Transformers: Age of Extinction Package Art Design by Gregory Titus
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This project was an absolute monster. Pilot was brought in about 18 months before the movie came out. Though well into the design phase of all the Transformers characters, none were completed. We were working with concepts, designs, information, and deadlines that were constantly changing. It was an amazing challenge that we all rose to in typical Pilot fashion. We were brought in for everything, a total overhaul and rebrand of a toy line plagued with different packaging styles for a decade. We were tasked with uniting them under a single, new, and simplified Transformers banner and provide all designs and illustrations to go with it.
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Posted by william-james88 on December 27th, 2014 @ 11:43am CST
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Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on December 27th, 2014 @ 4:39pm CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:I wonder what was up with them doing a G1 style Prime. If time was an issue wouldn't that be considered a waste.
That was done for the Evolution 2-pack.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on December 27th, 2014 @ 4:46pm CST
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:I wonder what was up with them doing a G1 style Prime. If time was an issue wouldn't that be considered a waste.
That was done for the Evolution 2-pack.
Ahhh. Perfect sense. Onto another topic, anybody else think the last wave of Power Battlers featuring Junkheap, the Vehicon, and High-Octane Bumblebee will be canceled?
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Posted by shajaki on December 28th, 2014 @ 12:43pm CST
you think this is bad art because of the pose theyre in? you konw that hasbro likely says "do it like this" right? you can do it better, then lets see.monstrinhotron wrote:yuck. Everyone looks like they have one leg! The silhouette is the most important part of any character art and it's horrible in almost all of these images. Secondly the light source is flat and diffuse meaning it's even harder to make out what the hell is going on with the one giant leg pose. Thirdly the pose is so twisted and EXTREME!! it's just a mess. Usually i give character artists credit because even bad character art is a hard skill to master but i honestly and genuinely could do this much better. simply horrible.
Posted by Cobotron on December 28th, 2014 @ 12:52pm CST
monstrinhotron wrote:yuck. Everyone looks like they have one leg! The silhouette is the most important part of any character art and it's horrible in almost all of these images. Secondly the light source is flat and diffuse meaning it's even harder to make out what the hell is going on with the one giant leg pose. Thirdly the pose is so twisted and EXTREME!! it's just a mess. Usually i give character artists credit because even bad character art is a hard skill to master but i honestly and genuinely could do this much better. simply horrible.
I don't even like the AOE character design, and I think this art looks GREAT. Those poses are really dynamic. Maybe the one legged pose leaves space on the card so the blister doesn't cover all the art.
If you are going to make this statement, lets have proof. Show us your PUDDING.
Posted by f-primus-unicron on December 28th, 2014 @ 5:45pm CST
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Posted by chuckdawg1999 on December 29th, 2014 @ 2:37am CST
DeadCaL wrote:"A toy line plagued with different packaging styles for a decade"... And there I was thinking the constant transformation of the brand was one of the reasons for it's ongoing success
To some extent yes. It's possible that changing packaging designs too much could make the product difficult for the consumer to spot easily on a shelf
Posted by BERSEKAEL on December 29th, 2014 @ 5:24am CST
Cobotron wrote:monstrinhotron wrote:yuck. Everyone looks like they have one leg! The silhouette is the most important part of any character art and it's horrible in almost all of these images. Secondly the light source is flat and diffuse meaning it's even harder to make out what the hell is going on with the one giant leg pose. Thirdly the pose is so twisted and EXTREME!! it's just a mess. Usually i give character artists credit because even bad character art is a hard skill to master but i honestly and genuinely could do this much better. simply horrible.
I don't even like the AOE character design, and I think this art looks GREAT. Those poses are really dynamic. Maybe the one legged pose leaves space on the card so the blister doesn't cover all the art.
If you are going to make this statement, lets have proof. Show us your PUDDING.
I feel hasbro didn't want to spend much time/money/effort on AoE, just look at the toys
Posted by monstrinhotron on December 29th, 2014 @ 8:08am CST
Cobotron wrote:monstrinhotron wrote:yuck. Everyone looks like they have one leg! The silhouette is the most important part of any character art and it's horrible in almost all of these images. Secondly the light source is flat and diffuse meaning it's even harder to make out what the hell is going on with the one giant leg pose. Thirdly the pose is so twisted and EXTREME!! it's just a mess. Usually i give character artists credit because even bad character art is a hard skill to master but i honestly and genuinely could do this much better. simply horrible.
