Okay... so I was asked to do Beast Wars Megatron AS a rubber ducky for my
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and I loved the idea... it breaks the alt mode theming, but I couldn't resist.
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I'm doing a thing, that involves drawing a lot of Optimus Prime heads. So I have all these Optimus portraits. So here's a game. Can you ID them all? I've numbered them for easy reference. They're in black and white, so you just have to guess the mould.
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ANATOMY OF OPTIMUS PRIME HEADS -- I've drawn so many Optimus Prime heads lately I can give you the absolute, definitive breakdown of HOW a Prime head ALWAYS works, without exceptions.
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He's a design for my
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it's PADDLES! Paddles is a Dinobot who appeared in an obscure piece of fiction. The attempt here was to make a pretty reasonable G1 Dinobot design -- while also incorporating a play feature that could be used in a pool.
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Okay let's CELEBRATE 3000 followers! Introducing... 4 MILLION YEARS my little webcomic filling in the 4 million year gap in the original G1 cartoon!! This is the first strip, Read the whole thread to see a panel-by-panel version of the strip! 1/4
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Okay... this is it! I hit 2000 followers and so to celebrate... here's the designs I've been working on. LITERALLY EVERY OPTIMUS PRIME VARIANT EVER... or at least as far as I've gotten so far. This post is just part 1/5
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Here's a concept for a ride-on Optimus Prime. Inspired by Dollface (on discord) who wanted Titan classes of normal poplar characters instead of cityformers. I took the idea to a completely different place, but wouldn't have even started without their input!
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These are the sorts of shots that show that miscolourings aren't always ANIMATION ERRORS. This is deliberately using colour variance to create a huge crowd of Decepticons These aren't ERRORS they're deliberately beefing up the ranks.
Redeco concept for Netflix Soundwave. The idea, obviously, is Marvel Comics Soundwave. But part of the goal is also to get a Buzzsaw out there. Ravage, Ratbat and Frenzy are THE Marvel tapes, so they had to be there too.
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Combaticons PART ONE (Part two will come when I've drawn it) The idea here is a military-themed Wrestling stable. Swindle isn't here yet, because he's the sleazy manager.
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The second suggestion that captured my heart was Emirate Xaaron. A character I love. that wily old buzzard. Xaaron never transforms -- so I had to invent an alt mode for him. Okay... there's a theme here of non-transforming old Marvel characters...
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Pretender Thunderwing. This is part of the same series concept for "A Toyline entirely of Decepticon Leaders" as Machine Wars Starscream, The Fallen and others I've posted lately. (1 of 2)
It's day 20. Last time we had Crosswise from Transformers: Cybertron, but as a monster hunter... but there were also MONSTER DECEPTICONS in Cybertron. So what about THUNDERBLAST as a VAMPIRE?!
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I felt the urge to redeco my Halloween Optimus Prime into a more normal Prime deco. Mostly because I wanted to see the masks mounted onto normal Prime. This is, I guess, day 7 a.
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I'm calling a Transformer with a vehicle mode, and an animal robot mode a "Sky Lynx". So Here's reimagining Beast Wars Injector as a Sky Lynx.
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My Clench design was part of a set of designs -- imagining a toyline made up entirely of Decepticon leaders. So here's another design from that set. MACHINE WARS Starscream
Okay, so Blaster has a huge family, one of them is his brother Toaster! Since I've already posted my LOONA tape designs you can see how I reused it for toaster's toast.
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Pretender Bludgeon. This is part of the "Decepticon Leaders" toyline concept I've been posting images from. I love the idea of bringing back Pretenders, and Bludgeon would be one of the most obvious to go for.
Yet another toy design for my "Decepticon Leaders" toyline concept. This is Skystalker -- but instead of a full-on shuttle he's a deluxe (or voyager?) sized toy with his own personal shuttlebot.
Here's a Diaclone take on Bulkhead -- based on Wheeljack, for the more Bulkheadish proportions. (The Holden HZ Van Alt mode's very non-Takara, I know) I suppose at this point I just have to admit I need a Bulkhead hashtag.
