Prima, of the 13 Primes.

Not that this is too much of a big reveal, as this image of Prima was published in last years' Transformers : Vault,* and has been scanned and posted across the internets.  But now I'm finally able to put it in my portfolio and talk about it a little bit.

This was a fun job!  I got to do final concept images for 11 of the 13 Primes, for Hasbro, Inc., creating updated source images.

I know Aaron and Rik (the Hasbro boys) have shown others I had worked on, like Leige Maximo, Vector Prime, etc. at conventions, but as far as I know, this is the only one out there.  Anyways, on to the image:

Again, working with Eric Siebenaler, I began a bunch of pencil sketches, but one clearly stood out, and it's basically a rough pencil version of what's above.  I themed him in a loose Samurai style, and reversed engineered details from Optimus Prime, to make that visual connection, as a descendant in the Prime Line.  He was nicknamed the Warrior of Light, so we went with a really ornate style, with the piped lighting over a quasi-mother of pearl armor.  The similar cues from Optimus only number a few, but are pretty overt - the facemask, helmet spikes, split chest 'windows', and I managed to put a G1 cue in there, the two bands over a triangle on the forearm.  The sword was a joint design effort, Eric had sketched out the two-bladed idea, with the Matrix in the hilt, so I basically redesigned it to fit the look of the character/armor.

So that's Prima.  And this round of Hasbro, Inc. images for Transformers.  But that doesn't mean the Hasbro fun is over - next week, concept art for Star Wars Fighter Pods!

*Sorry about the watermarks folks, it's the rules of the game for me to get this stuff on my site.