I don't even like the AOE character design, and I think this art looks GREAT. Those poses are really dynamic. Maybe the one legged pose leaves space on the card so the blister doesn't cover all the art.
If you are going to make this statement, lets have proof. Show us your PUDDING.
Sure. Like i said. I don't get the opportunity to do character art that often so i actually have great respect for the skill. You can check out my (mostly non character art) over at nogunarmy.com
I also understand that clients can slowly turn the best work into dogshit with idiotic feedback until you just don't care anymore. I've had that happen to me. I wonder if that's what happened here. Some of the poses aren't that bad, but the running poses are just awful.
Posted by william-james88 on December 29th, 2014 @ 9:19am CST
BERSEKAEL wrote:
I feel hasbro didn't want to spend much time/money/effort on AoE, just look at the toys
To be honest, of all the movie lines, I feel this is the best one. The robots looked more like robots than aliens for once and there was attention to detail in giving two extremities of design, either vehicle integration or not. Sure, the leaders from ROTF and DOTM were better but as a whole, the toys showing onscreen characters were far superior than the previous lines to me, and more fun to collect.
Posted by tfcrafter on December 29th, 2014 @ 11:26am CST
monstrinhotron wrote:Cobotron wrote:monstrinhotron wrote:yuck. Everyone looks like they have one leg! The silhouette is the most important part of any character art and it's horrible in almost all of these images. Secondly the light source is flat and diffuse meaning it's even harder to make out what the hell is going on with the one giant leg pose. Thirdly the pose is so twisted and EXTREME!! it's just a mess. Usually i give character artists credit because even bad character art is a hard skill to master but i honestly and genuinely could do this much better. simply horrible.
I don't even like the AOE character design, and I think this art looks GREAT. Those poses are really dynamic. Maybe the one legged pose leaves space on the card so the blister doesn't cover all the art.
If you are going to make this statement, lets have proof. Show us your PUDDING.
Sure. Like i said. I don't get the opportunity to do character art that often so i actually have great respect for the skill. You can check out my (mostly non character art) over at nogunarmy.com
I also understand that clients can slowly turn the best work into dogshit with idiotic feedback until you just don't care anymore. I've had that happen to me. I wonder if that's what happened here. Some of the poses aren't that bad, but the running poses are just awful.
In other words, "yeah, this character art sucks and I can do better character art, so to prove it to you, go to my website where I post all art except for non-character art." Nice way to back up your argument.
Posted by Cobotron on December 29th, 2014 @ 12:31pm CST
monstrinhotron wrote:Cobotron wrote:monstrinhotron wrote:yuck. Everyone looks like they have one leg! The silhouette is the most important part of any character art and it's horrible in almost all of these images. Secondly the light source is flat and diffuse meaning it's even harder to make out what the hell is going on with the one giant leg pose. Thirdly the pose is so twisted and EXTREME!! it's just a mess. Usually i give character artists credit because even bad character art is a hard skill to master but i honestly and genuinely could do this much better. simply horrible.
I don't even like the AOE character design, and I think this art looks GREAT. Those poses are really dynamic. Maybe the one legged pose leaves space on the card so the blister doesn't cover all the art.
If you are going to make this statement, lets have proof. Show us your PUDDING.
Sure. Like i said. I don't get the opportunity to do character art that often so i actually have great respect for the skill. You can check out my (mostly non character art) over at nogunarmy.com
I also understand that clients can slowly turn the best work into dogshit with idiotic feedback until you just don't care anymore. I've had that happen to me. I wonder if that's what happened here. Some of the poses aren't that bad, but the running poses are just awful.
Hey. I checked out nogunarmy.com. That's some TASTY pudding! Nice stuff. Thanks.
