Star Wars - The Bad Batch Redesigned/Reimagined - Concept art
The Bad Batch but with a more standardized Commando Clones set appearance!
Despite liking the strong theming on individualism in both the Clone Wars and its spin-off: the Bad Batch... design-wise I feel like the "clone" aspect was a bit of lost.
Throughout Star Wars, the clones got so many variants and alternatives of the iconic white armor we all know... and for a person who like the united look, uniforms and same-armor-army, horde/army of clones tropes, it's a bit too much with the variants of the clone armor in SW.
With the Bad Batch, they seemingly have the same base armor, but many bits and pieces differ... especially the helmets, they all have a different helmet in the show.
Especially hated Tech's design, his hair (on man his hair -_-), his armor was brighter/lighter, no thigh armor, big googles - that I believe gets in a way to wear normal clone/commando helmet and had to wear a bigger, more opened helmet, ...similarly Echo ear-piece, makes the helmet to practically works like a mask rather than a helmet (?) or Crosshair's random height, hair and mass/muscle difference
... and that all is a bit too much for my taste.
-So I wanted to simplify things with this art, tried to unify them back, to look more same-y, to be clones... limiting each members' own personalities being expressed only via their custom decals and gadgets/tools, I kept their default Bad Batch colors however, didn't want to remove CF99's identity entirely.
Also tried to draw these clone faces to resemble Temuera Morrison, the original actor of Jango Fett, the template for the Clone Army.
-Midway creating this, I realized some people might simply see this as "Bad Batch X Republic Commando" mashup/crossover ;) .....which is fair enough, they indeed share similar tropes.
The default example of this concept,
added only a knife to fit Hunter's personality/nickname.
Got his hair more wavy to resemble Temuera Morrison a bit more.
The sole reason for me to create this idea, I really dislike the original Tech design (stands out too much for my taste)... I replaced Tech's glasses with a gadget on he Commando helmet
Contrary to this whole concept, I embraced Wrecker's unique bulky physique... also created a Z-6 rotary blaster cannons modified to be operatable with a single arm/hand... so Wrecker can wield two at once ;)
To emphasize the ''Clone'' feature, I made him the same height as others, not skinnier nor having grey hair for no reason like in the original series. Gave him the standardized DC-17m that most Commandos, just with sniper configuration.
Originally I wanted to give him a prosthetic hand with a hidden retractable hacking tool, but find it hard to design with realism in mind, so that idea was scrapped. Gave him decals reminiscing of previous his ARC trooper affiliation.
The group next to each other
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