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The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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08-04-2009, 04:20 PM
zuludelta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Lifeline 71
So far I've done Lifeline, Spirit, and Deep Six. I've done a couple others just for fun. If i had a camera, I'd post pics.
Would love to see the customs based on my designs. I never really considered how "toyetic" the designs would be, so it'd be interesting to see them translated into 1:18 scale plastic form.
New concepts/filecards:
Clockwise, from top left: Kwinn, Cobra Commander, Philip Alexander Rey & Ledger
Design notes:
- Had a lot of fun making Kwinn. Based it on his first appearance (the arctic parka get-up, and not the "creepy boy scout" look he adopted later). Used a highly modified version of Inuit filmmaker/actor/sculptor Natar Ungalaaq for his face. Replaced the .30 caliber machine gun he was portrayed carrying in the comics with a more practical but still iconic M1 Garand rifle (hey, at least it's still in .30 cal!).
- Cobra Commander was partially inspired by the look of
the black SDCC-exclusive figure
from a year ago. Decided to use his movie real name for his filecard... as the founder of a publicly known company, it would be weird for his name to be a classified secret. Also adopted certain background elements from the Chimera character in Larry Hama's
GI Joe: Origins
(namely, his background as an ex-SF officer). In my Cobra corporate hierarchy, CC is the Chairman of the board and the primary shareholder, as well as the Chief Global Strategist (a job title popularized by Starbucks founder Howard Schultz... it's basically a way for the company founder/chairman to exercise overall control over his/her company even if he/she no longer holds the CEO/president title).
EDIT
: the head was taken from a picture posted by a 'tanker of his custom homemade Cobra Commander costume. I want to give credit where credit is due, but for the life of me, I can't remember the name of the poster who made it.
- Philip Alexander Rey is my take on Serpentor, although I've freely mixed elements between him and DDP's General Philip A. Rey. My version of Serpentor isn't a clone of history's most intelligent commanders, of course, given my more realistic take on the property. In my version of the character, he's a former Army officer-turned-CEO, a brilliant, charismatic leader beloved by most of his underlings (just like in the comics), but secretly plagued by a grandiose-type delusional disorder (he sincerely believes that he's the spiritual successor of Alexander the Great, and the work he does with Cobra is for the good of the world).
- Ledger is based on Admiral Ledger, the CO of the USS Flagg in the early Sunbow cartoons (demoted him to a Commander, and made him the Joe team's XO). I made him a NAVSPECWAR officer instead of a surface warfare officer, and used Richard Marcinko's face for his features. Yeah, I know Marcinko is a controversial figure (a couple of people I know who work with NAVSOC consider him to be a publicity hound and dismiss his published "true-to-life" accounts of the SEAL Teams as romanticized half-truths at best and outright fabrications at worst), but I couldn't resist using his distinct mug for a GI Joe navy officer.
To read their full filecards, click on the Filecard Project link in my signature/banner.
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