The Black Hole's Maximilian

gauss

some of you might remember a mostly silly Disney movie called The Black Hole, which was kind of a shameless cash-in on Star Wars mania. It's fairly rubbish, but there's a very strange and completely inappropriate for a PG movie end sequence, that features the rust red robot Maximilian prominently.

He's always been a great looking robot if you ask me, so I didn't so much redesign him as I did reinterpret the design based more on my memory or impression of the design, rather than the actual design, which looks a bit stubby these days.

Anyhow, been a while since I've posted work in my own topic and so I decided that I might as well with this one, since it's neither a sketch nor a concept tag. Enjoy!

low odor

Cool stuff..that movie game me nightmares as a kid...I thought the designs in the movie were pretty unique. First movie I can remember that didn't have humanoid bots...I think that was what made maximillion so intimidating- that he had no identifialbe human features

SHEPEIRO

i remember this guy, nice re-design.

what about this little fella

fritz

oh dude....that's awesome gauss. hell yeah shepeiro....and there was another "older" robot like that that had a texas accent. ahahahaha.

ebagg

I thought that movie was damn cool as a kid. That's a damn cool reimagined version! I do think you giving him the spindly, long and slender limbs does take away from the intimidation factor a bit.

ScoobyDoofus

Whoah! Thats awesome!

My older brother got to go see that before it was released with the director & cast. My Grandfather worked on the animatronics for Disney (both in features, and at the theme parks). Heck, he may have done the animatronics for Max!

Darksun

Max is one of the coolest robots on film! Score.

snemmy

/me runs up and pushes Max over and laughs

while it looks cool in 2d, unless he can crab walk i have to question the practical functionality of such long spindly, though well drawn, legs.

i'd like to see you take a second shot at him and let the gauss juices flow out all over your tablet.

SHEPEIRO

i think he hovers/floats

long time no see though

snemmy

ah.. that makes some sense...

ihave probably seen the movie at one point or another in my youth but damn if i remember a lick of it.

NuclearTes

Cool, I vagely remember seeing that movie as a kid. I wasn't too impressed by it and can't really remember what it was about. But I never forgot that robot using it's rotating claws to kill someone, who tried to protect himself by holding a book in front of him. I even remembered that the robot's name was Maximilian. I don't think I had the appropriate age to watch that movie. I'm not even sure if I could read the subtitles. Anyway, I like your interpretation Gauss.

SHEPEIRO

maximillion the robot was the best thing about the movie.

not a patch on HAL even if he wasnt a robot

BRUTICUS(CW)

wasn't maximillian a master sharpshooter? And when he was at target practice he would spin his pistol like a western gunslinger....

that little bot, victor or whatever was cool too.. actually both of the characters were created as Quake2 player models and probably downloadable on this site still.

DeathByChris

thats awesome, one robot design that i always felt was very underated is Robocop 2 just looking at it makes me drool.

Zergxes

Yeah, that movie had a bizzare ending. I thought it was cool. I bet it predated the pg-13, which I thought was made directly in response to Temple of Doom. Maybe my geek history is off.