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I got a call from my editors in the X-Men office at Marvel about a month ago to do some design work for some new Sentinels. for the last 30 or so years the Sentinels have had the same general design so Marvel wanted to spruce them up for the new Civil War story line going on this Summer. They didn't give me any other guidelines except to make them each look original and bad-ass. There are 5 all together named Warmachine, Crazytrain, Ogre, Shrapnel, and Megaton. Salvador Larroca designed Warmachine and Crazytrain so I was charged with doing the final 3. I tried to make them characteristic with their name and give them the ominous feel I think a Sentinel should have. Inspiration came from all over the place including Gundam, Transformers, Evangelion, Big O, Thundercats, and the 5th Element. I should also mention that these have all already been approved and are currently being drawn by Marvel artists for this Summer's comics. These aren't your father's Sentinels!Also, thanks to everyone that comented on my Rogue piece and please head over to my latest journal entry to vote on the AOA color contest if you haven't already. Only one vote per person so if you have voted, that's for the support!
best regards!
-Mark
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Comments: 454
Figaro-8 [2006-05-16 02:55:12 +0000 UTC]
Looks like Marvel picked just the guy to give the Sentinels a makeover! These are really awesome!
By thy side,
Figaro
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UltimaOX [2006-05-16 02:54:22 +0000 UTC]
great work as usual. these are awsome, i look foward to seeing them and being able to say, "hey! i saw those when they were first made!" haha.
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wilbo [2006-05-16 02:46:49 +0000 UTC]
intensely wicked designs. very very classy mecha-vibe. great work as always.
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shy-bunny [2006-05-16 02:43:41 +0000 UTC]
These are the new Sentinels? My goodness. I never been so giddy about giant robot thingies before. They really look so amazing...and scary. Muchos love! Can't wait to see them in action
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k0uger [2006-05-16 02:29:17 +0000 UTC]
the one on the left looks like it has some of the Halo Hunter in it
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craphatch [2006-05-16 02:28:54 +0000 UTC]
oh shit these are totally godly! i love them! but the feet are a little blatantly gundam dont you think?
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sharkbyte3827 [2006-05-16 02:26:42 +0000 UTC]
WoW man their design is awesome. I can make out the Gundam, Big O, and Transformer traits in their design. Now that is freaking awesome. It's great that you get to design things like this for a comic book company.
I am curious though as to how did you start off with their concepts, or rather that is the building blocks for theri construction. Like with a human you would use a sphere, cylender and a line. SO how would you go about making
the design for these Sentinels?
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leotheyardiechick [2006-05-16 02:24:00 +0000 UTC]
The old school sentinels had me snickering. These guys make me wanna wet myself and cry for my mummy. Excellent job of your three!
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LunaticStar [2006-05-16 02:22:22 +0000 UTC]
The Gundam and 5th Element parts are definitly there. Yay for alien dog men roboticized. But yeah, the center one I think is a winner of a design - kinda maintaining the old design (the face ... thing.. they have going on) while still incorperating your new ideas. Yep!
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ionicnimrod In reply to ??? [2006-05-16 02:20:30 +0000 UTC]
i was upset when this was not done in the ultimate x-men storyline, so i am now happy
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Leosta In reply to ??? [2006-05-16 02:16:37 +0000 UTC]
I really like the first two...the third one's wicked but the first two just really strike me as badass
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thedaydreamer [2006-05-16 02:13:46 +0000 UTC]
Holy s*** those are pretty badass for new setinel pictures. Love it, nice way to spruce them up. Go you!
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GuitarAtomik [2006-05-16 02:13:13 +0000 UTC]
OMG these are awesome! I always felt the sentinels were due for an overhaul and these are great.
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Hahnsel [2006-05-16 02:11:04 +0000 UTC]
wow! im not really familiar with robot characters, these are cool i like the detal
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zerofunk [2006-05-16 02:10:41 +0000 UTC]
damn this are really bad ass sentinels!!! gotta love it
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setokaiba200x [2006-05-16 02:07:17 +0000 UTC]
Awesome as always. You got to teach me how you design mechs like that.
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furan-san [2006-05-16 02:00:53 +0000 UTC]
Ohh sweeeeet! I want one of those to play with! Is the remote on the package?! No batteries needed right!?
Amazing designs.
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javicandraw [2006-05-16 01:58:29 +0000 UTC]
Love the desings but just not for X-men or the marvel universe. Can you imagine this things walking en a street pretending to be for mantaining security? I wouldn't feel safe with that thing around, human or mutant. Although the idea of gundam-like sentinels wasn't yours you just did your job and designed them. So in that case, great job!!!
