Niklas Jansson
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Zoids Again
🕑 Added 2024-07-25 16:16:26 +0000 UTCI've been working on this project on and off for a few weeks now, nudging and polishing. Image comments:
The Serpent is one of the older Zoids. it's supposed to be a snake but it has these big wheels unlike the other snake (Stealth Viper) which is more of a regular snake. What could be done with the wheels? I thought it would be fun if it could roll up along the inner circumference so it's less of a rigid S rolling around.
The Guysak... is oddly named for a scorpion. I redesigned it quite a bit, placing a more eye-catching radar-laser on the tail. Eight legs felt too busy so I re-purposed two pairs to shield the head and tail. The flank weapons are normally some kind of fuel tank or optional guns, but I combined these into one and used some clear parts as an accent (like on a 40K plasma gun).
The Spiker is a mantis. I gave it beam blade clear parts and ear muff sensors to spice it up.
I turned the bat – Dambuster – into a sort of stapler. The name might come from the fact that it carries missile/bombs, used to bust dams?
Some of the Zoids base expansion sets have little riding dinos. I made up the silvery monsters for a dumb short story I'm writing.
The Helic and Zenebas logos were redesigned a bit.
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I came up with a few more generic baddie vehicles. Like I may have mentioned earlier, I wanted these to be sort of boring and gray, serving mostly as a point of reference when viewed next to Zoids.
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The map and pyramid are elements from my story (a Dungeon Core isekai). The story isn't set on Zi and I'm just making stuff up. Zoids lore has been all over the place (more so than Zelda perhaps?) so I don't particularly care for diving deep into it.
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My Garius is more humanoid. This is an older concept that I've tweaked over the years. The Helic white head can be turned into a vehicle. Canonically the Zenebas head is already a little ship with jets on the back iirc.
The characters are from my story. It's partly set in the mid '80s UK during the decline / commercialization of the punk movement of the late '70s, so there's a punk woman underclass sort of character. Of course, Thatcher and Reagan were in power then doing their dastardly deeds.
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The Zenebas silver pilots concept is old but I've added to it... ehrm.
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The sabu
hello friend! just wanted to say I love your work! you have been an inspiration for me for many years, I first found you through your legendary art tutorial (here in Brazil, almost all artists I talk to are familiar with your tutorial!), although it is a great tutorial, the best thing I took from it was to be exposed to your work! you have such a fun and tactile style! I especially adore your Megaman Legends stuff, MML is my favorite PSX-era game art-wise, and your take on it is just a joy to look at. sorry for the unrelated comment, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your work with us ^^
