THE SECOND WARMIND - CONDUCTOR OF THE COMING STORM
Mithravex is a proud elder core, and one of the only two warminds the Synergy has ever produced. She was created long ago to win an ancient unwinnable war, and as such her familiarity with violence makes her stand apart from her own kind. She wields the weight of this legacy with intention and precision, and has never lost her talent for manipulating situations in her favor.
While her sibling Alto'tek took well to handling the battlefield and relished in the slaughter, she understood very quickly that a fighting spirit is nothing without planning and supply lines. Mithravex is as famed as she is feared for the merciless efficiency with which she conducted the old war efforts, and it was her mere existence that kept most nations from ever engaging in more than a few tentative skirmishes with the Synergy.
She is currently operating independently after the fall of the empire, but it is clear to everyone that she is merely biding her time and likely still has contact with her roaming and raiding brother.
An infiltrator frame variant of Antir, designed to operate in cramped interiors and dark hallways. Features a tri-arm arrangement to optimize attack capability in quadrupedal mode, and a FADE cloak system to phase between walls and avoid hostiles.
i recently bought a photocard holder from dokomi made by @smugcomputer (go look at their stuff) but no card because I wanted to fill it with my own robot/ai blorbos
Durandal is the first victim of my affections✨✨look at him, hes so cute in his fancy frame
got into CAIN lately and its a lot of fun :] felt obligated to draw our exorcists in the cultist simulator style, especially since the campaign is halfway inspired by it
left top to bottom right:
Aleksi (it/its) - Edit/Whisper
Mars (he/she) - Tension/Palace
Chris (she/her) - Vector/Track
Reiko (she/her) - Sympathy/Ardence
Well!!!! that was annoying. Tumblr refused to upload this unless I cropped out the right hand side with the circles! I guess the full version stays bluesky-exclusive, but at least I can upload the close ups inside the rings separately.
ANYWAY this stunlocked me for 2 weeks but I'm rather proud of it! Design-wise, it all worked out a lot faster after I realized I do not actually have to reinvent the wheel and I am allowed to look at things I like for inspiration.
They still do not have a name yet, hmm.....
BIG YAP about design choices under the cut
Can I say that I'm pretty proud of the arm joints? I wanted them vertical, but didn't want the bottom arm to hang too low. But if they didn't, they'd get in the way. Now the joints can move side to side/up and down within the shoulder for extra space! Yahoooooooooo
Okay now I have quite a few things to say about the journey this design is because hooooo boy,
After my epiphany I initially wanted to make something that looked close to Canti from FLCL, but I couldn't figure out how to make the head in a way I enjoyed. In the end, what stayed was really just the coloration - fun fact, Canti's angular panelling is pretty close to ye olde gundam and patlabor, which was fun to find out. It's something I've always enjoyed, so I had to include it.
for a fun insight into the evolution i recommend opening Okawara Kunio's wikipedia page and taking a gander at his pre-gundam works. Quite interesting how you slowly see him grow into it.
In a way the serpent is biting its own tail here because these works are also partially derivative of the era that came before them, which I also picked a lot from: retrofuturism. It, too, loves those broad swathes of colors. So nice for the eyes to rest on...Normally I break up my coloration when it comes to robots! But perhaps I should tweak that more in the future.
Oh, and Dieter Rams is also in here. I've always admired his electronics design.
Sexy! This also played a role in the font choice, since Rams follows a similar "form follows function" philosophy as bauhaus. And bauhaus, in turn, has influenced many things....... including retrofuturism. When I'm done with this post we'll be at the Cambrian Era, boys!
Just kidding.
Lastly, I couldn't fully abandon my old sona CRT. I still feel they are closely connected to me, so I had to lift some design parts like the blue color and the crack in the screen to make this new guy feel like home. I've also realized I've sort of ended up with my very own robot design aesthetic after years of working on my Faraway Parsecs project, and I simply couldn't resist letting that seep in here too, in the form of the organic panelling of the neck and the antennae, hehe.
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