Digital artist Diamonddead shares his own fan posters for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, teasing Beast Wars characters, Optimus Primal and Cheetor. The two Maximal characters are set to appear in the 7th film in the ‘Transformers’ franchise. ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ follows the story established in 2018's ‘Bumblebee’.
Continuing on from the new continuity established by ‘Bumblebee’, ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' is set to bring in characters from an era that as-of-yet has not been tapped into by the Transformers film franchise. In the upcoming film, the Autobots will face three new factions to the film series: the Maximals, the Predacons, and the Terrorcons. Inspired by the 1996 3D computer-generated animated series, Beast Wars: Transformers, the new Cybertronian factions are Transformers who arrived on pre-historic Earth and chose to disguise themselves as animals such as Gorillas, Rhinos, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. While these characters have been kept secret, Ron Perlman has been cast as Maximal leader Optimus Primal, reprising his role from Netflix's Transformers: War for Cybertron. While promotional material for the upcoming film has yet to be released, fans haven't had a glimpse at any of the new Transformers' appearances, though one fan artist has shared his own vision for two of the Maximals.
Digital artist Diamonddead shared two fan-made posters on his Instagram account that highlighted two confirmed Maximal characters, Optimus Primal and Cheetor. The posters depict portraits of the two robots' animal forms, with half of their faces being their animal forms while the other half features various mechanical details shrouded in shadows. Diamonddead designed Primal's poster first, before creating Cheetor's, after the initial poster's reception, due to it being a Transformer he owned when he was younger. The artist also released clean variants of each poster without text.
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