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Chaotic-Harmony [2006-05-16 01:55:10 +0000 UTC]
These are pretty amazing. I think the old ones were pretty cool, but these look like they could own the X-men (they won't however)
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WillCaligan [2006-05-16 01:54:27 +0000 UTC]
I love all the designs but the first one is my favorite. Good stuff.
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MichelleHoefener [2006-05-16 01:51:43 +0000 UTC]
*__* wow, these drawings are so amazing. They have such depth, perspective and control in the linework. Every line looks so smooth and definite *_*. I'm not a huge fan of mechs usually, but the shear skill that this image has is so impressive that I gotta fav it XD XD
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LessDenaProfessional [2006-05-16 01:51:29 +0000 UTC]
now thems be sentinels to be proud of! so 5th element? im not sure i see it but then again its been awhile since ive seen it
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theunsung [2006-05-16 01:50:19 +0000 UTC]
you sick sick man you!! Love the designs!
So i guess this is what the warning about "what comes next" is about! I cant wait to see them in action.
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dlredscorpion [2006-05-16 01:45:01 +0000 UTC]
oouuuccchh hthem mutants aint going to like what they see XD, great job as always
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comixnut [2006-05-16 01:39:29 +0000 UTC]
Ok. That's it. in MY book you are officially insane! LOL Insanely good that is! My good GOSH! Any chance whatsoever that you saved your progress and possibly thinking behind it and posted it up as a tutorial of some kind? I mean i can kinda understand how you MIGHT go about coming up with a new design based on other characters and previous designs but it would still be noce to see your thinking. Good stuff man!
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rrossini [2006-05-16 01:38:00 +0000 UTC]
JUST AMAZING!!!
I cant wait for this Civil War line come to Brazil!!!
Great job... really amazing!!
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thunderking [2006-05-16 01:33:03 +0000 UTC]
once again you have blown my mind!! awsome dude truly awsome
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ArsenicAngel [2006-05-16 01:29:08 +0000 UTC]
the look kind of like beefier versions of some of the UT2k3 "robot" character models, very nice.
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tiredone In reply to ??? [2006-05-16 01:28:07 +0000 UTC]
wonderful work man, love the new take, (but i see you kept the classic mouth, nice choice* the second one is almost onslautish *which is by no means a bad thing*
its always nice when we can have some fresh eyes on a classic like these big fellas
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Bensaret In reply to ??? [2006-05-16 01:28:03 +0000 UTC]
Wow, these definitely look incredible. Should been entertaining to see other artists try and duplicate the detailing from issue-to-issue ^_^
You might remember the Nimrod sentinel from Days of Future Past, any thoughts on how you would vary his design (considering he looked nothing like current sentinels)?
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wolviesgirl [2006-05-16 01:24:21 +0000 UTC]
woah. thats nuts. i like them, youve got a new design coming along. they look great!!
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stained-glass [2006-05-16 01:22:30 +0000 UTC]
MAN. These designs are super kickass :"DDDD Love the one in the middle, but the spikes on the back of the first one is just awesome. >D
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heartlessangle [2006-05-16 01:22:19 +0000 UTC]
hahaha up until i read the commit the first thing i was thinking was big o, gundam, and transformers. they look like this is what would happen if all 3 had babies together.
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metalgearray09 [2006-05-16 01:19:28 +0000 UTC]
Holy crap! You gave those poor artists at Marvel a hard time reproducing these.
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Conekiller [2006-05-16 01:10:28 +0000 UTC]
I love how Ogre is a mechanixcal cross of Slythe and Big o and some of tha myriad pointy toed Gundams!
can't wait to see these in the Civil War book
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goldenavatar [2006-05-16 01:09:27 +0000 UTC]
Those looks like spiffy new toys. I hope the X-men break every last one of them.
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PREPBOY [2006-05-16 01:05:08 +0000 UTC]
Ilove this especially the layout. I know you probably don't have time to reply to messages but i'll ask just how long it takes you to put a peice like this together?
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roush2dee [2006-05-16 01:04:46 +0000 UTC]
Good designs but the original looks more convievable, and more pracitcal. These designs are way to transformer.
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Uareme [2006-05-16 01:04:11 +0000 UTC]
0mg i LOVE them!!!
very nice! I want to try doing something like that sometime xD
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