which explains the presence of other mechanical life in the galaxy, such as the Paradrons and the Lithonians - Paradrons show up in Season 3, and Lithone is the planet that becomes an intergalactic Happy Meal for Unicron at the beginning of TF:TM).

Eventually, however, the Transformers rebelled and drove the Quintessons off Cybertron, wrecking their 'business' and pretty much isolating them on Quintessa. They become embittered, and declare all mechanical life "guilty" of "stealing Cybertron". An individual may be "innocent", i.e., was not present at the time the Quintessons were kicked off Cybertron, but they're fed to the Sharkticons, anyway. The Quintesson I show above is one of the "Judges", who are also the leaders of the race. There are a wide variety of other forms, including Scientists, Bailiffs, Prosecutors, and others, and the only Cybertronian "life" they still control are the Sharkticons and Gatorcons (in TF:TM, Kupp and Hot Rod spark a Sharkticon rebellion, but this is quelled and the Sharkticons back under Quintesson control by the time of Season 3's episode "Five Faces of Darkness").

wow!  thanks for the history lesson:)
truth be told i havent seen the transformers movie since i was six.  but this is really cool nonetheless!   gonna have fun making a hero file for him

For these guys? They're not really that powerful, that's what their legions of Sharkticons are for.

I'd say a Strength of about 3-4, Endurance maybe 5-6, Power of 6, and the rest at 2-3. And they have never shown any attacks, but that's not to say they can't whip lightly with their tentacles or blast energy beams from their eyes...

Oh, here's an image with the skin. I added a couple layers of Meshsmooth, so it's... well... smoother than the low poly version...



Animating it might take me a while, I gots me some serious $$$ work suddenly piling up.

 :o wow! man that awesome Val.

'Tis great to see you back in the game (and to know that that money train is still rollin' ;)), Val!

Strike that.  'Tis grand to see your product back in the game, Val! :P  As ever, you set the bar high for others, and 'tis needless to say that both mesh and skin are fabulous. :)

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat

This one may take even longer than I thought... it's not wanting to export, for some reason...

A very cool mesh, Val.

Dana

...gulp! :blink:

looks like that robot from beastmachines
or transformers armada

Quote from: Raijin on June 21, 2007, 04:19:47 PM
looks like that robot from beastmachines
or transformers armada

:blink:


:blink:


Umm, predates BOTH. And you WOULD have to mention the two biggest blights on the Transformers name. >.<  That is, until next year's "Transformers Animated" shows up...


Quick preview of the upcoming HORROR:

o_o

so... if this one is transformers.... "animated".....
how were the others made? *rolls eyes*

lol looks kinda like Clone Wars. And I just have to say I loved Beast Wars, one of my favorite cartoons of all time.

Quote from: Raijin on June 21, 2007, 04:19:47 PM
looks like that robot from beastmachines
or transformers armada

I liked BeastWars, BeastMachines was okay... A little weird, but okay.

Transformers Armada... I couldn't fallow that thing to save my life. :(

As for the new one coming out... yeesh...

Quote from: NeoDarke on June 23, 2007, 03:26:54 AM

Quote from: Raijin on June 21, 2007, 04:19:47 PM
looks like that robot from beastmachines
or transformers armada

I liked BeastWars, BeastMachines was okay... A little weird, but okay.

Transformers Armada... I couldn't fallow that thing to save my life. :(

As for the new one coming out... yeesh...

i like beast wars too alot better than beastmachines :thumbup:

good god what the hell is that

Val....you made me so happy, I was really excited to see the Quintession......and then you bring such dark news......why would they do that....just why?

I should qualify here...

1 ) I actually rather LIKED the Beast Wars cartoon. I did NOT like the toys, because TOO many of them were "Stand up, flip the head back/forward, use the tail as a sword" type of transform. On the other hand, I did NOT like the Beast machines show OR toys.

