#cykill

[sparkleresthold]

Worst boyfriends ever!

[thriftrescue]

recent acquisition - Golden Books GOBOTS "THE POWER MACHINE".

It has more awkward moments than prom night

"CRASHER !! PUT SCOOTER DOWN RIGHT NOW"

"That's no way to treat your date"

[galaxyforu]

cy-kill plus his very shitty looking alt mode

not entirely too proud of this design...

[motodestructo]

Your lips, my lips

Apocalypse

[skettchyartendeavours]

Have y'all heard of a show called "Spheriks"

I had no idea it existed, until about two weeks ago when I found this guy at a thrift store

Soon as I saw him, I thought he looked like he could be a character from some early 2000's kids show. Upon looking it up, I was very much correct!

Main point is, I developed a fixation on this show practically that same day which now has me in a chokehold (I have decided to illustrate my brain's current state)

The Gobots and Transformers haven't fully left my brain space yet, but I would very much like to yap about these new guys for a bit

[which I will do under the cut, because this is going to get a bit long-winded]

So! A bit of background for the show itself: Spheriks was a show commissioned by FIFA to promote their new mascots for the 2002 World Cup, which took place in South Korea and Japan. It was the only show its' animation studio (Slave Studios, based in the UK) ever produced due to how badly it flopped, likely suffering from a short run time in both broadcasting and home video releases.

The overarching plot of the show consists of two alien races, the Atmospheriks and the Nulmospheriks, competing against each other in a football-like sport known as "Spherikball" in order to see who gets to control the atmosphere at the FIFA World Cup. The Atmospheriks represent positive energy, The Nulmospheriks represent negative energy, we have a very clear theme of "Good vs Evil."

In terms of characters, the show mainly focuses on four main characters from each team: The Atmospheriks have Ato, Kaz (the guy I found at the thrift store), Nik and Rhea. The Nulmospheriks have Roth, Viro, Null and Void. There are also a handful of non-Atmo/Nulmo side characters that regularly appear, such as the two announcers. I guess the rest of the teams as well, but they don't really seem to have dialogue or much of a stake in the plot.

Finally, here are a handful off messy sketches I did while trying to figure out how to draw a few of the characters!

So far I've really only tried drawing the Nulmos (villain fixation bias goes brrrr) but I'll probably attempt some of the Atmos soon

Their head shapes are proving to be very tricky to to translate from 3D models to 2D drawings, especially after a decent period of almost exclusively drawing blocky robots from the 80's

Well Uhhh..

Thank you if you made it this far! I don't usually do big rambling posts like this very often, so hopefully it wasn't too unbearable ^^"

[phantomspiders]

Heard there wasn't enough of this going around

[vincentvega0721]

The Gobots Animated Series

[dorkicon]

a collaborative doodle sesh between myself @fern-bee @xxmooncheetosxx and @gorillawarfare. please enjoy. <3