Silas Zee: Optimus Prima on The Grid

Optimus Prima
On The Grid

2011.05.18

I'm not a big Tron fan (in fact, I pretty much loathe the original flick XD) but I saw and surprisingly kinda like the new one. I admittedly saw the movie primarily for Daft Punk, so my expections for everything else didn't have anywhere to go but up so I walked out happy. ^_^

I liked the glowy-glowy stuff on all the costumes, and the incorporation of armor in the designs so I thought it would be neat to see what Prima would look like in the snazzy black light garb. This was a quick little piece, I turned it around in under two hours. The outfit and light layout could have used some more brainwork but it turned out pretty much as I had hoped. For the pencil image here I posted a very early stage in the sketch to show that I just dove in head-first here with no real plan. I just put the pencil to paper and just adjusted Prima's normal outfit to incorporate a bunch of neon. Originally I had the thought that Prima would be showing just as much skin as she usually does, but it didn't seem right as I thought about it more so I covered up almost everything with a different shade of black.