This year, we had two gags that we wanted to share. \u00a0One of them actually took a very real step toward reality on Tuesday (sometimes jokes become reality here at Tellest), but we also took a trip into the future with Tellest 3000. \u00a0We did a bit of a secret collaboration with an artist on DeviantArt, Marwan Islami \/ Ai Marwan, who is great at these futuristic designs, especially when it comes to mechs, which we knew was going to be a staple of this April Fools’ joke.<\/p>\n
Throughout April, we’re going to give you a taste of the characters and mechs he designed for us. \u00a0Today, we’re starting with Kaos and his mech, Wildfire.<\/p>\n
Let’s start off with Kaos, shall we? \u00a0So, first and foremost, we knew that this project was going to involve time travel. \u00a0The characters wouldn’t necessarily change who they were, so Kaos had to be true to himself. \u00a0As such, we kind of made him a bit of a marine.<\/p>\n Because technology is prevalent, we really decided it was in our characters’ best interests to utilize weaponry of this time. \u00a0So you’ll see that Kaos Kreegan, our quintessential Tellest warrior, is utilizing an assault rifle.<\/p>\n We settled on this one to really give us a good look at what Kaos would look like. \u00a0This carries his attitude over into the future pretty well.<\/p>\n After that, we had to decide on a coat of paint!<\/p>\n We decided to stick to colors he would have preferred.<\/p>\n Finally, our artist gave us a better look at him with some nice detailing. \u00a0Kaos has the assault rifle, sure… but he also has a blade in case of emergencies. \u00a0And you can’t tell here, because it’s a static image, but his left arm hides the evolution of the Sky Talon. \u00a0There’s a built in grappling hook in that piece of armor. \u00a0One thing is certain: we put a lot of work into this joke!<\/p>\n Now let’s move onto Wildfire:<\/p>\n Marwan gave us a couple of different options for how we wanted to proceed with our mech. \u00a0We wanted it to feel powerful and sturdy, but we also wanted it to be agile. \u00a0The mechs in this world are typically piloted directly (there are some exceptions), so Kaos needed to be able to feel like he could move around a bit, and perform all the necessary actions he could.<\/p>\n We opted for the more slender of the two models. \u00a0Here, you can see a bit more details of the Wildfire mech. \u00a0True to its name, it has an arm-mounted, industrial strength flamethrower. \u00a0It’ll scorch the faces off of any alien menace, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n Now, here we decided to go with the coat of red paint. \u00a0It seemed a little more pertinent here, and we didn’t\u00a0need<\/em> to make our mech and our pilot look so similar that they used the same palette.<\/p>\n![\"Kaos-Kreegan_sketch01\"](\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Kaos-Kreegan_sketch01.jpg\")
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