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We are pleased to bring you some concept art, provided exclusively to Seibertron.com, from Paramount Pictures. These concepts are from Transformers: Age of Extinction and provide a good look at some of the origins and studies that go into making a movie like Transformers. We are excited to be able to share these exclusive pictures with you, and we hope you enjoy them. Click on each picture for a larger view, or go straight to the full gallery.

Once you've gotten a good look at the concepts, roll over to the Energon Pub and let us know what you think about any or all of these images.

Hong Kong Battle Scene







Lockdown’s Dropship transformed







KSI containers (containing Brains, Megatron head, Sentinel Prime head, and Ratchet head)















Mining Ship







A human-created Transformer







Galvatron





Lockdown









Weapon study for Hound















The Cabover truck version of Optimus Prime







Patina reference for Dinobot Grimlock

One of those is reused art with a new setting.

It still baffles me that Two-Headed Shockwave was INTENTIONAL, and not just a quick reuse of animation models.

Also, I like how Hound apparently used to be just a thin army guy with a helmet, but someone said "that's too boring, make him fat with a beard".

Shuttershock wrote:
Also, I like how Hound apparently used to be just a thin army guy with a helmet, but someone said "that's too boring, make him fat with a beard".

Ha! I liked this too... I wondered if they had designed Hound before getting John Goodman to voice him, and then thought,"Whoa, this little guy doesn't work with John Goodman's voice."

I thought it was a pretty amazing change from the concepts to execution.

Tfw2005 also has some exclusive concept art if you guys want to check that out.




Any other sites that paramount might have gave concept art to?

Shuttershock wrote:
Also, I like how Hound apparently used to be just a thin army guy with a helmet, but someone said "that's too boring, make him fat with a beard".

I think the Hound we got is much better then in that concept especially the fact that his does not work without that beard.

All those cool bad ass cons we will never get toys of...

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:
Also, I like how Hound apparently used to be just a thin army guy with a helmet, but someone said "that's too boring, make him fat with a beard".

I think the Hound we got is much better then in that concept especially the fact that his does not work without that beard.

I did like his performance, since he seemed to be one of the few having fun with it. I probably would have re-branded him as Kup (since it's a better match for the character) and had some lines redone, but what do I know about the labyrinthine industry of a high-profile film adaptation?

Doubledealer93 wrote:All those cool bad ass cons we will never get toys of...

I'd be surprised if they didn't retool (again) Dispensor to make the Oreo-bot.

I kind of wonder if the one with the hailfire missile pods was supposed to be Galvatron, since they have similar heads? He'd make a pretty good abstract Armada Demolishor, though.

the human made con has a very close resemblance to starscream. early cyclonus perhaps?

dreadwing95 wrote:the human made con has a very close resemblance to starscream. early cyclonus perhaps?

Hopefully not. If it is then they've drastically missed the major details of what Cyclonus looks like, which they already did with Galvatron.

If anything, he looks like Megatron on an abstract Armada Demolishor body.

the one with screamers head looks amazing. now to find something to make a figure for it

make it happen

Autobot tap out wrote:the one with screamers head looks amazing. now to find something to make a figure for it

make it happen

Looks like you could just take any Movie voyager SS, add some cylinders and Hailfire's missile pods, take off the wings and paint the whole thing silver.

Shuttershock wrote:

dreadwing95 wrote:the human made con has a very close resemblance to starscream. early cyclonus perhaps?

Hopefully not. If it is then they've drastically missed the major details of what Cyclonus looks like, which they already did with Galvatron.

If anything, he looks like Megatron on an abstract Armada Demolishor body.

Where have you been for 7 years?
Sideswipe looks nothing like g1 sideswipe
Ironhide looks nothing like G1 ironhide
Skids
Megatron, all forms
Hound. The only thing g1 hound and movie hound have in common is green.
And the dude with the cannons for arms has a barricade face.

Doubledealer93 wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:

dreadwing95 wrote:the human made con has a very close resemblance to starscream. early cyclonus perhaps?

Hopefully not. If it is then they've drastically missed the major details of what Cyclonus looks like, which they already did with Galvatron.

If anything, he looks like Megatron on an abstract Armada Demolishor body.

Where have you been for 7 years?
Sideswipe looks nothing like g1 sideswipe
Ironhide looks nothing like G1 ironhide
Skids
Megatron, all forms
Hound. The only thing g1 hound and movie hound have in common is green.
And the dude with the cannons for arms has a barricade face.

I've been right there the whole time, and never liked the designs. I understand artistic license, but these are supposed to be adaptations of characters we know. If the Avengers can look like the Avengers, why can't the Transformers look like the Transformers.

But really, appearance is only a superficial complaint I can level. A design change could be fine if they could make the characters their own with interesting interpretations, but they are mostly just stilted backdrops. All the names are there, they just don't mean anything.

To be frank, I'd be fine with them even referencing ARMADA Cyclonus's design, If only to know that someone recognized the history of the brand and the unique look of it's characters.

If you squint hard enough, Galvatron's helmet-thing sorta looks like an abstract version of G1 Megatron's buckethead. It's even more noticable on that Heavy Weapons guy, whoever he was supposed to be.

