And it’s another Sunday of Bumblebee Movie concept art, courtesy of several artists who have started to share some great material via their official websites and social media.

This week we can share for you really great art and designs (each link to the respective thread):

• Wrangler Bumblebee By Matt Tkocz  – A full-body early concept design of Bumblebee’s first Earth mode, ready to shoot some Decepticons.
• Bumblebee Hands By Shane Baxley – A pair of early ideas for the hand of our yellow Autobot. Highly detailed illustrations.
• Optimus Prime By Shane Baxley – Interesting option for Optimus Prime design. This concept art was one of the first ones proposed, but the one designed by Mark Yang was used in the movie.
• Bee Stinger By Shane Baxley – Tow options for the Bee’s stinger blade. One in rusty finishing and another one with a shiny effect.
• Blitzwing Spike Weapon & Dropkick Cannon By Shane Baxley – Excellent and detailed close-ups of the Decepticons’ weapons.
• Control Room By Shane Baxley – An illustration of another scene from the movie. We can see an early design of Shatter, close to her Studio Series toy.

Thanks to all our members who shared the images in our forums. You can also check out our previous round ups Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. Click on the bar to see all the images after the jump and then surf to the respective threads to sound off on the 2005 Boards!

Hasbro subsidiary Allspark Studios is looking for a Narrative Director to lead development of their Franchise Brands including Transformers, My Little Pony, Monopoly etc.

The company consists of Allspark Pictures (live-action production label), Allspark Animation (animation production label) and Cake Mix Studio (company’s Rhode Island-based commercials and short content producer).

Job opening posted yesterday on LinkedIn states the following:

“Hasbro’s Allspark Studios is seeking a Creative Executive to lead the development of some of our key brands across various media platforms. This “Creative Steward” or Narrative Director, will be a development and storytelling partner for our Franchise Brand teams and will be responsible for methodizing and developing character voice, worlds, and high-level intellectual property direction for partners. This role will be called on to write characters, plots, dialogue, and other creative content. In addition, this Creative Steward will be responsible for providing feedback and direction to other Creatives to ensure consistency and exceptional writing quality within all brand expressions. This role will develop, write, and review plots, dialogue, and creative text with and from other Creative partners, and collaborate with them to help every new expression be the best that it possibly can across multiple platforms. This role is an important part of the team tasked with crafting the storytelling that will establish the core vision for a Hasbro assigned brand. Likely candidates should have, at minimum, a Bachelor’s degree in English, Creative Writing or Journalism, with 5-7 years’ practical experience in a similar capacity. This is a long-term contract, production opportunity.”

• Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
• Industry: Animation, Motion Pictures & Film, Writing & Editing
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Job Functions: Production Writing/Editing Art/Creative

You can apply through LinkedIn.

Prepare your wallets for Transformers The Auction by Profiles in History, scheduled online for February 28th. The range of available items includes various costumes and set pieces from Dark of the Moon, Age of Extinction and The Last Knight.

While a sample of auction catalog images is attached to this post, you can scan the full details here and then chat away on the 2005 boards!

And it’s time for another round up of Bumblebee Movie concept art, courtesy of several artists who have started to share some great material over the internet. This gives us interesting and revealing details of the creative process of this movie.

This week we can share for you (each link to the respective thread):

• Wrangler Bumblebee By Matt Tkocz  – Two early concept designs of Bumblebee’s first Earth mode, close to what we saw on the film.
• Military Bumblebee By Matt Tkocz – Four early ideas of Jeep Bumblebee, showing elements of Bee’s design from previous movies.
• Cut Scene Illustration By Matt Tkocz – Three beautiful illustration of this key scene, showing Dropkick in a design similar to his Studio Series toy (Helicopter mode).
• Cut Scene Illustration By Matt Tkocz – A scene that didn’t get into the final edit of the movie. Several helicopters checking the havoc on the place where the Decepticons landed on Earth.
• Decepticon Triple Changer By Shane Baxley – An original idea for a triple changer that didn’t make into the film with Mustang Boss 302 and A10 Warthog alt modes.
• Dropkick And Shatter Desert Scene By Shane Baxley – An illustration of the scene where the Decepticons meet the military showing Dropkick and Shatter with their muscle car modes before they became triple-changers.
• Decepticon Warrior By Shane Baxley – Another concept for a Decepticon that wasn’t used. According to the artist, they made a lot of Decepticon robots.

Thanks to all our members who shared the images in our forums. You can also check out our previous round ups Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Click on the bar to see all the images after the jump and then surf to the respective threads to sound off on the 2005 Boards!