{"id":2241,"date":"2009-06-22T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2009-06-22T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T06:01:00","slug":"nerdy-anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Nerdy Anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you will recall that I am a huge Transformers fan? And perhaps you will recall that I enjoyed Michael Bay’s first outing in the world of Transformers<\/a>? And perhaps you will understand that I am bitterly jealous that the sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen<\/i><\/a>, premiered two weeks ago in Japan, and was released last week in the United Kingdom, while Canadians living in America (like myself) are forced to wait until this week?<\/p>\n

And perhaps you will not be surprised that 24 hours from the posting of this blog, I will be sitting in an IMAX<\/a> theater watching said movie, at long last?<\/p>\n

For the haters, let’s get some things straight here… I’m not expecting Citizen Kane<\/i><\/a>. I’m not expecting Shakespeare<\/a>. I’m not even expecting Shakespeare in Love<\/i><\/a>. I am<\/i> expecting pretty much the best special effects around, lots of robots getting blowed up good, and Megan Fox<\/a> looking Megan Foxxy.<\/p>\n

The surge of nerdy anticipation within me is overwhelming, threating to manifest itself as a wave of destructive energy that will burn the surface of the planet to a crisp whilst arguing whether or not the new Revenge of the Fallen<\/i> Human Alliance<\/a> toyline portrays human characters in proper scale to their Autobot counterparts. Also, I drew this:<\/p>\n

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click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n

What started out as kind of a quick sketch to commemorate the release of Revenge of the Fallen<\/i> actually became a decent exercise in color and lighting, I think.<\/p>\n

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