Seibertron interviews Livio Ramondelli

[griffin]

So he's like the Michael Bay of comics - he can do great promo action shots, but is hard to watch a whole issue in that style.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I thought his artwork quite suited Autocracy and Monstrosity and did not mind it at all there. Sometimes the proportions are out (Scorponok is huge, but then Hun-Grrr in beast mode is just as tall, that should mean Hun-Grrr is the size of Broadside in robot mode!) and sometimes it is dark but I thought it really worked for these two series.

That said however his artwork in all the other TF comics has really not appealed to me at all and I would have to say he has been one of my least fav TF comic artists.

[Paulbot]

Damn those black and white drawings are excellent.

I was having a flick through Chaos last night and there are some gorgeous panels and pages in there. Don't have hard copies of the digital-first stories yet.

Overall I like his art, but for comics the storytelling is not great and his colouring does tens to make everything too dark. There are less appealing artists doing TF art, so i like this for being something different.

[Gouki]

I thought his artwork quite suited Autocracy and Monstrosity and did not mind it at all there. Sometimes the proportions are out (Scorponok is huge, but then Hun-Grrr in beast mode is just as tall, that should mean Hun-Grrr is the size of Broadside in robot mode!) and sometimes it is dark but I thought it really worked for these two series.

Expecting scale in Transformers media leads to madness. Even MTMTE isn't perfect in that regard.

[UltraMarginal]

That art is really nice Sam, but that highlights what i find as blurry in the Monstrosity series.

what you showed there is really excellent, it feels to me there is a filter that's applied somewhere between the original art and the final coloured inked images that takes out a lot of the sharpness and adds almost a grainy scratched texture. so much of the initial detail is lost.