Transformers One - Blog Posts
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This happened in front of your fully functional eyes and my half working ones at the movie theaters
viktor vs cait innit
It's kinda hard to explain, but One feels like the first time that Sentinel Prime was actually meant to be Sentinel Prime from the start.
Usually he's just the name Transformers writers use when the character they've written is too much of an asshole to be any other character.
Transformers: One - What's In A Kneel?
!!!!!MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!
With the responsibility of leadership and the dangers of pedestals and hero worship being such major themes, it only makes sense that all three of the film's leaders would show their true characters, and in doing so seal their fates, in moments where they have to kneel/bow.
Sentinel Prime essentially sets the entire second half of the film in motion when both the heroes and we as the viewer see him kneel to the Quintessons. It confirms everything that Alpha Trion was just telling them/us about him, and it's also the very thing that ends up getting broadcast to Iacon in order to finally expose Sentinel and turn the public against their False Prime.
For all his superficial charisma and his talk of looking out for the little guys, Sentinel himself is truly nothing more than a self-centred, spineless coward, who couldn't care less for the needs of the many and gladly bends to the will of bigger bullies/oppressors in order to keep himself in power.
After learning of Sentinel's betrayal and being subsequently captured with the High Guard, D-16 makes a point to stand while in custody and adamantly refuses to kneel. Even when Sentinel begins beating and torturing him, D-16 makes it abundantly clear that he has no intention of bowing to him or anyone else ever again.
In better circumstances this could be a heroic trait, a courageous defiance and the willingness to stand up in the face of injustice. But it just as becomes a negative one, and it's one of the last warning signs to the kind of leader that Megatron is going to be.
He may have started out with good and heroic intentions, but because of this Megatron sees himself as superior, and whether by choice or by force, he expects his fellow Cybetronians to rally behind him just as they did with Sentinel. While he sees himself as a revolutionary, in the end he's just going to become another tyrant.
And then we have Orion Pax. For much of the film, he's a far cry from the noble, legendary leader that we know and love from other iterations, but he starts to grow into it as he devises the rescue mission, and is tasked with rallying his fellow miners to help.
Having gotten a major upgrade since the last time he saw them, Orion now towers over his former peers and they're utterly awed by the sight of him. Rather than trying to take advantage of their admiration or even intimidate them with his new size and strength, Orion almost seems frustrated by the new height difference, and before beginning his speech he kneels down to literally speak to them on their level.
Orion doesn't make a point to do this, no one has to ask or prompt him to, in fact he himself doesn't even give that much thought to it, it's just his first instinct for how to best communicate. He may look larger and stronger now, but he still values the miners as his friends and his equals, and nothing is ever going to change that.
Gaining the Matrix later on may have gotten him the name, but it's this moment when Orion truly begins to embody the true core and heart of Optimus Prime. Powerful and inspiring, yet humble and caring. Or perhaps, as the legendary Peter Cullen himself has always said:
"Strong enough to be gentle."
I know it's way too early to start thinking this far ahead, but I just can't help it...
Sentinel gives the entire city a mandatory day off to put on his ego event, then not even a day later he triples everyone's shifts to make up for the lost time.
God, this movie is good.
This whole insistence on everything being connected to the Bayverse would be funny, if not for the fact that Lorenzo is actively hurting the movies and the franchise as a whole by following this mindset and using his power as a producer to force these restrictions.
Thanks to him, all future Transformers films now have to be set before 2007 and can't have long-term changes that'll contradict it, and Megatron (who's "supposed" to still be frozen in the Hoover Dam) and most of the other main Decepticons can't appear in major roles in the live action ones. Everybody else working on these movies wants to use those characters and go all in on moving the franchise forward with the clean slate and the goodwill that Bumblebee gave them, but they can't do that, and it's solely because Lorenzo won't allow them to.
Keep in mind, The Last Knight full on underperformed, and any future sequels in that continuity were straight up cancelled specifically in favour of continuing a new story arc with Bumblebee (which was originally meant to be a standalone prequel). Meaning the Bayverse is already effectively dead, and Lorenzo is now hindering future films to (kind of) follow its continuity for literally no reason.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura desperately claiming every Transformers movie after The Last Knight is canon to the Bay movies
(Bumblebee shows him and the other differently-designed Autobots first arriving on Earth in the 80s)
Lorenzo: It's just a little G1-esque, it's still good, it's still good!
(Transformers: Rise of the Beasts shows Unicron invading Earth in the 90s rather than being the Earth itself)
Lorenzo: It's just a little retconned, it's still good, it's still good!
(Transformers One takes place on a different-looking Cybertron with entirely new actors and character designs)
Lorenzo: It's just a little animated, it's still good, it's still good!
Fans: It's rebooted.
Lorenzo: I know.
He totally did this didn’t he :)
this is what happened right
Sorry, but I can’t unsee this
NO MORE FALSE PRIMES
no effects version!
The icon of the golden city, the savior of Earthbread, Our Queen...
¡GOLDEN PRIME COOKIE!
