Great stuff man. The art on these is very good. The close-up shot of Cybertron in particular is very cool. My 8 year old self thinks these would be awesome as wall posters.
Timelord, those are SWEET......and I mean all of 'em! Even those first images are great. I needed some new backgrounds!
Would love to see how they look! I've seen that great thread of yours Ryoku But I think it's probably best to keep G1 and FOC backgrounds separate so they can be their own thing. If you want to post a link in there go ahead Well the first three images exist in very high res (I've had them printed as posters and they look good), so if anyone wants them I might have to email them because of file size. The rest haven't been upscaled to the same extent, but again, my files are by default bigger than can be shown here. Hmmm I don't have any saved, but I will scan through a few episodes and see if I can find some...
A good idea to continue this project Cheers guys. I'd love to see official posters or high quality prints of the original artwork. Heck, there are hundreds of painted backgrounds throughout the cartoon, probably enough to fill a book!
These are the kind of things I'd like to see showing up in a big glossy TF artbook. My eight-year-old self agrees (although I was eight two years before Transformers hit). But he would also like little Transformer character cut-outs he could stick to the backgrounds a'la the old 'Stick and Lift' and transfer packs (ignore the tracing set):
^ Wow, those Stick n Lift backgrounds were really bad They should have just used the art made for the toon! Probably copyright reasons why they couldn't though. Anyway, some more images:
This thread is really making me appreciate G1 more than ever. If you have the time op,I'd love to see some shots of the weird looking planets from season 3.
I love how you can see the white Prime cab inside Magnus in that first shot. Made my day. As far as the backgrounds go, these would make for some great themed displays. My printer is gonna hate me very soon.
If only they were hi-res enough to be printed and used as display backdrops - wouldn't that be something? ...also, does anyone else start humming the incidental music from the show when looking these over? You know, the one that goes like "DUUUUUUNNN DUUUUUUUNNN DUN-DU-DU-DUUUUUUNNN"?
They're my faves too I never sorted through S3 or the movie for images, but the reaction in this thread makes me want to do it! Yeah this is about as good as it gets without manual tinkering like in the first poster shots. Doesn't help that the DVDs were encoded really poorly too so getting clear frames without compression artifacts isn't easy
Yeah, and you can forget about getting the series on blu-ray - nevermind that most blu-ray applications don't even allow you to take screenshots, but the fact that the only version of the series on film (which would provide us with more than just a glorified upscale) is the one riddled with animation errors that Rhino used for their DVDs back in the day.
Well animation errors wouldn't matter too much in this case, since I'm deliberately trying to avoid animated characters and focusing on the backgrounds. Often this means removing cell artwork by judicious overlapping of frames. For example, this is a panning shot where the background simply cannot be extrapolated because none of the characters move: (caption "No, mister Hound, I expect you to die!") Whereas this one originally had Ravage running across it: And this had Brawn, Bumblebee and Spike walking into shot (from 'The Ultimate Doom'): I tried to find interiors of the Nemesis where the background was recoverable, but there only seem to be close ups of computer screens etc. This is the best wide shot I could get. It pans right as Megatron walks across: So what I've done here is to use the clone tool and some digital painting to fill in the areas as I imagine they might look. I've also touched up the rest of the image: And another random Cybertronian cityscape
Oh man! This is awesome! Thanks so much for posting these! Do you know how large these can be printed?
You must have a lot in there! No probs. Only the first three were made with printing in mind (and now the Nemesis interior too) but to be effective you really need the original large files. To give you an idea how they look, these are 40" poster prints: The other standard screen grabs have been upped to 200 resolution but would still be a bit blurry if printed off that big. No physical reason why you can't though
You need to upload the full size versions somewhere. Archive them as PNGs to minimize compression artefacting - hopefully, since the DVDs aren't exactly free of them as it is...
Keep 'em coming OptimusTimelord. It is so appropriate to view these G1 backgrounds in 2014, the 30th anniversary of Transformers G1.
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