Storyboard test using MTMTE deleted scene up for auction

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    The ebay store Pop-King has been auctioning signed items from former Marvel Productions alumni Brian Ray. Who was a storyboard artist on season 1, before moving to the position of Overseas Animation Supervisor on many of Marvel's shows until the end of their 1988 commitments. At which point, he moved on to Disney for Talespin.

    Previous auctions from his collection have included a full storyboard set for the GI Joe episode Cobra's Creatures. Main cast model sheets for Dungeons & Dragons, plus several model sheets from season 5 of Muppet Babies.

    The first TF items to be put up are both rough and final storyboards, showing a deleted scene from More Than Meets The Eye, part 1. I believe this is not the actual production storyboard, but rather his test for being hired for season 1. A similar test sequence done by Marvel artist Elaine Hultgren - using Blaster Blues for the story - is up at the archive: Sunbow and Marvel Productions Script/Storyboard Archive: MP 700 The Transformers, Part 1 1984 - 1985 (Sunbow Productions/Marvel Productions)

    It shows events from page 20 and 21 of the script. Depicting the volcano "Several Days Later" after the eruption, covered in hardened lava. It is likely that new pages will be added daily.

    Roughs on regular paper: THE TRANSFORMERS 1984 BRIAN RAY SIGNED Production Hand Drawn Storyboard Page #RB | eBay

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    Finals using standard MP six-panel pages: THE TRANSFORMERS 1984 BRIAN RAY SIGNED Production Staff Copy Storyboard Page #RB | eBay


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    In preparation for possibly more storyboard, I've gone and got the relevant two pages of the script showing how the scene originally played out

    Pages from 4023 The Transformers Day One.pdf_Page_1.jpg Pages from 4023 The Transformers Day One.pdf_Page_2.jpg
     
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    This was just a test by an artist looking to get hired. Same thing with the Elaine Hultgren test a year later, it was more about showing what they could do visually.
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