The Black Hole's Maximilian

[gauss]

http://www.gausswerks.com/img/blackholemax.jpg

some of you might remember a mostly silly Disney movie called The Black Hole (http://imdb.com/title/tt0078869/), which was kind of a shameless cash-in on Star Wars mania. It's fairly rubbish, but there's a very strange and completely inappropriate for a PG movie end sequence, that features the rust red robot Maximilian prominently.

He's always been a great looking robot if you ask me, so I didn't so much redesign him as I did reinterpret the design based more on my memory or impression of the design, rather than the actual design (http://assall.de/movie-prop/scifi/sf_41.jpg), which looks a bit stubby these days.

Anyhow, been a while since I've posted work in my own topic and so I decided that I might as well with this one, since it's neither a sketch nor a concept tag. Enjoy!

[low odor]

Cool stuff..that movie game me nightmares as a kid...I thought the designs in the movie were pretty unique. First movie I can remember that didn't have humanoid bots...I think that was what made maximillion so intimidating- that he had no identifialbe human features

[SHEPEIRO]

i remember this guy, nice re-design.

what about this little fella

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1c/Robot_v.i.n.cent.jpg/180px-Robot_v.i.n.cent.jpg

[fritz]

oh dude....that's awesome gauss. hell yeah shepeiro....and there was another "older" robot like that that had a texas accent. ahahahaha.

[ebagg]

I thought that movie was damn cool as a kid. That's a damn cool reimagined version! I do think you giving him the spindly, long and slender limbs does take away from the intimidation factor a bit.

[ScoobyDoofus]

Whoah! Thats awesome!

My older brother got to go see that before it was released with the director & cast. My Grandfather worked on the animatronics for Disney (both in features, and at the theme parks). Heck, he may have done the animatronics for Max!

[Darksun]

Max is one of the coolest robots on film! Score.

[snemmy]

/me runs up and pushes Max over and laughs

while it looks cool in 2d, unless he can crab walk i have to question the practical functionality of such long spindly, though well drawn, legs.

i'd like to see you take a second shot at him and let the gauss juices flow out all over your tablet. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[SHEPEIRO]

i think he hovers/floats

long time no see though

[snemmy]

ah.. that makes some sense...

ihave probably seen the movie at one point or another in my youth but damn if i remember a lick of it.

[NuclearTes]

Cool, I vagely remember seeing that movie as a kid. I wasn't too impressed by it and can't really remember what it was about. But I never forgot that robot using it's rotating claws to kill someone, who tried to protect himself by holding a book in front of him. I even remembered that the robot's name was Maximilian. I don't think I had the appropriate age to watch that movie. http://boards.polycount.net/images/icons/poly107.gif /images/graemlins/tongue.gif I'm not even sure if I could read the subtitles. http://boards.polycount.net/images/icons/poly107.gif Anyway, I like your interpretation Gauss.

[SHEPEIRO]

maximillion the robot was the best thing about the movie.

not a patch on HAL even if he wasnt a robot

http://exophrenia.typepad.com/exophrenia/images/hal1.jpg

[BRUTICUS(CW)]

wasn't maximillian a master sharpshooter? And when he was at target practice he would spin his pistol like a western gunslinger....

that little bot, victor or whatever was cool too.. actually both of the characters were created as Quake2 player models and probably downloadable on this site still.

[DeathByChris]

thats awesome, one robot design that i always felt was very underated is Robocop 2 just looking at it makes me drool.

[Zergxes]

Yeah, that movie had a bizzare ending. I thought it was cool. I bet it predated the pg-13, which I thought was made directly in response to Temple of Doom. Maybe my geek history is off.