Transformers artist Emiliano Santalucia has just posted some Transformers: Age of Extinction concept art up on his blog The art shows various scenes of the Autobots and Dinobots riding into battle, and here’s what Emiliano himself had to say about it:
“Just a couple of months ago I received approval on showing at least one piece of the work I did for Transformers Age of Extinction movie.This is one of the craziest piece I did for the fourth Transformers movie and it was a lot of fun to work on.I did it under the direction of the mighty Aaron Archer who gave me a ton of details to fit into one single image.
I started with a couple of simple composition/mood studies, and then went into the full rendering.
We went throw a lot lot of revisions, including adding Drift, the sparkles and later on we also decided to change the color of the sky.
I loved adding all the dust and atmospheric elements, creating chaos during the battle.
There is so much going on that something can get lost, like Bumblebee fighting a bunch of Decepticons behind Grimlock.
There will be more? The title of the post suggests yes, as I did several other pieces, so, hopefully I’ll get permissions to show some others in the following years.”
Check it out and discuss after the break!
Novaburnhilde
Very cool concept art~
moreprimeland
Love these, wonderful concept works!!
unicronic
Some other concept art of this kind (Autobots riding Dinobots) shows Drift with the same color scheme as the upcoming RID Drift.
Moy
Who knows, I don't know what they're waiting for.
SilverOptimus
Take a look:
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans…526-even-more-age-extinction-concept-art.html
Autovolt 127
If Optimus did carry that flag in the final battle, it would have made AOE a lot more awesome.
I love awesome concept art like this.
MasterZero
Why isn't there a Transformers movie artbook?
Digilaut
I wasn't even aware there was a concept like that, but it seems you're right.
Oh man, would have loved to see that. I think the final Lockdown design was pretty cool, but also a bit generic. Would have loved a skinnier, spikier, poncho-wearing Lockdown – pretty much how he looked in Animated and IDW but movie-fied.
Ironhide1234
Again, Peterbilt Prime is BETTER.
SilverOptimus
The art shows the skinny Lockdown with a poncho, if I'm not mistaken. One of the earliest versions of him.
A lot of these concepts are so good that I really wish they were in the movie. I really really love Emiliano Santalucia's work. That flag carried by Optimus should have been in the movie. The scene would have looked way more heroic.
Milyor
very chaotic, too much going on, very much like the final film
Moy
Chaotic, good mood.
Chris James
The flag would've been a bit too much.
Andratron
I like how "G1ee" Dirft looks there with his colors! Cool to see that they actually considered it!
Digilaut
Hohohohohoho holy shit! This is AWESOME.
Very nice, Emiliano!
kaijuguy19
I dig how Optimus is carrying a flag with the Autobot crest on it. It reminds me of something out of a historical war movie like in a Kurosawa film or a knight movie.
Russian fan
Cooool! Especially biggest art! Remind pictures about historic battle!
mariobros27772
Those stingers on Bee look amazing. Reminds me of Animated, especially with the blue. Would love to see use that in the future.