Posted by crimsondeception on December 29th, 2014 @ 2:30pm CST
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on December 29th, 2014 @ 2:45pm CST
crimsondeception wrote:I saw the artwork and then I looked at my toys. I never realized Drift had a goatee and Crosshairs had a mustache... Why the need for facial hair on alien robots? Eh well I mean Wreck-Gar had that mustache going on back then but still. Enough is enough.
Hound has a beard too. It's all to make them more human and identifiable. Earlier movies had that too, look at Revenge of the Fallen Jetfire and Dark of the Moon Sentinel Prime.
Besides, why should such features be exclusive to humans?
Posted by shajaki on December 29th, 2014 @ 5:39pm CST
yeah. you ever played an MMORPG, or something like that with customizable characters? imagine you could customize your own face. wouldnt you? and TF's must be able to easily. why would everyone want to look alike?JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Hound has a beard too. It's all to make them more human and identifiable. Earlier movies had that too, look at Revenge of the Fallen Jetfire and Dark of the Moon Sentinel Prime.crimsondeception wrote:I saw the artwork and then I looked at my toys. I never realized Drift had a goatee and Crosshairs had a mustache... Why the need for facial hair on alien robots? Eh well I mean Wreck-Gar had that mustache going on back then but still. Enough is enough.
Besides, why should such features be exclusive to humans?
Posted by patrick.timothy on December 29th, 2014 @ 6:26pm CST
Autobot032 wrote:Courtesy of the Transformers Dioramas Facebook page, we were able to mirror their newly unveiled official images of the upcoming Age of Extinction Dino Sparkers assortment.
These figures, are basically jousting toys in which the toys smash into each other, knocking the rider figures off. The dinos fire sparks out as they go, adding some visual flare to the gimmicks.
In the images, we see both the Drift with Slug and Optimus Prime with Grimlock sets. These will see release on May 17th, along with the rest of the Age Of Extinction toy lines.
Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!
They look lousy
Posted by Sabrblade on December 29th, 2014 @ 6:29pm CST
Nine-month-old news warrants such attention?patrick.timothy wrote:They look lousy
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 29th, 2014 @ 6:53pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Nine-month-old news warrants such attention?patrick.timothy wrote:They look lousy
B... But...
Posted by william-james88 on December 29th, 2014 @ 7:57pm CST
crimsondeception wrote:I saw the artwork and then I looked at my toys. I never realized Drift had a goatee and Crosshairs had a mustache... Why the need for facial hair on alien robots? Eh well I mean Wreck-Gar had that mustache going on back then but still. Enough is enough.
Wreck-Gar? Did you just look past Alpha Trion? He even has evolving facial hair:
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 29th, 2014 @ 8:14pm CST
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Posted by Cobotron on December 29th, 2014 @ 9:25pm CST
Don't forget old Thundertron.
Posted by william-james88 on December 29th, 2014 @ 9:46pm CST
Posted by Autobot032 on December 29th, 2014 @ 10:53pm CST
william-james88 wrote:I feel we just had this conversation about beards. Whenever someone thinks of bringing it up, just know that facial hair has always been around and there is nothing odd about it. When dealing with transforming robots that were created by aliens and that can become shrinking guns, microscopes and rockets surrounded by a railroad track, trying to reason robot beards seems to be the least of our worries.
Bingo. *fistbump*
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 30th, 2014 @ 4:25am CST
william-james88 wrote:I feel we just had this conversation about beards. Whenever someone thinks of bringing it up, just know that facial hair has always been around and there is nothing odd about it. When dealing with transforming robots that were created by aliens and that can become shrinking guns, microscopes and rockets surrounded by a railroad track, trying to reason robot beards seems to be the least of our worries.
What about SCALE? Huh?! Huh?! Scale in TF never make sense! Explain, EXPLAIN!
Posted by robotmel on December 30th, 2014 @ 7:07am CST
-Kanrabat- wrote:
What about SCALE? Huh?! Huh?! Scale in TF never make sense! Explain, EXPLAIN!
Whats this fancy 'Masterpiece' scale everyone is talking about? Is it like cars but in Voyager scale?
