Aligned Continuity Soundwave Concept Art from Ken Christiansen
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 12:01PM CDT
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Ken has also informed us that in addition to BotCon he will also be attending Charticon later this summer:
In our ever expanding line-up of guests we are very happy to welcome Ken Christiansen to Charticon 2013! Ken has been working as an illustrator and concept designer for over fifteen years. Starting as a video game concept artist, at Nintendo of America (Ridge Racer 64, Pokemon Puzzle League), then moving to Los Angeles to work in games for the Walt Disney Company (Kingdom Hearts, Finding Nemo). In 2004, Ken started his own company, Bad Flip Productions, working for video game clients like Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, and Activision. After working with Activision on Transformers the Game, and the Revenge of the Fallen game, he began working freelance in media development for Hasbro Inc. (Transformers), doing concept art for their film, tv, book, games, and toy initiatives. That expanded into media development beyond the Transformers brand, including Star Wars, Spider-Man, and more.
Ken’s current work includes the cover runs on the Transformers Prime series (IDW), Star Wars Fighter Pods, and Ultimate Spider-Man Spider Pods. Along with other random bits and pieces, hanging off pegs in the toy aisles, book shelves, and video game departments…
He is my all time favorite Transformer. I lucked out, and got to take a pass at him. I got the assignment, and he was to be explored as a secret government FBI/CIA type SUV, in the style of 24, or a Presidential Caravan. I knew this was coming from his previous incarnation from Animated.
Transformed! As always, I try to keep as many classic cues in as possible, but there were a few things being asked from Aaron and Eric at Hasbro to try to add, like a movie style head, and there was something with the legs, though in the notes I can't seem to find any reference, probably was in an email that was deleted long ago.
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GuyIncognito wrote:I'm beginning to think the theme of this "Aligned Continuity" is boring alt modes.
Yeah, it should have been something like this... but you know, blue.
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I like the prime incarnation cos he's ominous and creepy in spite of the Lotr witch king look.
Posted by GuyIncognito on May 21st, 2013 @ 5:24pm CDT
MINDVVIPE wrote:GuyIncognito wrote:I'm beginning to think the theme of this "Aligned Continuity" is boring alt modes.
Yeah, it should have been something like this... but you know, blue.
If they want a land-based/wheeled vehicle for him, that would TOTALLY work! That's way more fitting than a plain old SUV.
Or what about those vans they use to do remote TV broadcasts, with huge dishes and antennae and crap? You could make an awesome blocky G1-like robot mode from the van, and the dishes and antennae would make awesome weapons. Something like this:
or this:
or this:
Posted by Eagleblaster on May 21st, 2013 @ 5:29pm CDT
Posted by Metrosuplex on May 21st, 2013 @ 6:58pm CDT
GuyIncognito wrote:Soundwave looks really badass as the kind of SUV that suburban moms use to drive their kids to soccer practice. His weapon: poor gas mileage. His plan: deplete Earth's fuel supply over a course of centuries by not being very fuel-efficient. His special ability: better-than-average handling in slippery conditions.
This.
Soundwave is supposed to have an unconventional ALT mode made for spying. I'd prefer a lamp post over this. This SUV reminds me too much of those hideous reggae-dreadlock SUV's from the last Bay-tastrophe.
Posted by rpetras on May 21st, 2013 @ 11:17pm CDT
When I think "waves of sound" I think of something like this:
Or this:
Posted by MarkNL on May 22nd, 2013 @ 3:38am CDT
Megatron Wolf wrote:thats a hell of a lot better than what we got, not a fan of the alt mode but the robot mode is great. Looks enough like soundwave so you can tell its him but different enough so that hes not just the same old thing we've had. Who ever turned this down and decided to go with the crap we have now should be shot. And who ever decided to not have soundwave talk should be thrown in a deep dark hole and left to die a slow and agonizing death, mute soundwave is a horrible idea especially when you have frank welker on the pay roll.
Totally agree with that. The Prime Soundwave we have now is just.. crap. This concept is better.
Manterax Prime wrote:Honestly, I'd rather have this over that lousy drone any day.
Yup, I totally agree with that too.
Posted by MINDVVIPE on May 22nd, 2013 @ 12:00pm CDT
Mark(NL) wrote:Megatron Wolf wrote:thats a hell of a lot better than what we got, not a fan of the alt mode but the robot mode is great. Looks enough like soundwave so you can tell its him but different enough so that hes not just the same old thing we've had. Who ever turned this down and decided to go with the crap we have now should be shot. And who ever decided to not have soundwave talk should be thrown in a deep dark hole and left to die a slow and agonizing death, mute soundwave is a horrible idea especially when you have frank welker on the pay roll.
Totally agree with that. The Prime Soundwave we have now is just.. crap. This concept is better.Manterax Prime wrote:Honestly, I'd rather have this over that lousy drone any day.
Yup, I totally agree with that too.
Huh... I usually agree with Megatron Wolf, but I like the drone version. It isn't as glorious as the original soundwave by any means, but it has a creepyness that I like, especially with the pervy tentacle arms and the faceless visor. To me, its the second best version to the original, compared to the bay, animated, and cybertron versions (although that vehicle mode was cool). UAV Drones are quite deadly in reality, so it works better than an unarmed suv to me.