I presume they wanted the eyes like that for effect, with dilations and such during emotional scenes. Most of the general audience gives a damn anyway about the eyes.
well yeah I figured that out When compared to the other bot designs, he really does have a lot of G1 in him. The eyes are totally different, but that's not a Prime-specific change.
It all makes sense now. The one thing .... the only thing I wasn't worried about in this steaming pile was Prime. They had Cullen and it seemed to look okay(ish) compared to other designs. Now I realise the truth. Look at Bumblebee! All the Autobots have these shitty Short Circuit comedy eyes! It's gonna be Cullen's voice coming out of a joke! Man, I'm gonna just let go in July and enjoy this one as a comedy.
I'm not excited over this Prime's look, but I don't hate it either. In the end , it's just one version of Optimus Prime.
I am fairly certain that this is an old render. The new one has a face that is slighter wider -but looks pretty much the same overall; kind of like Megatron's redesigned mouth. The overall look is the same but there was a design change. Regardless, I made a primative attempt at having a light source from the eyes. http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p212/Adam_Smasher/Movie_Prime.jpg
So that head is supposed to be the same as the one on ComingSoon? I guess I can see it now, but perspective and crafty imagery can sure make people see things better than they are. I wish it looked the way it first thought it did.
If you look at the picture posted at Tformers, the blue helmet part merges with the gray mouthplate. The picture you linked to (thanks for that!) shows a definite separation between the two. The picture from Tformers doesn't even appear to a render. You know I am also guilty of looking at that extreme closeup and criticizing the details and design choices. But then I see that full body shot with the light sourcing and the Earth behind Optimus Prime and I am like a five-year-old kid going: awesome awesome awesome!
Can we keep the image off the boards, please? Links are okay right now, but we'd rather not have this one posted on the boards themselves. Thanks - 2005 Staff
I’m dead sure that his eyes are like the ones on my Sig, well it certainly does look like them on my magazine with him in
If by alien you mean "stereotypical bug-eyed invaders from outer space", then yes, it's very alien. His shiners look excessively large and, combined with his high, curvy forehead, he looks like either a very surprised baby or a grey. I understand that the a bigger eye improves visual acuity (cats, for example, have huge eyes in relation to the rest of the head) and that a robot might have faculties superior to a human's (such as seeing other parts of the EM spectrum), but they still could have covered up the unused portions of the eyeball. Eyes only need the area in front of and beside lens to give full peripheral vision. All other space could have been covered with moving plates to protect the eyeball, like our eyelids. Besides that, I can't really tell what the audience is supposed to latch on to as his "eyelids" and "eyebrows" for expressions. Are they the blue panels beneath his browridge or the metal triangle thingies? If it's the triangles, then he can't close his eyes in any meaningful manner. If it's brow plates, then why does he have the triangles? If the plates are his eyebrows and the triangles his lids, they'd just get covered up when he closed his eyes.
I think it's the triangles (the metal ridges just above his iris and below his eyeball). If I'm seeing it right, he'll be able to frown, wink, close his optics...Everything we can do, but the eyeball itself will still be visible. And even better: If they glow, he'll have the G1 lense look. I think it would work MUCH better if the eye was entirely in the triangles, so that the rest of it would appear as just another part of his head. I would rather have a much different eye design for Prime, though. EDIT: Someone on DM.Com posted this as an example:
