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...motive units...It looks like it has tiny caterpillar treads. Two pairs per body segment. An effective design and surprisingly cute. Maybe they're actually built into retractable mechanical limbs along the lines of Hugo Gernsbackβs Radio Police Automaton or the Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR) so it can roll around when on smooth horizontal surfaces, then unfold limbs for climbing or using built-in tools and manipulative appendages? With limbs deployed it would probably look like a tiny cross between a mechanized mantis shrimp , the da vinci surgical robot and the fabrication machine .
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Ah, yes. Mantis shrimp. Those psychedelic death machines. I see no reason whatsoever not to use that as an influence for future Cybermat designs.
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Mechanized mantis shrimp limbs, the sort of exposed metal-plated mammalian skull fourth down on the left in Brian Coldrick's unused concept art for the head and the classic segmented cybermat body. Equal parts adorable and horrifying.
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Yep . . . yep, that'd work.
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Surprisingly your version of the Cybermats is actually rather similar to the actual Cybermat redesign apparing in Blood of the Cybermen (which feaures Mondas Cybermen with a Cybus appearence minus the logo).
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I wouldn't have said it was surprising myself, since there's only so many ways to handle the old 'silverfish' design and no one's likely to use the 'Revenge' type 'mats again. Still, I found the 'Blood' design very interesting - a very nice take on it, one that pretty much exorcised all the 'cute' features of the originals. Lots of detail in the concept that didn't really find its way onto the final model - looked good in any case. Shame about the story they were in, really.
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You and your nitpicks.
The only thing shameful about Blood of the Cybermen is the fact that I can't play it yet due to being Canadian. And unlike the first game at least it actually happened (though being spin-off it technically is questionably canon to the TV series). Not that it lowers City in my view much, but meh.
I like everything.
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I generally only have nitpicks about story-telling: it jars horribly when things seem out of place or rushed or...just plain wrong. Design stuff is usually less of a problem for me...and as much as I might not like bits of the new Dalek design, I can't deny that I have thoroughly enjoyed everything they've been in so far.
Hope you can get hold of Blood of the Cybermen at some point!
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This is so cool. It would be great if Steven Moffat used this for the next Cybermen design. Apparently he wants to bring the mondasians back. Maybe you could redesign the Cybershades(The Next Doctor)to match this new type of Cybermen? You really are a fantastic artist.
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Much as I love the new series version of the Cybermen, I think I actually prefer your version. Great stuff.
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Thanks for the compliment!
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