Thanks to 52toys.com, we at TFW2005 have obtained animation model images of new Transformers Animated characters. New characters for season three include Strika, Spittor, Blackout and Rodimus Prime! Click the thumbnail to check them all out!
Thanks to 52toys.com, we at TFW2005 have obtained animation model images of new Transformers Animated characters. New characters for season three include Strika, Spittor, Blackout and Rodimus Prime! Click the thumbnail to check them all out!
Belgrath
Oooooh, nice to see Strika done Animated style. And Blackout looks pretty awesome.
blackout501st
thease look AWESOME!!!!!!!
i am so frickin happy they are makin blackout an animated character!!! i cant waite 4 his toy now!!! he lokks awesome 2!!!
MegaHavok
I don't get why one company doing work as a license holder of a franchise would have to pay an employee of another company who is doing work for the same property for inspiration. I'm not saying your wrong or anything. I am honestly admitting to being uniformed about your role in hasbro and transformers at this moment.
I can only guess at some point you were doing or are still doing concept or design work for hasbro? Are you not anymore? Is Hasbro using some of your MANY designs from the great comics you did while working on there property? Isn't that there right?
Triggerhappy
For some reason I can hear Adam West being the va for Rodimus !!
Nevermore
Hasbro's official answer is that industry design is such a collaborative effort, it would be unfair to give some people a credit and leave the five million other people who are involved on some tertiary levels out.
Keep in mind that credits in comic books also didn't come overnight. Check an issue from the 1940s against a 1960s issue against a modern-day issue. Huge difference in terms of credits.
Fort Max
I've wanted to see this for a long time, everyone deserves credit for their work.
Moonscream
I agree with Don that it really does suck.
I don't think there's much that can be done about it, tho.
–Moony
Katamari Prime
Damn, and I thought Strika Looked butch before.
Fit For natalie
And Floro Dery shouldn't even get credit, because the most of the 1984 character models were simplified versions of Shōhei Kohara's work, which in turn were based upon the toy designs of Takara's Diaclone and Microman/Microchange design teams.
Silent_Magnus
So every time they homage one of the G1 character models they should give credit to Floro Dery?
Re-imagining designs is something Transformers does pretty often.
It's not like Derrick is claiming he came up with he design all on his own.
Omegawrath
The pic was featured in the tpb.
The design is very clearly a reworking of Don's original. Hasbro probably has ownership of anything featured in the comics. I dunno, I'm not a lawyer.
From a creator's perspective though, I'd be a little put-off by this if I were in Don's situation. SOMEone got paid for this design, and Don DID provide the framework that they used.
Regardless of who owns what, it's poor form to borrow so heavily without a direct acknowledgement. Maybe action figures should have credits on them like the first page of a comic.
Image comics came into being SPECIFICALLY because creators were tired of creating characters just to have them swallowed up by the companies they worked for. Just because you understand the situation, that doesn't make it any easier to swallow.
And if you all recall, the initial formation of Image created such imbalance in the comics industry that the whole bottom fell out. It took a decade for EVERYONE to recover.
I'm not saying that that's what will come of this, but when someone is one of the premiere creative names associated with your property, conventional wisdom says that you should dip into your billion dollar bin and show them some love every chance you get.
I'm going to assume that the guys up the chain probably didn't even realize the connection. Hopefully when they figure it out they'll show some class.
Silent_Magnus
Well, was that actually published in any of the books?
Longhaul53
But isn't it true that any work you did for Dreamwave or IDW (who are/were technically licensees of Hasbro) automatically became property of Hasbro? If this is true then it would not be a big deal for CN to use anything appearing in one of the comics you've drawn, since you technically got paid for your work thru the Comic company.
Or maybe i don't fully understand how it works…
DON
well, they changed it enough, I guess. but this was my Pre-Earth BW Spittor from the first Mini-series.
and a Quote from the main page:
Ravenxl7
My guess is that he isn't an Elite Guard member at all.
dark69
your idea?
DON
Hmm, not really sure what to think of this. on one hand, I'm glad they liked my Spittor sketch enough that it inspired theirs.
but on the other hand, it's like they took my idea without telling me. changed it enough so they dont have to pay me. and only acknowledges it when people pointed out the similarities..
Silent_Magnus
I think his flames fill in the part of the wings on a normal Elite Gaurd insignia.
Cloudraker
The colored versions look fantastic. I could see Spittor having a third mode.
Poho
indeed. the homage to previous version of the same characters from different universes is pretty cool.