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WB Animation Character Design, YOUNG JUSTICE: INVASION, Appellaxian Golem. Pencil, Digital Color.

In the Season Two episode entitled, "Salvage," the inert husks of the Appellaxians (The Gold Roc, The Wood King, The Stone God, and The Crystal Creature) on display in the Hall of Justice Trophy Room are suddenly animated by a sophisticated technology. A frequency emitted from a device operated by Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim causes the four alien husks to awaken from dormancy, and they use their extraterrestrial energy to join together, reshaping themselves into one gigantic and dangerous Golem.

Just as the individual Appellaxians presented an unusual challenge for me, designing the Golem form was every bit as tricky. Working from a rough concept provided by Emmy-Lad Bourassa, I sought to have each elemental being play a key role in the composite creature. Designing a structure so that wood, stone, and crystal could function as aggressive weapons was easy enough. For locomotion, it was again obvious to use the Entish tree legs previously conceived. Binding all the components together must be a function of the wood as well. That left gold, a highly conductive and malleable metal, as the semi-fluid system of energy circulating within the total creature. It was Phil's clever idea, that we use the gold as a sort of lifeblood.

To fulfill the script's demand that the Golem fly, it was decided that grotesque wings of sufficiently enormous size be able to sprout from the back of the creature. I used the wood as a framework for the dragon-like wings, with gold spanning the frame as a thin, incredibly strong and aerodynamic membrane.

As character designers, we are frequently assigned to create some pretty weird and crazy stuff. But-- ours is not to whine and smirk, ours is but to make it work! Hahaha!

*The Appellaxian Golem is the copyrighted property of WB TV Animation.

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~RobotNinjaHero 6 hours ago
Awesome work.
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~drac2000 Mar 26, 2013
cool drawing
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~ShadowOchibi Jan 2, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I've always had a massive fascination with golems and elementals. Seeing the shells on display brought on a smile. When this powerhouse showed up, I almost couldn't contain the excitement. If only it'd been around a bit longer, communicating with Blue Beetle, it would've been quite a tear jerker - at least for me.

Lovely piece of work!
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Mood: Big Grin ~ACatOMG Dec 26, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
YOUNG JUSTICE<3333

This was a great episode. Sad, but great.

I love all the detail you put into this, it turned out really well!
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*Jerome-K-Moore Dec 26, 2012  Professional Filmographer
Thank you so much.

Yeah, the way the Appellaxian Golem was handled, it turned out to be quite sad.
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~Gojira012 Sep 22, 2012
For some reason it gives me memories of Ben 10
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~superuk Jul 14, 2012
the Appellaxian Golem looks like something from huntrix but still love the idea and the way the desing works
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*Jerome-K-Moore Jul 14, 2012  Professional Filmographer
I'm unfamiliar with 'Huntrix.'

Thanks.
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~superuk Jul 14, 2012
i ment huntik kind of got mixed up but your welcome anyway
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=rileylaurent May 25, 2012
Can I just say I thought the vein-y look of the branches was brilliant? I mean, they could've turned out really generic, but the wings were so friggin' cool.
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