James_R_Millar

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Cyborg with some conch-like power fists. Power-conchs I guess :D

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A very… abrupt.. design.

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Triple-Hat Wizard Mech :D A creation of the Millinery Industrial Complex.

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Sometimes my attempts to iterate on a design result only in lateral movement to a place which is perhaps dumber, and therefore... cooler? But, on the plus side, it has the correct number of limbs, and in the right places too :D

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Rally-bot Repost. From an illustration POV, I'm still loving the ball-feet, from a mechanical POV I am eternally tormented by them; there's simply no way for them to work -and- retain their ballsy profile.

As a pure sphere shape, the hubs catch on the ground after a very little amount of lean and if the legs tilt but the wheels stay upright, they wouldn't grip well whilst cornering (I presume). With a narrower wheel the problem is overcome, but the aesthetic is lost completely.

With a dumpy wheel the shape -almost- looks OK, but the hub clearance problem returns to a lesser degree and the aesthetic is still somewhat compromised. I think I always go on about ball feet whenever I post one of these. Here's some slightly plausible wheels hastily blocked out in blender.

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Not a spaceship per se, but an airship and a recolour of one from september. The original colour-scheme was a little reserved so, naturally, I prefer this. I always envision most things I draw coming from the same universe, where looking flash and being loud as hell is very important; Nobody's put any effort into stealth-tech but armour is top-notch. Ear-protection is also very well researched.

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More hover-flares.

I think it's safe to assume that, if I've put obnoxious flares on a a mech, then it hover dashes around like a dom… just one with the particular fashion sense of someone who was young when Jefferson were still Airplane.

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Throwback, as usual; recoloured, this time with a hint of 808 to keep things interesting.

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Throwback, this time in the colours of a tennis ball.

Not sure if the sword being so short is good or bad.

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James_R_Millar

Part-time artist and illustrator, full-time fan of giant robots. https://linktr.ee/james_r_millar

I've been uploading time lapses to Youtube. I realise, reviewing the playlist, that I should write some more music to go with them cause I've been reusing my old tracks way too much :D And I've been meaning to do more with my channel but, at the moment, I just don't have the time to do too much.

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The original shiptember colur-scheme for this one was a little plain. This one pops more and the decal compliments the biomechanical nature of the aircraft.

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Planet Express Fist.

… is the the only pun I could come up with that wasn't wildly inappropriate :D

And yes; it is a gigantic, rocket-powered fist on the rotor-disc torso from a little while back.

All it needs is some leg warmers, a tactical snood, and some better dentation and it will become a perfect creature.

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:D ahaha, the head's totally too large but it amuses me, so it will continue to exist until I come back and fix this later with a new illustration.

(based on my usual follow-up, that will be somewhere between five years and never).

It's based on [the one at the bottom of the post], a sketch I did a little while back (this year). I prefer this one, especially the tanky body juxtaposed with the pointy feet.

I've not done a finished version of this one as I've been working on it (unsuccessfully) for a different idea.

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Removing your head and neck, and then replacing them with a gigantic armoured radome, will free you of those pesky critical hits.

Not sure why I put a clavicle mounted sensor array in there given that my mechs, by-and-large, never seem to have eyes.

Just playing around with fun ideas at the moment, I guess.

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Me: How much purple do you want this week? Also me: Yes.

The parts -are- floating, which makes an already questionable design well beyond the bounds of good reason.

Also; is this Lisa-fu or Bart-jutsu? It's been too long since I've seen that episode to remember.

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Seemed like a wizard-mech was a good candidate for some iteration on the arm-cloak idea from one of my mechatober mechs.

The colours are also a vague reference, as I was thinking about something in particular when I was choosing the scheme.

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Not sure why I put vents on my mechs; my head-cannon on how they're powered and operate has no call for them. I guess it's a vestigial design cue.

But, then again, why do I put tongues and teeth on half of them? Like that last mech; three tongues and not a single eyeball to lick with them? Why even have a tongue!? :D In all seriousness, perhaps with a bit more work, vents could become a sculptural/aesthetic element too; as if the mech's designer put them on cause mechs of a bygone era had them. I oogled it: Skeuomorphism. Knew there would be a fancy word for it, but I didn't know it would sound cool.