Jay Kushwara / Digital Renaissance

Clone Wars Aqua Droid

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Yet another obscure Star Wars droid from the Hasbro Build a Droid series.

I created the primary digital model of the Lizard character for Hasbro’s The Amazing Spider Man action figure line. This sculpt was used for the 4″ figure and was also re purposed for other scaled figures in the line.

The Lizard

This figure has just started hitting the shelves as a Target Exclusive. One of the classic and more obscure droids in the original Star Wars films. Gonk has double ball jointed legs and a removeable upper shell that reveals the internal mechanical parts.

Gonk

Crimson Dynamo

After creating all the primary Mark 2 and Mark 3 figures for the first Iron Man movie line, I was asked by Hasbro to create the primary Iron Man figures for the CG animated series Iron Man Armored Adventures. It was great to be able to do a more stylized version of the classic suit, and I also got to sculpt a young Tony Stark face under the removeable faceplate.

Iron Man

This figure was created for the Iron Man 2 film line. The design was based on one of several unused concepts created for Iron Man 1 by Phil Saunders and can be found in the Art of Iron Man book. I really enjoyed working with the different style and almost War Machine like feel of this figure.

Power Assault Iron Man

In 2007 I had the honor of creating the primary Ark of the Covenant model used for Hasbro’s Raiders of the Lost Ark lines. The first version was designed for the 4″ figure series. Afterwards I added extra detailing, a sand textured inner floor and fully detailed support pole pieces for a 12″ scale exclusive mail in rebate version.

Ark of the Covenant

First glimpsed in the original Genndy Tartakonsky Clone Wars series on Cartoon Network the Tri Droid was later seen in Revenge of the Sith. This extremely pose able figure quickly turned into a collector favorite with it’s 25 separate points of articulation.

Tri Droid

 Here is an exploded view showing the fully engineered digital pattern’s 35 separate pieces.

 In 2008 I had the chance to create the Surgical Droid version of 21B. First seen as a medical droid attending Luke in The Empire Strikes Back, 21B made a second appearance as a surgical droid with a nasty spin in the Revenge of the Sith.

Surgical Droid 2-1B

Here are photos of the final production piece, used with the kind permission of Jayson Krebsbach and featured on the Yakface website. Note that the tubing was added to the physical tooling pattern and was not part of the original digital model.

This is the Assassin droid figure from the Anakin Skywalker / Assassin Droid Comic Pack released in 2007.

Assassin Droid

Here are photos of the final production piece, used with the kind permission of Jayson Krebsbach and featured on the Yakface website. Note there were some slight changes made to the face after the digital model was completed.

Here is the Spider Assassin Droid from the Clone Wars line created in 2010. With 8 legs, 16 points of articulation, and a removable head “lid” that housed 3 baby spider droids this figure was quite the challenge. It was well worth it in the end, the final piece remains one of my favorites for overall coolness. It was also rewarding when I finally saw the Clone Wars episode it was featured in – one of the best episodes in the entire Clone Wars series so far.

Clone Wars Spider Assassin Droid

Here are photos of the final production piece, used with kind permission of Paul Harrison and Chuck Paskovics from the Jedi Temple Archives website.

This is my favorite Build a Droid figure to date, based on a character seen briefly in the original 2D animated Clone Wars miniseries created by Genndy Tartakovsky. Having been an admirer of Genndy’s previous shows Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack, it was a pleasure to interpret the clean, elegant, almost retro style of L8-L9 in 3D.

L8-L9

In 2009 I was given the single most complex 4 inch figure project I had ever had – the Vintage Collection C-3PO. With 14 points of articulation, 4 separate removable plates and 29 separate parts 3PO required more engineering than any other figure I’d done at that scale. The amount of detail required on his inner structure was extreme, with all the intertwining wiring and tubing carefully researched and modeled.

C-3PO

 Here’s an exploded view showing how the digital model was engineered with all the articulation, seperate parts and assembly taken into account.

I had the opportunity to model Hasbro’s latest Battle Droid figure for the 4″ scale Vintage collection series. Having been a big fan of Doug Chang’s beautiful design it was a pleasure to create the most faithful representation of the droid for Hasbro’s 4″ figure series to date.

Vintage Battle Droid

Here are photos of the final production piece, used with kind permission of Paul Harrison and Chuck Paskovics from the Jedi Temple Archives website.