First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art

Saturday, September 19th, 2009 11:34AM CDT

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Steve Jung, whom designed much of the concept art for the film, Transformers Revenge of The Fallen, has posted concept art for Arcee, Chromia, and Flareup's combined form which was cut from the film. To view the image on Steve's online portfolio, please click here.

First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art

First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art

Credit(s): Jacob P. Galvatron, Steve Jung's portfolio page

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Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999619)
Posted by CodeNameRavage on September 19th, 2009 @ 11:41am CDT

weird! but kinda cool in a way.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999645)
Posted by Chaoslock on September 19th, 2009 @ 12:09pm CDT

That is the ugliest piece of scrapmetal ever built. It would fit into most of the bayformers well.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999647)
Posted by Justicity on September 19th, 2009 @ 12:09pm CDT

THIS.
EXPLAINS.
SO.
MUCH!

But it's oddly cool :3 Me (as an epic RotF Arcee fan) likesys ^^

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999649)
Posted by joevill on September 19th, 2009 @ 12:11pm CDT

CodeNameRavage wrote:weird! but kinda cool in a way.

You took the words right out of my mouth!

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999652)
Posted by shonenfan4 on September 19th, 2009 @ 12:15pm CDT

Like I said in another thread, this looks bad. Why's there only one head?

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999654)
Posted by Jacob P. Galvatron on September 19th, 2009 @ 12:16pm CDT

Wait, I posted this yesterday.
http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=58830

Well, I do kinda like this concept, though.
It's interesting.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999662)
Posted by PoweredConvoy97 on September 19th, 2009 @ 12:27pm CDT

did u see the other bike pics?
there must be 5 bike sisters!

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999698)
Posted by rpetras on September 19th, 2009 @ 1:03pm CDT

Oh look it still looks like a jumbled mess. #-o

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999729)
Posted by Seeker217 on September 19th, 2009 @ 1:27pm CDT

hmm she still has only wheels for feet weird

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999739)
Posted by SoooTrypticon on September 19th, 2009 @ 1:38pm CDT

OH my good gravy!

This only further proves how little the designers and filmmakers cared about their product- as it appears to be that a "combined mode" consists of three robots rolled into into a ball like unwanted pieces of play-doh.

Her head is on her shoulder for crying out loud!

I'd say by not including it in the movie, the filmmakers were showing restraint, but I prefer to think they just forgot because all three of them were insufficient in the breast department, and thus not worth their time.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999742)
Posted by Nekoman on September 19th, 2009 @ 1:45pm CDT

Jacob P. Galvatron wrote:Wait, I posted this yesterday.
http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=58830

Darn, I checked and still missed it! You've been credited on the news post though. Thanks for alerting me.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999764)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on September 19th, 2009 @ 2:15pm CDT

I can see why they didnt use it

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999785)
Posted by Anonymous on September 19th, 2009 @ 2:52pm CDT

i was really hoping this wouldn't happen. i figured the 3 individual bikes/bots looked so odd in robot mode to accomodate for them to have a cool combined mode. but combined they just look like a bigger weirder version of their individual bot modes! huge dissapointment!!

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999806)
Posted by Swiftknife24 on September 19th, 2009 @ 3:34pm CDT

Looks like there are only two bikes in that artwork...

Couldn't they create a bipedal combination that could also move around on wheels? :???:

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999846)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on September 19th, 2009 @ 4:18pm CDT

Swiftknife24 wrote:Looks like there are only two bikes in that artwork...

The blue one is in the back, forming the backbone.

By the way, did anybody notice the title? "Arcee (Motorcycle Gang Combo Mode 03" Does that mean there are three configurations, one for each bike? :-B

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999888)
Posted by Evil_the_Nub on September 19th, 2009 @ 6:10pm CDT

I saw that too, it looks like they might have a rotating gimmick similar to Land Fill.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (999898)
Posted by tom brokaw on September 19th, 2009 @ 6:25pm CDT

cool!

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000026)
Posted by Terrabolt on September 19th, 2009 @ 10:26pm CDT

I would have made Chromia the head, & upper body and some how make the Cannon arm extendable for a combined left arm. then make Arcee a leg and part of the lower body. then make Flareup the other leg and right arm.

