Robots Here and There

Just a place to post all things Transformers (and maybe some Brave Saga too). Oh, and call me Lukan.

[robots-here-and-there]

Robots Everywhere Server

I’ve been teasing this idea for awhile, but I’ve finally created my own Transformers server on Discord! (Though its not just for Transformers. Its also for Gundam, the Brave Series, and any other mecha/robot content.) So Please feel free to check it out if you want to.

https://discord.gg/8nhphEtd

[nekfores]

— my first blurr fanart?? ahah, i come back again!!

[nekfores]

— I was a moving thing

Before I was a human being

I was the ice before it melts

I was the tree before it fell

My dear, come near

Do you understand what is happening?

[tyy07777]

[lintufriikki]

if tfp soundwave had a face here's what i imagine he'd look like ✨ considered giving him purple optics but the gold stands out better and is more cat-like 💛

i sketched the face design over a year ago, but didn't have the confidence to share it back then 😔 sometimes it's worth waiting so long on a sketch cos i think he looks better now 💙

[wishingstarinajar]

I wanted to fiddle with the Six Fanarts art meme (Transformers edition!), so I asked for suggestions over on Bluesky. They did not disappoint!

[random-cockroach]

Sunnyblue commission animatic for @riderkaitlyn5 after centuries XDD Thank you for waiting >-< (First draft was with Bluestreak shooting through a large number of buildings through a very small gap in each of them directly into another sniper, but the angle would not allow Sunstreaker to see it in all it's glory, so the idea was changed to a shot in a flight) Sound from Detroit Become Human - On the Run - Connor chase

[neonstrikeee]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO TRANSFORMERS PRIME!!!

CLOSEUPS:

[transformers-prime-comics]

click on the links to get taken to the posts

Transformers Prime - The Complete Show in 1080p FREE DOWNLOAD on the Internet Archive

Transformers Prime 2011 IDW Comic:

Volume 1 - Volume 2 - Volume 3 - Volume 4

Transformers Prime Titan Comics:

#1 The Safe and the Failsafe - #2 War Story

#3 Ice Breaker - #4 Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!

#5 School Is... Out! - #6 All The President's Bots

#7 Megatron's Law - #8 The Mind Trap!

#9 The Novo Incident - #10 Mad Dogs and Autobots

#11 The Battle for Bulkhead - #12 The Evil Shred

#13 Protecting the Lady - #14 It's A Knock Out

#15 Poster Special (missing) - #16 Fury From the Deep (comic only)

#17 Collider Scope (missing) - #18 Power Outage. (missing)

#19 Smoked Out (missing) - #20 Starscream's Beast (comic only)

Transformers Prime Eaglemoss Comics (English fantranslations are being added slowly):

#1–2 On Thin Ice - #3–4 Sand Trap - #5–6 King of the Road

#7–8 Mount Problem! - #9-10 (doesnt include a comic)

#11-12 Friend or Foe - #13-14 Horrible TV

#15–16 Cell - #17–18 Cleanup

#19-22 At a Deadlock - #23–26 Deadly Alliance

#27–28 The Time Machine - #29–30 Monkey Business

#31–32 Identity Crisis - #33–36 Clone Fight

#37–39 Parasite of Happiness - #40–41 Out of Sight - Out Of Sight: Official English version

#42–43 Chaos at the Museum - #44–45 A Nightmare on Base

#46–47 In Cuffs - #48–50 Deep Trouble - #51–52 Perfect Trap

#53–55 Subway Mystery - #56–57 Asteroid Attack

#58–59 Car Crash - #60–61 Civil War - #62–63 Fighting Fair

#64–65 Mind Games

The Art Of Prime (Transformers Prime Artbook):

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7

Concept art:

Christophe Valcher (environment) Part 1 - Part 2

Marcelo Bonifacio (environment)

Jason Park (environment) Part 1 - Part 2

Jose Lopez (character design) Part 1 - Part 2

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Other:

Papercrafts: Autobots - Decepticons

Anaglyph 3D Transformers Prime magazine

How To Draw Transformers Prime

[snowsupply]

Another old WIP I finally managed to color today. I also changed Roller's design a little so he matches his canon look more now.

[lilruruby]

ART FROM ANON AAAAAA

thank you to Anon for all of these doodles!! it fills my gecko brain with joy and makes my muse scree in happiness

I salute thee, friend!

[charliebot-art]

every episode of g1 in a nutshell

[skeletons-can-draw-too]

hii! (this is my 1st time doing this so idk how it goes-) but can i ask for anything with g1 soundwave? could be a lil kiss, a huggie, sitting on his hand/shoulder, or even chilling inside his cassette player. thanks and happy birthday again!

