Transformers Beast Wars Film Cheetor Early Concept Art By Rob Wiggins

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  1. mfic99us

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    The cheetah mod is passable, though I would prefer the organic skin to fit with the orginal reason behind the alt mode (shield them from the energon exposure). At least a chameleon feature to change it and make it LOOK like organic skin/fur?

    Bot mode.....utter disappointment.
     
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    It’s so horrible

    no

    more like updated classics beast wars u fools. Leave that messy bay shit behind.
     
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    They did. This concept predated TLK's release, this has been established and even the website mentions it being made "ages ago"
     
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    Ya, still plenty of time to learn from the 2007 designs.
     
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    The 2007 designs made fucking bank. They learned people liked it. The movies themselves were the biggest issue, hence why TLK, which mostly kept the same designs, was the one that broke that streak
     
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    Beast mode is alright but what tf is that original form it look ugly plz delete it im glad it\'s a early concept 
     
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    The thing about Beast Wars for me, is that the point is turning into realistic animals. And there's no way they're gonna use organic designs for a live action movie, so it's just gonna be the Dinobots from AoE all over again.

    So as much as I love the idea of a Beast Wars movie on paper, I just can't see them making it work without losing all the appeal for me.
     
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    You don't know what they're planning.
    Robotic beasts is missing the point
    Bay won't be directing
     
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    Cheetor-Transformers-Beast-Wars-Early-Concept-12.jpg D0a8O17VAAAkvs0.jpg
     
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    Ok then. So the artist is a nitwit. Did he just want some attention. I don't mind the alien cheetah mode, but the head and the colors have to go.
     
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    Chances are the NDA or whatever expired or he just stumbled upon the art in an old folder and decided to share it now that the movie had been canned. It's to build up his portfolio and show off his work to future contractors most likely. If he wanted to show the design off, I doubt he'd include the wire frames of it
     
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    yah..science an technology is the logic way. #VenusProject
     
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    very cool-- if change E4 for JP looks like a cool jurassic park truck too with this skin
     
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    I don’t believe their designs had an absolute bearing on the success of the 2007 movie. The 2007 movie was a success mainly because it was the first live action Transformers movie.

    If you want to argue about the designs being “good” you’re going to have a legion of fans against you. Very few people like them.

    Also, TLK designs were totally different and streamlined from the 2007 movie and looked pretty good. It was the story that ruined all of these movies.

    Anyway, this Cheetor design is horrible and does nothing to honour the original. It’s just a lazily drawn techy looking cheeta. And that bot mode just sucks. That head design is an eyesore. It gives me the feeling that the artist didn’t really give a fuck and just did “whatever”. Thumbs down from me.
     
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    The toys sold, even well before the movie came out. Then ROTF toys sold even more, and those toys were a lot more accurate. Said movies sold a lot and those designs were in the movies, that's really all I was saying with that first post.
     
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    Azuzu98 Still hyped as fuck for Rise of the Beasts

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    Yeah... Sure...
     
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    Why do people use "lazy" for something they don't like. Clearly it took a lot of work and even changes from a creative standpoint.

    While I don't necessarily care for this look, it would be far lazier to just "copy and paste" Cheetor as we know him.
     
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    Well, I'm a designer in the animation industry so maybe I can answer that question for you... If you saw this design randomly some where, and didn't know it was related to Transformers... Would you know it was Cheetor? Likely not.

    While, "copying and pasting" obviously isn't what we would want here, making a design that's inspired by the original, and recognizable as Cheetor would be something I would assume people would want. Otherwise, why bother even using the characters name? I use the term lazy because to me the design did none of that. That's the job of reinterpreting a Character in design. They didn't do that, and to me, that makes it a lazy design.

    Anyway, maybe that's why some people say "lazy". You said, "Why do people use the term lazy for something they don't like" So, there's my possible explanation for you... It's just a terrible design... But, to clarify... I don't like it BECAUSE it's lazy. I'm not calling it lazy "because I don't like it", I'm calling it lazy- because it's lazy, which makes me not like it. Yup.
     
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    Then it's a terrible design, not a lazy design.

    Lazy literally means unwilling to work or use energy.

    Work was done here. You may not like it. I don't like it. It's bad work based on the original character. But it's not lazy work.

    Lazy isn't an interchangeable word for something you don't like. That's distaste.
     
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