This all can change based on how Flareup's deluxe figure is going to be.

then by what is in the art work, i would keep Flareup about the same, make arcee's wheel that is in the air the right leg, then make Chromia the left arm

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000028)
Posted by sushilove on September 19th, 2009 @ 10:29pm CDT

It's quite ugly, but I don't understand why they didn't use it in the movie... I mean, what's the point on having three robots that look the same if they don't end combining in some way? they could just have arcee, because they didn't gave the robots to much of a role in the movie so it wouldn't have been too much different...

or they could have used the cgi time and money of those two extra bike robots to do two more autobots

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000083)
Posted by hpfabe on September 19th, 2009 @ 11:34pm CDT

The problem here is that all of this particular designer's work seems to be very early (though gorgeous) and quite far from what was used. Thus, this combined form seems to be a combination of three bikes that are quite different from the 3 bikes we got in the movie, meaning that the combined form may be nothing like this in the end.

Disappointing. Was kind of foolishly hoping to see the combined form and think "Aha, now I get it!"

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000084)
Posted by cybercat on September 19th, 2009 @ 11:34pm CDT

Have we actually heard more-or-less definitively that there will be a Flareup figure?

I'm kind of halvsies on this myself--the cyclebots got VERY little screentime/development save as I guess triplets. Don't know why I'd need three unless they could actually combine. Kind of.

Still, it's a weird combine. Like they went out of their way to make not just the individual figures but the combination pretty darn hideous. Devastator's at least kind of *cute*, in a big suck-up-the-world way. This combination is 'send straight men screaming into the night'.

HK, not that I'd know anything about that.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000092)
Posted by Blurrz on September 19th, 2009 @ 11:50pm CDT

Sigh. I don't really know what that is anymore. The original movie had weird concepts, but they felt original. The RotF concepts are just not my taste anymore. Sigh.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000127)
Posted by Joshua Vallse on September 20th, 2009 @ 1:13am CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Swiftknife24 wrote:Looks like there are only two bikes in that artwork...

The blue one is in the back, forming the backbone.

By the way, did anybody notice the title? "Arcee (Motorcycle Gang Combo Mode 03" Does that mean there are three configurations, one for each bike?

I doubt it, in the world of concept art when things are labeled numerically or in A's and B's its because there were previous versions of this concept already rendered, and the Art Directors want to see still more. Not different combinations, just different artist takes on this one concept.

God knows I would luv to see these other concepts, only because of all the concept artist to work on this film, Jung is by far my least favorite. Proctor and Nizzi and others just set a high bar in terms of their character design, Jung strikes me more of a environment painter or Promotional art being he seems to have worked on the Poster.

Still looking around hopeful for that Movie Concept book to pop out of the blue.
*Sigh*

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000144)
Posted by Mechastrike on September 20th, 2009 @ 2:16am CDT

they all look like Demolishor... and how come one of the heads looks like it's on a shoulder rather than on a neck

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000229)
Posted by Nightwalker on September 20th, 2009 @ 8:40am CDT

Like hpfabe said; I was waiting for the "Aha-moment".
But I really lost it.
She really looked messed up :-(

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000237)
Posted by Prime Riblet on September 20th, 2009 @ 8:57am CDT

Really don't like it. Such a mess.

Some of the other stuff was cool though.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1000335)
Posted by Warbreaker on September 20th, 2009 @ 1:07pm CDT

I'm a fan of Bayformer designs, but that picture for all I know depicts a mangled mess. I mean, the head of the combiner is located on a trunk of a right shoulder? A single wheel holding up the weight of 3 bikes? Thank goodness it was just one of many concept arts, can't wait to see the others.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1001840)
Posted by syphonn on September 23rd, 2009 @ 9:12am CDT

Looks like a jumbled mess --Looking at the other images in the gallery, that seems to be a common theme.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1002121)
Posted by -Sideswipe on September 23rd, 2009 @ 4:30pm CDT

Um, I count 6 tires, doesn't that = 3 bikes? I have to agree with the person who said the bottom is the blue "Backbone"...

Still F'n ugly.

Re: First Look at Arcee Combined in Concept Art (1002507)
Posted by Joshua Vallse on September 24th, 2009 @ 4:47am CDT

Just checking back to see if I was drunk or something when I.....
Nope....nope.....still a mess. Alright well that clears my conscience.
Chao