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Tell us about Jet Sammmm he got fun design
IT IS TIME
Jet Sam has been a journey and more, him and the lore and stories I’ve been building and exploring wouldn’t have been possible without @justayoungling , truely they’ve probably cultivated my skill more than I could do on my own so let’s get into exploring the journey Sam has been on,
So the first frame for jet!Sam was created for the ugly duckling au, exploring the isolation and alienation from both humanity and cybertronians
He’s delicate, feels to flimsy and not very fit for his frame. Clumsy and prone to denting he often felt like something was always trying to break out, power that didn’t have the room it needed but had no words or the experience to know what to do with it or explain it. The autobots on the site with him somewhat knew his history of human to metal, destructor of the allspark. Not liking the human name “Sam” Sunstreaker and Sideswipe give him the new name “Prisam” a play on prism, a comment on how his wings would fracture the light like a prism.
Then I started talking with @justayoungling and they introduced their boyo atlas!
And so it started a spin off au where Windblade introduced them and Atlas saw Sam as a reflection of him, a young lost bot who seemed to have fate on his shoulders. Atlas having traces to ancient relics like the matrix, primes and the allspark, something we explored heavier later down. Atlas having small future visions and feeling that being with Sam is where he needed to be. So despite Sam’s reluctance they became fast friends.
Atlas having not known Sam as a human, Sam didn’t come across freaky-alien weird to Atlas, just another weird bot, but it’s okay because Atlas can be weird with him too, being a huge help to getting Sam comfortable flying
Together he and Sam forge a strong brotherhood, not many more jets flying around and they both need more socialising, flying frames enjoying flying with trines or in formation with each other a good thing for them. Finding themselves and their own path beside just following the next command from Prime.
Sam regardless of body, was made by Primes, something deep in his spark no matter of self dissonance he would always try to do the Prime thing. Something that came to head, a autobot spacecraft crashing down, it would have impacted and destroyed a large area and possibly kill the bots inside. Sam, Atlas and Windblade being the only flying autobots there was very little anyone else could do. So Sam chose to throw himself onto the craft, the heat and pressure of a crashing ship weilding himself to the ship trying to change its direction into the ocean. As the ship impacted the ocean the crushing force, the shock of heat to ice chilling water…
It worked. And only cost one bot.
But being a Prime, you never really stay dead, and Optimus trying to mourn and maybe give Sam some honor and peace in “death” he sent the some of the dust from the matrix into the ocean Sam lay at the bottom of.
Awakening and reformatting him into his second frame. And so rose from the ocean
Prismatic Prime
Who’s definitely gone through his own journey of designing! When he came from the ocean, there was only so much material to reformat with, considering how much it took to originally make his first frame. His wing panels so destroyed he had broken remnants of flight gears and not all completely functional. But Ratchet is nothing but a miracle mech and some serious dubious and unstudied medical work, they were able to graft the parts given to Optimus by jetfire to Sam.
Leaving him with the Cybertron equivalent of nerve damage to his wings, little feeling and he doesn’t carry them or emote with them like many expected behaviours of jets.
A Frankenstein of a mech if any medic got a good look under his plating
So I wanted to capture the essence of jetfire, in Sam, choosing the nighthawk (right) to carry on the blackbird (left)
Which was very technical and I’ve seriously grown my mech building skills from
the first concepts
First very similar to jetfires silhouette.
-large
-spooky
to the middle unrefined but clear image
I loved the idea of his Prime form being a contrast to Optimus and Rodimus, a jet, something more Unicron inspired like a warning, not to forget the evil that may come for anyone, Megatronus comments about how evil humanity felt manifesting for Sam to then use to invoke good with, preservance, determination an unrelenting and powerful spirit.
Colouring is not my strong suit. It’s ment to be like a burned and singed body compared to his te
to the refined stage!
I am very happy with his look, I made the wings easier to draw and more easier to read and relate to the nighthawk, and his COLOUR! So much more cohesive! He’s like a black cat of night! His pede talons are retractable but unlike others his servo claws aren’t. Traces of so many bots that made him who he is now, he is a walking history lesson in a language only few can only ever understand half of.
AND OF COURSE HE GLOWS! My little ancient artifact magnet can’t escape the marks of the allspark and primes before him. He’s ment to envoke the ocean, bioluminescence algae. Atlas swears that you can see the faint moving lines and marks on Sam when their not glowing, never gone completely
But truely Sam will never be a finished design, always gonna be trying new things and different things and be inconsistent but I’m really happy with his look now. Something that undeniably is threatening, a hunter, something that stalks the skys and shadows but forever has a warm look in his optics. He may always be mourning who he was, what was lost, but he’s resigned and accepted his now in for a very long game. And might as well take advantage of being “Primely” and force other bots to think he knows what he’s talking about
Maybe I can convey all I want to share and explore with him you all next year! One way to find out, or @justayoungling will be the continuing gatekeeper of all my ramblings and loose ends, can’t praise them enough how enjoyable it’s been with them!
And all the kiddos their sitting on…maybe we should get around to making more post able things to share the fun!
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the average twitter vs tumblr community experience
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you have no idea how enchanted I am by "Giant Robots and their tiny child who loves them" with TFA and is the entire reason I kept watching it
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and y’know i’ve always said that (this is a diversion to the horrible angst ill post next)
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"Mute B-127 AU" part 3 (TW: Blood)
What if B-127 was a little more annoying, and talked a little bit too much?
Part 3 of the "Mute B-127 AU", where I made Sentinel rip out Bee's voice box vv
First >> Prev >> Next
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every time I see a big robot hold/save a human I feel like. hmm. how does the big guy know when to stop squeezing and when the human goes pop
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oh... oh the implication of Jazz being hype over Soundwave's fangs... the implication of Soundwave being self conscious over them and seeing one of his (boyfriends? queer platonic partners??) being so elated to see he has them...
(also the fact that Jazz is into fangs is so wildly in character to me)
YESYES this is what im thinking of rn
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Transformers "More Than Meets The Eye" comic has recently torpedoed me down the feelsy space car robots hellhole, an therefore i present a sketchy collection of Lost Light crew as homo sapiens. I had SO MUCH fun coming up with the designs! Now off to actually learn how to draw robots i guess
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Tentacles in nerd colors, oh my!
This is for larbestaaargh, I’ll post part two of your gift in a few hours <3
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*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...
but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu
this has been a psa
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Every time someone complain about how "this choice is not moral, if you chose it/did this in this videogame you are a terrible person!" my mind plays this on repeat
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Description: An animatic on the origin of Megatron in the Aligned Continuity.
Hi everyone!
I finally got this done! And just in time for Transformers One to come out (PLEASE GO SEE IT IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY).
A few months ago I was hell-bent on learning how to storyboard and this was my first attempt! Of course I used my obsession as practice lol. I hope to post more animatic attempts in future, but with the new job things have been slow.....er....slower (being another cog in the machine is time consuming, what can I say?)
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed!
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i think the matrix should be haunted. as a treat <3
bonus:
imagine having thirteen ghosts watching you go through a break up and judging your taste in bfs. nightmare scenario.
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