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For more Lil Formers head to www.LilFormers.comThis'll get you guys talking!
To see the new look I'm referencing here, check out this preview on Comic Book Resources:
Transformers #1 Preview
Now, I'm not slamming Don Figueroa's art skills, he's still unquestionably the top Transformers penciller now or ever. But I think the choice of these hyper detailed faces is a big blunder. They're ugly, they're emotionless, they look like old men/skeletons. They have no personality... they're no longer characters I can get attached to or care about. Just big scary machines. Sure, perhaps the tradional smooth metal faces with eyes and mouths that some how magically flex might not make sense, but tht didn't matter. You could get expressions out of TF's with those faces, you could see characters with emotion in them.
Anyway, I actually have bigger complaint about this new look... what's up with the colouring!? I may have high standards as I work at a studio known for its high end colouring skills, but this is just god-awful stuff. Either the guy is on his first job, or was ultra-rushed and couldn't finish, or wasn't paid enough to do a decent job, or SOMEthing... but in my opinion as an editor this should never have seen print. Guh.
So anyway, all opinions welcome, what do you guys think of the new TF comic style??
PS: Yes, I am directly contradicting my robot reproduction statement from the Springer strip. But funny trumps consistency.
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Serious. If they didn't already have a movie line okay, MAYBE they want to try this..but they do have movie comics, tons of them.
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Oh Primus, it's like they're trying to mesh G1 and the movie! I don't blame the little one for crying! *Hugs Roddy jr*
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I think it does look cool, but their faces are so mechanical now it's causing a bit of disconnect between me and the characters. I mean heck, their overall designs are so different now I have a hard time identifying some of them with the characters I grew up on.
They should just let UDON do Transformers. I know you guys would do them right XD
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rips the heart out of characters we love... they do look very scary... especially bumblebee... that was an unpleasant surprise... i'm sad that our favourite G1 characters' faces can't read properly... can't they just leave them be? TTnTT
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Like it or loathe it, Transformers as a brand is about change.
And I happen to like it. If they look more like machines (... which they are), then they can have the limitations expected for machines.
Besides, we can't shoot this style out of the sky because we've only seen three pages of it in practise. I can be optimistic and hope it looks very dynamic, especially during Transformations.
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well actualyl there's a whole first issue out. Don also did his last comic in a this style (in that one, Optimus takes his face plate off to have a drink, and he also has an old man skeleton underneath...eeep)
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A whole issue huh? I'll pick it up.
I heard about that. Not like I'd go out of my way to read a stroy from the All Hail Megatron story arc... I've compiled a list of organs I'd rather remove first.
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lol i read that one, i was expecting prime to grab ironhide by the head and yell GIVE ME YOUR FACE! alas that never happened
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Oh, I've got to see that!
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Oh, wow, old-man-skeleton!Optimus, indeed. I baww'd in fright for the longest time after seeing the horror under the mask in that issue. I guess some of the shock has worn itself out, because I didn't freak as much when I visited your link.
...I still don't like it, though. Talk about Resident Evil hybrid monsters. l8C
G1 + Bayformers = NO.
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....... I'm really wondering why they decided to go for this new look......
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2 words: MOVIE! FRANCHISE! Because the movies are doing so well, (And 'cause ROTF just came out on DVD), they wanted to try to merge the 2 styles!
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Well, whoever decided on that, really did not make a good decision. They look so lifeless......
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Yeah, I guess so.
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I like the art quite a bit, actually. While I think it'll take them some time to figure out how to have close-ups emote like they used to (the shots from farther back are fine), I do think that a fair bit of the blame could actually be laid on the colorist. I'd honestly like to take a shot on the line art of that, just to see if my theory (that the colors are a major factor in how the face ends up looking) holds up or not.
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Like I asked elsewhere, "Why does Bumblebee have fangs?"
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Details on Transformers' faces: Less is more. Please.
Wonderful, brilliant comment, my good sir!
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The coloring in Street Fighter II Turbo is worse.
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Really? Haven't got a complaint about it yet. What don't you like?
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too briht? I've actually been disappointed that some of th pages printed to dark!
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They look like they all have mustaches D:
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It looks like G1 meets Bayformers.
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that's exactly what it is xD
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more for Gwhiners,and whose brilliant idea was this, so that way I can vaporize them!
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I looked at it and my jaw dropped, I don't like Bayformer/G1 mixing like that and yes the coloring does look unfinished as well.
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Had a look at the comic. It doesn't seem too bad.
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yupyup! they should return Transfromers to the rightful JAPANESE art groups! OR the original DREAMWAVE art team!
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...you're joking, right?
Every Transformers anime was garbage.
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such as Sunrise who created Gundam since 70s and Gaogaigar and all the Braves series in the 90s
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Yeah, but why would you say those are the "rightful" art groups to make a TF comic? It's a Western series...especially in regards to the comics (oh, and the UK).
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but the animation was made by Japanese art team and the toys also came from 70s Takara toylines. It was a deal between Hasbro and Takara, US gave the plot, Japan made the animation
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Yeah, but....it's kind of a given that animation is done overseas for just about ANY show. It's still done today. Character designs and scenery and plot and storyboarding and everything else was not though. Japan just made it move in a way that ranged from decent to abominable (haven't I had this whole conversation on deviantart before? I can't remember...). I mean...c'mon...are you saying we should give [link] to the Japanese too?
Japan has its fair share of TF manga too, but it's not very noteworthy, especially compared to the Marvel, Dreamwave, and IDW ones.
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Didn't they just made a new GI JOE animate or animate movie based on Japanese classic animate character design and art style? I mean the classic sci-fi ones, not the current hentai/yaoi/yuri influenced ones.
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Sigma Six was the worst thing to happen to GIJOE since...ever!
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Uhh...I don't understand the question...are you talking about Sigma 6 from a few years ago? I'm not so savvy with GI Joe info, so I can't say how much Japan had to do with that one besides animation. I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion though.
Eh, but this thread is getting a bit long and I said what points I wanted to get across, so I'll leave it at that.
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not the sigma 6. there was a sneak peek of new GI JOE animate in San Diego conference this yr. I think u can still youtube it
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GI Joe Resolute? That one doesn't have a thing to do with anime...
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but the coloring, shading reminds me lots about Ghost In A Shell type sci-fi anime
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That "link" was just me typing GI Joe, deviantart thought it was a link I suppose...
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A lot of the Dreamwave guys work at UDON now. Here's how we would do Transformers: [link]
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't quite of a few of the artists at IDW also used to work for Dreamwave?
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A few pencillers yeah. No colourists as far as I know which was as important to the DW look as the penciller.
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I agree. The coloring and inks in the Dreamwave comics were so vivid and almost cartoonish, but in a loving way that fir the style of Transformers completely.
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There's the two Joshes, Josh Burcham and Josh Perez. They both worked for Dreamwave.
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