Octane

DESIGNATION / CLASSIFICATION
Octane / Decepticon Triple Changer

FUNCTION
Fueler

LIFESPAN
SEASON THREE

BEGINNINGS 1998 - 2001

Originally attempted June 14, 1998, OCTANE has always been a little odd-looking. Possessing one of the skinnier faces / heads of the lot, at least going by his appearance in STARSCREAM'S GHOST, I found capturing him a strangely difficult task. I like looking at him in retrospect, from his early intimidated look (sort of appropriate, really, given his experiences in the episode) to the increasingly confident-looking icons to the re-coloured and re-designed-from-scratch 2001 version. Even so, I always felt that OCTANE would be needing another revision before he would truly fly with me. Throughout, the angularity of the crest-like top of his head gave me the most trouble and the colour scheme -- like all characters with colour schemes in the range of lavender, violet, and purple -- was very difficult to edit in Microangelo's™ colour palette.

SECOND WIND 2007 - 2011

By 2007, I had taken to using the colour picker on my screen captures and enter the RGB code into the icon palette. I could never do it that well on sight, but I would make adjustments to the captured colour codes and eventually learned a lot about how RGB is built up during this period of time. Now, even with screen captures, OCTANE has been a difficult balancing act. Somehow, it has been hard to find the right proportions that kept his face relatively narrow without making him look sort of feeble. Eventually, with the by now standard act of size increase, I think I have achieved that goal.

CURRENT EDITION
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

PREVIOUS REVISIONS
Logged iterations: 8

MISSING
06.14.1998

08.23.1998

07.28.1999

06.27.2000

06.02.2001

12.30.2007

07.30.2009

01.24.2011

CHALLENGE LEVEL
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