Flare-Up Bike, Props, Concept Art and More

Sean Haworth, Visual Effects Art Director for Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, has released some of his art on his website. He helped design some vehicles, props and sets used in the movie. His other work includes Tron Legacy, Eagle Eye, The Island and more. Probably the most interesting new bits is a good look at Flare-Up (or Elita-1), the last of the three motorcycles created for ROTF yet rarely seen (see below).

Rather then displayed it by movie, he has it separated by categories. Set Design shows of a detailed view of the Ice Cream Truck Twins, Ratchet and NEST Hummer. The Conceptional section shows off the improvements to Bumblebee's vehicle and three CGI views of the NEST Hummer. Art Direction shows a lot of set design work he helped create for the first movie. The Transportation section is photos of the various Transformers he helped design. The Props is all Transformers with look at the Bumblebee robot prop, the zapper cage from the first film, Autobot logos and Frenzy's prop head. The final section, Study Models, does not include Transformers work, but shows some model sets put together to help plan shots and the like.

To view his entire available work click here for the Portfolio section of his website. Thanks to Scorpio for the link.

Combined Arcee and More Concept Art

Steve Jung, Concept Designer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, has revealed some of his art he created for the movie. Of note is the image to the left of a possible combined Arcee mode that the toys themselves hint at but apparently was abandoned. Frankly the effect remains as ugly as the individual robots (but you have to work with what you’re given sometimes). Click here to view 20 more images from the artists including various Constructicon designs and set designs that were faithfully reproduced for the movie. Thanks to Scorpio for the link.

Ben Proctor ROTF Concept Art

Ben Proctor, lead robot illustrator for the Transformers films, has released his art for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He released his work from the first film on his website) but hasn't done that for the second so instead to to ConceptArtWorld's gallery for his work. Images include Demolisher, Wheelie, Power-Up Prime, Devastator, and more. The most interesting to me are the images below that show some of the unused possibilities for robot designs. Thanks to Scorpio for the link.

New Concept Art from Paul Ozzimo

PaulOzzimo.com has finally been updated with new concept drawing from the conceptual illustrator for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. A month ago a few preview drawings were release but now the full lot is available on the website. Images include Transformer designs for The Fallen, Wheelie, CappucinoBot, abunch of military hardware designs and more. It is a flash website so to reach the art click here, then click "Portfolio", and then click the Transformers 2 poster.

Two Days In Review

It has been a busy day few days in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen news with 22 posts in two days so here is a link fest to make sure you’re up to date. As always though, don't forget to check out the archive section on the left side just in case you might have missed something.

TV Spots and Clips
TV Spots #17-19, New Clip - Three more spots and clip from BD-Live content.
Two Transformers I Deleted Scenes - Two scenes deleted from first movie
Transformers Sightings - Part of viral campaign, Transformers sightings around the world

Premiere Reports and Images
Russia Premiere Videos - Five videos of Bay and cast walking the carpet in Moscow
CGI Twins - Computer generated images of Mudflap and Skids
Movie Stills - Images from the movie, focused on the real stars - Transformers

Music
The Touch in TF2? - Shia Labeouf sings, says The Touch may be used in the movie

Interviews
Bay Quiting Franchise? No - There is no direct quote stating he is quitting. Bunch of baseless sensationalism.
Third ET Transformers Segment - Another segment from the TV shows where Tyrese talks nicknames
Writers On Writing Transformers 2 - Orci and Kurtzman talk about writing and working on the script post strike.
Film Weekly's Bay Interview - The director talks shop, budgets and expanding his horizons.

Video Games
Two Demo Clips - Two more clips showing off the game in action
Art Director, Producer Interviews - Supposed to be interview with two people that worked on the game

Toys
Alliance Bumblebee Review - Another take on the Alternator-like toy.

Various
Bay Makes Guiness Record Book - Bay talks filming the movie and made it in the book for largest explosion
Obama Mention - Bay mentions how he met Obama and incorporated him into the movie.
Transformers 2 Fun Facts - Bunch of info about the technical achievements of the CGI for the film.
Transformers 2 Outselling Star Trek - Movie is outperforming Trek in pre-sales, I expect it to blow by Treks worldwide total in 7 days.
Official Site Updated - Check it out for new games, wallpaper and other activities.
Transformers 2 Tickets Contest - Click the link for details on a contest to win Fandango tickets
Nascar No. 18 Transformers Paint Job - Gallery of images of the car painted in Revenge and M&Ms paint scheme.
GM's Transformers Relationship - Value in the companies relationship with Transformers

Third Arcee Revealed (Updated)

It took long enough but finally the third Transformers of the Arcee trio has been revealed. The image from TFG2 is of the purple bike that a MV Agusta USA designed bike. For the movie, Arcee is one personality spread over three bikes. The individual naming is for the toys, probably to make it less confusing to kids. What that third toy name is for purple Arcee has not been revealed. Thanks to Adrien for the link.

