It looks PHENOMENAL! (In that it does indeed look entirely natural, you animation wizard you!)  

 

Lol thanks! I think if I'd actually filmed his real actual transformation, it wouldn't look very natural at all, if that makes sense  

Plus I generally find that the animators handled the transformations very well in those early days (logical, detailed, thought-through); especially considering most character models were quite different to the toys, so they were basically invented with no physical figure to draw from.

 

It is glorious! Did you have to photoshop/cheat a lot of it?

Edit: Nevermind, just saw the previous post about the "cheating".

 

Yeah in fact the arms folding up are about the only thing not altered! I made the faux chest get bigger and become the real car windows/roof, and of course had to find a way of not having his legs splay out/rotate around at the hip.

 

You did some very clever and fabulous work.

 

Cheers!

Looped versions...




Seems like forever ago that I made this earlier version of Sideswipe!

 

Dang man, that's some high quality cheats you've pulled off!

 

Thanks bud, yeah many many layers per frame    

 

BRAVO!!!!

Fantastic work, once again, OT! Sunstreaker’s transformation as you’ve presented it does indeed look very natural and fluid. It’s great to see these two together in your work, I’m looking forward to seeing what else you put together with MP-39. I’m also curious to find out if his level of articulation ends up being helpful when recreating frames.

Excellent work, good sir!

 

Have my babies!!! Or I'll have yours... whichever you prefer

 

Thanks, and I'm sure it will be... stuff like double jointed elbows and knees make it a lot easier to animate (not having to cheat after the fact with Photoshop  ).

Sorry I only do Jelly Babies  

 

Wow, I am just amazed by your work. Thank you so much for these.

 

@OptimusTimelord Any chances of a full on Autobots roll call scene?

 

Really digging all the symmetrical movements in the Sunstreaker transformation. Pleasingly robotic.  

 

Just out of curiosity, which MP figures that you have stop motion animated have required the least amount of cheating to get a toon accurate transformation?

 

Nice!!!

 

Time for a Masterpiece ReAnimated video...  

Thanks for all that you do.  

 

Just noticed how you made Sideswipe's shoulder cannon "telescope" for transformation. I think a lesser animator would have just made it disappear between frames. Well done sir, well done!

 

Thanks for the kind words  

Definitely... just a decent Cliffjumper away!

Thanks, I'm pleased with how it turned out.

Interesting question... I'd say guys like Grimlock and the seekers, because they're closest to the original G1 transformations. Anything with faux parts or elaborate transformations needs more cleaning up.

 

Lol cheers, that was actually inspired by the original drawn frames, which show a similar thing going on.

 

Nice - how do the carbots you have animated fare?