I hope you like this rare combination of Golden Cheese Cookie and Sentinel Prime
lol to all the Megatron/D 16 art people, you know how to give him jaundice is canon if you make him eventually a human he needs to have jaundice. This is so much funnier than it needs to be. 
this has to be the true reason
tfone humanformers headcannons
He's so.... Aaaaaaa 🤧😭
How I love this boy! He is such a silly 🥹🩵🩵
Hey chat guess what
Catformers ships day 3
Starscream x Soundwave !!
I’ve seen an increase in popularity for this one and I think it’s a cute pairing !!
I do however think it’s kinda funny because of how different Starscream and Soundwave are from each other
Drawing these 2 were fun, Soundwave is actually my favorite character !
This one is a little lazier than the other 2 but I have been having a stressful time right now
Transformers ships as cats day 2
Shockwave and Optimus !!
I looked up fan art of them to get a better gauge of what their relationship dynamic is like but there was like no art of them
I leaned more towards my au since I haven’t read any of the comics but I know they’re friends prewar there (I don’t remember if this is canon in any other continuity)
I actually really like this pairing I think they go pretty well together tbh !!
I drew Shockwave and Optimus pre war in my au since the art I saw was pre war too. Warrior cat shockwave has heterochromia since pre empurata shockwave has blue eyes.
I had too much fun drawing this one and did a full scene instead of my gradient background I normally do, hope you guys enjoy !!
Howdy tf Tumblr !! I have a totally awesome video/art project idea for Valentine’s day and I need suggestions on some transformers ships :3
Can be literally any ships: canon, popular, rarepairs, crackships idc
Enjoy this drawing of Soundwave from memory that I did with my finger
I’ve been on a roll designing these catformers, my wrist low key kinda hurts now lawl
Won’t stop me from making more tho, if y’all have any ideas lmk and I’ll happily draw it
I’m kinda getting sick of designing purple cats, I didn’t realize how many purple transformers there were until now
Mirage isn’t actually that short compared to the other characters I just ran out of room to draw him so he gets to be small :3
I so wish Big Daddy had more fans, no one knows who he is and he’s my fave character </3
Also someone suggested cygate and kid you not, I thought it was a character I’d never seen or heard about yet and then got rlly confused when I look it up only to have the epiphany that it’s a ship name for Cyclonus and Tailgate
megatron trying to use bees trigger happy nature to convince him to join the decipticons
finally watched TF One, I love these guys
I have not known peace since I discovered I can draw Transformers. They’re crawling at the back of my mind when I’m doing commissions trying to get out. Anyways, here’s my sweet son: Armada Starscream.
I don’t know how to give a spoiler alert on this website but if I can warn you here it is. This is vague enough though it’s not too much??? Maybe????
Anyways, I saw Transformers: One yesterday and have been thinking about it nonstop ever since. It’s beautiful. Almost perfect. Sensational. 10/10 would recommend please go see it if you have any Transformers love in your bones and even if you don’t. It’s just a good story.
As for the spoilery part, don’t read ahead as I talk about this piece if you don’t want some spoilers.
What kills me about this movie is, yes, Orion and D-16’s friendship, but also Bee and Elita coming together as a team as the four of them. Bee particularly, as it would be assumed he is the youngest and the least experienced in their little group and needs them potentially the most.
I would say there’s a direct parallel you could make between Bee and D-16 throughout the movie. As both of them move from blind loyalty in the status quo to having to accept that the system they live in is set up against them and the power that they trusted is false and vile.
D-16 is a fascinating case of losing trust in anyone and anything because of that betrayal. The movie does a fantastic job of justifying (not excusing) the rise of Megatron and truly emphasizes how tragic of a character he really is, beyond just the violent rebel we’ve gotten used to.
Bee on the other hand shifts quickly to lean on the support and trust of his friends (maybe he is more inclined to as they are literally his only option), and to still hold his faith in Primus and the true Primes, ultimately following Optimus.
Anyways, this illustration I whipped up this evening is in the climax of the film when Sentinel Prime has captured much of the High Guard, as well as D-16 and Bee. D pulls the ballsy move of refusing to kneel to the false Prime. They discuss Megatronus Prime for a bit, Sentinel drawing attention to D’s Megatronus decal. Then Sentinel decides that D-16 should always have a reminder of that dead Prime, and brands a crude likeness of Megatronus on his chest with a laser gun.
Above all else I think that this is potentially the final turning point for D-16. This isn’t the point of no return (see end of film when Sentinel gets his due) but I see it as D-16 losing faith completely in both the true Primes of the past (Megatronus), and the false Prime of the present (Sentinel), leading him straight to the point later where he won’t trust his future to anyone but himself. Not even Orion. I wanted to explore this moment visually so while I was at work the composition for this piece slowly started forming in my head and I knew I wanted to bring both D-16 and Bee into the focal point.
working on tf animatic !!!
few of the frames i've done so far :))
this is what happened right
papa and son communication
you didnt understand, and i couldnt explain.