Nah, the new one is more curvy and dynamic while the old one is more boxy. New one definitely looks inspired by the old one though.
Transformers the Movie 40th Anniversary Tour
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I think it's just a very similar pose. The eyes in the theatric poster go all the way to the edges of the helmet while the newer one has smaller eyes that don't fill up that horizontal space. Prime's arm also covers half the middle crotch rectangle on the new one and the poster only covers the two smaller rectangles to the side.
I agree that it's not just flipped. The forward leg is noticeably different in terms of the slight curve. Hard to tell anything about the forward foot as the earlier piece has it getting Liefelded away because Op is wearing his altmode as a sock. Some details on the further arm's shoulder joint are also different.
Was it flipped and then used as a basis for tracing over? Maybe. Was it fed into an AI editor which was then promoted to flip it and change it up? (Or was the prompt to "make this again" and then the output was flipped?) Maybe, idk what those do now. Both? I guess that's possible.
In any case, I wish they'd found another asset to reuse/repurpose. This is not really a good-looking piece or pose, to me. That kind of stretchy dynamic stance works better with, idk, Animated's aesthetic. It's a bit unsettling to see boxy G1 Op be so... Limber.
Was it flipped and then used as a basis for tracing over? Maybe. Was it fed into an AI editor which was then promoted to flip it and change it up? (Or was the prompt to "make this again" and then the output was flipped?) Maybe, idk what those do now. Both? I guess that's possible.
In any case, I wish they'd found another asset to reuse/repurpose. This is not really a good-looking piece or pose, to me. That kind of stretchy dynamic stance works better with, idk, Animated's aesthetic. It's a bit unsettling to see boxy G1 Op be so... Limber.
For what it's worth it looks to be a reuse/trace of a very specific angle on her model sheet.
Giant Optimus looks like he's about to trip over his own truck mode.
40 years! It's been 40 years now since TFTM. That is just nuts. One day, we will all be gone, and I hope that the new generation of old folks appreciates this film and not just the Bayverse movies.
No wonder he usually sends the trailer away.
Tbh TF:TM almost notably has never really had great cover artwork. The 4K steelbook perhaps the one exception.
A quick google search gives me these cover arts.
Also, this one which was the UK Bluray released in 2007-08ish.
I dig the lenticular pair by Don, and that Matt Ferguson art of Rodimus opening the Matrix is so clean. I wish the montage one had Op and Megs just facing off on a horizontal plane rather than at an angle and off-center. Love the blu-ray steelbook cover where that half of the montage is just skipped.
The composition for Livio's is actually quite nice, although I'd have preferred a different pose for Hot Rod. Alas, it is then turned into Livio's art.
The composition for Livio's is actually quite nice, although I'd have preferred a different pose for Hot Rod. Alas, it is then turned into Livio's art.
At least it wasn't inked into pure mud for once.
Just wait until the other three guys show up for the full Ginyu Force pose.
Just you watch, in another ten years, we'll get a 50th anniversary release that's been needlessly converted into 3D with a pair of glasses included in the case, and it'll be the uncropped fullscreen version that they'll market as a special long-lost IMAX version found deep in a vault somewhere.
And the one-night-only theatrical screening for that year will be formatted to SCREENX because, sure, why not make the audience feel car sick while watching it?
I wonder if it will be in 4D theaters?Just you watch, in another ten years, we'll get a 50th anniversary release that's been needlessly converted into 3D with a pair of glasses included in the case, and it'll be the uncropped fullscreen version that they'll market as a special long-lost IMAX version found deep in a vault somewhere.
And the one-night-only theatrical screening for that year will be formatted to SCREENX because, sure, why not make the audience feel car sick while watching it?
in cute that we're joking that movie theatres will still exist in 10 years
Drive-ins still exist. Theaters are on the decline, but they won't disappear that easily.
They'll bring 'em back for that one-night-only screening.
I don't remember if this was ever used as a cover, but if it wasn't, it should have been.
Longtime favorite of mine. And beats the pants off the new one.