The theme's description was as follows:
"In the futuristic city of Megalopolis 0.3, the greatest spectacle to witness are the robotic pits, in which different machines fight with all their cybernetic mighty to destroy each other. Every woman, man and child dreams of building the greatest robot of all, because in this dystopian society, building a winning machine brings great fame, admiration, and last but not least, inconceivable amounts of money. This is the reason why any kind of group in the city, from the most innovative tech labs of massive global-conglomerate corporations, to rebellious engineering students and moneyless rogue scientists from the human-hives slums of the poorest classes, dream to build an unstoppable robot to win the most important pit of all: the world-famous 'Robot Arena Deathmatch'. All sort of deadly things can be seen there: modified war-bots, human-shaped synths, semi-legal killer droids, and even the occasional cyborg-slave who, by upgrading 98% of its body with machines, has sadly lost its legal human status (and all its rights!). No other year has seen so many participants, with literally thousands of deadly machines gathered there with the one goal of obliterating their opponents, but there's still one robot missing... your own!…"
The challenge is in #CDChallenge #RobotArenaDeathmatch #CharacterDesign #ArtistsOnFacebook and the link to the facebook post is:
It took a while to get a concept of the character. At first, I was not sure about the body of the robot; whether it uses legs or wheels, hands or "gauntlets", unarmed or armed,... as with the common ideas when designing a robot; and a robot that is built for fighting and maneuvering...
Until the word "Arena" brought to my mind "American Gladiators"
I decided to design a robot that does the action of "American Gladiators". Plus, I wanted it to be COOL.
I decided that my design is going to combine 3 elements:
1- White sports car: a neutral, attractive paint job to a technologically advanced machinery.
2- Tutankhamun head: As an Egyptian, it came to me naturally; in order to give the character a glorious look and a human face for the head.
3- A Pugil stick: As in American gladiator. I decided to make it stronger and fitting for a "murderous" machine by replacing the ends with reinforced concrete blocks, and the pole is a rebar of a wide cross-section.
This is "King Amon" (serial number KA-M001). The newly-introduced robot warrior has taken the Robo Championship by surprise, and just now, has defeated the Ultimate Champion "Doomachine", and turning him into scraps!
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