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[[Image:Josh_Nizzi.jpg|thumb|right|He's [[King|AWESOME]].]]<br />
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'''Josh Nizzi''' is a freelance concept artist. A Champaign, Illinois native, Nizzi is well known among ''Transformers'' [[Fandom|fans]] for his Movie concept of [[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]]. According to Nizzi, the design attracted the attention of [[Hasbro]]'s ''Transformers'' design director [[Aaron Archer]], who wanted him to do concepts for the then-unnamed ''Transformers'' sequel, and soon after, director [[Michael Bay]]'s studio hired him on as a concept artist for ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''. <br />
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His Long Haul design was the very first to be approved from any of the artists, and Nizzi was also responsible for [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], the powered-up combined form of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and the redesign of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]].<ref>[http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2009/06/23/champaign_native_realizes_dream_with Josh Nizzi interview at News-Gazette.com, June 23, 2009. Article now requires paid archives access.]</ref><br />
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He also designed the [[King]], which he considers to be the best design job ever. Period.<br />
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==Comic covers==<br />
===IDW Publishing===<br />
* ''[[Destiny|Transformers: Destiny]]'' <br />
**''[[Alliance (comic)|Transformers: Alliance]]'' #1, #2, #3, #4<br />
**''[[Defiance|Transformers: Defiance]]'' #1, #2, #3, #4<br />
*''[[Revenge of the Fallen (comic series)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' #1, #2, #3, #4<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Nizzi also designed an Autobot AH-64 Apache named Longbow, which he entered for a ''USA Today'' contest to design a Transformer. Nizzi admitted being a professional, he was slightly cheating and wouldn't mind disqualification, but ''USA Today'' still showed off the character who'll ''probably'' be in the third film.<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/community/photos/publicgalleryphoto.htm?plckPhotoID=066ba23c-ce62-4390-9f95-658585228de9&plckGalleryID=4f01ed2c-39f0-4984-8d25-3125507394a8&loc=interstitialskip USA Today gallery page for Longbow]</ref> The design was later used as an inspiration for [[Tomahawk]] in the [[Transformers 2010]] line.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.joshnizzi.com Josh Nizzi's website/online portfolio]<br />
*[http://www.joshnizzi.com/TF2.htm Gallery of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' work]<br />
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