Going by the past 4 Michael Bay movies, I tried to get Windblade's appearance as close to what a Bay movie might do with the character as I could. Of course, that means almost all options were open... Primary concern was making sure there were some things in common with the original character (some black in the scheme, and the name). It may not exactly look feminine, and in fact you'd likely never hear it speak once in the near 3 hours explosionfest, but it would probably get one shotted out of nowhere anyway without anyone ever mentioning that he/she ever even existed, much less died. Lots of thought and hard work put into this one. Hope yall like!
It's a nice repaint and would be something I can see happening for a character in any future toyline that doesn't feature the character in the actual movie but should she be in any of the future movies I think she'll evoke more of her IDW design and personalty as in being a fembot that turns into a jet with Japanese cultural elements like with AOE Drift since she's slated to be in many of the TF media other then the comics.
I used to want to think that way, but drift and a few others are exceptions to the Bay rule that actually do have something to do with the character besides general team function, name, or whether the alt mode is air or ground based. In the past I have made Bay movie version customs, making sure to go way off base with the character while keeping some things somewhat true to what is established, but then later some of those characters were really IN the movie, and were a million miles away from what I expected. For example- my TF4 Galvatron, and what we ended up with pictured below. But even Hasbro didn't know how far off their chosen director would want to go. Just look at their version of movie Arcee, then what we actually got in RoTF...
You're right about how the movies have taken some character and made them into different directions then we've expected and I myself was surprised at some points but then again the TF series that came before the movies like the Beast Era,RID and the Unicron Trilogy technically did that sort of thing first so I wouldn't say Bay was the first guy to do it either. That said your customs are still awesome to see.
Well RID, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron all started the thing with changing characters dramatically, but the first was a weird Asian thing with a flying shark and main villain that turned into a hand and 5 other fairly silly things, and the other shows came off the boat with the slogan "Not your fathers Transformers" with the intent of bringing kids back into Transformers. The reason for that obviously being that Hasbro noticed most of the TF fans were older at that time. I personally feel a "Transformers" live action movie should have been a bit kinder to those loyal old fans and more respectful of the source material, since it didn't come out as a new concept alternate universe re-telling TV show with a subtitle under the word Transformers. I know for a fact it could have been as successful if not more-so even if they went as far as to set it in the 80s and make the characters very similar to G1. Bay's major changes in movieverse were definitely not the whole reason the movies did well. In fact they have always been pretty infamous. Beast Wars was actually very true to G1, being a direct continuation where a reborn cybertron had been producing much smaller and more advanced bots called Maximals and Predacons, and 300 years into that 2 ships full of them went through a time portal and crashed on prehistoric earth. For anyone that hasn't caught on though, this is my April Fools gag. I enjoyed the movies but this seemed like a good plan for April Fools here. Ive done one here for the last few years now. I think...
