Kumite

Gen-Son Kumite

A wildly popular hoverbike on Arc Prime, the Kumite can be seen literally... littering the wastelands due to the sheer number of logic defying "mishaps" that have befallen their riders. The bike is also extremely popular with the tribal waste-lander gang, the Pariahs, due to the ease of acquiring parts, let alone the bikes themselves. The idiots that buy (or steal) a Kumite generally have a life span, of about a year at best after signing the payments contract. The Kumite's popularity and longevity has been largely due to the ease of modification which has led to some outright idiotically suicidal iterations of the bike... well you know where this is going. Gen-Son's team of lawyers must be a force of nature to have kept the veritable tsunami of lawsuits from sinking their company, let alone keeping this floating idiot magnet death machine in production. Notoriously prone to exploding or, at the least, catching the rider's ass on fire. Only the boldest, most fearless, or... stupidest need apply.

Full Zbrush 3D build rotoscoped (digital ink and color in Photoshop CS3) for 2D cell shaded illustration here.

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