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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:11 am

Transformers DOTM concept artist, Josh Nizzi, has updated his website with concept art of Megatron in Africa. According to his website more TF3 concept art will be posted this weekend.

by **CrimsonPrime** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:17 am

One word...AWESOMESAUCE !!! Damn he looks frickin epic

. Cant wait to see him in the movie tomorrow xP. I've been avoiding Seibertron for a few days now to not be spoiled with well spoilers lol. CANT WAIT !

by **starscreamreturns** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:23 am

Dude the movies awesome but it's kind of not what your expecting.
you should like it i loved this movie! i'd see it once a week if i could!

News Credits: 1 · by **vegetacron** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:44 am

This guy is extremely talented. Wished i had the skill in PS and 3DS half these CGI guys do these days.

On a side note, they make how to DVDs as well, but $60 a piece for'm >_<

by **Demexicon** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:28 pm

I still cant belive how they fixed optimus in the new movie but not megatron, guess they decided putting a cape with hood would be more dramatic. :???:

by **Demexicon** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:30 pm

I still cant belive how they fixed optimus in the new movie but not megatron, guess they decided putting a cape with hood would be more dramatic. :???:

by **BATTOUSAIXD** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:00 pm

Megatron sure is awesome! Whose head is that supposed to be?

by **starscreamreturns** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:08 pm

I'm pretty sure it's his little drone guy whose with him sometimes

by **Clayface** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:35 pm

So we've got an image of the mighty Megatron wearing a shredded burqa in the desert, while dragging Devastator's balls behind him, and I'm supposed to be impressed/interested? Pass.

by **BATTOUSAIXD** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:47 pm

starscreamreturns wrote:I'm pretty sure it's his little drone guy whose with him sometimes

Oh yeah probably is. Just saw the movie and I thought it was great. Made me feel like the first one did when I saw it. Like my childhood nostalgia came back and got some new great memories to add with it. And Megatron looks great on the big screen, aside from the face damage. Too bad he died though, always was my favorite.

by **OptiMagnus** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:26 am

Wait...is that Skids' head in the bottom right?

Anyway, this is definite 100% pure awesome. Megatron couldn't look more evil.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:33 am

Concept artists Josh Nizzi and Warren Manser have both posted a ton of their work from Transformers DOTM on their respective websites.

Yesterday Josh Nizzi treated us with a teaser of Megatron, and said there would be more to come this weekend. Now he's uploaded a full gallery of his work, which can be viewed by clicking here. Here's a sampling of what can be seen.

Warren Manser has followed suit, and posted a gallery of his work that can be viewed here. Again here are a few examples of what can be found in his gallery.

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:34 am

Sig'd it. Too awesome.

by **joeformer** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:10 am

You know how hasbro made the concept art from star wars into figures. well please make that nest soldier into a human alliance figure with a remavable helmet? :ic$:

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:13 am

So, uh, why is that Decepticon Bumblebee pink? :???:

by **prowl123** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:29 am

Mindmaster wrote:So, uh, why is that Decepticon Bumblebee pink?

Did you see DOTM yet?

Lazerbeak transforms into a pink version of Bumblebee, and plays with an extremely minor character's daughter so he can get into that character's house. He does it in order to kill the little girl's father, who was apparently working with the Decepticons. All of this was per order of Soundwave.

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:43 am

BATTOUSAI XD wrote:
starscreamreturns wrote:I'm pretty sure it's his little drone guy whose with him sometimes

Oh yeah probably is. Just saw the movie and I thought it was great. Made me feel like the first one did when I saw it. Like my childhood nostalgia came back and got some new great memories to add with it. And Megatron looks great on the big screen, aside from the face damage. Too bad he died though, always was my favorite.

DUDE!!! SPOILERS!! #-o

My kids and I haven't seen the movie yet (we are going tonight) and while I may not be as concerned about such things, my 12 year old sometimes browses this site and I don't want anything ruined for him. I don't live with my kids and therefore can't monitor what he's checking out on here.

Anyways, darn cool concept pics. I find it interesting that Warpath was thought of as a Wrecker. That would have been great if he had made the cut just for the sake of having Warpath in the film but since he wasn't ever an original Wrecker it doesn't hurt my feelings too much. The whole "Wrecker" thing was just a casual nod or reference thrown in for the fans of the original comics anyways so I'm happy with even that small courtesy being shown to us "old-timers".

by **Doubledealer93** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:46 am

kinda upset that we did not see steeljaw

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:10 am

I really like how you can tell Steeljaw has an engine alt mode with the piston and exhaust visible.

News Credits: 1 · by **Starscream GaGa** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:18 am

Eek! I'm glad they didn't go with that head design for Megatron, or the constantly bleeding green goop thing.

That said, these are awesome!

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:41 am

Is that something following Laserbeak who looks kinda like Ratbat? Or is that supposed to be a two-stage shot of beack swoping in?

And I like that head for Laserbeak MUCH better.

News Credits: 1 · by **vegetacron** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:43 am

I'm beginning to understand how these guys put these transformers together. Its pretty awesome, but i'm kinda befuddled a bit on something i heard when the 2007 film came out. I heard that MB had some kinda software that assured the the artist working on the bot, that all the parts represented on the robot, were a part of the vehicle and vice versa.

Kinda like a mass = mass type thing to make sure the proportions were equal. If the bot weighed 10 tons in robot mode, they would weigh 10 tons in vehicle modes, for example.

But the more i am learning from the vids i have, the more its apparent that alot of the bots were just random parts thrown together and then melded with cool armor bits. This is really neat stuff, because its just so stupid easy to replicate on the building portion of it all.

The magic to these movies is the animation though. I haven't reached a point of understanding on that and how they rendered it to look so life like.

News Credits: 1 · by **Solrac333** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:59 am

My Pink Bumblebee.

by **OlivusPrime** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:52 pm

Wow, so Steeljaw was going to be in the movie. Thank the heavens he wasn't, especially with those shades!

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:54 pm

Ok so Laserbeak looked ok in concept but then got turned into a giant zoid turkey? what the hell happened? And they should've kept Bumblebee pink, it suits him. Even though the bayformer look is horrible there is some pretty cool artwork there, a couple of them kind have a slight Giger feel to them.