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JohnStaton — DMV: All Gangs Here
Published: 2009-01-02 20:32:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 2062; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 107
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Ugh, This may well be the very first thing I ever colored on a computer, and it shows!
The main reason I'm subjecting myself to inevitable torrent of disgusted gaffaws at my protean coloring attempt, is to display some previously unrevealed DMV characters.
Long time viewers will recognize meter maid AJ and her lazy sidekick Drew.
The white haired woman at the top left top is Roulette, hotshot officer of the GHP. (Global Highway Patrol.) A long time rival of AJ's, she's fond of pointing out that she has worldwide juridiction as well as a self-ware, nigh-indestructable squad car with a high-yield capacitor gun. Secretly, she's annoyed that AJ catches more crooks with just a gun that shoots parking tickets.
On the right side of the composition, we witness the unfolding tradgedy of Pool Parties. Fierce battles by armed and armored car pools for territorial gain in the vast Megarage complex.
In the silver minvan, we have the Hiocc's, (For High Occupancy vehicle.) who take advantage of the large carrying capacity of their vehicles, and use them as makeshift troop transports allowing them to overwhelm carpools driving smaller vehicles.
Toward that end, I model all their SUV's after attack helicoptors. For instance, the silver minivan here is based on a Hughes 500 Littlebird.
The green chopper carries two members of Motor Horde, one of the dying breed of biker gangs, who exist chiefly because, even at the time of this drawing I knew I would one day figure out how to do Akira style tail light trails in photoshop.
The motorcycle is based on the old Green Machine toy. (If you don't know what that is, then your childhood sucked, and your parents didn't really love you.
)Finally, going back to the top, the robot with the beret is a Bot-Nik.
Bot-Nik's are fixtures at futuristic coffee houses. For the price of a single $10.00 coin (The not-too-distant-cyberpunk-dystopian-future's answer to the quarter.
) they spontaneously generate free-verse poetry.They also serve as emergency thug muscle whenever the DMV or the GHP raid your coffee house. In the NTDCD future you see--coffee is illegal.
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Comments: 19
That van reminds of the truck in the old Highman tv show.
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I remember that show! I always loved the picture of a soaking wet Jane Badler that they'd show in the opening credits.
Oh yea, and the pre-bunny, Energizer spokesman as the crazy sidekick.
I didn't consciously bas the van on that truck. I actually based it on an MH-6 Little Bird helicopter. (I base all the commuter minivans in America Jone's world on attack helicpoters. Wait 'til you see the one I based on the Mil Mi-24. 
But then the Highwayman's truck cab did transform into a helicopter, so perhaps it has influenced me afterall.
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Bot-Nik? Oh, the puns... they're so irresistable. <3
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That's Lucille and Bo on the green thing, by the way.
Now that I see the design again, I'm going to have to change it. This was back when I wanted a Recumbent Electricycle to look like a "grown-up" version of a Green Machine. (THE collest, baddest ass, most child-endangering evolution of the tricycle ever conceived. 
Unfortunately the "Green Machine" design has no place for the chrome plated "faux-engine" noise maker.
Back to the drawing board for me.
I may just redraw this whole thing. So much has changed since I first did this.
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Clever. I would never have expected nostalgia - and - wait a minute, why is it looking like an oversized tricycle a bad thing?
As a kid, everyone wants a specific toy - so why not give it to them as an adult? In this dank and super-consumer future, is it such a bad idea?
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Don't worry, I don't want to drop the whole Green Machine aesthetic entirely. But in the design above there's no place for an ostentatious mass of chrome piping, as described in my write up.
Trust me, there is plenty of room for venal consumerism in the "NTDDCF".
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Outstanding look ^^
Love the effect the colouring gives it. The character designs are really great, so are the robots and vehicles. You've got a great eye for design 
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hmmm first thing you ever coloured on the computer? Well it is still very good.
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I always thought Cel-style coloring was a lot harder than the Base/shadow/highlight stuff I do. So I can't fault you on that.
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I have a high tolerance for punnage, but Bot-Nik? >.<
Also, my parents never loved me. No green machine for me. ;_;
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Hey, looks a lot better than some of my computer colouring efforts.
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