GI Joe ( Part 1 )

What's up guys? Looks like I'll be the first to post an image for our GI Joe theme. Like most of us here I'm a huge fan of the old cartoon and was very excited to work on a GI Joe themed project. I don't have a lot of character experience so I decided to make a vehicle. I looked through a lot of the reference from the cartoon and toys and discovered the vehicles aren't nearly as cool as I remembered. I decided on the Cobra Wolf. It's one of the cooler looking vehicles and I found a ton of good reference for it.

Here's a link to the reference so you can see what the original toy looks like:

http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/87/wolf/

For the most part I tried to stay faithful to the original toy. In the end I did add some details and change up a couple of the decals to make my version a bit cooler. I'm sure GI Joe fans will forgive me. I was recently playing around with the ink and paint shader in Max and decided to use it on the Wolf. I was really happy with the results. I think it complements the cartoon and toy theme of GI Joe.

Here's a work in progress image:

Around the same time we started our GI Joe theme the guys at cghub.com had the same idea and started their own GI Joe 3D challenge. I figured I would kill two birds with one stone and entered the challenge. In the end there were  around 15 final images submitted for the challenge, most of them characters. I didn't win but did make runner up. Hooray! King of the losers. :)

http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1290&page=3

http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1280

It was a blast working on this and I hope I'm able to contribute to our next art theme. Until then I'll be grinding away here at Robot.

Stay tuned for more GI Joe posts from the team.

Rob