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Published: 2015-01-22 09:37:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 2039; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 4
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Description "Art and Science could walk together hand-in-hand" - Horacio Pagani, quoting Leonardo Da Vinci.


Masked Form, is the alternate mode of Soleus. In its Masked Form, it disengages Soleus limiter which enhances the speed, reflexes, and strength.

This mode is one of the result of the idea of implementing my country's traditional culture elements into the design. I want to do it when i realized popular countries like Japan, make pop-culture stuff mostly based on their own traditional culture elements (like Samurai/Oni-themed mecha, etc). And i felt that kind of implementation is needed a lot more in Indonesia, because there's actually a lot of great stuff that most people here are unaware of. Another reason is i got curious on how the implementation goes with Soleus' design.

So i took most of Bali's masked-dancer traditional culture elements since i've been interested in it for some time now. Most of the refence came from Leak and Rangda masks.

Took a long time and a couple of rethinking was needed until the final design. And drawing it was tricky enough, but it was a big worth it!


Read the rest of the concept ideas here: Soleus - Robed mode

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Comments: 2

blahjerry [2015-05-03 06:08:06 +0000 UTC]

A masked demon... quite the battle would unfold if it became unmasked i suppose. 

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Somvold [2015-01-22 12:31:14 +0000 UTC]

That's quite a neat mode.

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