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    BUILD A G1 TRANSFORMER

    Nov 08, 2022 6 minutes

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    HOT ROD

    The goal with this project was to successfully echo the 2D character's original design

    The concept behind this project was to model one of the robots from the Transformers franchise; this character is called Hot Rod, the original protagonist in the 1986 Transformers: The Movie. The design direction was something much closer to the original Gen 1 style of the cartoon and also the Bumblebee live-action film in 2018. I have always been a fan of the Hot Rod character from the G1 Transformers cartoon, and seeing how I hadn't seen the original design recreated in any of the live-action films, it felt like a unique project to take on.

    It is a challenge to try and recreate a 2D cartoon character as a 3D model. However, I felt that if I kept the face and helmet overall shape the same, as well as the main colour scheme in addition

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