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One of a series of redesigns I have done of the characters from the original 80’s Gobots TV show, in the style of Transformers Animated.Cykill needed quite a bit of redesign. Wanted to give him a cooler alternate mode so went for a jetbike. Also, wanted to make him similar to TFA Megatron to be more evil, so similar styling and colour scheme. The wheels rotate 90 degrees when the bike goes airborne and fire rockets too. Comments welcome as always!
Challenge of the Gobots, character name, © Hasbro
Transformers Animated © Hasbro
Machine Robo © Bandai
Faction logos, Gobots Animated logo, character redesign, © me (Paul William Thomas)
Gobots Animated logo inspired by the work of ~a-loft-on-cybertron
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OMG! This is the most badass Cykill design I've ever seen.
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He looks nice, but it kinds of gives a vibe of just being a Megatron that turns into a bike.
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Awesome redesign. Makes him more fierce here.
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Some of the Gobots had clumsy vehicle modes that just didn't work, and Cy-Kill's original was one of the worst. This fits the theme: a souped up jet bike that looks like it would kill whoever attempted to ride it. Which is fine, since Cy-Kill would never tolerate a human passenger anyway.
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Okay, this deserves more than the previous so: A W E S O M E!!!!
Cy-Kill (again, you left the line out... forgot what it's called in English ^^') had quite an original alternate mode for a major villain, so it was a big part why I liked him... and it's no biggie you changed that mode; Megatron gets a new mode almost with every series
Great job on a chara-design here: he still resembles the original, but is different, certainly just as much menacing or maybe even more (well, as much as an Animated character could be 
The only problem is that he strikes some resemblance to your Cop-Tur, which tunes it down a bit.
Still, great work.
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if megatron is the sultry viper cy-kill is the lecherous deadman
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And funny enough, Animated Oil Slick was inspired by Cy-Kill.
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Cy-Kill = The Terumi of Gobots.
He used brain control on the humans, killed all the heroes and plunged the universe into despair.
DX
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It's very good. I like the way you made him resemble Megatron. I do think the wheels should be bigger, though.
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i agree, i realised that after i did it!
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Haha, when I was a kid we weren't the richest family, so I had go-bots and only ONE small Transformer, as they were SO much more expensive. Cy-Kill was, in my opinion, lame. Now he RULES!
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thanks, he was way too lame to be a villain so i had to make him more menacing
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This is awesome.
A HUGE improvement upon the original character design.
I could easily see this guy popping up in the Animated continuity (although hopefully not getting killed by Megatron).
I've always had an idea that if Animated featured any Gobot cameos, Cy-Kill could be leading a Decepticon team like Team Charr (Team Renegade maybe?)
He does look much more evil and intimidating, as well as more powerful.
The arms are probably the most notable feature, they look much stronger and better armoured than the 'lead pipes' he had back in the day.
I'm not sure if a battle mask is necessary though.
And unless I'm mistaken, you've even given the Renegades a proper faction symbol.
The colours help alot too. In the original it seemed odd how the Gobots kinda did the reverse of what Transformers did, by having the bad guy with the 'friendly' colours (Red/Blue/Yellow) and the good guy had the 'darker' colours (Grey).
And it's funny. I don't like Gobots, but this is great.
Nice work.
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thanks for your comment i seem to be getting some really good feedback on alot of my Gobots Animated stuff which is really gratifying. And yes i designed faction symbols for both the Guardians and the Renegades, well spotted! I felt they needed them so it would be easier to distinguish who is on whose side
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No probs.
Also, I actually like that you've given them proper weapons as well. All they seemed to do in the show was shoot energy blasts from their hands (which seemed a little too cheesy for me).
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i know it was pretty lame in that respect! Also i took alot of influence from Transformers Animated obviously and the weapons in that
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this is somethig I wanna do, well you beat me, hahahaha, cool re-design, really the 80's Cy-kill did not look menacing or evil, the rounded shapes, the friendly colours, well this is how he should look, congratulations amazin job
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thanks i agree! he looked too weedy in the original!
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This is an awesome reboot of Cy-Kill...makes him look more evil, sorta like the reformat of Megatron into Galvatron.
Chibi Cy-Kill at [link]
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Thanks, i was inspired mainly by TF Animated Megatron so wanted him to look as evil as possible cos we was a bit of a wuss in the original ha ha! And with your chibi u could still make him look cute, good effort!
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Thanks pretty happy with it too. I do commissions if interested?
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If I had the money, I would certainly be interested.
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I never thought I would live to see Cy-kill look awesome.
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Thanx alot! I try my best!
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