Possible Transformers Movie Optimus Prime Original Concept Art?

That image makes me want to stab my eyes out.

The chest and feet are pretty much the same. The stupid flames are still there... makes me wonder for how long the powers-that-be had their collective hearts set on making the "Shakespearian" Prime, as he was referred to by the writers, all decked-out in rice-boy flame decals.

"Treachery, thy name is Bay"

See, now THAT head doesn't strike me as Prime!

He still has the claw feet and that horrible shredded metal look

fines shoud be given out to anyone who calls that junk pile optimus prime. what a joke!

AHHHHHHHHH!

tile_mcgillus wrote:AHHHHHHHHH!

Indeed

OMG, MY EYES, MY EYES. THEY FELL OUT. OMG WHY HAS MICHAEL BAY FOR SAKEN THE.

ASFTF2007 wrote:OMG, MY EYES, MY EYES. THEY FELL OUT. OMG WHY HAS MICHAEL BAY FOR SAKEN THE.

What are you talking about? This isn't the design. See. He picked the better design. The one that looks like Prime. Stop spamming.

well, I feel like now the design they chouse was the better of the 2, sure, everything else is the same exept the head, but the head was iconic really, and they chouse something more iconic to represent Prime. With that head, he seems more Gundam then Transformer reall, at least with the current head, it has the traditonal Prime-isms that make it stick out and such.

Thank goodness this was not the end design.

it looks like a fan drawing. but the head... wtf . its like in indiana jones wen those guys' faces melted off, etc

I'm glad they went with more red on the final design, and changed the head. Cause that design would fit in the movie somewhere, just not as Prime.

well well words cant describe this one oh wait yes it can with all the other transformer robot mode CRAP!!! and I use the word crap usely that M. BAY has putout and chosen for this film I am surprised he didnt go with this idea since the others ill start over autobots look pretty decent which has my vote but the decepticons dont get mee started on them or anyone else this one has a cannon on his he should be called Megaprime.

i apologize for double posting i forgot to mention the face looks horrible looks his face looks like the helmet that russel crow wore in the gladiator movie he looks like a roman optimus prime soldier.

Yikes! For the first time I will admit that the preseent movie Prime looks better.

Awww hell no. What designer came up with that? He has a mohawk. I know transformers are from the 80s, but that doesn't mean prime needs to look like mr. T.

This actually makes the current model look ok.

Yeesh! Why not just call him Ultra Magnus? (You know, the Proto Magnus from TFTM in 86?) Too much blue.......I don't like it......I'm actually glad they chose the latter of the two designs........

Well, just so we all do remember, G1 Prime "did" have a mowhawk of sorts... not that I'm trying to justify the horror that was that prototype version... but it is there...

XeroSyphon wrote:I'm glad they went with more red on the final design, and changed the head. Cause that design would fit in the movie somewhere, just not as Prime.

On that one? They should have red flagged every single design! Weird how some fans say that one is awful and praise others like it.

BTW, that "mohawk" you speak of is more of a knight's helmet.

stormrider wrote:Yikes! For the first time I will admit that the preseent movie Prime looks better.

i smell sumthin fishy here. I think this is just a way to make the haters of the final prime design to like it better by showing crappy ones. (im not saying that i dont like movie prime) but all these leaked pre concept appears a conspiracy to me. Conditioning?

SKowl wrote:That image makes me want to stab my eyes out.

The chest and feet are pretty much the same. The stupid flames are still there... makes me wonder for how long the powers-that-be had their collective hearts set on making the "Shakespearian" Prime, as he was referred to by the writers, all decked-out in rice-boy flame decals.

"Treachery, thy name is Bay"

QFT with that design he should come with Neon bars, and Nitrous. Rice-boy indeed.

Well, it does look like a fan drawing, but I guess the flames were always there. Too much blue, head looks awful like the rest of the designs we have now.

foifoil05 wrote:i smell sumthin fishy here. I think this is just a way to make the haters of the final prime design to like it better by showing crappy ones. (im not saying that i dont like movie prime) but all these leaked pre concept appears a conspiracy to me. Conditioning?

Maybe, but I like the early design of Ratchet, it was a little better.

I can imagine the early concept of Megatron, or even a worst Starscream design. I don't think I want to know how they were before, I was angry before, and I let it go already. I'm at peace now.

AH holy crap my eyes. ow that physically hurts. The colours are like one of those books with 3D glasses...

WTF! I've shit out better looking things than that. Boy, I'm glad they didn't use that bowlful of suck.

he looks like he used to be cool, just before the bomb went off.

I wonder how 'original' this actually is. It doesn't look that far removed from the final result. The main differences are the lack of red and the design of the head. Ratchet's original concept art shows a far different design. Maybe they just managed to settle on the basics of Prime's design fairly early on.

Would it be too cynical of me to say something like, "OMG WOW now I really liek teh new designz after all coz at least they dont look like that crap"?

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Missed foifoi05's post.

NOt having seen much close of the new movie Rathcet design, I really like the rumored concept art of Ratchet. That was cool.

The Prime...basically the same design we've seen with an un-Prime looking head...

