Check out concept art for the Transformers sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). Paul Ozzimo is a professional concept artist who's worked on films like Avatar (2009), The Avengers (2012) and Minority Report (2002).

Check out the rest of the images after the jump and click to enlarge.

Official Synopsis:
One of the most popular, thrill-packed, franchises of all time is back with even more action and more Autobots and Decepticons! In the highly anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) prisoner, after the young hero learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. Joining the mission to product humankind is Optimus Prime, who forms an alliance with international armies for a second epic battle.

See more of Paul Ozzimo portfolio at paulozzimo.com

What do you think of the illustrations?


O is for Ozzimo. 
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon made a ton at the box office and has some striking concept art. None more striking than Optimus Prime and Laserbeak. Wesley Burt, who worked on the film, shared some of his concept art for the film.

Several designs on the film had different working titles on production. For example"Colossus" for the Driller, "Buzzard" for Laserbeak, "Undermine" for Igor and "Steeljaw" for Wheeljack/"Que".


Optimus Prime

Driller

Igor

Laserbeak

Mother Ship

You have got to see more of Wesley Burt's portfolio at http://massiveblack.com and http://wburtconcept.blogspot.com/

Via Concept Art World

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Z is for Zhu, Feng
Some of the greatest concept artists in the industry have at least one Star Wars movies in their resume. Is it because George Lucas sought out the best or did LucasArts turn them into great artists? I'm still not sure.

One of the greatest of the artists is Singaporean-American Feng Zhu who worked on Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)


Nowhere in his resume or IMDb page does it list Transformers, but he has some Transformer robot designs and it's thought that he worked on Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).


Official Synopsis:
The battle for Earth continues in this action-packed blockbuster from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg. When college-bound Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers, he must join Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in their epic battle against the Decepticons?, who have returned with a plan to destroy our world.

Here are his Starscream and other concept designs.

Whether they're officially from the movies or not, they're great designs.

See more of Feng Zhu portfolio at artbyfeng.com. He went to Singapore to launch FZD School of Entertainment Design in April 2009.

What do you think of the Transformers designs?



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T is for Transformers
There were a ton of Transformers in the second film, but there could have been a bunch more according to Ben Procter. Here are some of the designs that went unused in the final film.

The Transformers movies have some of the most exciting concept art. Michael Bay has a very dynamic style of film-making and the art captures that. The Art Director was Ben Procter (Avatar, Transformers, The Matrix Reloaded) who brought a real-life feel to the giant mechanical machines.

Here are some images from his portfolio for Transformers2: Revenge of the Fallen (2007) along with his descriptions of the illustrations.

Official synopsis

The battle for Earth has ended but the battle for the universe has just begun. After returning to Cybertron, Starscream assumes command of the Decepticons, and has decided to return to Earth with force. The Autobots believing that peace was possible finds out that Megatron's dead body has been stolen from the US Military by Skorpinox and revives him using his own spark. Now Megatron is back seeking revenge and with Starscream and more Decepticon reinforcements on the way, the Autobots with reinforcements of their own, may have more to deal with then meets the eye.

 A mean quadruped Constructicon. Never used, but one of my favorite robot designs I've done.

My first sketches for the Reed Man infiltrator bot were too similar to my Frenzy from film 1, but this odd, praying-mantis-inspired version caught traction.

The big aircraft carrier destruction in TF2 was originally conceived as an attack by a submarine-derived Decepticon leviathan. This was an early rough.

Unused design for a Model T derived Autobot. We did a number "vintage Transformer" studies in response to early story ideas for the film, and I think it could have been really fun to see something along these lines onscreen. It was fun to use wood and leather in a robot design.

Autobot based on the Osprey aircraft. Not seen in the film because his transport capabilities were no longer needed once the SR71-bot was given teleportation powers in a later script.

Here are some more great concept paintings that did get into the film.

An enormous "wheel bot" based on the mighty O&K/Terex RH400 mining excavator. Michael was really pushing for new robot anatomies on the second film, and the wheel concept caught his fancy right away. The initial sketch had only one wheel but Michael asked for the second so the robot could do an end-over-end bashing motion as it rolled. 

Vehicle form for the Twins during the initial Shanghai sequence. I would ultimately do detailed graphic and aging studies for the physical build. I even wrote several of the [bumper] stickers though I can't take credit for "Decepticons Can Suck My Popsicle".

You can see more of Ben Procter's portfolio at http://www.benprocter.com.

Via Concept Art World

What do you think of the illustrations?



This post is part of the month long "A-Z Challenge." For 27 days, I'll be choosing a letter from the alphabet and crafting a post around it. To read more of the posts in the series click here. To find out more about the challenge go here.

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