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[artificial-absinthe]

Setting inconsistencies aside, I've reached the conclusion that Grimlocks nosed face is an aberration in the tfp universe. (Seriously, it's not a joke, im not saying this only because he looks terrible).

Shockwave saw the dinosaurs and thought to reproduce those in cybertronians. We do not actually know how long it took him. Perhaps he also happened to watch early humanoids and thought that he will find out if he could add that to his experiments too, because why not.

To Cybertronians, the nosed face of the dinobots (but especially Grimlock, because looks so terribly human unlike all the others whose faces are metalic smooth) would be as unsettling as for humans seeing someone who got their nose ripped off. It is another visual evidence of the horrifying things that Shockwave does, as if being turned into a weird alt mode and having a messed up processor was not enough. Hence why Grimlock is not fond to removing his face plate, why his face is actually torn and having holes which let his internal components exposed under it, and why he seems to have trouble to be lucid without it.

[sigeel]

little snippets to those who are curious about my creative process and the differences between comic pages and a webtoon scroll. I sometimes have to extend the panels for WT and paint over/ add panels for a better reading experience. I also often have to cut panels in half if they are too horizontal. it's a process ^^ for those of you who want to compare, I post all of my original comic page episodes on my deviantart :)

https://www.deviantart.com/sigeel/gallery/70798904/punderworld-comic

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/punderworld/list?title_no=312584

[elindae-writes]

(Stiletto anon 2/2) A sneaky, slender but deadly look with him, and large, clunky feet wouldn't have worked, so instead they went for the high heels instead. I've also seen people suggest that it was to emphasise that he can't properly stand on his own and needs support (ie Megatron)? But I feel like the last one is more unlikely because if you can fight in heels you're probably god. So the Watsonian: he has little surface area and a low centre of gravity. Doylist: To match his snakey aesthetic.

I unearthed this picture of his original design for TFP and it makes the heels make more sense. His feet are only vaguely high-heel-shaped and you can clearly tell that this is the bird-claw-talonfootthing they were going for with him. I do not like this design, no, he looks like a potato. I just. I just keep staring at it and laughing. Thank Primus we got the Louboutins 🙏

Altering Starscream’s frame to be unable to do something as simple as standing without support is definitely the kind of messed-up and impractical thing Megatron would do. If he did mess with Star like that I think Starscream would’ve taken drastic measures and just fixed his own pedes (maybe dangerously by himself).

Maybe that’s how he got those weird little side-prongs beside either pede? Perhaps he just strutted onto the bridge after his awful frame transfer, deeply unhappy with his frame, but having this one thing at least.

But I also do agree that it’s maybe the other way around and they gave his heels to him as proof of how good of a fighter he is--I mean really, he is very good. He nearly murders Arcee right in “Partners” and the writers nerfed him because they realized the show would only be 1.5 seasons long if Starscream stayed strong like that.

I see Starscream as being somebody who prefers to be obviously seen as strong but also as the kind of person who wouldn’t mind being seen as weak at first if he can then show his hidden strength later. So who knows, maybe he grew to like his weird feet. They probably also make people uncomfortable and Starscream seems like the kind of person to take great joy out of disturbing and mildly inconveniencing others. Smokescreen did call him a “stiletto-heeled freak” so they clearly disturbed him. Smokescreen is going to be fun to write when he comes into the story

[prometheanvisions]

Peter Wolfendale - Inhuman Symposium

[americanlibraryassoc]

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[alistarzcomics-blog]

Hopefully 2017 will be a better year -.-

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[sigeel]

Could you do a quick walk through of how you convert punderworld from a scroll format to a page format?

Ah, on Punderworld I do not convert scroll format into a page format, I do it the other way around. I’ve learned it’s much easier to do the planning on the pages first and then do cropping from that for webcomics because I don’t have to do much extending or redrawing to fit the format.

But I can show you the process I did on Blood Stain years ago, as I had to do exactly what you’re interested in.

I would start by trying to divide parts of the episodes into what I roughtly think would fit the page. 

then I would take those panels and paste them on a page to see how they fit it. (as you can see below, some do not fit properly XD)

the page dimensions I use are 3094x4697px with 450 resolution (but you can use 300) 

the blue-green margin you see outlining the page is the bleed area which means those parts might get cut during printing so make sure your text and your balloons are contained within. 

so the pages look terrible after I pasted my panels them so I end up trying to figure out how to rearrange them better. First thing I like to do is I add text to see how big I can make certain panels or where to save space ( naturally, a panel with more text will need to have more space)

so this last page had too much text, the panels were crowded so I decided to split the page in two and draw/extend some additional panels to ease it up.  I also discovered that page 61 had quite a bit of crowded lettering that may be annoying to the reader so that helped me with filling page 62.

and this is the end result.

sadly there is no easy way to do this. it’s all hard work and determination and patience:/ I hope this helps. 

[elindae-writes]

Miko: "You guys ever notice that Megatron and Starscream have the same crazy eyebrows?" Starscream, the autobots' and children's reactions? XD

Starscream would freeze and go silent. The Autobots and children would laugh over it. Bulkhead would ask Star “Hey, why do you have Buckethead’s brows?”

Starscream would try to shrug it off and just say “Coincidence!” But Bulk and ‘Bee would then really look at him and realize that the similarity is too strong to be a coincidence. They’d pester him about it and Starscream would then snap and say “Megatron and I look alike because that’s the way he designed me to look!”

Then everybody would get real silent. It’s my headcanon that Star’s and Meg’s similarities are not a coincidence and that Starscream got himself a new frame that was built to complement Megatron’s. I’m not 100% sure but I think in canon his original frame was the RID one? My headcanon was that he had to get a new frame due to a bad injury and Megs just took creative control and said “yesss, time to get artsy here” and decided to give Star his eyebrows.

After this revelation Jack and Raf would awkwardly look between each other. Miko would pester Starscream with more questions. She’d ignore the tense mood and demand to know if he has a fusion cannon hidden somewhere, but he’d stay silent. Bumblebee would beep awkwardly, Ratchet would grimace because he already noticed this, Arcee would squint suspiciously at Star and wonder just how similar to Megs he really is, and Bulk would awkwardly scratch at his neck. 

Optimus would sigh deeply in disappointment and ask “Did you willingly allow yourself to be remade in Megatron’s image?”

Starscream would just walk off into the shadows of the base.