Storyboard animatics

A couple of home-made animatics I have made using recently-revealed Transformers storyboards, combined with episode broadcast audio.  If these pique your interest, then please follow the links to the full storyboard galleries.

Firstly, Attack Of The Autobots.

Full storyboard gallery

And secondly, Sea Change

Full storyboard gallery

Transformers: Deleted dialogue audio vs storyboards: S.O.S Dinobots

In 2016, the Mapes brothers found an assortment of Marvel Productions cassette tapes containing dialogue recorded in the summer of 1984, principally Season 1 of The Transformers.  Deleted dialogue from those tapes is available on the Transformers At The Moon YouTube channel.

At the time of the recordings being found and made available, only one episode had a complete storyboard set available: Heavy Metal War.  Animatics utilising the deleted dialogue from that episode were created and presented by Chris McFeely for TFNation 2017.

Since then, the number of full episode storyboards available online has grown to seven.  Including a second episode for which a dialogue tape is available: S.O.S Dinobots.

To view the scenes in full context, head to: S.O.S Dinobots storyboard viewing gallery

Below is the video containing deleted recordings, along with the relevant storyboard pages and time indexes.

0:22 to 0:46

Scenes 8-15 cut

Brawn scene 13 dialogue moved to scene 18, scene 14 dialogue moved to scenes 17 and 17A

1:00 to 1:22

Scenes 31 -34 and 36-38 cut

1:25 to 1:40

sc. 44 and 47-50 cut, dialogue laid over long Truck In of sc. 45 and continues through sc. 51

1:52 to 2:11

sc. 56 and 57 cut

4:17 to 4:30

sc. 166-170, 174, 177-180 cut.  Sc. 175 and 176 moved between actions on sc. 173

5:20 to 5:35

sc. 240 to 243 cut

5:40 to 6:06

sc. 272 dialogue cut, sc. 273 visual cut, 273 dialogue over 272 visual.

6:14 to 6:23

sc. 304-306 cut, sc. 303 revised

7:19 to end

sc. 338 dialogue cut, sc. 342-351 cut.

Note - sc. 343-351 scripted to be re-used for MP 700-07 War Of The Dinobots, but deleted from that episode as well

Important Show Pages overhaul

In order to reduce the number of show pages at the Archive, the following shows' production material has been consolidated into five pages:

Marvel Superheroes - Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk, Pryde Of The X-Men

Jim Henson Shows - Muppet Babies, Little Muppet Monsters, Fraggle Rock

Sunbow Syndication - Robotix, Bigfoot And The Muscle Machines, Inhumanoids, Visionaries, Air Raiders.

Marvel's New World - Little Shop, Time Challengers, Siegfried And Roy, Biker Mice From Mars

Sunbow Round Two - Bucky O'Hare, Conan The Adventurer, Conan And The Young Warriors, The Tick

Please update your bookmarks.

GI Joe: "unproduced" Season 2 intro sequence

In 2011, the website cartoonpaperwork.com posted the storyboards for an alternate version of the GI Joe season 2 intro sequence, drawn by Mike Vosburg.  The produced sequence that appeared on all season 2 episodes being storyboarded by Keith Tucker.

There was no reason to believe that it wasn't a simple case of one version being approved for production and the other not...until now.  A local TV promo from 1986, promoting a movie edit of the season-launching miniseries Arise, Serpentor, Arise, uses footage from the supposedly unproduced version of the intro.

To view the storyboards and compare, head to: G.I Joe misc. storyboards viewing gallery

Small storyboard finds: GI Joe and Siegfried And Roy

Just a few storyboard samples found in an Internet Archive download of a 1993 storyboarding guidebook.

First is from late season 2 GI Joe episode Sins Of Our Fathers, drawn by Bill Barry.  In this episode, Cobra Commander has succeeded in raising the monstrous creature dwelling underneath the ruins of Destro's ancestral home (destroyed in season 1 episode Skeletons In The Closet) and makes an unholy pact with the creature, offering Serpentor as a sacrifice.  We join the action as the monstrosity makes landfall on Cobra Island

Next are storyboards from Larry Houston in 1992, from what is presumably the pilot episode of Marvel's Siegfried and Roy.  The illusionists' management were making lucrative offers to production companies for an animated series, eventually settling on Marvel Productions.  Trade adverts promised 65 episodes for the 1993 television season, however these failed to materialise.

The mystery of Time Challengers (1991 Marvel Productions)

Among the many magazine trade adverts that have been put up for sale by PaperNostalgia on ebay, is this one from Marvel Productions, showcasing the programs that would be produced for the 1991 season.

MARVEL PROD.__Original 1991 Trade AD / ADVERT__Bucky O'Hare__Muppet Babies | eBay

Whilst Muppet Babies, Bucky O'Hare, Kind N' Play and Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes did in fact air during that year, the remaining show Time Challengers did not.

It was previously unknown whether or not this was an actual greenlit show or a failed pitch.  Until I recently found a pack of over 80 model sheets online.  Suggesting that the show had at least three episodes scripted and storyboarded.

Under the production code of MP 4069-00 to 03, these model sheets were drawn up between late 1990 and early 1991.

The models themselves offer only breadcrumbs as to the premise of the series.  The main cast are a trio of teenagers, who all have alter-egos: Randy AKA Rerun, Trisha AKA Contempo and Maria AKA Futuron, along with their presumed mentor Mr. Chronos.  The first episode features many model sheets to indicate that the team travel to the Gold Rushes of the 19th century.  Model sheets for the third episode are for a character named Shana who appears to cycle through several time periods.

If anyone who worked on this show or has any other production material available that could shed light on this series, please contact the Archive.

MP 4069-00

Model sheets (53 pages)

MP 4069-01 (first episode, title unknown)

Model sheets (24 pages)

MP 4069-03 (third episode, title unknown)

Model sheets (3 pages)

(UPDATED) Video of TFNation 2022 panel: Beyond Your Wildest Imagination

At TFNation 2022, Europe's largest Transformers convention, Jim Sorenson and Chris McFeely hosted a panel giving details and showing off fanart interpretations of Ron Friedman's first Transformers The Movie script.

This is the first script written for this movie, as opposed to the second draft script that has been online in various forms since 2010, including here at the Archive.

The full video of the panel, broken down into three acts, are now available on YouTube, embedded below:

Act I

Act II

Act III