{"id":309,"date":"2010-07-02T17:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T22:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2010-08-02T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T22:37:44","slug":"the-creation-of-the-scorpion-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/concept-art\/the-creation-of-the-scorpion-part-2","title":{"rendered":"The creation of the Scorpion, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cardboard_scorpion-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cardboard_scorpion-2-580x261.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos of the cardboard Scorpion mecha\" title=\"cardboard scorpion 2\" width=\"580\" height=\"261\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cardboard_scorpion-2-580x261.jpg 580w, https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cardboard_scorpion-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculpture by Matt Evans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first thing we did to make the Scorpion more menacing was to beef up the limbs. We decided that the legs would consist of a piston-driven set of joints attached to a large shield piece and an integrated shock-absorption system. The claws, rather than oversized shears, would be immense axe-like crushers. Matt updated his cardboard mockup with the new additions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/shock-absorber-path.jpg\" alt=\"shock-absorber-path.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next, we reached out to Roger Oda, a concept artist specializing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogeroda.com\/props\/dkcontrol.jpg\">precise, hand-rendered linework<\/a>. Roger went all-out on the detailing, building up an elaborate structure of pipes, gears, hoses and rotors. He even introduced a hefty flywheel at the base of the tail, to lend the Scorpion that extra dieselpunk touch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ScorpionRO-front.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ScorpionRO-front-580x483.png\" alt=\"Concept art of the Scorpion mecha\" title=\"Scorpion R.O. front\" width=\"580\" height=\"483\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ScorpionRO-front-580x483.png 580w, https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ScorpionRO-front.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art by Roger Oda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We finally had enough detail to move to the 3D modeling phase. But we soon discovered that bringing all the pieces of the Scorpion together would prove more challenging than we expected\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=334\">Continued in part 3\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing we did to make the Scorpion more menacing was to beef up the limbs. We decided that the legs would consist of a piston-driven set of joints attached to a large shield piece and an integrated shock-absorption system. The claws, rather than oversized shears, would be immense axe-like crushers. Matt updated his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}