Monday 22 May 2023

Storyboard Animatics, Part 2

Using the storyboards available at the Archive, I have been producing some more storyboard animatic videos.

Jem

View music video storyboard gallery

The Bands Break Up
Jem And The Holograms
Getting Down To Business, Version 2
Storyboards by Mike Vosburg



Trick Or Techrat
Jem And The Holograms
We Can Change It, Version 2
Storyboards by Larry Houston and Will Meugniot




Transformers

S.O.S Dinobots
Act III section (with deleted scenes)


Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2
Additional Material section




Wednesday 10 May 2023

Transformers: Webworld backgrounds

Thanks to tfwiki mod Monzo, the Archive now plays host to 15 background layouts from the Transformers episode Webworld.  Showing views of Chaar and Torkulon...before Galvatron's madness utterly devastates the planet.

To view the art, head to The Transformers, Part 2



Full Hasbro Pulse upload of the episode below:




Friday 5 May 2023

Transformers The Movie: Floro Dery concept art and early model sheets

Comics legend and former Marvel Productions staff Romeo Tanghal recently uncovered copies of concept art and early model sheets from Transformers The Movie.  Much of the concept art, drawn by Floro Dery, was based on the second Ron Friedman script for the Movie.

Autobot City design


Moonbase One


Interiors of Ingestor (Unicron)

The model sheets include early designs for Arcee, Springer, Galvatron, Cyclonus and Wreck-Gar.  As well as the Movie design for the repaired, Decepticon-controlled Cybertron.



To view them all in detail and compare to the script that inspired them, head to: The Transformers The Movie page.






Wednesday 3 May 2023

Transformers: Season 2 backgrounds and equipment models

 Now up at the Archive are background layouts and equipment models for a number of Transformers season 2 episodes.  While these are edited photos and not full scans, if the opportunity to gain the latter arises, those will replace the current files.

The episodes are:

  • Autobot Spike
  • Changing Gears
  • City Of Steel
  • Attack Of The Autobots
  • Traitor
  • The Immobilizer
  • The Autobot Run
  • Atlantis, Arise!
  • Day Of The Machines
  • Enter The Nightbird
  • A Prime Problem
  • The Core
  • The Insecticon Syndrome
  • Dinobot Island (sheets designated for both parts)
  • The Master Builders
  • Auto-Berserk
  • Microbots
  • Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1
These new additions can be viewed alongside their respective scripts and storyboards at: The Transformers, Part 1




Tuesday 2 May 2023

Transformers: Chaos models and backgrounds

 A sizeable number of model and background sheets have been added for the Transformers season 3 episode Chaos.

Models

  • Skuxxoid (re-used from Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 1)
  • Skuxxoid with Death Crystal Cannon
  • Bazooka-like Cannon
  • Asteroid Hopper
  • Walker Tree
  • Ick-Yak
  • Runamuck
  • Chaos (FKA Mayhem)
  • An Orb
  • A Shrike-Bat
  • Alien Prisoner #1 (unused in Chaos, used in Starscream's Ghost)
  • Alien Prisoner #2 (unused in Chaos, used in Starscream's Ghost)
  • Mine Cart
  • Gigantic Interplanetary Cannon
Backgrounds

  • Chaos Cavern
  • Mine Entrance
  • Queeg Mountain and Swampland of Planet Dread (multi-page panorama)
  • Teletraan II
To view them, head to The Transformers (Part 2)






Saturday 8 April 2023

Dungeons & Dragons: Unused story premises

Found on the Internet Archive, and originally included on a 2004 UK DVD release.  The Archive now hosts eight unused story premises, submitted by Rick Merwin for the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

The stories are:

  • Day Of The Dragons
  • Spell Of The Ice Wizard
  • Master Thief Of Baal-Dur
  • City Of The Githyanki
  • The Crystal Forest
  • The Mines Of Menosia
  • Yugol and the Curse Of Stone
  • Janapurna and the Stallions of Hokar

Additionally, a first draft of Jeffrey Scott's Beauty And The Bogbeast now accompanies the revised version that originally came from the 2006 BCI Eclipse DVD release.

To read them all, head to: Dungeons & Dragons 1983-1985



Friday 31 March 2023

G.I Joe: My Favorite Things script

Thanks to Rich Helscher, the Archive now presents the first script from the original G.I Joe series to be made public since 2010.  The season 2 episode My Favorite Things.

Written by Doug Booth and edited by Buzz Dixon, this episode delves into Serpentor's quest to acquire artifacts once owned by the tyrants and conquerors whose DNA was used to create the Cobra Emperor.  Once he has gained possession, the memories and powers of his genetic forebears are at his command.  Meanwhile, the incessant inter-service bickering between US Marine Leatherneck and Navy Seal Wet-suit comes to a head.  As the pair's glory-hogging results in Leatherneck being gravely wounded.

Clocking in at 59 pages - including 3 pages of model and location notes, plus an estimated 7 minutes of deleted scenes - the script can be read at: G.I Joe Part 2 (1986-1992)

Go there at once, THIS I COMMAND!