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nato2469
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[2004-10-22 02:26:11 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 397; Deviations: 95; Watchers: 147
Watching: 90; Pageviews: 23675; Comments Made: 391; Friends: 90
# Interests
Favorite movies: 80 pop stuff, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Goastbusters, Indiana JonesFavorite TV shows: as a kid,Transformers, TMNT, Power Rangers, He-man,Thundercats and the like, now ... about the same
Favorite books: Wheel of Time, Foundation
Favorite writers: Robert Jorden, Isaac Asimov
Favorite games: The Legend of Zelda, Mario, and other RPGs and Action games
Favorite gaming platform: Nintendo Switch
Tools of the Trade: Fusion 360, PS, IL, AE
Other Interests: Toys and whatnot
# About me
I am working on a new way to make and distribute customizable transforming robot action figures. Where you get to chose the look,colors and accessories for your bot the way you want them. Concept drawings rendered model images and prototype pics are all on their way. But in order to do that I need to see if my process is viable, both in financially and physically. So, first I’ll be doing a few fan figures that are more recognizable, bots I have loved for years.See, back in the day about the time the first Transformers movie came out there was a big push in the collectors market for third parties to begin making toys of fan favorite characters we never thought the official blokes over a Hasbro and Takara would make. I tried my hand at this by making an upgrade kit to make Hasbro’s old CHUG Roabuster a little more G1 accurate. It was pretty well received and I had plans to make my own toys and be one of the first third party robot companies, but as it often does life got in way of my dreams. Long story short, I took a job with a small indie film company and moved my family from California to Connecticut. There I made props and costumes and even did a little CGI. After a several years there that company dissolved and I became a freelancer once more. I returned to California and I returned to toys. For the last few years I’ve been working as a freelance designer, illustrator, and have even contributed a few toy designs for some other third party toy makers.
Now with a few toy designs under my belt and some more experience in creative manufacturing techniques, and armed with some pretty nice 3D printers I am finally going to bring life to an idea I’ve been working on since my Roadbuster upgrade days. Custom one-off transforming robots. That’s right, you the consumer get to chose your own character, its look, its vehicle mode, its accessories, weapons, color, even how it transforms. You name it it’s yours. We will supplement these custom figures with some basic “standard color” units for you to fill out your army, but really the sky is the limit.
But first I'm going to start my toy shop re-doing some of the favorites figures from my collection. I'll start with some from the Unicron Trilogy and move on from there.
Stay tuned!
# Comments
Comments: 72
hello im semir10000 and i love transformers. i have only been on devainart for 5 days but i made a lot of ben 10 aliens. im really good at making aliens. but i want to star making my own version of transformers too. its called transformers dragon wars, i version of transformers that involves the atobots and there dragon forms, and the decipticons and there monster/demon forms. i have lots of ideas for it but i can draw any king of transformer if my life dependit on it. aliens i can do. transformers i cant. one thing i really want is to also add a power-full extra to the transformers dragon wars power house. the dinobots, i want to bring them to the battle in bigger and stronger looks and forms. i saw your art while i was looking down this page for ideas and i took a long look at your art and i have to say you are one of the beast. so how about this, can you please make and send me some transformers characters. it would really help. id be happy to trad or make a good duel for you. please, i really need your help. please. i really need help with a character called snarl. i want him to look bigger,taller,and more spikes then ever before.
type me back.
thanks
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No problem, thanks for the Fav!
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hey nato. i was looking through your gallery. tell me are you designing all these on your own? are you the primary designer.? are these transformer designs based on already existing characters ? i took a look at your site and the molds you have created are really detailed. please tell me more about this !
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AS far as my Transformers go, I'm just a fan artist. Most of TF the designs are based off of older "G1" characters. When Binal-Tech came out several years ago I started working on add-on kits for them. Unfortunately I had some money issues and none of those where produced. I kept working on designing here and there and eventually got work with "The Asylum" (a direct-to-DVD movie company) doing a projects then called "Leigh Scott's Robot Wars" which when the Transformers movie came out in 07 the title got changed to "Transmorphers". Soon after Mr. Scott left the Asylum and I went back to trying my hands at toys (as well as other menial labor to pay the bills). I was finally able to produce one of my toy designs last year (an add-on kit for the Transformers Universe "Roadbuster" toy by Hasbro). And just recently I got another job with Mr. Scott's new independent film company "Blackthorn Pictures" as the Conceptual Designer. I have several more model kit ideas in the works and hopping to get back to producing them after we wrap our first movie. As it is I stay pretty busy with work.
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No problem. Just keep whippin' out the cool models.
Quick question, I don't remember but can XSI export stl files?
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Sadly no. It sucks, because my current client needs my models in STL. I got a copy of PolyTrans to convert them to the format. I think 3DMax can directly export to STL. So if you got a copy of that, you could load up your files in it and export them out.
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Yeah, I know how that goes. My CNC mill takes stl. Thankfully I run Solidworks which can export stl, but I would love to have something that works with surfaces better. Sadly I don't have 3.5G's to drop on a new software at present.
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Nice gallery!!!! wow... the lineart... impressive...
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Thanks! It's always nice to be appreciated.
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My pleasure! Really! I'm still trying to learn how to draw "cartoon style"(and transformers)... It's not easy! I have a lot of practice to do before beeing as good as you... that's for sure! ^^
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No problem just keep on drawing cool stuff!
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I LOVE that you did those TFA dinobots!
We can only hope the show gets around to them sooner rather than later!
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No problem! Got anymore cool ideas for me to draw? I've been trying to make more time for drawing lately.
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I'm a bit low on ideas at the moment. This script is pushing me
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That's OK, I've got a few ideas in mind.
Congrats again!
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Whaaa.
I was wondering why you don't have so many pageviews...
Then I realized I wasn't watching you. 
Your artwork is so detailed it blows my brains out onto the floor.
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Another good reason is that I don't have time to draw much anymore, and therefor, haven't updated in a while :/
Sorry!
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Haha, oh well. I like your stuff anyway. :3 I can wait.
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Thanks for the favourite mate, I saw your stuff on the IDW boards and really dig your style - consider yourself watched!
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Man...your Ironhide rules ! It would be so great fitted in the alternator line.
Beside, did you really made some design for the TFmovie team ?
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No, not the TF movie (Michael Bay/Dreamworks) but a movie that was made for Blockbuster Video called "Transmorphers" (Liegh Scott/ Asilem). It was a low budget film, only about $120Gs, and I know the director. The producers are real wankers. I didn't even get paid, but I did get my name in the credits.
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lame :s. Let's hope it willbring you some publicity.
where can it be found ?
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Blockbuster Video. Watch it if you dare.
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living in France won't make easy for me
Anything online ?
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[link]
not sure if it's all there.
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You have an absolutely wonderful style. It's great to see people with awesome talent get back into using it. Keep the goodness coming!
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