When I was a kid, I remember waking up every Saturday morning while my parents were still asleep, getting a giant bowl of Cookie Crisp and watching cartoons until lunch. I loved shows like Thundarr the Barbarian, Dungeons and Dragons, He-Man, The Mighty Orbots and my favorite, Thundercats. I really liked all the characters but my favorite was always Panthro. He seemed like the toughest Thundercat out of all of them and had, what I thought to be, the coolest weapon. The NUMCHUCKS! ..or nunchaku if you want to be all technical. Here’s some images of Panthro from the original show.
I thought it would be fun to make a Panthro model but it would be too time consuming to do another full character like the Baroness so I decided to go with a bust. I started with a torso I had already created from another character and reshaped him into Panthro, adding his gear and spikes from basic primitive shapes in zbrush. I didn’t want to redesign him but there were certain things I didn’t like about the original that I wanted to adjust like the spikes on his gear. They were really thin and flimsy looking in the cartoon so I bulked them up and shortened them. The other thing was his nose. In the cartoon they have very human-looking noses but I thought it would be cooler to make his nose more cat-like. Once I was happy with everything, I gave him a slight snarl, found a Thundercats font, modeled his name for the base and I was done!
After looking at the bust for a while, I thought it would be fun to pose him in a fighting stance. Since his numchucks have a very long chain, I thought it would be cool to have him holding one end and then have the other end going back under his opposite arm as if he had just caught it there. After some final touch ups in photoshop, Panthro was done!
I hope you guys dig it and check back next week for more Saturday morning cartoon art!
Chris
13 Comments
Donovan H. on Friday, December 11, 2009
That looks really sweet. Nicely done.
Sean on Friday, December 11, 2009
That is sick!
**Waits for more** (:
-Sean
neilboso on Saturday, December 12, 2009
Haha, brilliant! Nice find.
Fantastic!
james1984 on Saturday, December 12, 2009
On the main page there's this message": the best present is always a surprise and our robot are working hard on yours"..
So Robots, can we expect some announcement in the next days?
Yoshi on Saturday, December 12, 2009
Beautiful, I love the detail which has been put into the muscles.
Kartoffel on Saturday, December 12, 2009
As usually, very nice drawing !!
Off-topic :
What do you guys mean by this "present" or "surprise" @ your front page ? Will you reveal any informations about further robot-projects at the end of this year ? Would be great tho =)
james1984 on Sunday, December 13, 2009
yeah, agree with Kartoffel.. It would be a very christmas gift
Sean on Sunday, December 13, 2009
@james1984 @Kartoffel : I wouldn't be surprised if its released on Christmas. I hope its a game update or maybe their new forum to talk about their upcoming games.
misterdot on Sunday, December 13, 2009
Amazingly well done.
Your advertising is too, you've got us all sitting on the edge of our seats with the announcement on your home page ;P
james1984 on Tuesday, December 15, 2009
@SEAN: a new forum to talk with developers directly, would be amazing. We could share our idea about their project.
Do you think their next game will set in the ancient times? There were many clues about that.
Sean on Tuesday, December 15, 2009
@james1984 That would be really cool. Hope its something worth waiting for and that it will make us all happy
JohnnyPhoenix on Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Hehehe very nice indeed
@Sean Man i buy anything that comes out of Robot everything they make its awesome loved AOE & HW to bad i didnt tryed AOM but must be a wonderfull game :D
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