Titan UK's Transformers Animated Sideswipe, now in color

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Sol Fury, Oct 8, 2008.

  1. Digilaut

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    Horrible..don't know who the artist is, and if he/she is a respected TF artist, but this artwork is shoddy at best.

    When you're basing your art on a specific branche of TF that's great for it's specific style, I'd say either do that style good or don't try that style at all. This is just half-assed work.

    Just my opinion, of course. :) 
     
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    Oh god, he looks like a monkey... Looks to be 'a chimp off the old block!'
     
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    It wouldn't be that bad if it weren't for that horrendous mouth.

    He looks like a duck.

    And if it weren't a Transformers book I wouldn't be able to guess he turns into something except for those wheels.
     
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    The wheels look so out of place and they make Sideswipe look worse than he already is.
     
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    Are you guys sure he's even a robot? He looks like a human villian, similar to "Bee Man".
     
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    So someone said, "Armada Sideswipe is the worst "Sideswipe" ever!"

    Then someone else said, "Oh yeah? Check-and-mate my friend!"

    Is that how this happened?
     
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    Ugh! Seriously. I would say its ok if its some sort of human villain but not a robot.
     
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    OMG!!! :puke: 
     
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    one word....

    LAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Said NB is sad.... :( 
     
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    Any judging by the mouth we have a crossovers donald duck
     
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    It looks like Hot Rod and Gizmo Duck from Ducktales did the nasty. FAIL:throw 
     
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    Magelite I make stupid look good

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    It looks like some anorexic guy had his upper layers of skin and muscle burnt off, then painted his bare flesh gold and put on a pair of washing-up gloves. Terrible.

    However, I do like the look of the villan. You just know a guy with that facial hair is going to rock.
     
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    It's like they took the Animated aesthetic and exponentially increased its unrealistic-ness a hundredfold. Doesn't work.
     
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    i hate the design, if you didnt tell me id never guess it was a Transformer. however, im feeling somewhat inspired by this design...
     
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    I'm usually pretty lenient...but man I got draw the line with this. It's an interesting take on the animated style but it's not for me. Give me big chins!!!
     
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    Ick, I'll wait to see what he looks like in show if ever. This abomination is a nice attempt for a comics only character, but hopefully Isenberg and others will retcon him out via animation by showing he's not part of their universe.

    Man, at least the JLU and TT only comic characters actually looked awesome.
    This is just, wtf, I'd accept him as another junkion, or even as huffer, but sideswipe this is not, he has no nods of anything sideswipe from any universe. He's more like one of the Victory Car Robots than anything. Bleh, hope he never gets a toy, which is probably a good thing as it doesn't look like he can transform realisticly either. Windcharger would have been another good name to use instead. =/
     
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    Okay, it's a horrible design IF he's a robot. From what I can see, I would wager a guess that he's a villain trying to emulate the TF's b/c it looks like someone in a costume that might have some kind of crappy transformation effect (like the Exosuit Spike wore). It doesn't look like a robot. Heck, he has an organic and giant gloves and looks evil, so I'm thinking he's a villain and maybe we had some "mis-information" on him somewhere. I'm hoping at least...
     
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    Waa-ho-ho-hooooah! Now that I see him in colour, that is one weird-ass design. :sly:  I mean, when netkid posted up that "Iron Man" colourised version of the design in the other thread, I laughed, but that's because I thought it was just a joke; didn't particularly expect the finalised design to end up looking exactly like it!

    It's got to be a reference/teaser of his RotF design, it's just got to be; there's no other reason that such a previously G1-inspired series would suddenly break from tradition in such an odd way. There's nothing wrong with that idea in itself, but the problem is the way they've tried to combine the movie design with elongated, rubbery Animated proportions, a G1 red colour and this funky Iron Man tribute look, with the gloves and the gold; the combination is just too weird to work, so we just get this thing that looks like an emaciated chimp at a Marvel cosplay event, and absolutely nothing like any Transformer I've ever seen. :peoples: