Talk:Character model

Re: Hot Rod in G1 and Wreckers, what's the dividing line between "two different character models" and "same character drawn by different artists 18 years apart"? He just looks like the G1 character drawn in Khanna's style, to me. --Thylacine 2000 02:04, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

The stickers man, the stickers... Also Dan drew Hot Rod On-model in the Pax Cybertronia flashback, and gave him leg kibble he's never had before in the Beast Era. 193.200.150.23 02:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

To explain more clearly, in the pre-Maximal Upgrade flashbacks, Rodimus is drawn in his cartoon character model. In Wreckers' "present day," Rodimus suddenly has more vehicle detail and his toy stickers. It's explicitly a different body with a specific origin. --ItsWalky 03:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Uh, yeah, I think this is a little beyond the actual issue of a "character model"... which is typically a series of drawings done so that the animation-monkeys earning five cents a day in Korea or wherever draw the same thing each cel and details hopefully stay consistent. Not "THIS IS HOW THE CHARACTER WILL LOOK IN EVERY INCARNATION". This is a generally badly-worded article. --M Sipher 02:18, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Then com up with a term for 'different characters based on the same toy have different character models and and understood to actually 'look different'.' -Derik 02:44, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I thought that sounded weird, too. I don't see the Wreckers interpretation of Hot Rod to be a different model, its just a more 'toyetic' design by a different artist, as Thy said, some 18 years after the original cartoon/comic models. Dan's style didn't become a standard design that was used by other artists, was it? --FFN 03:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Except it is representign a different incarnation-- Dan draws hi using his Sunbow model in the opening sequence set at the end of the great war, Hot rod mentions he's about to undergo the maximization process. In the 'present' of the Wreckers, rodimus is now much physically smaller, and he loks different (he has kibble on his legs, etc.) When he was downsized he retained the same type of car as his altmode, but his transformation pattern is now different so his robot mode looks somewhat different.

When Rodimus Convoy became a Microtransformer in zone, his robot mode looked different too, the 'parts' were arranged differently even though his car-mode was the same.

This is what happened in Wreckers as well-- ecept in Wreckers there's the added layer of confusion in that both his pre-maximization and post-maximization forms are 'represented' by the same toy. -Derik 03:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

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