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Published: 2019-06-09 08:55:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 25757; Favourites: 392; Downloads: 49
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The unfortunate cannon fodder of the Autobot army...
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This and my other SG reference sheets were drawn to help me keep the character designs consistent in my Shattered Glass Transformers Prime comics
Note: Shattered Glass is the transformers version of the classic Sci Fi mirror-verse trope, where the Decepticons are the good guys fighting against the evil Autobots.
My other stand alone shattered glass pictures -> www.deviantart.com/soundbluste…
My Shattered Glass AU comics -> www.deviantart.com/soundbluste…
Shattered Glass Reference Sheets -> www.deviantart.com/soundbluste…
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Budget limitations probably (there's a reason they kept reusing cliffs character model for background shots!)
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“Just put all the non important toys in the background It doesn’t if their just repaints”
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XD Nature of transformers, half the characters are repaints of others!
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Technically, aren't all Transformers that become a form of transport, Vehibots? Planes, Trains, Boats, Automobiles, Skateboards, Segways, Bikes, are all vehicles of a sort. The only transformers that wouldn't be are the ones that become appliances and animals.
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Dinobots aren't vehicles they're animals so no they wouldn't be vehibots
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I'm saying that are dinobots count too
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This is one of the reasons I can't do a transformers comic. The amount of patience it takes to draw these over and over is nonexistent in me.
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I'm sure you could if you wanted
I kinda cheated with this one to be honest as most of these are just digital modifications of the 'base' vehibot lineart.
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Emphasis on the "if I wanted" lol
I do the same thing with panels at look basically the same xD
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Ah, the Steves of the autobots, come in a lot more variety than the Steves of the decepticons. Joking aside, it's really cool that you made all these variants of the troopers for your story.
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Well, about time the Autobots had the cannon fodder for a change.
They've all got the most cool designs!
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XD (well they do actually have autotrooper cannon fodder in cannon, I think they're in a few of the games XD)
Thanks a lot!
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Yeah, but we could have done with them in the show too. How much more terrifying would Megatron be if he could tear through Autotroopers like they were nothing?
No worries!
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Oh yes that would have been awesome!
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Very nice. Any specialists or all they are identical?
Helicopter boi looks like he's about to go Assassin on someone.
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I do have sub groups in mind for them like Stealth or police specialists but I haven't thought of colours/design features to distinguish them yet.
XD Thanks!
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The Stealth variants should probably be in camouflage patterns rather than purple and black, as even if their fancy hiding gadgets work simply spotting them is still possible, and might aid in some sort of active camouflage system as partial failures would no longer be an immediate give away.
Sniper would probably be Two Wheeler and/or Helicopter.
Police Brutality units would be normal Basics set up to incapacitate rather than kill.
Stealth are Two Wheelers to aid in sneaking about. Likely have an incapacitation weapon as well as a ranged option, using the former to aid in simply stabbing people they don't like.
Heavies probably have a configurable weapon that changes between minigun-like and a cannon.
Hounds maybe? A riff off of whassisface in the comic and how effective he is, animalistic patrol and attack units.
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Those are awesome idea's thanks a lot!
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Happy to be of help. If you would like idle speculation or maybe "actual help" in some manner feel free to say so.
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Thank you. I'll remember that!
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Ah, yes, the cannon-fodder. I see you taken some inspiration from the different Vehicon types from the TFP video game? Nice to see other varieties beside car, jet, and miner, as well as the different visor types for each class; the "Heavy" looks like they'd often get paired with the "Miner".
So, these guys do have individual sparks and independent personalities just like their Vehicon counterparts, correct? I guess this sort of like the Genericons: no greater skills that set them apart, so they adopt a universal body type/scheme to make some use out of them...
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I actually didn't know there was a prime video game... XD it wasn't intentional inspiration but that's cool
It started with the heavy sub-type as I thought the bots would need an equivalent of the normal universe Insecticons.
Yeah the heavy sub type can be fitted out with drills etc for mining operations.
Yeah they are individuals
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tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_… But like most games, it really throws off the canon-verse...
Oh cool, so basically, they're all Generibots that were upgraded so that they're not completely useless out in the field.
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All of them are awesome and really cool
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Hey...what if these things were redesigned. Like, the middle of the visors are gone, and the parts of the visor that remains are basically like slanted eyeslots. What if the Vehibot's had those eye slots, and below the eye slots are straight lines going down.
What if the straight lines going down converged into a single line? Can you draw a Vehibot like that? I'd really like to see it!
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Sorry I don't quite understand what you mean. What your saying sounds a lot like an iron man mask to me.
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The eyes sort of look like an iron man mask, but they're slanted like how you draw them, and there are long glowing lines running down their cheeks from the center, making it look as if they're crying.
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Maybe it'd be the mask of reprogrammed Decepticons...maybe it'll be the mask of Makeshift who is later captured by his friends here?
He seems strangely absent in your comic...maybe Makeshift and all the Cybertronians like him would be reprogrammed forcefully?
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He's a bit too OP, which is why I left him out
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Then add in some Autobot reinforcements to balance him out...and of course he doesn't have to stay reprogrammed...maybe his backstory would be that his entire city, which was primarily populated by the same type of transformer as him, was basically forcefully reprogrammed.
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