Starting out with a police car, we needed an Autobot mirror of the Combaticon Scout, another mid-sized vehicle. It made my life a little easier, since I already had a body type defined, this character was mostly about finding ways to reconfigure the vehicle cues into bot form. I also toyed with the idea that he'd be a two gun sheriff type, taking advantage of the police origins.
The Luxo guys chose the new Charger to be the cop car, which was convenient, because I was living in Glendale at the time, and all the new police cars were Chargers! So my influences were from that, and some aspects of Barricade.
So I slapped some gray tone on the refined drawings, (and some little character sketches) and sent it off to the big H for approval...
2 comments:
Hello again, (i posted about being a fan of your designs and wishing you luck with IDW the other day)
I thought that the Charger police car had a really nice look to him, any chance you could post the character sketch in color?
They made Protectobot playable in the game (in multiplayer), he is a tough little gun slinger.
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Autoconempire
The Protectobots need toy versions.
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