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If I wanted to make Bulkhead in a G1 style the first step I'd do is pick the G1 style I want to do him in. For example, here's Targetmaster Bulkhead.
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So here's a thought -- Bumblebee was never in Beast Wars (Bees are a Predacon alt mode!) or Beast Machines... what about Bumblebees from that era? Who capture tapes!!
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Okay... so I did my Targetmaster Bulkhead... and I decided (Based on some inspiration in that thread) to try a Headmaster Bulkhead. He's a faction swapper in the style of Powermaster Double Dealer.
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I REALLY wanted to do Torca for my
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Torca is an awesome fuzor from Beast Wars, and... trying to work out how to make him a water toy was how I came to Power Core Combiners as the solution.
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I've posted this before, but I'm posting it again to go with my
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the idea is a version of Soundwave that can fit inside Soundwave. It's my Russian Nesting Doll obsession again.
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Oh look it's Pat Lee's "How to draw Optimus Prime". It's so excessive -- with step 3 and 4 being basically self parody -- but somehow I wish he'd included "Step Five: Pay your artists."
Something RADICALLY different for Halloween day 18. Based
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's idea. We tried to deduce where all the parts of Autobot X come from... and coloured them accordingly! Breakdown guide + original colours included for ref.
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Okay... so we know Skyquake merges with Needlenose, right? Doesn't that mean there's a LOT of jet-mode-combiner redeco potential there? So I put together some speculative Skyquake/Needlenose two packs!
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IF we're talking Halloween, we're talking slasher killers -- horrifying monsters. And one of the biggest is OVERLORD! Here's a halloween version of him for day 10... with all spikes and stuff.
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Here's some redeco concepts for Earthrise Doubledealer. I think his mould would need to be a little tightened up to make sure his tape interactivity worked properly -- but emphasising his tape use in repacks/retools would be super fun, don't you think?
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This is the Decepticon counterpart to Paddles, using the same gimmick. G1 Scourge's alt mode was always ambiguous, so I just made him a straight up hovercraft.
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So, there are some traditional tape interactive toys, there's Soundwave, Blaster, Doubledealer, Scorch, Bumblebee and of course Hound.
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Remember how I did that project where I tried to draw every single Optimus Prime variant EVER as a retool of EArthrise Optimus PRime? Well... I'm going through and making individual files out of it -- with reference for the variants
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So I made a template, so you, yes YOU, can design your own Transformers toyline! Just use your favourite image editting software or ap, or whatever, and dump pictures of your favourite toys in the boxes! Then tweet them at me until I can't stand it any more!
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Well, I missed when I passed 1000 followers (thanks you guys!) so I'm doing something for 2000 (maybe,at the rate things are going I'm not sure it'll be ready). But here's a sample.
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One of my all-time favourite Transformers things was Power Core Combiners. So why not some Power Core Combiners for our
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? The idea here is that the little boats are what makes the whole toy float.
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Well it's day 19. I posted my design for a modular creature building system... but what about that system in action? Here's CROSSWISE! The Autobot Bounty Hunter, monster hunter guy! With a Decepticon Werewolf for him to hunt! 1/2
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Okay. Let's break down the scene from MTMTE that gave us the famous generic DEcepticon known as Sunstorm. This is the most famous shot from the scene... but let's go right to the start. 1/5
Right bro, here's the bread and butter. A GIANT playset of COUNTDOWN as the REFEREE for our Wrestling Micromaster relaunch. C'mon mate, you know you love it.
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(Or maybe you don't. It's up to you.)
Okay... what would a titan class toy look like if it was tape-based? Well here's my attempt at that -- a Deathsaurus. The thing I like best are the Eagle breast and Lion Breast tapes.
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So what other aesthetics from G1 could I tap for Bulkhead? What about the Toybox (actually Tomy engineering) aesthetic from Omega Supreme? I think that'd suit Bulkhead.
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