Skip to Content Skip to Sub-Pages

"It's better to be a warrior on a farm than a farmer in a war."

Optimus Prime

    I thought it would be fun to recreate an inanimate childhood toy and make it… well, animated.  So here's Optimus Prime, the transformer.  He starts out as a tractor trailer and then transforms into his robot form.
The animation of the good old leader of the autobots took some time.  Each piece was modeled as a separate object so that he could transform when animated. 
    I was originally inspired to create this, while I was teaching Web Publishing.  A student made an animated GIF of the old RatBat transformer using a simply multiple layers in Photoshop.
     Here we've got a representation of a Vandyke brown print that I made of Optimus Prime here.  It's a high res rendering output to an image setter in black and white.  Then I took the negative and printed it on hand coated cotton paper using a light box for the exposure.