finnaly sat down and got to finalizing the concept for jet the white, whos incarnations where manny over these past years. eventhough my mecha guys are painfully simpllistic, it actually took me a while to flush out a few of them to get them to be the way i see them in my head. even then, some of the mechs desighns wernt finalized till i had drawn them in the comic and had them evolve.

beowulfs desighn was never finalized untill book 3 after the dragon fight. what i origionaly had in mind for him was a gundam that looked like he had an indian head dress on. his head had to seem flared out like rooster or a wolf neck and overall im pretty pleased with him.

lyron i got extreamly lucky with and he turned out pretty much the way i wanted him from the get go. the look of the memory belt changed a few times however.

terratio i got lucky with also and it only took me 2 drafts ending in his evolution in comic form.

holygear took about 3 tries or so. hes suposed to be like an ethos gear and renmazuo from xenogears but short and simple.

makenai took 3 or 4 incarnations and hes likely gunna need one more incarnation because his single most important feature (his missle pod bays) hasnt really been ironed out yet. he doesnt fight alot mind you, but his missiles and his axe and his tallness are his most identifying feature. otherwise hes a pretty non descript gundam guy.

jet the white, he was the hardest to do. he was suposed to be a cross bettween a virtuaroid and the yf-19. his earlyer incarnations reflected this alot more, but i really didnt wanna simply “copy” the desighns of thos other well known mechs, i wanted something more from my own head. though his desighn is also simplistic, he retained the round head, the visor, the cone nose chest, and the wings that fold in the back that i wanted. the only thing i really have left to do is to finalize his “curse” form. that form has had multiple incarnations as well.. not fun.

I’ll flat out say that I DONT UNDERSTAND TRANSFORMING ROBOTS! so really in terms of beo and ennesix and jet’s variable modes im doing the best i can to try to visuaise where these limbs would fold and move to make a more aerodynamic form. its just that i dont have an engeneering degree like shoji kawamori or hajime katoki so im not capable of anything more complex then a basic super robot transformation. unlike transformers, cars/aircraft carriers/submarines dont exsist in edenworld. so at most the only variable modes youl find are planes/tanks/drills and my rosetta stone into visualizing a variable mode is almost intirely based off the grungast.

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