Awesome!
Transformers Prime Ironhide Concept Art
by Ken Christiansen
As always, the way my brain works, I want the vehicle completed first. I want to see the vehicle cues, and get a sense of weight, that can be translated into robot form and characterization. And colors of course. I turned it in originally all red, (G1 all the way, baby!) but feedback suggested all black to match the current movie version. I may have done all black with the yellow and red stripe, but then Archer suggested a two-tone look, and that sealed it! What a great idea, and I have seen it used since on other versions of Ironhide.
I’m super proud of this design - I think it captures G1, with Movie, and a sense of something new. Of course, I had help, with Aaron Archer’s input, and my man crush Eric Siebenaler at Hasbro was directing me on this project, he took the legs of one of my designs, and combined it with the torso of another drawing I’d done, and outlined the movie style gauntlet guns, and did a quick redesign of the gut, and gave it that cool shape where the Autobot emblem sits. Then I took that image, and painted it out, and that’s what you see above
Dude, can you believe it? The Transformers take a break and hit the waves. Some of the most bodacious surfing you have ever seen in a cartoon. All to the great surf classic “Wipeout” by The Safaris 1962. I’m stoked.
Editing by drfever22.I get so stoked listening to this
“Me Grimlock love challenge!”
