Youtube channel

Presenting my YouTube channel, where viewers can find the full 65 episode run of Jem, as well as my various storyboard animatics.  If you've enjoyed the production material I've brought to you through the Archive and would like to show your support, please head over to the channel and subscribe.

More info on lost Marvel series The Young Astronauts

Thanks to Heritage Auctions, we now have a little more info regarding the production of The Young Astronauts.  The fruits of Marvel Productions' partnership with The Young Astronauts Council, in the form of an animated series that was intended to air on CBS for the 1985 TV season, but was delayed due to disputes with the YAC's advisor on the production.  Attempts to restart the series in early 1986 were for naught as the network cancelled the show after the Challenger space shuttle explosion.

Linked below are background layouts from the series' fourth episode Ghostship, under the production code MP 800-04.  Drawn by Disney legend Walt Peregoy, whose work for Marvel around this time included My Little Pony: The Movie, Glo Friends and Moondreamers.

Heritage Auctions link

The Transformers: Webworld storyboard

Thanks to tfwiki mod Monzo, the Archive now hosts storyboards for Act III of The Transformers episode Webworld.

Co-written by comics legend Len Wein and Diane Duane, this episode sees Cyclonus make the reluctant decision to have his unstable leader Galvatron committed to psychiatric care on the planet Torkulon.  Only to find that the methods employed by his "carers" are far more insane than the Decepticon leader ever was.

Head on over to Webworld storyboard gallery

Storyboard Animatics, Part 3

As an interlude while I prepare to make the next homegrown storyboard animatics, I have uploaded the five that were available on Shout Factory's 2011 Jem And The Holograms DVD box set.

Jem music video storyboard gallery

Jem theme (first draft)
Artist: Will Meugniot

Jem theme (final revision)
Artist: Will Meugniot

The Misfits - Abracadabra
From MP 5205-36 Music Is Magic
Artist: Keith Tucker

Jem And The Holograms - Everybody Wears A Mask
From 5205-50 Mardi Gras
Keith Tucker

Jem And The Holograms, The Misfits, The Stingers - Now
From MP 5205-59 The Stingers Hit Town, Part 2
Artist: Will Meugniot

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)

View full episode storyboard gallery

Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2
Additional Material section

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:

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.