i had used photoshop for this illustration the Animated version of Beast War's short lived Protoform credits to Malunis_T
The idea was that he was a modified Protoform with shapeshifting abilities, hence the name. The most disfigured he gets is when he does too much and ends up looking like Autobot X. (Wow, so obscure, yeah?)
Yup; http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-fan-art/237942-animated-transomethingorother.html This thread is for a colored version of it. I notice there wasn't any mention of such, so this post should do well to inform further posters