Tag: autobots

theswerviest:

agatharights:

specialopsschoolteacher:

[[Mun Musing: It occurs to me that the way Arcee’s head opens up seems very orderly- her helm splits along lines of color. Do other bots’ heads open up similarly easy? With the right medical codes, could you make Megatron’s helm open up? Or Optimus’?]]

Things to draw: Other TFA Bots with their helms open. Does Bumblebee’s helm open like this? We’ve seen him take his helmet off, wholesale- is that a feature of his framtype? Could Arcee do that, or is her helmet more attached? SO MANY THOUGHTS???? How many different helm styles are there, for bots?

I ASSUME that it differs for different bots no matter the frame. I think that it could depend on the model and how old it is. Like Wasp and BBB have the same newer frame type but they have difference face shapes and helms. And then Blurr and Cheetor have the same helm and frame but different face shapes. But Ironhide and Ratchet have the same face shape but different helms. Then there are bots like the Autotroopers and Ironfist that look the exactly the same except for the paint job. So each frame probably has it’s own set of face shapes and helm designs but I think newer frames have more variety and probably more features.

Alternatively it could just be that during the War combatant bots have their helms attached to their frames as a safety precaution. So they were able to extend open up/fold away but not come fully off except for a few cosmetic pieces. Then when the war ended the Autobots got more creative with their frames and designs. 

ckret2:

picsofprowl:

Apparently Prowl’s face resembles the face of Primus

[They are not talking about Prowl. I’m just saying.]

In earlier comics, the symbol is referred to as the “First Face.” It’s talked about in Spotlight: Orion Pax. It’s basically the Cybertronian equivalent of the generic yellow smiley face—in the way that the generic smiley face is supposed to represent any/every human, the First Face is supposed to represent every Cybertronian. Which is specifically why the Autobots took that symbol, because it represents “everyone.”

Since the symbol is ancient and well-known enough for the Autobots to deliberately adopt it for its “it’s everyone” meaning, my headcanon is that Prowl, being cold constructed, was designed to have a deliberately bland “looks like anyone else” face. Like those images where a thousand different photos of human faces are averaged together to create a single vaguely attractive but extremely generic face—Prowl’s face is the Cybertronian equivalent of that. Which is why his face looks similar to the face that looks like “everyone.”

Interesting if that means there’s a huge batch of bland-looking mass-produced cold constructed bots wandering around that, accidentally, have godly-looking faces.

white-aster:

fuzipenguin:

iopele:

transformershitposts:

do you think cybertronians researched things such as dry ice and other winter hazardous road conditions, or had to learn from experience? ‘cuz all i can see the autobots readying up for battle in the icy roads of canada, and they don’t know about the curse that is canada’s highways and just spin out when trying to chase decepticons

optimus: roll oUT –HOLY PRIMUS

@rayearthmagic @ladydragon76 @the-sparkbeat @rizobact

And half of the Autobots are sports cars – how many Lamborghinis or Porsches would end up in a snowdrift? 😊

The Decepticons find this fucking hilarious.  They start hitting all the Canadian oil fields in winter for JUST THIS REASON.

bossbotfiretruck:

Random TFA Headcanon:

The most loved, beautiful Cybertronian poem survives only as a fragment with no author. The Autobots praise it and believe it to be the most beautiful poem in existence, possibly written by the first Magnus himself.

In reality, it was written by Megatron. Every Decepticon knows it in its entirety and loves it too. They have the full poem engraved everywhere. The Autobots, being stubborn, refuse to believe any Decepticon that tells them who the Author is and tries to finish the poem.

megarowboat:

multifacetedmuse:

megarowboat:

ok art’s, like, not a thing on tfa cybertron (nobody knew what it was in headmaster) but they also have these giant stained glass windows??

does this not count as art or…

You know what, Transformers Animated has so many plot holes for their culture I’ve genuinely spend time thinking about them. For example Blitzwing in episode 11 ‘Lost and Found’ tells Lugnut:

[Lugnut stomps on a lunar rover by mistake]
Blitzwing:  [Hothead] Careful, you copper-clad klutz! You stepped in something!
Blitzwing:  [switches to Random] But with a few dancing lessons, you’ll be light on your stabilizing servos like me! Cha-cha-cha!

So Decepticons have dance, but not music because Megatron calls Sari’s music ‘odd sound patterns’

BUT Rosanna is an Autobot singer: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rosanna_(Animated) so they have singing as a concept on Cybertron. Does that mean dancing is done to singing back on cybertron? Or is it by some other means?

Also, regarding art, in the official Transformers animated comic, The Arrival, set during the pilot of TFA; Blitzwing is is a public speaker at Megatron’s funeral, and he built a statue to commemorate Megatron, does that not count as art?

I have put too much thought into this cartoon.

same tho,,

ok ok maybe it’s that only younger autobots don’t know what art is. maybe it used to be a thing waaay back when, even before ratchet was around, but then they stopped doing it for some reason. maybe decepticons have a healthy art community.

and—wait, isn’t rosanna a decepticon double agent or something? it’s implied that she’s flip sides, isn’t it? so actually decepticons… should know what music is, right? or was that just not important enough for megatron to teach himself about? maybe cybertronian music is different from earth music or something?

One moment Bumblebee is a relative size to Bulkhead, the next panel he’s the size of Bulk’s forearm. Same with any Con. One moment its just a short dude with a bunch of big ones, the next they have literally picked Bee up by the waist and he’s the size of a kindergartner compared to them.

proxyjammer:

I have to assume you’re talking about TFA bc while TFP uses a lot of camera tricks to play with characters’ perceived heights, they’re still CGI so I have to assume the models are p consistent, but TFA is not as consistent in their proportions. Some things I let pass, such as the scene where Longarm transforms into Shockwave and instead of growing 2x his size he’s only like… 3 feet taller, if that, or when Blurr and Bee are talking and Blurr is waaaaaaay too short for the scene, since those are breaking model and height in favor of story flow and being coherent, but there’s some scenes that are like… really EEEEH…

Other examples of weird sizing things and general animation errors I can think of off the top of my head:
– There’s a scene where they forget to color in the dark blue on one of Blurr’s hands
– Optimus should be roughly ¾ths Megatron but there’s at least 3 scenes I can think of where he’s shown as ½ Megs and it’s like nO MEGATRON’S HAND IS NOT THAT BIG ON HIM THIS AINT WONDER OVER YONDER THE PROTAG SHOULD NOT BE SITTING IN THE PALM OF THE BADDIE’S HAND LIKE THAT
– Not an error but I think it’s interesting that the purple toy of Shockwave has Longarm with yellow optics like Shockwave has in G1 tho in show it has him with blue optics still
– There’s 2 different ways that the animators show Shockwave’s helm from the front; sometimes it’s concave and sometimes it’s convex
– Shockwave’s elbows are meant to be at the place you’d think elbows are at but there’s at least one scene where his arm instead bends at the part that connects to the shoulder kibble, which I gUESS can be written off as he has stretchy arm abilities and technically any part of his arm can be the elbow

Also I made this on impulse a few months back based on info I know and LOTS of screenshots:

Shockwave’s height is hard to judge from screenshots, but it should be around 2x blurr, and very close to Megatron’s height. I don’t know if he’s taller or shorter tbh. Top red line is Megs btw, based on these, which I aLSO MADE ON IMPULSE BASED ON MY EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF SCREENSHOTS:

Not PERFECT, esp in the case of Lugnut bc his fuckin height is entirely based on the scene he’s in, it’s very very frustrating. But overall, I think this is probably decently accurate? give or take.