I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

Thanks!

In the second picture, at the bottom, is the fifth vehicle in the lineup Ratchet's Diaclone precursor among all the Machine Robos? Or did Machine Robo have its own ambulance van toy?

I'm begging the small local community groups in Ireland to please consider reframing their use of AI design work this way. The amount of drama and theatre groups in my sphere that I see using AI posters now just makes me sad.

Why not an eldritch, abominable apostle of incomprehensible evils, that's roughly of average height?

Was that... Duel Masters?

Yes it has. In 2024, I went to the theater with a friend, she saw the poster for Transformers One (the one with Orion holding up the Matrix), and her instant reaction was "Why is the transformer on the poster pulling a goatse on the sky?"

One of the most under-the-radar insidious aspects of most of these tech companies being from strongly monolingual countries, is that they seem to ignore that many people in the world speak more than one language. e.g. : I still can't get Google to understand that I'm interested in bilingual results.

Me too! Never knew what it was until just now when I saw this picture!

Even as someone who only experienced G1 as an adult through the internet (and thus has mostly only seen copy-degraded versions of the episodes), I've always wondered why those three final episodes in particular look so much darker and badly preserved than the rest of the series.

I guess you could cut both of them diagonally at the tips, so that there's a better joint between them, since that way there'd be a bigger contact area than if you put them tip against tip. It'd also allow you to easily drive a screw or nail into them without needing any extra wood.

Agh, I hope they restore/archive them regardless of Hasbro's attitude. With companies like that, you never know if they'll be helpful, or become yet another roadblock.

The chestplate is not part of Onslaught, it's hidden inside the "trailer"'s big cannon, the one that ends up on Bruticus' back.

This is something I've always found utterly bizarre about USA culture in general. Violence, blood and the occasional mutilation, stuff you'd definitely wish to spend a lifetime without living IRL, are fine; but something normal like a nude person, is terrifying and inconceivable.

Have we ever gotten a G1-style Bumblebee with arm wheels? I can't remember there being any off the top of my mind. Would be a cool remold for a Retro version, given the one that's out now doesn't even have a toy-style head.

The smaller feet are cool, I wish they'd implemented that little trick on the 86 version. I guess they wanted the legs to be fully black, and the budget couldn't stretch enough to add a step that hid the bonnet parts that would end up on the shins, based on what we're seeing on this remold.

I want titan masters or titan master sized figures of the main human characters from across the Transformers multiverse in general

I didn't know that Tolkien painted. This is great.

Using genAI alienates you from everyone else. It doesn't democratize art, it atomizes it.

No genAI user is gonna get an outpouring of sincere support from others because even they themselves don't give a fuck about what they're making.

Probably misappropriated because "lost media" gets more clicks than "out of print"

"Well, took an hour to write. I thought I'd take an hour to read!"

Perhaps, Henshin Cyborg used to be a professional... Boxer? Until he got kicked in the dick one too many times and had to have his body replaced with a robotic one.
(It's likely they reused the head because there's no point sculpting a whole new head when you can just use one you have lying around)

A white mouse with pink nose, feet and tail. She turns into a robot. Her tail becomes a long rifle.

In Transformers Beast Wars, Rattrap calls Arcee his great aunt. So I drew Arcee as a mouse. I think mouse mode is cute!

Was there ever an official Rattrap repainted as Arcee, like a BotCon thing or something?

I was thinking, since the ox and the cart form a single robot body, perhaps Ultra Magnus could have been a more interesting fit. But yeah, I get why it's always these four, but on the other hand I suspect fatigue will set in pretty quickly if they don't rotate the roster a bit.

I think this is the best way to do them, really. It's like the designers are saying "See, we CAN get the head to the chest. But It would look inaccurate! So here's a little cover to make it look like it did on tv". I can imagine no better solution, short of giving the toy "two" robot modes!

In this context, what I mean by "foreign countries" is foreign colonial powers, UK, USA, Europe, Russia, China, etc.

That's a very odd card to play against a bunch of people who stated they come from "third world" countries that have actually experienced dictatorships. No, what I say is, uprisings can have many factions,yeah, but usually the ones supported by foreign countries that want to pillage you win out.

Don't know about Nepal, but in south america they've historically been tools for foreign powers to steal our shit, riling people up then turning on them. Hence the reaction the logical, cautious reaction from the poster you're answering to.

Most people from the first world don't get this, they dream of this kind of stuff because it's never been visited upon them the way it's been on countries like ours.

I've never been big on Kirkman, but so far I must say Void Rivals is my favorite Energon Universe series.