#macaddam
He sure has shoulders, doesn’t he? Trying to think of a use for all that spare realty. I’d love to hear your ideas in the tags!
Inspired loosely by the Lost Light Fest to do a quick doodle of our good good Ultra Magnus lad. Not sure if I’ll be strictly following the drawing prompts this time around, (especially since I like messing with my own designs) but it’ll be fun to crank out a few more drawings this month!
Art © Me
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Colored up the commission I got from my friend of my absolute terror of a beastformer oc Schemer. A NAIL, she sold information on both sides to both sides during the war to survive. She’s an expert hacker, potentially an outlier, but she’s spent her life hiding away from everyone so well that she never got picked up.
Her alt is what I’ve frequently referred to as a volt weasel, and she’s small enough that when in beast mode, mechs on the larger side (think Minimus in the Magnus armor or Fort Max) could do The Thing with her if she let them.
This being The Thing (gif under cut).
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since yall went HAM over the last Cybertronian food stuff, here’s some more
1) crunchy snacks! Chips, crisps, and crackers are many and varied, so these are just some examples, but they sure are good ones mmmmm. There’s many, many varieties of flavors, from just the raw material, to oil and grease, to mineral seasoning, to gel or energon coating, and on and on. Mixed bags of multiple chip types are also available.
2) energon sticks are pretty ubiquitous, in both dust and solid form. Other minerals get similar snack stick treatment, like selenite and beryllium, but energon will always be at least a little more popular.
3) zushi……. There’s lots of types of zushi in various forms, not always in the roll shape here. Usually it’s eaten with fingers and dipped in a oil or coolant sauce, but you have to be careful to not touch the sticky shavings. Fancier places will replace the tin or lead foil with delicate wraps like gold leaf.
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got tired of trying to verbally describe it so i caved and made a messy picture
this diagram isn’t universal, as individual internal anatomy can vary wildly by frame and function and look nothing like what’s pictured
- thesparkis, obviously, the power center of the frame, and the core of personhood. it’s what distinguishes a person from a drone, and creates connections between people that determine who their family is. it hovers somewhere on the threshold of quasi-real, as a spark is half-submerged in subspace within its chamber, otherwise the sheer heat and power of this magical miniature star would very quickly lead to an explosion. it technically generates power all on its own without adding fuel to burn, but trying to power a frame without energon makes the spark gutter out. the spark charges energon, which then circulates through the frame and brings that life energy to every area, not unlike blood and oxygen. in stasis lock, when the frame needs very little power beyond basic self repair, their fueling requirements go way down since the spark doesn’t have to work as hard
- thespark chamber is there both to keep the spark safe from the outside world, and to keep the outside world safe from the spark. if a chamber loses integrity, the spark will very likely burst. however, the chamber itself can be moved a little bit, lifting up and out so the connected T-cog and engine can be inspected. every spark chamber has four hardlinesandports, spooled away for interfacing directly with the nervous circuitry of the frame. it also holds innermost, a bright blue slurry of sentio metallico and highly charged energon that the frame draws upon for self repair. usually the innermost sits in its own section of the spark chamber, but it will regularly cycle into the same space as the spark to pick up charge again, and can be consciously pooled there as well
- theengine is what makes the frame go. it works on translating the spark’s power into actual inertia, regulating momentum and pressure output, and even burning extra fuel to add a power boost when necessary. while the central mass is connected to the spark chamber and T-cog, the engine has a network of motivators throughout the frame
- theT-cog is the central hub that controls transformation. it’s not so much a singular cog that turns as it is a whole collection of functions controlling dozens of individual parts of the frame, how they fit together, what mode they’re in, and how they switch between modes without intersecting one another, essentially the seat of power for one’s alt mode. it’s connected to the morph core in the processor, which flips between what kind of sensory input and proprioception the frame uses depending on which mode it’s in. some T-cogs have a mutation which support a triple-changer frame, and some have a similar mutation which create Mutacons, but the average mech has one root mode and one alt mode
