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Derrick J. Wyatt, the Art Director and Lead Character Designer for the Transformers: Animated cartoon series, has posted a feature on the design choices made when creating the character Lockdown.
He describes how the original design was of a Frankenstein monster, made up of other Transformer parts. As the character was refined, he became less monsterous. Shown on his blog are the original and final sketches of Lockdown.
IDW Publishing have announced their planned Transformers comic releases for August 2008, with there being 6 different books.
Continuing the main Transformers continuity is The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #2, from Shane McCarthy and Guido Guidi, and Transformers Spotlight: Doubledealer, from Simon Furman and Dan Khanna.
To fill in some of the blanks in the Transformers: Animated cartoon series, IDW are producing some new material for the series. Transformers Animated: Arrival #1 is the first to add more depth to the cartoon and is written by the producer of the series Marty Isenberg with art by Dario Brizuela.
Continuing the Movie-verse stories are Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream #5, the official sequel story and Transformers Movie Prequel: Saga of the Allspark #2, the second set of reprints from Titan’s exclusive UK comic.
Finally, there is Transformers Best of the UK: Time Wars #1, a reprint of the classic story from Marvel UK.
After selling of serveral of their cartoons to Hasbro earlier this week, including Transformers G1, TV Loonland have now sold off Metrodome Group plc, the company who have released all 98 episodes, Transformers The Movie, Headmaster, Super-God Masterforce, Victory and Zone in the UK.
With this news, a new company is likely going to aquire the rights to these shows in the future, which means we can expect a whole new set of releases in the UK some time in the future.
Transformers 2 writer Robert Orci recent spoke with IGN, and has revealed some interesting character information for the sequel.
It seems that Soundwave will finally make the big screen, as will his minion Ravage. Oh, and he talks a bit about Star Trek as well.
Q: What’s the status of Transformers 2?
ORCI: That starts shooting in three weeks.
Q: What do you want to do that builds from the first one?
ORCI: We want to follow some of our lead characters which we thought were so successful. Shia’s character; where is he two years later? His girlfriend, where is she two years later? But for fans, I guess I’ll address this more for the fans, because I think if you didn’t know Transformers at all and you came in and you liked the first movie, you’ll like the second one. However, some of the die hard fans, which we were a member of that group, felt, well, maybe it’s a little light. Maybe it wasn’t science fictiony enough. And I think the second one will deliver on a true Transformers story. You know, the first one, we had a limited budget for what it was. Every second of Transformer time is a million dollars or whatever the heck it is, so this time, because we were able to prove through the whole thing that it’s a viable live-action movie, we have a little more freedom this time to actually learn about the Transformers, see them, hear them. It’s a better balance between the humans and the Transformers.
Q: Is there one particular Transformer, good or bad, that you absolutely had to get into the sequel?
ORCI: Yes.
Q: You’re not gonna tell us.
ORCI: I’ll tell you. We had to get Soundwave in there.
Q: Nice. Where Soundwave goes, will Ravage follow?
ORCI: Perhaps! Who’s Ravage? … I’m kidding! You know, we had Ravage in an early draft of the first movie and Soundwave, and we couldn’t do it right and I think this time hopefully we’ll have the ability to do it.
Chris Ryall has posted the complete set of covers by E.J. Su for The Transformers: Revelations. The 4 Spotlight series stats Cyclonus, Hardhead, Doubledealer and Sideswipe. The second set of covers will be drawn by Nick Roche.
Artist Alex Milne has posted a four page preview for Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream. The pages feature Starscream at the Hoover Dam.
If you want to see the art without the text boxes, clearer images have been posted over at DeviantArt.
Simon Furman has complete the script for Transformers Spotlight: Sideswipe, the fourth Spotlight issue in the Revelations Saga. As usual, he covers the major story points, but in this report, there are some real SPOILERS, so stay away until the issue comes out in September.
TV Loonland, the rights holder to many of Hasbro’s cartoons from the 1980s, has released a press statement informing that they have sold back all rights to Hasbro for $7 million.
In 2000, TV Loonland bought Sunbow Productions from Sony BMG, and with it, all rights for their cartoons, specifically all 98 G1 episodes, Transformers The Movie, 115 Headmaster, Masterforce and Victory episodes and 52 G2 episodes.
With this news, expect some new DVD releases in the future.
There are 2 Transformers comic releases this week, both from IDW Publishing. The first is Best of UK Space Pirates #3, the third of five issues reprint the Marvel UK story. The other, Devastation TPB, is a collection of the 6 issue Devastation series, and is essential reading for anyone who is getting into the Revelations Saga.
Transformers: Best of UK Space Pirates #3
Transformers: Devastation TPB
Today, Madman Entertainment have released the final episodes from Generation One in their Transformers Victory DVD boxset.
The 4 disc set contains all 32 episodes in the original Japanese audio with English subtitles. As a bonus, that wasn’t included on Metrodome’s set, is Transformers: Zone. Other extra features include an introductory booklet, toy galleries (by TF@TM), character art gallery, Japanese toy ads, scans from the Japanese toy catalogues and some DVD ROM Content – the story continued in Mang.
There is also a new cover from artist EJ Su, who works on IDW’s comic series.
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