Thundershock wrote:I wonder how 'original' this actually is. It doesn't look that far removed from the final result. The main differences are the lack of red and the design of the head. Ratchet's original concept art shows a far different design. Maybe they just managed to settle on the basics of Prime's design fairly early on.

Remember, this concept might not even be from 'fairly early on' since art departement will usually produce hundreds of sketches per day and many designs get coloured and brushed up to show to the upper brass to get approval. If anything, this might be one of the last concepts of Prime before they picked something final (usually from bits and pieces of other concepts, as is the case with lots of other films)

Just think of how many OTHER concepts for each robot there must be (some worse than others, like this Prime here). You don't get weird designs like we have now after drawing a couple of sketches. Bizarre crap like this takes alot of practice!

Given that it appears to be a full-on render, I highly doubt this is an early concept at all. That kind of thing takes time and money to produce, while early concepts tend to be much less polished. And that's without saying that this 'concept' is clearly very close to the finalised design in any case.

This is not Optimus Prime. It's too whacked out.

When are we going to see the supposed attempted G1 like designs? I wonder why we are seeing none of those. THis could play into the theory of The Bayman trying to calm the fanbase into saying "look their not THIS bad!"...I would really like to see WHY the G1 like designs failed so miserably...or if they even really did it. Because If I saw that on a design table I would said..."Go 180 degrees away from this and never look back!"

foifoi05 wrote:

stormrider wrote:Yikes! For the first time I will admit that the preseent movie Prime looks better.

i smell sumthin fishy here. I think this is just a way to make the haters of the final prime design to like it better by showing crappy ones. (im not saying that i dont like movie prime) but all these leaked pre concept appears a conspiracy to me. Conditioning?

I don't know if it is or not, but either way I really don't care about these leaked pictures and still have my own individual opinions for each of the movie TFs designs that will be in the movie.

That is the thing to do imo.

Predaprince wrote:

foifoi05 wrote:

stormrider wrote:Yikes! For the first time I will admit that the preseent movie Prime looks better.

i smell sumthin fishy here. I think this is just a way to make the haters of the final prime design to like it better by showing crappy ones. (im not saying that i dont like movie prime) but all these leaked pre concept appears a conspiracy to me. Conditioning?

I don't know if it is or not, but either way I really don't care about these leaked pictures and still have my own individual opinions for each of the movie TFs designs that will be in the movie.

That is the thing to do imo.

I agree. Everything with this movie should be judged on its own merits, or lack there of depending on your point of view.

A design shouldn't be good or bad because it is good or bad in comparison with something else.

For example, I Dislike the movie Megatron, not because prior Megatrons have been better, but because I dislike the design pure and simple.

man is that bad... too much blue on the body and wtf is going on with that head.

I still would like to get my hands on the "art of" book, just to look at some of the really early ideas, and see the evolution. Hopefully it will be out a few months before the movie.

That head says Tidal Wave...

Mohawk Prime transform

Everytime you see a Bay'former, Primus extinguishes another spark

Are they kidding us? This looks like it was designed by a drunk Terminator. I'm glad they're not using this. Bay knows Transformers like Donnie and Marie knew rock and roll.

Okay, I want to quell the rants about the flames on Prime. My friend's uncle owns a trucking company. I showed him the pics of Prime. He instantly noticed that the brand of semi that Prime is is a Kenworth. Furthermore, he goes on to tell me that his uncle just bought that exact same Kenworth from the factory and that is the paint scheme that is on it. Prime's paint scheme is a factory paint scheme direct from Kenworth! So, that's where the flames come from. And personally, I think he looks awesome with it instead of bland plain old red.

I thought he was a #379 Peterbilt?

the_dark_decepticon wrote:Okay, I want to quell the rants about the flames on Prime. My friend's uncle owns a trucking company. I showed him the pics of Prime. He instantly noticed that the brand of semi that Prime is is a Kenworth. Furthermore, he goes on to tell me that his uncle just bought that exact same Kenworth from the factory and that is the paint scheme that is on it. Prime's paint scheme is a factory paint scheme direct from Kenworth! So, that's where the flames come from. And personally, I think he looks awesome with it instead of bland plain old red.

Yeah, I've ordered semi's for my company before, and therefore spent quite a few hours going over "catalogs" of them.


I've never seen a semi come out of the factory with a flame paint job.

NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!

Look like the result of the Fusion between Mr.T and Optimus prime, plus they added movie in the mix!!!

I think of soundwave when i see him.

The current one is bad, and this one is too.

Yikes! This is... rather an extreme take. I'm glad they changed some things since this so that Prime is closer to his traditional look.

If that's real I'm glad they didn't use it. That guy looks more like Blurr than Optimus.

uglier than the final design, but the differences here seem to mesh more with the style of the other bayformers. anyone else think maybe this is the design bay wanted to use, and he got forced into modifying it to carry a little bit of prime's iconic look? considering that prime is the only character to even remotely resemble his former self (since, as we all know, only one character in a series can possibly be iconic, and that's always the main hero; they can feel free to turn the rest into generic robot monsters), i wouldn't be at all surprised if that was an issue bay was overruled in.