- the spark chamber, engine, and T-cog are always closely connected, as it could be said they are really all one single formation. an engine cannot move the frame without a T-cog guiding it, a T-cog cannot turn without a spark powering it, and a spark cannot burn without an engine supporting it. the most common placement of these three organs is in the chest, but some have them lower down, or even in the pelvic area. it’s fairly common for onyxoid frames to have them between the lower two shoulders, like with Sky Lynxhere
- theprocessor is the central computing hub of the frame, where the personhood of the spark gains expression with logic, emotion, and responsiveness. while the main mass is always centered in the helm of one’s root mode, there are multiple vitally important clusters of nervous circuitry throughout the frame that could be called mini-processors. beastformers especially often have a secondary computing hub for sensory input in their beast mode’s head, but it isn’t exactly comparable with the central processor
- Rossum’s Trinity is a rather philosophical way of categorizing anatomy, calling the spark, the T-cog, and the processor the most important parts of the frame, given how damage or infection of one will inevitably lead to the decline of the other two. some argue that it is instead a ranking, with the spark as the highest and the T-cog as the least. some say that the trinity should be the spark, the T-cog, and the engine, or even the processor, the spark, and the engine instead. while it’s a fun thing to debate about, Rossum’s Trinity is not effectively useful in medical mechanics and largely left to conversation instead of practice
- theforges are where eaten material goes to be digested, taken up by the self repair systems, and distributed to the frame for upkeep and repairs. the placement, size, and number of someone’s internal forges can vary wildly, and the diagram here is just as likely to be wrong as it is to be right. often times they’re somewhere near the engine so they can act as heat sinks, drawing away heat from the engine to repurpose for forging. since they’re made of metal, mecha don’t burn through physical material as quickly as humans do and don’t usually need a lot of food to keep their self repair systems happy, so their internal forges aren’t as large as you might expect
- thefuel tanks are where energon is stored and circulated, as well as other non-energon fuels to be burned by the engine when needed. they vary in placement, size, and number even more than internal forges do. for instance, many flight frames have tanks in their wings! they have powerful pumps attached that help drive the circulation of the entire frame, no matter where in the frame they are. they’re also carefully partitioned with emergency shutoff valves that will slam shut if something punctures the tank, so that the entire thing won’t drain all at once
- lastly, the protoform is all the underworkings and internals of the frame. struts, circuitry, wiring and tubing, mounts, joints, and beams, all carefully woven together. it’s usually modular, able to be sectioned off into limbs or vehicle parts or what have you. the protoform is covered by armor plating, and some of that plating forms functional kibble, pieces that perform one specific job, often only in alt mode, and thus have very little protoform connected to them. for example, in most cases a flier’s wings are not kibble, as they’re important limbs that often have vital anatomy inside them, but the horns of a beastformer are kibble, especially if they’re tacked onto the frame in root mode somewhere instead of being integrated into it. armor and kibble can be removed for a time without any harm coming to them, and some places are actually designed to retract or move aside, but protoform cannot be removed. armor and protoform are usually layered thickest over the spark chamber, but mecha can choose to retract them to show the chamber, for access to the spark, hardlines, and other internals
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Transformers Robots in Disguise (2016) Warrior Class Optimus Prime
….and I shall call him Blooptimus….
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I got tagged by both @zesitoyboxand@dakotaissorandom to post my top 6 photos for this year! This was actually a lot of fun going through photos I took this year and also made me look back at how hard the middle of the year was for me, and a large chunk of it at that. I feel good about the year though and where I am now and am really looking forward to 2016 and beyond!
Thanks to both of you awesome peeps for thinking of me with this tag and to continue it on I will tag @plasticsparkphotos,@the-ankle-rocker,@okamidensetsu,@brokenforgephotography,@mmortah,@waspshot23,@evochanger, and @doubledealer93
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