A couple of university students from a local Chinese university went all this trouble to make their own life-sized Transformers as part of the graduation project, as far as what I heard. It’s a very interesting project for them to get into. And it’s a 4500 USD project too. That’s a great prize tag they put aside for this project’s funding.
Boy! They sure come out bigger than life, after looking at these amazing photos of 9-m tall monstrosity!
Such amazing detail of the character design based on one of the Chinese famous legends of “Romance of the Three Kingdom”. For those who are not familiar with the Chinese folklore legend, there’s this famous general from a Shu Army whose name is Guan Yu during Chinese ancient times. He’s one of the most powerful generals serving in the Shu army and many legendary tales have been fortold amongst the Chinese for many, many generations. Chinese have profound religious beliefs tied with him and you can find a lot of statues of him around China and other Chinese communities around the world. That’s probably why the Chinese students picked him as the favourite character.
If you ever played one of Koei’s infamous action game series Dynasty Warriors and you used this character. (see below)
This is him and that’s why the transformer’s color resembles a lot as the picture above, along with the halberd weapon.
And here’s the footage of the CGI animation of its transformation as well.
Pretty neat huh? ^^
Source: Kotaku, Gadgetsin, ClonedChina, All images and copyrighted by the source owner
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