It’s that time of the year again where Concept Art for a Transformers Movie starts showing up.
In this post-movie month, several Transformers: The Last Knight related concept art have been discovered by 2005 Boards Members and they are quite interesting to look at. It is very clear what went into the final movie and what went abandoned, but it’s always nice to learn about what could have been.
Artists such as Wesley Burt and James Paick have contributed to the movie and you can check them out after the jump.
Of course we are issuing a SPOILER Warning for those who are yet to see the movie. But if you already have, feel free to jump in.
First up is Canopy, a robot who sacrificed himself to save Izabella and the kids. Early concept art shows that the robot is not a Long Haul re-purpose but a new robot altogether.
Alt-mode is clearly a Subway Car.
Known as Ruins Bot, this giant behemoth is also a protector of young Cybertronians similar to Sqweeks. You can also see some of them hanging on Canopy’s arm on Subway seats.
However, the protector concept may have been abandoned due to time constraints and his look may have been ditched to save CGI production cost. Therefore, used the already available Long Haul character model instead.
Next up is Drift vs Mowhawk.
While Drift and Mohawk retained their overall look from Concept to Final Product, this fight was not.
The fight against Mowhawk went to Bumblebee instead.
Additionally, Mohawk never got to use the knives pictured on the concept art. Well disciplined Drift with swords against rowdy Mohawk with knives is a clash between two very opposite personalities.
Finally we have environment art. It is happy to note that the concepts here went straight into the final movie.
Cybertron entering earth’s atmosphere, the Namibian horns of Unicron were both featured as they were.
Update:
Concept art for Daytrader has also surfaced and the facial features resembles Steve Buscemi who is also the voice actor for the said character.
However, on the final design for the movie, a beard has been placed to hide… well, you can see why:
TF10
I don't know what to say…
ze collecter
Thanks for my new profile picture.
Beastwarsfan95
Really interesting design! Shame these more alien-looking designs were scrapped for human-faced ones.
Also, I dunno why but the face reminds me of a San'Shyuum.
MrNiceGuy
I'm betting the Mohawk vs Drift thing wouldn't have been much of a fight, probably Mohawk would jab at him while hurling trash talk and Drift would easily block each attack and decapitate him to show how badass he is. Still would have improved the scene, though.
The Canopy concept art is interesting. You can really get a feel for what the character was supposed to be. My first thought was are those supposed to be the hatchlings from ROTF and DOTM that were forgotten?
Speaking of forgotten, Izzy sure got over his death quickly. What happened to "I want to fight them!" (The TRF, the trailers made it seem like she was referring to the Decepticons)
Daytrader is hideous in both art and movie, and I can't help but think he looks like a reworked Hound, robot-wise. Plus he should have been Wreck-Gar.
Cykill 1
You know the saying…Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Seth Sunthay
Brother?
normtrooper
I thought the same. After reading the novel and comics I was so pissed that wheeljack was changed to que, between he and mirage it actually lowered my enjoyment on first viewing considerably.
But then I thought wheeljack is one of the greatest characters and "Que" has what 4 maybe 5 lines? looks like a mess, and gets blown to bits without doing a damn thing but look silly.
So I thought maybe we could see him in the future and this will be a good thing..I mean shit we had 2 devastators and they freaking called brawl devastator on screen!
netkid
I've always had the feeling that the reason the films have characters named Dino, Que, and Daytrader is so they don't ruin characters like Mirage, Wheeljack, and Wreckgar and can some day do them in future films properly, probably post-Bay if he ever leaves and a new director that respect the characters past histories and incarnations takes the helm.
Edwardmus Prime
Really love that Canopy design. Really makes me think of something gentle and protective.
From now on, I will dread the reveal of Daytrader's concept face every time I pull back the shower curtains and am alone…
Heliblade
Daytrader\'s concept art is fucking terrifying.
John TheDestroyer
After seeing them in the movie, I really liked both Canopy and Onslaught's designs.
kaijuguy19
Now I want to see the concept designs for Onslaught to see if he originally had a different design then what he had in the movie like Canopy.
bigfootRULES
Seeing the Daytrader concept art made me want to go to a corner, curl up in a fetal possition and cry.
Prime17
I really like the subway train design for Canopy. Shame he was only a one-off character.
Daytrader's face is the stuff Megatron has nightmares about.
kaijuguy19
Yeah not to mention if they play him off as being an honorable samurai character 24/7 people will rage about him being a racial sterotype. I mean there's no real winning with how he's done in the movies when you get down to it. He still has his awesome moments too so he's not that comedic.
As for the concept of him going against Mohawk I really wonder why they didn't include that in? It would've given Mohawk and Drift more to do and even if Mohawk still gets decapitated at least it would be in a fair fight.
Gallade
Thank goodness these Transformers don\'t have some kind of shaving cream. That concept art of Daytrader is really making me feel disturbed somewhat. Drift vs Mohawk would have been probably awesome. I think like maybe Mohawk kicks Drift\'s swords away and so Drift uses his daggers instead, which I wish we could see it in the movies rather than in toy form. So, that train Izabella slides down from would have been Canopy right? Wow he looks good though.
normtrooper
The drift vs mohawk is depressing…instead of that we got bumblebee killing him like he was a bug. an insult to both characters.
Jazz210
U see there…Drift vs Mohawk…in a group discussion in town, i had brought up that there should have been battle scenes with this one specifically being one of them. To see that they thought about it is awesome but didnt make it into the movie is a letdown
DeletedUser_119270
Daytrader!!!!!!
Requiem Prime
It's too bad they changed Canopy. However, I wonder if the head of that Payload toy could be easily replaced.