Gen1 cartoon concept drawings by Floro Dery have surfaced

[Trent]

That print is awesome I'm sure it will sell for more than I can afford

It's sold. I wonder if anyone here bought it?

I wouldn't mind getting a few of his sketches. Some great attention to detail in them.

[UltraMarginal]

The sketch or concept art was from the Transformers Animated Movie back in the 80's

The art style is indeed very similar to the Autobot City concept proposal that Jim Sorenson uncovered and revealed a couple years ago.
This was probably an early script/concept idea thrown around, to have Cybertron transform to fight off Unicron. We joke about how much a Michael Bay script changes on a daily basis, but we've seen quite a few things now that were dropped or changed in the 1986 movie.
It's a pity the movie was done so long ago, as it would be interesting to hear from the people who went through the creation process and talk about what other ideas were proposed.

It's funny that the fandom were quite opposed at having Cybertron be a transformer (when Furman had Primus introduced in his comic as the core of Cybertron, and then when it finally happened in the Unicron Trilogy), but it was almost canon from Gen1, if this had ended up being in the movie.

That's really interesting, It would be great to pick the brains of some of those creators. I think most people would be surprised just how much a movie changes between initial script and final print. Michael Bay certainly isn't on his own.

I wonder what Transformers Lore would be like today if they had made Cybertron a transformer all the way back in the Animated Movie?