The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1235 · Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:04 am

Jose Lopez who is a concept artist for Transformers Prime, shares some early concept drawings for Wheeljack and Starscream. He also shares a Bulkhead development head study which is one of the first drawings he did for Bulkhead. You can check out his Deviantart page for the drawings which have also been mirrored below.

News Credits: 6 · Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:12 am

AWESOME!
What I never got was, why did Wheeljack have all those car parts on him, but no scanned earth mode? I mean, the render was designed for a typical vehucle mode, obviously, and Bulkhead's all like, "Ive even got an earth mode for ya" and then he just leaves. It probably would have been easier for him to have had an earth mode in the one episode he was in. Plus, starscream looks beast. I Think they used that concept more for skyquake...

News Credits: 3 · Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:39 am

i wish starscream was like that instead of a ripp off of reed man...

News Credits: 187 · Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:45 am

Cool art. Too bad Starscream lost his bulk, I like him better when he is a little more formidable in appearance. PLEASE let us get a Wheeljack figure that is even close to his Prime design! It is so full of awesome!

Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:55 am

BeastProwl wrote:AWESOME!
What I never got was, why did Wheeljack have all those car parts on him, but no scanned earth mode? I mean, the render was designed for a typical vehucle mode, obviously, and Bulkhead's all like, "Ive even got an earth mode for ya" and then he just leaves.

Arachnid had helicopter parts before she scanned the helicopter. It's probably because they didn't want to make a cybertronian AND earth mode for the show because it would take too long.

News Credits: 23 · Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:49 am

Unf, dat Wheeljack!

News Credits: 1 · Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:38 pm

Concept Starscream's face look much better here. His final design was a little too decrepit and "old-looking" for my tastes. I guess the Orci/Kurtzman wanted him to be more sniveling and wretched rather than his traditional sinister, egotistical and treacherous self.

Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:32 am

Starscream looks way better like this. Looks like he would transform into a Harrier Jet or something.

Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:59 pm

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:Concept Starscream's face look much better here. His final design was a little too decrepit and "old-looking" for my tastes. I guess the Orci/Kurtzman wanted him to be more sniveling and wretched rather than his traditional sinister, egotistical and treacherous self.

I agree. He looks good in this, plus his 'eyebrows' don't look ridiculous.