The design of Chadworth Machine is an amalgamation of all kinds of robot designs I've seen, over the years. He's got a Bender chest hatch, a Mignola dome-skull, and clank-janky hands.
I wanted him to be familliar and relateable.
To be perfectly honest, Chadworth's skull is really where the soul of the character lives, regardless of his bodily trappings. So, in a lot of ways, the rest doesn't really matter all that much.
Here are some "Separated at Birth" characters that I've found that remind me of old Chad:
Nazgar the Tyrant, plastic toy:
Robot 13
R 13 is a character by Arizona indie publisher, Blacklist Studio.
Created by Daniel Bradford (artist) and Thomas Hall (writer), Robot 13 draws some inspiration from the same well as Monster Commute: Mike Mignola.
Both Daniels (me and him) love Mike's work.
I've been asked a couple of times if I was upset that the R 13 character design was so similar to Chadworths'. I am not.
- Daniel and Thomas are actually real-life friends of mine.
- Daniel had enough respect early on in his project, just to make sure that everything was cool with me. Very classy. Since I didn't invent dome-skulled robots, I certainly have no reason to be upset.
Great stuff, I've heard some good buzz about this book. You oughta check it out.
We ought to do pinups in the back of each other's books.
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There's a bunch of other "separated at birth" artwork out there, but I'm out of time to find you anymore.
And maybe, it doesn't matter.
:)
- Daniel
