Shockwave

DESIGNATION / CLASSIFICATION
Shockwave / Decepticon

FUNCTION
Military Operations

LIFESPAN
SEASON ONE - SEASON TWO - THE MOVIE† - SEASON THREE

BEGINNINGS 1998 - 2004

At first sight, SHOCKWAVE’s head looks simple, but that is, fittingly enough, a deception. It certainly took me some work shaping him properly. I thought I did a fairly good job first time around, but working from memory has never translated very well. For one, his "ears" looked like they were placed behind his head rather than attached to its sides. The next try brought me closer, but the ears were still problematical, and it had yet to dawn on me that the area surrounding his eye should be dark instead of bright. The subsequent versions went some way toward correcting that and other parts of him, but he was still far from exempt from the roster of Transformers still in need of makeovers. The appearance established in 1999 was revisited for an attempted recolor in 2004, but I soon realized it was the wrong choice.

SECOND WIND 2007 - 2009

He changed little over the next several years apart from colouring; an initial 2007 attempt (one of the very first I tried to redo in my big makeover that year) did little more than return him to the second 1999 version with a mind to shade him properly, but it was soon aborted. I might have been happy to leave him as he finally became that year, but the need to have him on scale with the other 2009 renovations meant I was far from done with him. The need to rescale arose again for the current revision, but other than bumping up the pixel count, he is essentially definitive. Coincidence: The 2009 and 2011 edits were both done on the same day.

CURRENT EDITION
Saturday, April 23, 2011

PREVIOUS REVISIONS
Logged iterations: 6

05.25.1998

06.10.1999

07.28.1999

10.03.2004

08.27.2007

04.23.2009

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