Posted by william-james88 on December 30th, 2014 @ 7:44am CST
robotmel wrote:
Whats this fancy 'Masterpiece' scale everyone is talking about? Is it like cars but in Voyager scale?
yes, thats exactly what the masterpiece scale is.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 30th, 2014 @ 4:18pm CST
william-james88 wrote:robotmel wrote:
Whats this fancy 'Masterpiece' scale everyone is talking about? Is it like cars but in Voyager scale?
yes, thats exactly what the masterpiece scale is.
Post MP-10, mind you. Before, the scale was all over the place.
Posted by shajaki on January 2nd, 2015 @ 7:33pm CST
platinum AOE dinobots unleashed 5-pack!
i remember there being speculation as to if this would should show up in TRU stores or not, well heres the answer
Posted by william-james88 on January 2nd, 2015 @ 7:43pm CST
While the decos seem to be more aligned with the movie accurate deco, they also feature heavy use of translucent plastic. In hand images of these decos can be found here, and thorough galleries of the individual molds can be found here.
Posted by TimothyR on January 3rd, 2015 @ 12:50am CST
had they all been done like strafe's wings with a couple strategically placed chrome bits and a couple small color accents, these would've been amazing.
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Posted by william-james88 on January 3rd, 2015 @ 8:55am CST
Black Bumblebee wrote:$10 cheaper online at BBTS
No, bbts is in American dollars, this is canadian.
Posted by robotmel on January 3rd, 2015 @ 9:43am CST
Am I getting confused in my old age or was there some sort of an announcement that one of the AoE toys was going to be a metallic painted Op using the Voyager Battle Blades Optimus Prime mould?
Posted by triKlops on January 3rd, 2015 @ 9:48am CST
Looks good in box, at least it was chromed and not painted as I had worried previously.
At least now this set is done with and can be assembled together in front of the Ark for some nice flicks.
Posted by Sabrblade on January 3rd, 2015 @ 10:01am CST
This? - http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retailrobotmel wrote::???:
Am I getting confused in my old age or was there some sort of an announcement that one of the AoE toys was going to be a metallic painted Op using the Voyager Battle Blades Optimus Prime mould?
Posted by grimdragon2001 on January 3rd, 2015 @ 10:19am CST
Posted by robotmel on January 3rd, 2015 @ 10:25am CST
Sabrblade wrote:This? - http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retailrobotmel wrote::???:
Am I getting confused in my old age or was there some sort of an announcement that one of the AoE toys was going to be a metallic painted Op using the Voyager Battle Blades Optimus Prime mould?
Thatll be the one then!
I thought it had been and gone or got cancelled? Its a great mould and a shiny deco which I wouldnt mind owning?
Posted by shajaki on January 3rd, 2015 @ 11:18am CST
well gahd dayum! its been long enough! i had begun to wonder whether it was still coming out or not. considering he was part of the thrilling thirty, and we're now officially in the thrilling thirty-oneVa'al wrote:We received a notification just the other day from staff and podcast member ScottyP, regarding the Amazon.com exclusive Age of Extinction Voyager Slog - the G1esque redeco of the general retail figure - and now, thanks to another Seibertron.com member Flashwave, we have an image of it shipped and in hand! Check it out below.
Posted by Super Megatron on January 3rd, 2015 @ 7:50pm CST
shajaki wrote:well gahd dayum! its been long enough! i had begun to wonder whether it was still coming out or not. considering he was part of the thrilling thirty, and we're now officially in the thrilling thirty-oneVa'al wrote:We received a notification just the other day from staff and podcast member ScottyP, regarding the Amazon.com exclusive Age of Extinction Voyager Slog - the G1esque redeco of the general retail figure - and now, thanks to another Seibertron.com member Flashwave, we have an image of it shipped and in hand! Check it out below.
Actually, the G1 Dinobots came out in 1985, so it really is the Thrilling Thirty for this fig.
Posted by shajaki on January 3rd, 2015 @ 7:57pm CST
im sure thats what they were thinkingSuper Megatron wrote:Actually, the G1 Dinobots came out in 1985, so it really is the Thrilling Thirty for this fig.shajaki wrote:well gahd dayum! its been long enough! i had begun to wonder whether it was still coming out or not. considering he was part of the thrilling thirty, and we're now officially in the thrilling thirty-one