I don't have the confidence to share my art yet, but I feel ready to share my ideas for my Transformers AU.
I only have concrete ideas for Starscream and Shockwave (My favorite characters, not a surprise.)
Warnings: Racism(?) , Deadly Scientific Mishaps , Morally disgusting acts of science , technical torture , neutrality to torture ,
That's honestly all I can think of. Lmk if there's anything else I should add.
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Starscream -
Starscream was forged as a performance flier. Specifically made to light up the sky and perform during events. He was heralded as the fastest and most beautiful flier in Vos. He was constantly decked out in flashy colors, bright paints, etc. Some of the future seekers for the Decepticons were fliers like him.
Starscream loved flying, he loved the attention, but he hated being reduced to a pair of (gorgeous) wings. He was more than his flight skills. He was intelligent, strong! But nobody else seemed to notice.
So, out of spite, he enrolled in the Academy of Science in Iacon. Having to bribe his way in.
He excelled in his classes, and met a fellow flier named Skyfire. Skyfire was a shuttle, existing specifically to haul and move cargo. But he had a genius mind. Starscream essentially forced Skyfire to be his friend, seeing many similarities between them. And Skyfire was too soft-spoken to refuse. They did develop a genuine bond, however.
Skyfire was finally recognized, and was assigned a planet to scout and study. Starscream insisted on coming with, and Skyfire agreed. They both marveled at the foreign place, studying the plants, the native species, the landmass, everything.
But there was a complication with their equipment. So while Skyfire was studying the ice, he vanished.
Starscream didn't know what truly happened at that point. But he flew all the way back to Cybertron to get help, because for once his pride didn't get in the way. He knew he wasn't enough to save Skyfire.
The officials launched an investigation and found that Starscream had set up the machines wrong, causing the heater designed to keep them from freezing to overheat. It melted the ice under Skyfire, and he was too heavy to fly out of the icy water.
Starscream insisted it was an accident, and Vos didn't want their best flier to be executed. So they vouched for him. After all, who else but Starscream could fly all the way from a foreign planet back to Cybertron in such a short amount of time?
Starscream was given two options.
He could go back to Vos and continue to perform, but never be allowed to touch science equipment again.
Or, he would go to jail for 500,000 years. He would have to study science pads daily until his release to ensure it never happened again.
He chose option 2.
His loyal side fliers got themselves arrested, not wanting him to be alone in an unfamiliar place. They already let him go to the science academy alone. And look how that turned out. They wouldn't let him be alone in prison.
He and his fliers formed a gang in the prison, and eventually.. met an arrested gladiator who had killed his own master.
Shockwave -
Senator Shockwave was a visionary. He saw no difference between different frame types. He was a scientist who worked to better Cybertron.
He came up with a reformatted caste system, one that would rank people based off of their skills and processors, rather than their frame types. But his revolutionary vision was rejected.
How could a manual laborer be given the chance to rise up to the rank of a scientist? It made no sense to the senate. They insisted there was a stark biological difference between frame types. A miner was physically inferior to a senator. There was no changing that.
Shockwave was livid. There was no proof to those alleged facts. In his mind, it was all conjecture.
So, he sought to prove them wrong.
He kidnapped 1 of every frame type he could. Insecticon, laborer, performer, senator, every single one. And he vivisected every single one of them. There were a few differences, like the Insecticons poison pouch. A nobles frailty compared to the strength of a laborer.
But nothing to suggest innate superiority or inferiority.
Obsessed with his research, and seeing nothing wrong with his actions, he brought his studies to the Prime.
The Prime was horrified, Shockwave was important, a genius, but his experiments were disgusting and immoral. Even a tyrant like The Prime could see it. He ordered Shockwave to cease his experiments and erase all of his research.
Shockwave refused.
Instead, he set up a live broadcast, unveiling his research. Crazed, he insisted that in order to truly prove his research was logical, he would even dissect The Prime himself.
There was no saving Shocksave at that point, he was arrested. But his genius mind, albeit now crazed, was a valuable resource. His body was changed against his will so none would know it was him, his emotions were smothered by new programs in his processor. Shockwave was no longer a senator. He was an experiment.
And so, The Prime acquired a new scientific assistant. One who happened to share a designation with the recently executed senator Shockwave. A sad coincidence. (This was only because Shockwave would only answer to his own designation. That was one thing they couldn't take from him.)
His new logical perspective helped him realize that his previous actions were crazy. But now, his emotions were too dulled for him to regret it all.
One evening, while conducting a dull experiment for The Prime, a spy drone fell out of his vent.
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Thats all I have so far. I want every character to have complex backstories that explain how they are now. But its all a lot of effort.
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Final Year Project !
This is my first year in my concept art studies,,,yipee,,,
And these past weeks were dedicated to a big project consisting to adapt our sona in different styles and make an animation with them.
I went all it and had a blast, it was very fun. And so I want to share it :)
I started by making a ref for Eikah, because after all these years she still had none (oof)
And after having finished a posing in my own style, I tackled the cartoon stuff
This is the full production of the cartoon part ! I really like it, it was so fun to make ! (but the best stuff is coming)
A- I DON'T KNOW HOW I PULLED THIS OF BUT ??? THIS IS EVERYTHING I'M ACHIEVING,, WAAA
And the gif, the version you get is extra crispy because huh...It's compressed to 6mb while it, in full quality, is 63mb (big)
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I’m posting this at ungodly hours. But I have this WIP since back february and keep re-doing it and re-doing it and it never leaves my Wips or my brain. And I need to stop because its driving me insane.
This is Dumah Blackwood, from my Frames of Eulogy series. He’s not a typical main character but it’s one of my favourite characters, and one of the few that has survived the threat of time. This isn’t an introduction post, or anything. it’s just a wip. But i will be leaving some info under the cut, if anyone is interested.
Also. Taglist: @murconstellation because they have endured seeing this fucker’s face and my anger at its stages of development since the very beginning and they are an angel for that.
Dumah Blackwood is a half-cervus, half-demon (technically celestial, but all the same to humans, so). The latter I don’t think I have to explain. The former, however, it’s one of the “races” or “species” or “whatever you like to name them” from my world. They are themselves half-humans and half-fae, a particular aspect they have actually erased from history, not even their people being aware of it. One of the peculiar characteristics of Cervus is their antler like horns and their pointy ears, as well as the fact they are innate to magic thanks to their - unknown to them - connection with the fey.
I originally started this in red, but changed to blue later on, because it also makes sense, considering that’s not only his colour, but the shade of his skin when he isn’t using illusion magic to appear more human. Also yes, he has white hairs. It’s mostly genetic though, as he’s only in his 20s in this painting.
The markings on his body (that aren’t really accurate if imma be honest) are called the art of metamorphis and it’s a ritual some cervus and half-demons partake in, to change and morph their body for whatever desired look they which, having female and male anatomy as base, of course.
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