Update: I could have sworn I posted the Arcee bio before but I can't seem to find it so here it is from TFW2005. Of note, the bio suggests Arcee is one bike, not three. Thanks to G0M3Z for the link.

Deluxe Arcee Bio

Arcee jumped at the chance to join up with Ironhide and the other Decepticon hunters on Earth. She proved such an effective warrior that she was quickly given command of her own strike team, made up of robots similar to her in attitude and design. together with the Autobots she leads, she stalks the Decepticons in silence, creeping close enough to look them in the optics before she strikes.

Satellite Soundwave Images

Thanks to General Tekno, here are two CGI images of Soundwave that are from Paramount UK's website I posted about earlier. He extracted them from the flash file so all the website stuff is removed so we could get a good look at the character in all his CGI glory (or lack of depending on your opinion).

Transformers 2 CGI Art Work (Update 2)

It took a while but finally some new CGI artwork of the some of the characters for Transformers 2 has appeared online. Some of the CGI in the gallery is old but much is brand new. Thanks to Ken and David for the link.

Update: Added the image in the left created by D-M0de (thanks!) for those that like the idea of the Twins running for their lives. Good for wallpaper or imagining such a scene in the movie.

Update 2: D-M0de provided the below two pictures to replace the previous Twins chase image. Uses the below CGI images along with Photoshop magic to tell a better story.

By D-M0de


Devastator


Ironhide


Megatron


Ratchet


Ravage


Sideswipe


Starscream


The Fallen


The Twins

Ironhide, Twins and Megatron Robot Images

Thanks to Phil who sent me the below pictures that I think came from the Transformers The Game website joining the previous leaked pictures of the Twins. Nowadays its hard to tell but the detail isn't up to the level of Empire's Optimus Prime image making me think they are all based on ILM's designs but modified for the game's graphics engine. Ironhide looks slightly different, I just can't pin down why. The new angle on the Twins just makes them even stranger looking. As for Megatron, in the bottom right you can see potential tread and he has two claw-hands instead of a cannon arm, either a game design change or maybe the cannon is not permanent but a sub-transformation similar to his weapon in the first movie.


Update: Just a side note, as the below image proves, final verification that those images leaked back in September where related to "Mudflap". Apparently the buggy look eyes were related to his head design. Thanks to Phil for the image below.

First Look at The Twins

Activision has updated it's website for Transformers The Game with the first images of The Twins in their robot modes. An M&M package confirmed that the Chevy Beat (Skids) and Chevy Trax (name still unknown, Mudflap new rumor) were the alt modes of the Twins but this is the first good look at their robot modes which show a lot of similarities but they seem to be fraternal rather then identical twins. I think the image is from the game rather then from ILM (but probably based on their model) so its possible the final movie design could be futher modified. Something about their post and design that makes me think these are going to be hyper playful characters. Thanks to Gregory for the link and info.


Update: More images can be found here.

First Look at TF2's Ravage and Megatron

"Sylar" has provided the below image that is reported to be the design of beast mode design of Ravage and robot mode of Megatron for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The anonymous source reports that Optimus, Bumblebee, Starscream and Ironhide remain essentially the same.

Ravage's beast mode seems to be a revised draft of the image that was released a little over a month ago that reported that Soundwave's alt mode was a truck (that part denied). As for Megatron, his robot mode does seem to match with the reported tank alt mode.

The image has been photoshopped to increase the size of the original image and remove the background. Pretty bad ass alt mode for Ravage that looks incredibly dangerous. I assume the character would be like Scorpinok. Probably has a robot mode, just doesn’t use it. Megatron looks a lot more compact then his design from the first movie; I wonder where the tank turret went. Click the image for a larger view.


Thanks to "Sylar" for the image.

Audi R8 Robot Revealed?

Another robot design revealed, joining Stinger and the Trax. Same source, same small blurry style images. There is a definite Decepticon aesthetic going on with the robot design. Thanks to Dan and Thomas for the link.