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filbarlow — Tanker Bug: SST
Published: 2012-05-07 06:32:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 6042; Favourites: 152; Downloads: 0
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The second bug I designed for Staship Troopers Roughnecks was the Tanker Bug. The CG studio Flat Earth requested more information about the way the mouth would work. So I did this sketch to demonstrate. It was never prepared as a color comp.Related content
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Gease, to think that these bugs couldn't' get any fatter lol. What makes this one have the name "Tanker"? Does he care some kind of fluid or something?
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Yeah I was under the impression that Tankers were full of flammable liquid and were just walking flame throwers.
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Yeah, i figured as much. They sounds like gasoline tankers, but in bug form lol.
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Is there a bug that hitches him up and drives him around too lol?
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Damn! That sucks. That would actually be pretty funny lol. These bugs sure come in a rainbow of variety
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Yeah it would, Chariot bugs need wheels.
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Lol. Those bugs are actually pretty funny in their own creepy bug way.
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Those are sure some interesting bugs. Its like theres a bug for everything lol.
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Zohhhhh my gosh I enjoyed seeing this guy in that first Pluto episode. 
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Yeah they weren't used enough
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I haven't seen that show in far too long, not sure I remember this one.
Then again I used to watch it on a teeny tiny teevee so I probably don't remember all the details.
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They were shown briefly in the 1st episode on Pluto.
You didn't miss much in the detail department, I wasn't happy with the way these bugs were textured.
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Oh I see. Bummer about the texture.
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Yeah because he was handed over from Flat Earth (who were forced to close their doors) to Foundation the model slipped under my radar, it ended up with lots of procedural textures.
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Well that sucks. It was only used in the first ep though?
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They were used in other episodes often as background bugs, but they didn't show up as much as you'd expect. I guess it was time saving thing to use one warrior bug model and instance it into a swarm than introduce tankers and blisters into it.
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Well to be fair the warrior bugs do look great in a swarm
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Always preferred the shows tankers to the movies. Wicked work Mr Barlow!
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8D Thanks man. Cant get enough of them!
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