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1. Ok, here's where it all started. This image was taken from Prime Saber's Transformers Index Page and is of amazing resolution and quality. Something that makes the process of editing, and in this case going further with it by recoloring it, alot easier to do. It has nice color definition, manageable size, and little or no compression artifacts. My hats off to the one who scanned this in. Great work, some of the credit goes to you as well. |
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2. So After about 15 minutes we have the image free from imprisonment in its boxart casing. The disctracting lettering and other issues are gone and the real work can begin. I ususally work to a 100% transparent background in Photoshop because it'll let me work alot faster, and let me see what I actually remove (instead of the default useless white). Notice that the heads of the dinos are still in the picture and that we've attempted to approximate the contour of the left foot. We can do this because we can more or less see where its going, dont attempt it for the other parts, with maybe the exception of the hand. But we'll be replacing that anyways cause Monstructor always carried 2 guns. |
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3. So several seconds, minutes, hours, days later we arrive at this stage. A fully functional, and more importantly visible, Dinoking. This image alone will probably make it into some archive somewhere, I dont really care, mail me if you would like a bigger image. Notice how the left foot has been repainted with the airbursh tool so as to make the foot more pleasing to look at. There's nothing TF's hate more than having dinos stuck to em. So with some carefull studying of the lighting on the foot we attempt to redo it, and with some success if I might add. You wouldnt even know if we didn't tell you. The trick is to work in layers. I easily had anywhere up to 25 layers of imagery going on at one time. Each layer describing a color, glow, shinyness, or other part of the object. This step was repeated for the other foot, taking care in ensuring that that one comes out great too. We then make a copy of the left hand and gun and stretch/rotate it so it fits into the correct perspective for the other hand. There's nothing that bugs me more than incorrect usage of perspecective within an image. |
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4. Ok with the rebuilding out of the way we can step back and bring in our monstructor toy scan.(shown much smaller than it really was) We'll be using this as our color reference. You can see that I've alreayd started recoloring some parts of the body and given the feet a silverish tint. The process of applying color varies according to the intensity/contrast levels of the underlying part. Some were simple paintjobs, others had over 7 layers describing the different hues and such that make up this metallic paint. And from this we go onto this... |
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5. The 100% final image. I've now gone in and started to reapply all the decals lost in the general recolouring, on top of this I've finished adding all the color levels and finished applying the sparkles and highlights that are a TF boxart trademark. Finish this all off by placing the now image on a black BG and you have the end product. One totally never before seen Boxart pic of Monstructor.
Click here to view Monstructor's finished box art at full size. View the Monster Pretenders that comprise him in 1989 Decepticons.
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