Here’s the weekly reminder for people in the USA and Canada, as well as all you torrent people, that the next episode of Transformers: Animated airs today.

For the USA, Cartoon Network airs the episode at 10:30am EST, whilst in Canada, YTV is 30minutes later at 11am EST. The episode is titled “Survival of the Fittest” and is the 9th or 12th episode in the series depending on how you are counting.

Artist Sean Galloway, who was hired to work on some of the designs for Transformers: Animated, has posted some interesting concepts sketches that he did for the Dinobots, Slag, Swoop and Grimlock.

He discusses, briefly, how difficult robots are to draw and how he had to make them more organic than the classic designs.

My goal was to make them feel as if they had some Japanese aspects in them. For Sludge, I wasn’t sure if 4 arms would work on him, but I figured what the heck, ya know? For Swoop I wanted to make him more ninja-esque…. Grimlock more Samurai-esque, and finally Snarl as more of a bruiser or a grunt from the bunch.