#tf Gilthor

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Gilthor

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Today I discovered Gilthor, the Opmeg fusion made from the two of them in a lab?? Point is he is absolutely gonna be D and Orion's son in the Actor AU.

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So on one hand, it does kind of suck that Elita isn’t allowed to have her pre-Elita name anymore with presumably the Disney copyright issues. Like it’s I assume why she can’t have her origin name in TF One and honestly I feel like she sticks out in that regard

But at the same time, I just have to say

Ariel is just a normal person name. Like that does not sound like a Transformer name to me, that could just be a human character’s name

Sure Orion is also a human name, but I feel like the full name being Orion Pax makes it slightly better? Like adding the Pax part as the second part of his name, it makes it not just sound like a human, at least to me. It’s flimsy but it’s something. And also Orion is the name of a constellation, so slightly more space-y

Ariel meanwhile is just a human name, no two ways about it

Hell, in her original design, she just kind of looks like a robot girl to me, rather than someone able to actually transform into a vehicle

And sure, you can change her spelling to Erial or Aerial to make it less human-like or give it a flight pun, but in the former it’s a bit weak, and in the latter case, while it’s nice and I like it, she isn’t known to turn into a flying vehicle other than her Power of the Primes toy, so it’s also a bit flimsy

I like the idea of Elita having a former self, giving her more parallels to Orion/Optimus, and I’d like to see more spins on this Ariel design, since I think Animated was really the only one to do so, but she’s also stuck with a very non-Transformer sounding name to me

It’s like when I hear there’s a bot called Minerva, though I’ve gotten more used to Ariel at this point. But also from what I can gather on the Wiki, the bot Minerva either is or is named after a human character called Minerva, so she’s got more of an explanation to have a human sounding name, even if that explanation doesn’t carry over continuities

Maybe she needs a new backstory-her name. Granted, I talk all this and I’m not sure what this new name should be. But I think she should have a new name, at least so that the character of Ariel can appear in some way again

[jexjoydex]

Uncle screamer

[moontruffles]

More fake products for my fake show! Maybe one day I’ll make real products for a real show.

Unlike the box, these were done with mockup PSDs that are free for personal use. The DVD one was from DesignBolts and the notebook one was made by Smokins on Behance.

[jexjoydex]

I had this au stuck in my mind for a while. Umm megatron find a sparkling and takes it in and hide the little guy. Also this is gilthor. sorry for wording I’m kind of busy working on my borken computer right now.

This gilthor btw art not mines

From the tf wiki

Sorry if all of this is so sloppy 

[moontruffles]

MECH’s secret weapon, Nightbird (+ Gil for scale reference)! She’s a spooky scary ninjabot with a super secret past. 

The NEST team is shocked to learn about her existence; they hadn’t realized MECH was capable of making full-on transformers, especially ones as smart and agile as she is. Is this ninja really just an advanced drone, or something... more?

[moontruffles]

COMING TO A STORE NEAR YOU!!! ... I wish. 😂 

I probably should’ve shown this off for longer than I did in my panel but I finished it three days before the video was due (having yet to, uh, start on the video at that point) and was worried it didn’t look professional enough. The Merch is the most serious part about these robot car dudes, after all!

I made the box and the clear plastic window part from scratch in Blender, and imported the finished models into Adobe Dimension for texturing.

[moontruffles]

Happy New Year, guys! This is my last drawing of 2020, made for something that you’ll (hopefully) be seeing pretty soon!

[moontruffles]

Hey, it’s the main gang of my AU, Reversal! This project has been on the backburner for a couple of years (Gil and Whirl were the only two I’d ever drawn until now), but now I’ve got all the time in the world to churn out content. 

Up next: The humans!

[moontruffles]

Okay I lied, I said the humans were next but I ended up finishing Gil and Whirl’s parents instead. I already had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted them to look like so I figured I’d get their refs down now, even though they’re not central characters.

Rest assured, Whirl gets much taller than her mom when she’s older. For now though, she’s just a sassy little pipsqueak.