Additional Unused Concept Art by Floro Dery - Mechanobeast, Quintessa, Junkion, Crystal of Power
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"Massive grabber from a hole on the spiked moon of the Quintesson planet, from the animated Transformers movie."
"Close shot of the junk lined corridor of the Junkion planet, from the Transformers series."
"The Crystal of Power from "Fire on the Mountain"
"The mechano-beast, from the animated Transformers movie."
Sabrblade has also looked at the image closely, and figured out its actual identity:
A closer examination reveals this to be the combined form of the enigmatic Anibots, who were the prototypical Predacons conceived as an Autobot subgroup instead of Decepticons. So, it isn't actually something that existed in anything official.
The smaller text reveals even more:
"The Anibots: Rhinoceros (Clump), Eagle (Shriek), Lion (Simba), Buffalo (Thump), & Leopard (Pardo).They combine to become the 'Mechano-Beast'. This is the end of the three versions. The 1st version looks like a monster with outer spiketail structure & transforms a second time to an alien spaceship. The 3rd version is a 'Hydra' with five heads. The 'Mechano-Beast' in simplified form."
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Posted by Bumblevivisector on February 9th, 2014 @ 2:01pm CST
Given his eventual status as Predaking's archenemy, I wonder if Dery had seen the Sky Lynx toy before drawing this. No real evidence of it here, but as he was the first truly dragon-ish TF, and had a spaceship mode as mentioned in the text, I have to wonder if it was an influence.
Posted by fenrir72 on February 9th, 2014 @ 6:19pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on February 9th, 2014 @ 6:23pm CST
Sky Lynx's mold was from the same toyline as Omega Supreme's mold, so it probably already existed back then.fenrir72 wrote:Or Skylynx was the eventual result of the early concept. Back then, I doubt if the technology would have spawned an actual toy.
Posted by MGrotusque on February 10th, 2014 @ 1:42pm CST
Posted by Cyberpath on March 15th, 2014 @ 6:56pm CDT
Unvorsum is the poetic Latin word for the Universe. Unvorsum, shown in the first drawing above, is a galactic robot, he's a transmuter in the symbiotic topological realm that's parallel to the physical Universe. He derives his power from an enormous black hole in his body, and through an opening he devours planets, stars and other galaxies. Unvorsum topologically transmutes into a multi-dimensional gigantic galaxy, as shown in the second drawing, that's greater than any known galaxy. Attached to his back is his parasitic mini-sidekick galaxy. Copyright (c) 2013 by Floro Dery.
Signed prints are available at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/FDartstudio
It reminds me of this piece from an old interview.
TFPH: If you told to create Unicron in your style, do you think he still be a planet? or something else? like a giant space crab perhaps.
Floro Dery: I was not told by anyone when I created the design of Unicron. In fact, the writer's idea is different from mine. However, if I redesign Unicron again, I will make him bigger and like a galaxy.
Posted by Sabrblade on March 15th, 2014 @ 7:45pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on March 16th, 2014 @ 4:28pm CDT
Posted by Dead Metal on March 16th, 2014 @ 5:33pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Turns out it's not Transformers art. It's copyrighted 2013, being something he recently came up with.
I got that just from looking at the picture.
Posted by RK_Striker_JK_5 on March 16th, 2014 @ 6:26pm CDT
Posted by Cyberpath on May 11th, 2014 @ 3:13am CDT
The temple of the Sky God on the moon Titan. (from the episode The God Gambit.)
Galvatron defending the Decepticon Hall of Heroes from Unicron.
Notice the two Cyclonus.
Posted by Dead Metal on May 11th, 2014 @ 4:24am CDT
Cyberpath wrote:Two new signed prints from Floro Dery:
The temple of the Sky God on the moon Titan. (from the episode The God Gambit.)
Galvatron defending the Decepticon Hall of Heroes from Unicron.
Notice the two Cyclonus.
Yea, those two Cyclonus are still from when Cyclonus was supposed to have a clone army similar to Scourge and his Sweeps.
Any news on his artbook?
Posted by Cyberpath on July 18th, 2014 @ 9:30am CDT
The Quintesson and the Sharkticons in the court chamber.
The 3rd version Autobot spaceship and also the 3rd version fiery planet Thrull and its moons.
Ultra Magnus, 3rd version.
Looks a lot like Orion Pax, actually.
