Saturday, April 8, 2017

Megatron

I haven't yet decided if I will do a full review of Megatron 2.0 because of advisory warnings about paint chipping during transformation. My copy of Apollyon has never been transformed because of the same issue. In the meantime, I decided to try another portrait.

For some reason, Megatron never instilled in me the same amount of fear and awe as Optimus Prime inspired confidence and respect. Maybe it was because just about every episode ended with his schemes being foiled and very often he was the one to sound the retreat.

This is another character not lacking in choices. I went with Takara Megatron 2.0 mostly because of new toy syndrome. I covered up some visible screws and a few out-of-the-box blemishes. Inner and Outer glow layer styles were used to add some pop to the eyes. His Decepticon symbol also has Inner and Outer glow layer styles enabled, with some experimentation with a Gradient overlay to achieve a subtle shimmering effect. I shot him in front of orange construction paper, which imparted an orange hue to the highlights.

The background is a sun I created from first doing some rendering Difference Clouds, cutting out a circle, Spherize distorting, and applying an orange Hue/Saturation layer. The streaks around the sun are from a Radial Zoom Blur. The stars are from a couple of Noise layers.

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