Shuttershock wrote:I kind of wonder if the one with the hailfire missile pods was supposed to be Galvatron, since they have similar heads? He'd make a pretty good abstract Armada Demolishor, though.

He does share a lot of design cues; the head, the cables, being primarily silver with blue and gold details, little to no apparent vehicle kibble (he's got guns, but he might as well not have an alternate form). Could be an early Galvatron, or a different bot that got repurposed as him, or even perhaps all the KSI bots would've been far more homogenous...

Metro Prime wrote:If you squint hard enough, Galvatron's helmet-thing sorta looks like an abstract version of G1 Megatron's buckethead. It's even more noticable on that Heavy Weapons guy, whoever he was supposed to be.

That or Starscream's weird EVA head.

It's like there's some designer who, in spite of everyone else, is trying to subtly acknowledge the classic designs of the characters and their history.

Noideaforaname wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:I kind of wonder if the one with the hailfire missile pods was supposed to be Galvatron, since they have similar heads? He'd make a pretty good abstract Armada Demolishor, though.

He does share a lot of design cues; the head, the cables, being primarily silver with blue and gold details, little to no apparent vehicle kibble (he's got guns, but he might as well not have an alternate form). Could be an early Galvatron, or a different bot that got repurposed as him, or even perhaps all the KSI bots would've been far more homogenous...

He also has movie Screamer's big gorilla gunpod arms. He might have been intended as Screamer reborn as, oh I don't know, Cyclonus or Scourge before it got scrapped.

Lockdown's renders are actually the coolest for me. He shows a surprising amount of car parts in robot mode, at least from the back view. I noticed the red taillights in his legs in the movie, but didn't see the air intakes and headlamps on his back, nor the Lamborghini logo on his robo-behind.

I don't remember this "Manmade Bot Heaby Armament", did someone may remind me a scene with it?

Shuttershock wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:I kind of wonder if the one with the hailfire missile pods was supposed to be Galvatron, since they have similar heads? He'd make a pretty good abstract Armada Demolishor, though.

He does share a lot of design cues; the head, the cables, being primarily silver with blue and gold details, little to no apparent vehicle kibble (he's got guns, but he might as well not have an alternate form). Could be an early Galvatron, or a different bot that got repurposed as him, or even perhaps all the KSI bots would've been far more homogenous...

He also has movie Screamer's big gorilla gunpod arms. He might have been intended as Screamer reborn as, oh I don't know, Cyclonus or Scourge before it got scrapped.

There's already a concept of Cyclonus. And it was actually in the movie.

TurboMMaster wrote:I don't remember this "Manmade Bot Heaby Armament", did someone may remind me a scene with it?

i dont remember seeing it myself so im guess its a scrapped concept but it could very well come in the next movie

Shuttershock wrote:

Doubledealer93 wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:

dreadwing95 wrote:the human made con has a very close resemblance to starscream. early cyclonus perhaps?

Hopefully not. If it is then they've drastically missed the major details of what Cyclonus looks like, which they already did with Galvatron.

If anything, he looks like Megatron on an abstract Armada Demolishor body.

Where have you been for 7 years?
Sideswipe looks nothing like g1 sideswipe
Ironhide looks nothing like G1 ironhide
Skids
Megatron, all forms
Hound. The only thing g1 hound and movie hound have in common is green.
And the dude with the cannons for arms has a barricade face.

I've been right there the whole time, and never liked the designs. I understand artistic license, but these are supposed to be adaptations of characters we know. If the Avengers can look like the Avengers, why can't the Transformers look like the Transformers.

But really, appearance is only a superficial complaint I can level. A design change could be fine if they could make the characters their own with interesting interpretations, but they are mostly just stilted backdrops. All the names are there, they just don't mean anything.

To be frank, I'd be fine with them even referencing ARMADA Cyclonus's design, If only to know that someone recognized the history of the brand and the unique look of it's characters.

Bullcrap


They are not supposed to be the g1 characters




Are people really so ignorant they can't see that after 7 years?

SlyTF1 wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:I kind of wonder if the one with the hailfire missile pods was supposed to be Galvatron, since they have similar heads? He'd make a pretty good abstract Armada Demolishor, though.

He does share a lot of design cues; the head, the cables, being primarily silver with blue and gold details, little to no apparent vehicle kibble (he's got guns, but he might as well not have an alternate form). Could be an early Galvatron, or a different bot that got repurposed as him, or even perhaps all the KSI bots would've been far more homogenous...

He also has movie Screamer's big gorilla gunpod arms. He might have been intended as Screamer reborn as, oh I don't know, Cyclonus or Scourge before it got scrapped.

There's already a concept of Cyclonus. And it was actually in the movie.

There is no Cyclonus


that was never Cyclonus nor will it ever be Cyclonus that is a ksi drone whose design was based off concept art by Josh Nizzi of a nameless robot.




It's a Drone and thats not even the right image


This is the one that appears in the film the one you have is the inspiration for the film version back when it was just a nameless robot made as a demonstration