2 ) Looking at what TF: Cybertron figures I have, I am becoming SORELY tempted to make meshes for them. The polycount would end up being higher than for the GeeWun figures because, unlike them, I won't have to "cheat" to give articulation. One Cybertron/Galaxy Force already has a mesh (I'm using it for War Within Starscream. :P )

3 ) I hate the movie designs. Period. Someone once described them (I think somewhere here) as "Terminator endoskeletons with car vomit all over them". BUT... some of the movie figures are actually pretty durn good, especially the figs for characters that... um... well, don't actually appear in the movie, but rather in the game. :D The Real Gear figs also look pretty good. HOWEVER - none of them look good enough for me to make figures for.

4 ) As I did with Starscream (see a trend?), I'm considering making some revised meshes for certain characters based on the Classics toyline. However - this does not include HotRod ("Rodimus") as I dun like the character, or Astrotrain as I dun like the figure. And any others would still be up in the air.

5 ) The upcoming "Transformers: Animated" has me both worried and a bit looking forward. On the one hand, the art on that poster is ATROCIOUS. On the other, it has more than a bit of "GeeWun" flavor to it, which means the line for it might end up being VERY similar to Classics - that is, classic characters re-done with todays technolody and articulation.

I can really respect, and for the most part agree with everything you just said.

As for the animated series, well it's not really the kind of style I'm into, but I felt the same way when I first heard of Clone Wars, and now I have both DVDs.

Quote from: Valandar on June 23, 2007, 08:41:52 PM
I should qualify here...

1 ) I actually rather LIKED the Beast Wars cartoon. I did NOT like the toys, because TOO many of them were "Stand up, flip the head back/forward, use the tail as a sword" type of transform. On the other hand, I did NOT like the Beast machines show OR toys.

2 ) Looking at what TF: Cybertron figures I have, I am becoming SORELY tempted to make meshes for them. The polycount would end up being higher than for the GeeWun figures because, unlike them, I won't have to "cheat" to give articulation. One Cybertron/Galaxy Force already has a mesh (I'm using it for War Within Starscream. :P )

3 ) I hate the movie designs. Period. Someone once described them (I think somewhere here) as "Terminator endoskeletons with car vomit all over them". BUT... some of the movie figures are actually pretty durn good, especially the figs for characters that... um... well, don't actually appear in the movie, but rather in the game. :D The Real Gear figs also look pretty good. HOWEVER - none of them look good enough for me to make figures for.

4 ) As I did with Starscream (see a trend?), I'm considering making some revised meshes for certain characters based on the Classics toyline. However - this does not include HotRod ("Rodimus") as I dun like the character, or Astrotrain as I dun like the figure. And any others would still be up in the air.

5 ) The upcoming "Transformers: Animated" has me both worried and a bit looking forward. On the one hand, the art on that poster is ATROCIOUS. On the other, it has more than a bit of "GeeWun" flavor to it, which means the line for it might end up being VERY similar to Classics - that is, classic characters re-done with todays technolody and articulation.

1)  Agreed.  Beast Wars was quite well done...Beast Machines, on the other hand... *pukes*

2)  For some reason, I loved Cybertron at first, and ran out to buy Prime.  Lately, though, I've started to actually resent the series/line for some reason... I'm not 100% sure why, either.

3)  I'm one of those who actually really like the new movie designs.  They're new, refreshing...and there was a LOT of thought put into them.

I DO hate Prime's flames though...seriously, what would give someone the idea to pimp Optimus Prime?

I do feel it's a shame that you're not making any movie meshes, but I mean, it's pretty understandable for a few reasons:

-First, and most importantly, if you don't like the designs...well...why would you waste hours and hours of time making something you hate?
-Secondly...the designs are WAYYYY too freaking complicated.

Still, if you've got any advice on which parts I could use to make an Optimus_movie hex on your TF versatile, any help would be appreciated.  :lol:

5)  The whole Transformers: Animated thing is scaring me... really, truly scaring me.

Amazing Valandar, but then again your work has always been!  I really like the FX that are coming out of the bottom.

Quote from: Raijin on June 21, 2007, 04:19:47 PM
looks like that robot from beastmachines
or transformers armada

You thinkin' of Alpha Q from Transformers: Energon?