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: Lines/Colors/3D
The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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01-04-2012, 11:53 PM
zuludelta
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Thanks guys, I really appreciate all the input and feedback and conversations regarding the project.
I guess my heart just isn't in the project, anymore. When I started this (two? three years ago?), I was labouring under the mistaken notion that GI Joe needed "fixing." I had grown older, and it seemed natural to me that one of the favourite things from my childhood should grow up with me, and if Hasbro or Devil's Due or IDW or whoever didn't want to prod GI Joe's maturation along, I would do it myself for myself and whoever else was willing to come along for the ride.
But I've come to the personal realization that GI Joe was a thing of its time, intended for an audience of a certain age and inclination. My growing dissatisfaction with the project, and GI Joe (the property) as a whole, wasn't the result of GI Joe being mishandled or broken... it was really frustration born out of my inability to accept that GI Joe at its core is, to use Hasbro's term, a "boy's toy," and the things I wanted to see in it—the organizational authenticity, the historicity—would never seamlessly jibe with something designed as a boy's toy first (it would require too many changes, I feel, to the point that I might as well be working with original creations).
All that being said, I'm still very much into the idea of crafting conceptual military/paramilitary organizations and personnel and compositing what they would look like... but these are original ideas and concepts, and without the GI Joe tie-in, I don't know if any HISStankers outside of myself would be interested in them, so for now, they're just ideas and sketches in my "notebook," so to speak.
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