Ravage the best to cuddle with! But unfortunately that make’s frenzy and rumble jealous, luckily soundwave is there to calm things down

(Sorry this took so long thank u for the bday wishes!)

[skeletons-can-draw-too]

Bonus sketch

[factual-fantasy]

I watched the whole Unicron arc in Transformers: Prime recently and this was all I wanted to draw XDD I always wish more emotion and tears were shown in times like this.

I am also experimenting with their tear color. Originally I headcannoned cybertronian tears to be their bodies coolant, and so I drew it green. But after Breakdowns line "Boo hoo! I'm shedding lubricant!" While fake wiping a single tear away.. it tells me that they CAN cry and that they obviously cry lubricant. Not coolant.

Buuuuut I felt like blood red tears would be more interesting than the standard yellowish color of clean oil. So I went with that and called it a quirky cybertronian thing <XD

I'll likely change the colors when I make their official redesigns. But hey it was fun to draw for this post at least! :}}

[vi050iv]

Kup wants YOU to join the Wreckers!

[transformers-spike]

Cybertronian languages & dialects in TFP

To start off, before the Age of Wrath (aka before the Quintessons), there used to be many more languages across various bot groups living on Cybertron. Most of these languages (and cultures) have been eradicated by Quintesson rule in an effort to "unite" (more like control) the population

They didn't completely succeed.

"Old Cybertronian" is a tricky term because it's meant to encapsulate the various languages/dialects whose recordings survived the Quintesson era despite their policies. A regular ol' bot believes it's the only old language available, but anyone with an interest in history knows it's supposed to be a catch-all term

The language the Quintessons were trying to push was a sort of Lingua Franca of the most "common" languages of the time (aka the ones with the greatest populations). This slowly turned into modern day "Cybertronian" (or well, the language most dominant across the polities). Even so, there are variations of it (and different dialects) all across the planet. Accents are definitely a thing, and even if we can't hear them in the show, the bots certainly can

For example, Ratchet, Optimus and Ultra Magnus have a distinctly Iacon accent. Megatron has a Kaonan accent, Starscream (and Skyquake/Dreadwing) have Vosnian accents, Knock Out has a Praxian accent, etc

Dialects (and even separate languages) are pretty important, especially to the most "independent" polities. Vos has quite a few dialects, mostly used between fliers. They can certainly speak Common Cybertronian, but it's usually with strangers (or when they're trying to communicate on a global scale). Remember, because of the sheer scale of polities, there is typically more than one dialect per state, but usually one is favored more than the others

Newly-emerged protoforms typically learn Common Cybertronian as their first language, but depending on their mentors, their native tongue may be a dialect instead (a common practice in Vos). It's mostly looked down upon by other polities because it's usually a way to symbolically claim independence from the other dominant polities, but I digress

Though, there are rare cases where bots don't speak Common Cybertronian. They can certainly use their built-in translators to understand others (and make themselves understood) - but anyone who doesn't know the common tongue is considered a "social failure"

Now, there's still a major difference between "proper" Cybertonian/dialects and the ones used by the laboring castes. Yay. Classism. Megatron for example had to adopt formal Cybertronian in order to reach as many bots as he did through his speeches. But in the company of other laborers, I can see him slipping back into his old ways. Still sad he had to change his manner of speaking in order to be taken seriously :(

As the war goes on, Common Cybertronian has continued to evolve. New words have sprung up, and without a rigid academic structure controlling its evolution, there's a real chance multiple new dialects have popped up, evolving from Cybertronian mixed with prior dialects

Then there's the whole thing with Earth/other alien languages. I like to think most bots have an advanced translator that, when able to access language databases, can facilitate communication. Think of it as an ever-evolving system that can adopt new words and definitions - but it's quite flawed since if the bot in question misunderstands a phrase/word, the definition/usage can get muddled. Still, the more time bots spend with humans, the more they're able to learn an adapt in order to make their speaking seem "natural"

Now, there's a specific scene I have a hard time with at the start of season 2. When Fowler had to pretend to be a vehicon while speaking to Breakdown. I have three theories regarding this:

Breakdown didn't process he was hearing English, probably from the stress of the extremely shitty stuff that happened to him (MECH, having to prove his worth in the Decepticons, tight deadlines, who knows what else)

Ratchet has created a translator for the humans to access (my best bet is him doing this for Raf - but it really came in handy later on)

Idk - I guess Breakdown is used to speaking in English with the vehicons? Considering how he and KO tend are fond of puns and wordplay (that's not even mentioning KO watching human movies), maybe he sometimes speaks to curious vehicons this way (especially since we've seen him talking casually to them in the Synth-En episode)

For now, this is about all I got. Can you tell I love worldbuilding?

[metalenergy]