BotBots production art
When the "Crime & Bunishment" ep of #Transformers #BotBots, scripted by @AlanTheWriter and @ItsGregHahn, called for live action security footage, we grabbed an RC car, a burger, and a donut and shot it on an iPhone in the @Hasbro Studios break room. Here's the raw take.
by Dom Scruffy Murphy:
Hey #BotBots is out! 🤖 (I think it's ok to show these?) I got to work on some VERY early character design stuff for this many moons ago. Fun stuff! Cool to see how the show turned out! 🙌 (one of these days I'll get pickle nips into a show haha)
by Francesco Cipolla:
Some stills from Botbots the show now on Netflix!
#storyboard #netflix #botbots
by Bassem Salman:
TRANSFORMERS BotBots - Character exploration
by Steven Coffils:
Seems it's ok for me to post my work from my time on Transformers Botbots, but I'll keep it to these for now lol
Early expression/pose exploration for Bonz-Eye I did, she was my fave. She'd been designed already before I jumped on, I'll link to her OG designer if I can find 'em!
Some more very early Botbots stuff I worked on.
#Transformers #Botbots
by Marco Caradonna:
When the lights go out at the mall, the BotBots come out to play. Meet a fun-loving crew of everyday objects that morph into robots at closing time. In April 2020, whilst at Boulder Media, I was asked to develop the visual style of Botbots, an upcoming Transformers TV show created by Kevin Burke and Chris "Doc" Wyatt . For about a year and a half, I worked closely with the showrunners, with director Paul O'Flanagan and many more talented folk at Boulder Media, developing the look and location designs of the show. The original brief from Hasbro was to have the robots Alt Mode(their everyday object mode) done in a "photorealistic" way. Strucking the balance between the need of comedic, whacky fun of 2D characters on one hand, and the "cold" photoreal look of the world they live in on the other, was single-handledy probably the hardest task I faced so far in my career.
Below you can see a selection of the early days vis dev. In this phase everything was pretty floaty so we had to constantly try elements and see how they would fit together. Initially we started experimenting with stock photography as a base for the backgrounds, but we had to drop the idea fairly quickly when we realized it would be way too time consuming, and not particularly reusable.
After further exploration, we settled on using 3D stock assets as a base to build our world. Still, we had to keep costs down where possible and so we came up with fairly flexible rules for assetts, that could be either 2D drawn (eg small characters props), stock photos or 3D model (eg character Alt Modes, Backgrounds etc). All in all it a fairly fluid and reliable process. Below a selection of style frames, test renders and production notes.
