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: Lines/Colors/3D
The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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11-20-2010, 11:40 PM
zuludelta
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Now that is spectacular Zulu! I like him better without the pale skin. I was going to ask about the gun. What are the thigh pads?
Thanks. Yeah the only reason I had him with pale skin was to create a real-world analogue for the cartoon Zartan's aversion to sunlight (I figure he uses titanium-impregnated skin cream to cut down on UV radiation that he's hypersensitive to) but the more I thought about it, the less I liked the idea of writing in the sunlight thing. He never had the hypersensitivity to sunlight in the ARAH comics or in the original filecard (which are my two primary sources for the re-designs). Also, it just didn't make sense in the cartoon that he'd be wearing shirt sleeves and a midriff-baring shirt given his aversion to sunlight (which is why I'd given him a cloak in the earlier re-design). So basically, hypersensitivity to sunlight = out, skin baring top = in.
The thigh pads are ballistic-grade armor (I used the same thigh armor for Serpentor/Sir Pentaur) taken off of an image of the Damascus FX1 suit used by some SWAT/riot police units in Europe and Australia).
And here's the final Zartan sibling:
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