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AlphaBots Week XVI: P is for Pris!
When Splash was released in the Spring of 1984 I was 9 years old. Upon seeing the movie I was instantly smitten with Daryl Hannah, who played the mermaid in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past forever. She became the measuring stick against which I compared all hot blondes until I saw Innerspace a few years later … but I digress.
Hannah co-starred in another movie a few years earlier, which I didn’t see until I was much, much older. I’m referring to the source of this week’s AlphaBot, the 1982 science fiction blockbuster, Blade Runner. Hannah’s character, Pris, is the replicant girlfriend of the replicant antagonist of the movie, Roy Batty (played by Rutger Hauer).
Pris is a basic pleasure model of artificial person in a world where her kind has been banned due to their tendency to inflict hideous acts of violence against humans. The “Blade Runner” is a specially trained police officer whose sole job is to hunt down and “retire” rogue replicants. In this case, Harrison Ford plays the main protagonist, Rick Deckard, a Blade Runner charged with retiring Roy Batty and his co-horts.
Drawn in Manga Studio 4 Debut with a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet.
Almost forgot this. #TodaysCoffeeCup Big head, little hat.
Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.
(via wilwheaton)
Just a ballpoint pen doodle of @ovi8. #Caps
Alphabots Week XV: O is for Optimus Prime!
He’s the heroic leader of the Autobots, the benevolent group of Transformers who crash landed on Earth. Since there were Decepticons aboard his space vessel when it arrived, he felt a responsibility to ensure that no humans were harmed in the course of their war. He’s a brilliant tactician, a skilled combatant, and a fair and just leader.
I’ve been drawing this guy since I was nine years old. So cheesy.
Drawn in Manga Studio 4 Debut with a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet.
#TodaysCoffeeCup Just a messy self-portrait. Let’s go Caps!
He’s blind. He’s deaf. He’s working as a ref. #CapsRangers #415Lounge
AlphaBots Week XIV: N is for Necron 99!
If you grew up in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the US and were a fan of science fiction and/or fantasy, chances are better than even that you’ve at some point become aware of the 1977 animated feature, Wizards. Created by Ralph Bakshi, who had previously brought Robert Crumb’s Fritz the Cat to American theaters as a horribly adapted X-rated animated film, Wizards melded static comic panels, traditional cell animation, and rotoscoped WWII film footage into a dark, bloody, fantasy epic.
Wizards takes place two million years into our future. Humanity has long since destroyed themselves in a global nuclear conflict and the radioactive fallout has finally subsided enough for the planet to again sustain life. Earth is now inhabited by two dominant species: the mutants, who are the cursed remains of the worst parts of our previous civilization; and the “true ancestors of humans,” which are comprised of fairies, elves, and other life-loving woodland creatures, who live in the idyllic land of Montagar. The elves and fairies live among nature and embrace the power of magic, while the soulless mutants thrive with the use of technology and machinery.
At some point the queen of Montagar gives birth to twin boys. One is a benevolent wizard named Avatar, and the other is the evil mutant wizard, Blackwolf. They battle each other upon their mother’s death. Avatar prevails and exiles Blackwolf, who swears to return and claim his crown.
Decades later Blackwolf readies his armies for their invasion into Montagar. Necron 99 is a robot assassin that Blackwolf unleashes upon the land to kill all practitioners of magic. He rides a great two-legged beast that’s reminiscent of a dragon and a hippo.
The entire movie can be seen on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgol5_00prc
Drawn in Manga Studio Debut 4 with a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet.
May the 4th be with you! Here’s proof I’ve been this way my whole life. #StarWars
#TodaysCoffeeCup Playoff Beard Time! #Caps
I love this kind of stuff. laughingsquid:
Behind the Scenes Photos From ‘Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back’
I added some background characters to the playful robot doodle from last week.
AlphaBots Week XIII: M is for Maximilian.
After the release of Star Wars in 1977, science fiction (previously considered an unprofitable venture for movie studios) became all the rage. The Walt Disney company jumped on the bandwagon with their 1979 feature film The Black Hole.
This week’s drawing is Maximilian, the second in command of the USS Cygnus, a deep space exploratory vessel long lost to the unknown. The ship’s commander, Dr. Hans Reinhardt, is the only human on board. Or so it seems. He tells the movie’s protagonists, the crew of the vessel Palomino, that he had sent the original crew back to Earth long ago and replaced them with mindless androids. When one of the Palomino’s crew finds out a dark secret about the android crew of the Cygnus, Maximillian uses his spinning claws to eviscerate the guy.
Drawn in Manga Studio 4 Debut with a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet.
This sidewalk has an unintentional Y-Wing painted on it. #StarWars
