Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game

Thursday, December 8th, 2022 11:13PM CST

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Hi all,
Since October 13 artist Alex Pelayre has been sharing his concept art for the cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal game that was being delevoped by Niantic (Pokemon Go) on Twitter. So far he's shared 24 images covering "the main bots" covering a bunch of Autobots, Decepticons (including Constructicons and Devastator) and Soundwave's mini-cassettes in a new take on the G1 designs

Here‘s the first tweet in the chain (the rest can be read by following the link):
"Well, since the game was cancelled, here's some work I did for Transformers: Heavy Metal! I'm taking my time getting all the concepts in order, but I'll have more to show on my website eventually" https://twitter.com/AlexPelayre/status/ ... S0UvVRjZ5A

And all the images he’s posted so far:

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A fascinating look at what might have been!

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Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151065)
Posted by Emerje on December 8th, 2022 @ 11:54pm CST

Isn't this the game that the Legacy Bulkhead mold was rumored to have originally been for? None of these designs really resemble him.

Emerje

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151067)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on December 8th, 2022 @ 11:57pm CST

Good, solid mix of IDW, WFC/FOC, and Evergreen design elements.

So Rumble is red, and Frenzy is blue...with sonic-drill-hands? I'm RIR/FIB to the end, but mostly because Frenzy deserves to be distinct, so this is even better! And Howlback would've been in it? Or just multiple Ravage clones in one outing?

The differences between Starscream and Slipstream have me wondering what their respective alts would've looked like. Guess I'd better follow this guy too.

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151068)
Posted by william-james88 on December 8th, 2022 @ 11:58pm CST

Emerje wrote:Isn't this the game that the Legacy Bulkhead mold was rumored to have originally been for? None of these designs really resemble him.

Emerje

No, it's for the other news that dropped today: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ced/47407/

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151079)
Posted by meanguns on December 9th, 2022 @ 2:26am CST

I love how they can have "feminine" forms, but not have them red-hot sexualized. Like how Chromia is a heavier Arcee, and SlipStream is a leaner StarScream.

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151092)
Posted by griftimus prime on December 9th, 2022 @ 7:56am CST

toys please

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151098)
Posted by noctorro on December 9th, 2022 @ 10:05am CST

Damn the concept art looks fun and consistent.
Toys please yes Grifitmus Prime, Toys!

Too bad the game died.

Please get the High Moon team back together and make a less high budget game (skim on the graphics) to just make it a good single player game so that the company doesn't go bankrupt after just 1 title.

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151118)
Posted by william-james88 on December 9th, 2022 @ 12:44pm CST

griftimus prime wrote:toys please

That starscream looks strikingly similar to the POTP voyager Starscream

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151124)
Posted by RotorstormNZ on December 9th, 2022 @ 12:53pm CST

griftimus prime wrote:toys please

My thoughts exactly!

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151136)
Posted by TOO MUCH ENERGON! on December 9th, 2022 @ 2:40pm CST

Starscream looks like a Gundam to me.

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151215)
Posted by Emerje on December 10th, 2022 @ 12:02am CST

william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:Isn't this the game that the Legacy Bulkhead mold was rumored to have originally been for? None of these designs really resemble him.

Emerje

No, it's for the other news that dropped today: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ced/47407/

Really? When you told me before that the mold was for "the video game that would have been out" it sounded like you were talking about a canceled game, not a future game.

Emerje

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151239)
Posted by william-james88 on December 10th, 2022 @ 8:53am CST

Emerje wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:Isn't this the game that the Legacy Bulkhead mold was rumored to have originally been for? None of these designs really resemble him.

Emerje

No, it's for the other news that dropped today: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ced/47407/

Really? When you told me before that the mold was for "the video game that would have been out" it sounded like you were talking about a canceled game, not a future game.

Emerje

This other game was also said to have been cancelled.

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151734)
Posted by Glyph on December 14th, 2022 @ 5:44pm CST

Oh... looks like we won't be getting any further updates - the artist has deleted the tweets referenced above and password-protected the TF:HM concept art page on his site. Seems it wasn't meant to be published, or at least not as widely as it was; I went through his twitter updates and saw that he'd been asked to remove the art pieces.

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Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2151891)
Posted by Glyph on December 16th, 2022 @ 7:03pm CST

Oooooorrrrr... a whole bunch more character art & mini-con designs might get posted over on tfw2005 instead :lol:

Thread here: Heavy Metal concepts, promo art & more

Sourced from artist T. Darren Chiu's Artstation account.

Gotta say, when they talked about mini-con designs, I wasn't expecting them to be quite so reminiscent of BotBots! Interesting mix of designs, looks like they were exploring silhouettes and concepts ranging from BotBots, through Wall-E, to 80s brick toys, to random bits of sci-fi machinery come to life.

Re: Concept Art for the Cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal Game (2152028)
Posted by RotorstormNZ on December 18th, 2022 @ 7:49pm CST

Glyph wrote:Oooooorrrrr... a whole bunch more character art & mini-con designs might get posted over on tfw2005 instead

Thread here: Heavy Metal concepts, promo art & more

Sourced from artist T. Darren Chiu's Artstation account.

I don't want to be overdramatic but I am disappointed we won't get to see these in action - I love these designs so much! Terrific finds, Glyph!