Len’s WIP

This was a project I had for school back in 2003. It was for my texture & lighting class, then I used it for my compositing class. Ever since last year’s Transformers movie and this G1 video found here, my interest for robots, machines, and other mechanical moving parts rekindled. I decided to go back and revisit this old project to see if I can make it better. I mean, I will make it better.

So why Tankor? Because back then I watched Beast Wars and then Beast Machines. I’m probably one of the very few who liked Beast Machines. I liked it mostly because of Tankor, because he’s a tragic figure. Once he was beloved Maximal Rhinox who’s spark (a Transformer’s soul) was lost after a doomed voyage to Cybertron. Megatron was able to take his spark and place it in a mindless drone’s body, calling him Tankor, and used him against the Maximals. Kind of like me: I once had a happy soul and then it got lost, but then “The Man” found it and now I mindlessly work for him.