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Hi all,
Since October 13 artist Alex Pelayre has been sharing his concept art for the cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal game that was being delevoped by Niantic (Pokemon Go) on Twitter. So far he's shared 24 images covering "the main bots" covering a bunch of Autobots, Decepticons (including Constructicons and Devastator) and Soundwave's mini-cassettes in a new take on the G1 designs

Here‘s the first tweet in the chain (the rest can be read by following the link):
"Well, since the game was cancelled, here's some work I did for Transformers: Heavy Metal! I'm taking my time getting all the concepts in order, but I'll have more to show on my website eventually" https://twitter.com/AlexPelayre/status/ ... S0UvVRjZ5A

And all the images he’s posted so far:
















































A fascinating look at what might have been!

I like these designs a lot - quite a Milne / Su feel, to me, and appropriately 'heavy' given the title! Nice to see some less-used characters too (Shadowstriker AND Roulette??).

Have already followed the artist on twitter to see if he adds more

Glyph wrote:Have already followed the artist on twitter to see if he adds more

His last pic drop mentioned mini-cons...!

Isn't this the game that the Legacy Bulkhead mold was rumored to have originally been for? None of these designs really resemble him.

Emerje

Good, solid mix of IDW, WFC/FOC, and Evergreen design elements.

So Rumble is red, and Frenzy is blue...with sonic-drill-hands? I'm RIR/FIB to the end, but mostly because Frenzy deserves to be distinct, so this is even better! And Howlback would've been in it? Or just multiple Ravage clones in one outing?

The differences between Starscream and Slipstream have me wondering what their respective alts would've looked like. Guess I'd better follow this guy too.

Emerje wrote:Isn't this the game that the Legacy Bulkhead mold was rumored to have originally been for? None of these designs really resemble him.

Emerje

No, it's for the other news that dropped today: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ced/47407/

I love how they can have "feminine" forms, but not have them red-hot sexualized. Like how Chromia is a heavier Arcee, and SlipStream is a leaner StarScream.

toys please

Damn the concept art looks fun and consistent.
Toys please yes Grifitmus Prime, Toys!

Too bad the game died.

Please get the High Moon team back together and make a less high budget game (skim on the graphics) to just make it a good single player game so that the company doesn't go bankrupt after just 1 title.

griftimus prime wrote:toys please

That starscream looks strikingly similar to the POTP voyager Starscream

griftimus prime wrote:toys please

My thoughts exactly!

Starscream looks like a Gundam to me.

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:Isn't this the game that the Legacy Bulkhead mold was rumored to have originally been for? None of these designs really resemble him.

Emerje

No, it's for the other news that dropped today: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ced/47407/

Really? When you told me before that the mold was for "the video game that would have been out" it sounded like you were talking about a canceled game, not a future game.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:Isn't this the game that the Legacy Bulkhead mold was rumored to have originally been for? None of these designs really resemble him.

Emerje

No, it's for the other news that dropped today: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ced/47407/

Really? When you told me before that the mold was for "the video game that would have been out" it sounded like you were talking about a canceled game, not a future game.

Emerje

This other game was also said to have been cancelled.

Oh... looks like we won't be getting any further updates - the artist has deleted the tweets referenced above and password-protected the TF:HM concept art page on his site. Seems it wasn't meant to be published, or at least not as widely as it was; I went through his twitter updates and saw that he'd been asked to remove the art pieces.

Oooooorrrrr... a whole bunch more character art & mini-con designs might get posted over on tfw2005 instead

Thread here: Heavy Metal concepts, promo art & more

Sourced from artist T. Darren Chiu's Artstation account.


Gotta say, when they talked about mini-con designs, I wasn't expecting them to be quite so reminiscent of BotBots! Interesting mix of designs, looks like they were exploring silhouettes and concepts ranging from BotBots, through Wall-E, to 80s brick toys, to random bits of sci-fi machinery come to life.

Glyph wrote:Oooooorrrrr... a whole bunch more character art & mini-con designs might get posted over on tfw2005 instead

Thread here: Heavy Metal concepts, promo art & more

Sourced from artist T. Darren Chiu's Artstation account.

I don't want to be overdramatic but I am disappointed we won't get to see these in action - I love these designs so much! Terrific finds, Glyph!