#and then stuff like. for megatron he's military so i gave him like formal military dress and blitzwing is based on ww2 pilots so i gave him

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How do you manage to do the human versions of the Autobots so well!!???

Is it something with the details or body forms???

Just trying to say that I love your humanformers portrayals.

AAAAAAA ur so sweet!! my main thing is i try to keep the silhouettes the same or similar, and translate details using facial hair, hats, clothing patterns, scars, etc. for example translating bulkheads helmet shape into a short mohawk, with two shaved lines meant to evoke the two black lines going down the front

i also try to think of what they do and how that would translate to my specific au. for example ratchet is a medic, but a medic for car people so most of his medical tools are like, wrenches and pliers, plus he also canonically works on old (non sentient) cars in his spare time. In my human au, he runs an auto repair shop and has a toolbelt, which visually mimics the tires on hips too.

animated designs also sometimes look like, clothes if that makes sense. prowl is the best example he looks like a CHiP, so that's really easy to translate into biker gear even though my human prowl is not a cop. i also very heavily based my prowl design on kanan jarrus from rebels lol

their alts informed the design choices too like optimus dressing like an off duty firefighter bc he;s a firetruck

my style is not so exaggerated proportions wise as the show but the general shapes are the same. tfa has very strong silhouettes and shape language that I tried to keep intact when translating them to my superhero au. other stuff was trying to keep colors in generally the same place (the clips on op's suspenders and the tongues on his boots being yellow to evoke the placement of the lights, the gold zippers on prowl meant to be the gold detailing. bumblebee i just ripped off human error though