Posted by Hans on July 18th, 2014 @ 9:40am CDT
Posted by triKlops on July 18th, 2014 @ 10:03am CDT
Posted by Cyberpath on July 18th, 2014 @ 1:26pm CDT
Yes. Later I redesigned and simplified this Ultra Magnus to become Orion Pax.
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 18th, 2014 @ 4:35pm CDT
Posted by Cyberpath on July 27th, 2014 @ 2:33pm CDT
There seems so many confusing ideas going around among Transformers fans in the development of the animated Transformers movie. When I was designing the said movie I just designed whatever I wanted, once done I gave them to the studio, and that was that. I had no more control afterward whether the studio will use it or not, but most of the time my designs were used and others were not. My Ultra Magnus design shown here was not used in the movie, so I redesigned and modified it to become Orion Pax that the studio used in the Transformers series. I'll tell my daughter to post the design of Orion Pax in her Etsy store. By the way, to correct the misconception, my Ultra Magnus design was based on an angel and NOT BASED on the toy Powered Convoy, and I had nothing to do with the final Ultra Magnus used in the movie. About the book, my daughter and nephew are working on it slowly, hahaha. It's just a sideline work of my daughter who's working full time as a lawyer.
Posted by Hans on July 28th, 2014 @ 2:55am CDT
I had nothing to do with the final Ultra Magnus used in the movie
Hmmm, I assume he did design the animation model based on the actual toy as he also did with all the season two and most of the season one Transformers... right?
Posted by RSDADDIMUS2 on August 5th, 2014 @ 9:50am CDT
Posted by Cyberpath on October 21st, 2014 @ 2:28am CDT
Shown on the left side is the 1st version of Quintesson, and on the right side is the final version.
Signed prints are available at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/FDartstudio
The moon of Unicron and its transformation Mini-Unicron.
Posted by Hans on October 21st, 2014 @ 2:45am CDT
Can anyone decipher the text in the Quintesson piece? I wish there was a higher-resolution version available... from what I can tell, Floro explains the inspiration for the various head designs...
Posted by Cyberpath on October 21st, 2014 @ 3:27am CDT
Hans wrote:I always thought the Quintesson designs were the most "out there" as far as high fantasy in G1 goes, really awesome and unique designs. The first design is a lot more conventional, but still very cool.
Can anyone decipher the text in the Quintesson piece? I wish there was a higher-resolution version available... from what I can tell, Floro explains the inspiration for the various head designs...
Face 1: I used a Pharaoh skull-like face to suggest kingly authority and death.
Face 2: I used a fat face with a sun-like-rays headgear to suggest a happy and smiling face.
Face 3: Here I used the face of evil (devil-like) to suggest an angry face.
Face 4: I used a stern and barbarian face to suggest a grimacing face.
Face 5: And here I used an old woman-like face to suggest a suspicious face.
Posted by Hans on October 21st, 2014 @ 3:49am CDT
Posted by Va'al on October 21st, 2014 @ 3:57am CDT
Shown on the left side is the 1st version of Quintesson, and on the right side is the final version.
Face 1: I used a Pharaoh skull-like face to suggest kingly authority and death.
Face 2: I used a fat face with a sun-like-rays headgear to suggest a happy and smiling face.
Face 3: Here I used the face of evil (devil-like) to suggest an angry face.
Face 4: I used a stern and barbarian face to suggest a grimacing face.
Face 5: And here I used an old woman-like face to suggest a suspicious face.
The moon of Unicron and its transformation Mini-Unicron.
Posted by hunter4life on October 21st, 2014 @ 6:28am CDT
but i love the quintessons concepts and lilithon? i dunno. must be their concept of the citizens.
Posted by Sabrblade on October 21st, 2014 @ 8:03am CDT
It says "First version of Quintesson."hunter4life wrote:but i love the quintessons concepts and lilithon? i dunno. must be their concept of the citizens.
Posted by Noideaforaname on October 21st, 2014 @ 9:17am CDT
Unicron having a Fly-Mini-Me is just bizarre.
Posted by ScottyP on October 21st, 2014 @ 10:10am CDT
Posted by Hans on October 21st, 2014 @ 10:18am CDT
Posted by craggy on October 21st, 2014 @ 1:29pm CDT
Posted by hunter4life on October 21st, 2014 @ 4:19pm CDT
It says "First version of Quintesson."
oops my bad! but i wished we got the humanoid Quintessons in the movie rather than having just floating heads with seven different faces and personalities.
