An F-16 Aerialbot? I say 'sweeeeeeeeeeet.' So this is what I started with, Skydive, the original F-16 from the cartoon - no more messing around. I grabbed a pic from the gallery at Siebertron.com, and a pic from my invaluable Ark compendium of G1 model sheets, and got going...
A series of sketches, all different shapes and sizes, but keeping the main transformation and vehicle cues as close as possible to Skydive, with the tail/engine and canopy merging, to form his upper back torso, leaving the rest for limbs.
Some additional head studies, the original (below) wasn't quite 'movie' enough yet...
And this was the first submission...my fault we had to go back, as requested by Hasbro, it seemed they kind of got caught up in the way he was standing. They got the impression that this was an evil guy, more Decept than Autobot, so they wanted me to rework him.
So this guy isn't really too much different, I stood him up like the Breakaway concept art, and JT and I took the opportunity to tweak some details on him. Hasbro approved, and I went on to the final views...
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I loved this guy from the first time I saw him in the game; so faithful, so detailed, and so all around awesome, this is what updated Transformers are all about.
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