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LiamShalloo — One with the Matrix-FINISHED
Published: 2007-03-10 20:35:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 3343; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 99
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there were a couple of nagging problems with the original so i decided to go back to it and do what i should of done in the first place. namely trust my gut on the intensity of the lighting and the tone.anyways
lines by don fig
colours by me
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do not grieve.. 
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were trying to match tone of the screenshot
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Nooo.. Optimus
So sad moment!! But beautiful work!!
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very nice picture of the scene
depending on the continuity when it comes to Ultra Magnus and Optimus Prime they have at times been portrayed as either being close friends with one another to the point of being like a brother to one another or have actually been brothers in the true family sense.
consider this an attempt on my part to explore both of those scenarios when it comes to this scene being set in the g1 animated continuity and also taking place after Primes death bed scene in the 80's animated movie.
this is the only change i would make to the script for the death bed scene.
"Ultra Magnus, Optimus continued " it is to you my brother, I shall pass the mantle of Leadership to you, as it was once passed to me by our father."
"Alpha Trion" Ultra Magnus spoke as he stared at Prime in shock.. "But Orion, he spoke in a stuttering manner. "you... and father... he knew especially... that...I'm...I'm just a soldier... I'm not worthy." He clasped Optimus's outstretched hand and held it tight in both of his, wishing he could hold on to his dieying life spark as well.
Optimus's optics softened. He needs the reassurance I had. With our darkest hour almost here, he'll never get it. I'm sorry, Ultra Magnus, I'm sorry my brother
"Nor was I Dion,
with that slight change to the scene script wise it would set up this scene for Ultra Magnus
A scene in which Ultra Magnus in an all together stumbling shambling manner makes his way out of the med room which is the room Optimus died in.
He is walking across the battle scarred metallic flooring of the courtyard in a slow determined and yet at the same time all together semi-zombie like manner.
His state of mind for the scene is what one could think of as being an intense and all together unyielding form of psychological shell shock. That is to say that he is literally going through an all too personal emotional experience of loss and greif that his mind has literally been robbed for the time being of the ability to comprehend what has actually happened to him, much less understand or comprehend the situation in anywhere near a semi-lucid manner.
With each and every step he takes towards the center of the courtyard his armored form opens up little by little and bit by bit .
First at the raised armored shoulder columnes as they rotate back and behind his armored shoulders then at the front of his shoulders as they fold out to the sides. The effect then moving on to his upper and lower arms as they split down the center at the the outer side revealing his true inner core robot form bit by bit while hs armored hands fold down and beneath the lower armored arms , while the inner core body retracts its hands outward from the lower arms at the wrists.
The effect continues to his lower torso which splits down the center of the front all the way down to the groin while his upper legs split down the center at the front. As he comes to a stop the helmet portion of his head rotates forward and down over his face while his upper torso and chest moves out and away from him and then finishes the change as it rotates up over his head and onto his back.
All the while that this is happening the weather continues to intensify giving the viewer the impression that an intense storm is building up over head.
At the center of the courtyard stands a large statue mount inside of which is a burning funeral pier.
This part of the scene is meant to be somewhat symbolic in nature when it comes to how the roman's would lay the fallen warriors body out on a funeral pier and set it and the body on fire.
While on top of the statue mount is a life size gold colored statue of optimus.
Magnus is maybe all of 3 whole steps from standing directly in front of the statue as he comes to a stop.
What the viewer sees is a white and silver optimus prime look alike.
As the front of the lower legs fold down to the ground he steps out of his suit of armor onto the ground, while the hands of his inner core robot form retract out from the lower arms at the wrists.
He looks up at the face of the statue for a moment as though lost in thought as he drops down to one knee and then bows his head for a moment of silence as he raises his right arm out in front of him with it folding in at the elbow.
His right hand is closed into a fist with it resting over his spark core and energon pump or as we humans could call it his heart.
The moment passes and his hand falls to the side.
The camera moves around to the front of his body and moves in for a close up shot of his face as it begins to rain and the rain begins to trickle down his face. his optics have an all together haunted look to them and his facial features are those of someone coming out of an intense state of shock as reality begins to set in.
To the viewer the scene comes across as being symbolic in nature at first but in such a way that the person watching this scene would slowly but surely realise that some of the liquid streaming down his face is fluid from his optics.
think off it this way their optics can secret o a form of optic fluid primarily for cleansing purposes. in times of intense emotional greif though it can also pass as a way for them to literally cry.
the close up shot fades through to a full body shot of magnus from the front as his hands clench into fists,
his entire body starts to tremble and bristle on him as he slowly sinks to his hands and knees then raises his entire body upright at the waste with his arms raised above his head as he then slams his fists into the metallic flooring leaving a considerably large semi sinkhole like impression in the ground and then raises his head up to the sky and screames a deafening soul shattering scream that comes from the very grief ridden depths of his spark. he screames, he continues to scream and he can't stop as his scream becomes a shreik and then it continues to become louder courser and deeper still as it becomes a ferociouse greif ridden howl of dispair as it becomes even more feral in its existance his vocorder straining, the thick armored plates arond his neck bulging and warping like knotted leather
with his arms spasming and the musle tendons straining to the breaking point he punctures the underside of his palms through with his fingers as preciouse life sustaining energon begins to bleed through from the inside of his palms. so great is his grief right now that the scene itself makes it clear he is not willing to live his life a single moment longer, that he wants only one thing and that is to end his suffering and to be reunited with his family if only in death itself
by this point in the scene his eyse briefly pulse a deeper shade of blue as his red white and blue colorscheme fades and then darkens to the colors of the dialcone colorshceme
when magnus was for a time the autobot leader it was made rather clear that he himself did not posess a bond with the matrix like optimus and rhodimus do and as such could not acces the matrix
this is just a thought on my part but when it comes to this greif scene the whole idea i'm going with is that in a rather indirect manner of speaking he would access the power of the matrix through the spark bond that himself shares with optimus as his brother
in a strict manenr of speaking he would not be selected by the matrix to be the next choosen prime to be but nonetheless he would have used his bond with his twin brother optimus to effectively sidestep around that obstacle and reach that level of matrix enhanced evolved cybertronian being
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what happens when yer shot three times in the spleen-you kick it.
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Now you got me singing Beastie Boyz
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I truly admire your work and this piece just adds to my admiration.
Back when I watched this movie as a kid, I would always, ALAWAYS cry at this part, in my mind optimus could never die, so it was a bit of a shock for me when he did, I was so crushed.
Even now when I watch it, I still feel a ting of sadness to see my hero go.
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Awesome art on the comic. I was reading the books a couple of days ago. You are awesome my friend.
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I lurvelurvelurvelurvelurve Transformers!
o_o' 
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Definitely a good decision. You generally should go with your gut more often than not it's right.
Andy
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