Animated Crumplezone Character Model

Sabrblade wrote:

godzillabot wrote:You’re forgetting Sandstorm Sabrblade! And to quote myself :

“As of yet nobody has commented on the botcon exclusive Sandstorm in the corner, in case you don’t see him he’s right on the panel with the close-up of Cheetor, right near the furthest to the right of his three horns”

How can you tell who that is? He looks too weird to be Sandstorm.

He bears about as much resemblance to G1 Drilldasher as he does to Convention Sandtorm so I would definitely have to vote that one 'Inconclusive'.

You can tell this guy wasn't designed by Derrick Wyatt.

Sabrblade wrote:Correction:

Page 1

• Motormaster (head, advertisement)
• Huffer
• Pipes
• TransTech Cheetor
• "Dark Crumplezone"
• "Ransack"
• A red Tracks ("Road Rage?")
• Glyph
• A red Hot Shot ("Excellion?")
• Rosanna
• Zaur
• Ramhorn
• Red Project Omega Autobot Worker
• Blue Project Omega Autobot Worker
• Stampy
• A red Red Alert (???)
• An unidentifiable fallen white bot
• A yellow Brawn (???)
• A blue Arcee (Chromia?)
• Tap-Out
• A blue Powerglide w/ a red head (???)
• Volks
• Dug Base
• An Autotrooper
• Chase

Page 2

• Some blue and red guy with wheels on his shoulders and a face like Wasp's.
• "Jackpot"
• Hubcap
• TransTech Depth Charge

I was waiting for you to show up and set the record straight Sabr.

UltraPrimal wrote:You can tell this guy wasn't designed by Derrick Wyatt.

Actually. He was...

Pete@BotCon wrote:

UltraPrimal wrote:You can tell this guy wasn't designed by Derrick Wyatt.

Actually. He was...

It seems to be a little sloppy, I guess, for one of Derrick's designs. It's not bad (though using the less-common Dark Crumplezone scheme was an odd choice), but the lines aren't as clean or nice as most of Derek's other designs have been.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!?!?!?!?

At the end of the Cybertron series, they musta hit their heads hard when they landed on Mars!

Well according to artist, DJW drew the lines, but the artist inked and colured the sketch. http://msipher.deviantart.com/gallery/4216835#/d3bbuk5

Jaynz wrote:It seems to be a little sloppy

Aren't they all? I assumed the reason Animated uses this 'style' was so little kids with no artistic talent at all could almost accurately draw their favorite characters. I can't think of any other reason why choose such a poor scrappy graphical aesthetic unless the animators themselves lack the skill to do any better too.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Jaynz wrote:It seems to be a little sloppy

Aren't they all? I assumed the reason Animated uses this 'style' was so little kids with no artistic talent at all could almost accurately draw their favorite characters. I can't think of any other reason why choose such a poor scrappy graphical aesthetic unless the animators themselves lack the skill to do any better too.

Yeah, that's totally the reason.

cannonfodder4000 wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Jaynz wrote:It seems to be a little sloppy

Aren't they all? I assumed the reason Animated uses this 'style' was so little kids with no artistic talent at all could almost accurately draw their favorite characters. I can't think of any other reason why choose such a poor scrappy graphical aesthetic unless the animators themselves lack the skill to do any better too.

Yeah, that's totally the reason.

Haters gonna Hate...

Pete@BotCon wrote:

cannonfodder4000 wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Jaynz wrote:It seems to be a little sloppy

Aren't they all? I assumed the reason Animated uses this 'style' was so little kids with no artistic talent at all could almost accurately draw their favorite characters. I can't think of any other reason why choose such a poor scrappy graphical aesthetic unless the animators themselves lack the skill to do any better too.

Yeah, that's totally the reason.

Haters gonna Hate...

I asked in the Twitter feed but I don't think anyone noticed...

Why did Crumplezone get his redeco colors and Ransack did not?

Counterpunch wrote:
I asked in the Twitter feed but I don't think anyone noticed...

Why did Crumplezone get his redeco colors and Ransack did not?

Not sure. Artist preference I guess... Since it is Animated, you can pick and choose what you homage.

Wow, he's cool looking. Would like to see him in the Botcon comic.

Artist Greg Sepelak has updated his deviantART account with the character model for Animated Crumplezone's partner in crime Animated Ransack. The original sketch by Derrick J. Wyatt with inks and colors by Greg Sepelak can be viewed here.

If you want to get a closer look at the Transformers Collectors' Club's two page Botcon preview comic, "Moving Violations", featuring Animated TransTech Cheetor you're in luck. FunPubComics has updated their deviantART account with larger unlettered versions of both pages. The first page has been mirrored below, to see page two visit their deviantART account.

Well Ransack and Crumplezone are cool, but obviously the various cameos are what make this comic. I particulary liked the red and orange Cybertronesc Hot Shot, and Huffer being probably my top 3 Animated designs.

This comic brings me a lighter spirit, but also great sorrow. Somehow the new Animated Cheetor is more appealing to me and I might consider buying him. However now I am saddened that they are rubbing Hot Shot in my face and we will probably never get a figure

I'm a 90's kid so Armada came first before I saw the 86 movie. Hot Shot might be my favorite Transformer, in front of Prime, then Shockwave, then Hot Rod. Sorry guys, Hot Shot just stuck out when I was 7.

Pete@BotCon wrote:

cannonfodder4000 wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Jaynz wrote:It seems to be a little sloppy

Aren't they all? I assumed the reason Animated uses this 'style' was so little kids with no artistic talent at all could almost accurately draw their favorite characters. I can't think of any other reason why choose such a poor scrappy graphical aesthetic unless the animators themselves lack the skill to do any better too.

Yeah, that's totally the reason.

Haters gonna Hate...

Didn't notice the italics on totally didja Pete?