Posted by Bumblevivisector on October 22nd, 2014 @ 1:12am CDT
In that early script draft that hit the web via Disciples of Boltax in 2010, they were actually both. They started out humanoid, but with robes concealing most of their bodies so that you only saw the face that was rotated forward at the time, using the death mask only when ordering an execution/announcing a verdict. Then, when attacked by the Dinobots, they escaped by blasting their "heads" off of what were revealed to be just puppet bodies, their actual form indeed being the most familiar one.hunter4life wrote:It says "First version of Quintesson."
oops my bad! but i wished we got the humanoid Quintessons in the movie rather than having just floating heads with seven different faces and personalities.
So, I think that's what this humanoid version is supposed to represent, rather than a different type of Quint with a different function. (Has someone been able to decipher all of that text?) Considering the scale inconsistencies the Quints suffered in the cartoon, I wonder just how big the humanoid puppet form was supposed to be; could be anywhere from standard TF to gestalt size.
Posted by Dead Metal on October 22nd, 2014 @ 3:12am CDT
Posted by Cyberpath on October 22nd, 2014 @ 5:49am CDT
My nephew, Kuest, is working during his spare time preparing that book. My daughter is just waiting for him so that she can edit it. There are simply many information needed to be incorporated in every design, and there are hundreds of designs.
Posted by Cyberpath on March 23rd, 2015 @ 5:26pm CDT
MY 2014 VERSION OF UNICRON
Unicron rips Cybertron apart as Autobot and Decepticon warships attack. Also shown are Mini-Unicron and the five moons of Cybertron.
Signed prints are available at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/FDartstudio
Posted by triKlops on March 23rd, 2015 @ 6:40pm CDT
i just wish the Transformers prints weren't out of my wallet size.
Excellent work regardless.
Posted by fenrir72 on March 23rd, 2015 @ 9:35pm CDT
This would surely sell (just don't make it hardbound)
Posted by Sabrblade on March 23rd, 2015 @ 11:47pm CDT
Posted by Rodimus Prime on March 24th, 2015 @ 12:21am CDT
Posted by Va'al on March 24th, 2015 @ 5:12am CDT
MY 2014 VERSION OF UNICRON
Unicron rips Cybertron apart as Autobot and Decepticon warships attack. Also shown are Mini-Unicron and the five moons of Cybertron.
Signed prints are available at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/FDartstudio
Posted by Dead Metal on March 24th, 2015 @ 5:17am CDT
But daaaayum, look at all the stuff that's going on in there, sadly the digital preview is too small to makeout everything so it looks a bit like a mess, but what you can makeout is amazing.
Edit:
So reading the description, this isn't actual concept art from the movie, but seems to be something he did last year.
Posted by Va'al on March 24th, 2015 @ 5:30am CDT
Dead Metal wrote:Edit:
So reading the description, this isn't actual concept art from the movie, but seems to be something he did last year.
Yeah, I edited the story to have that be clearer.
Posted by Amelie on March 24th, 2015 @ 5:44am CDT
Wish I could afford a print
Posted by Cyberpath on March 24th, 2015 @ 7:12am CDT
It's amazing how Floro's new work looks good as as ever.
Posted by Sabrblade on March 24th, 2015 @ 8:11am CDT
See here for his "eccentricities" - http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Floro_Dery#Participation_in_the_modern_fandomCyberpath wrote:He doesn't strike me as eccentric to be honest.
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on March 24th, 2015 @ 8:28am CDT
Posted by -Soundwave- on May 5th, 2015 @ 10:27am CDT
Posted by Cyberpath on July 25th, 2015 @ 12:50pm CDT
The Transformers Quintesson castle and Ariel (later redesigned and renamed as Elita)
Signed prints are available at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/FDartstudio
Posted by Va'al on July 27th, 2015 @ 1:54pm CDT
The Transformers Quintesson castle and Ariel (later redesigned and renamed as Elita)
Signed prints are available at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/FDartstudio
Posted by Cyberpath on July 27th, 2015 @ 4:53pm CDT
A little about his processes: someone asked why his designs sometimes feature a copy with exposed internal parts, to which Floro answered:
Style. Besides, it's practical to start from something that's complicated and then simplify it.