Editing Studio OX

[[Image:StudioOxHumongousCityCommanders01.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Where is your god, now?"]]

Founded by [[Atsuhiko Sugita]] in 1985, '''Studio OX''' (スタジオ OX) is a freelance art studio that produced more "anime styled" Transformers art for ''[[TV Magazine]]'' and ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'' throughout the early years of [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] in Japan.  They continue to provide production and conceptual artwork to this day, primarily for feature film animation, such as ''Gunhead'' and ''Android Kikaider''. 

Their Transformer character designs are notable for being far more detailed than [[Floro Dery]]'s models, as well as borrowing visual elements from Japanese mecha designs.  Being an actual ''studio'' composed of numerous artists (most of whom went without individual credits), the quality and details of Studio OX's ''Transformers'' often fluctuated wildly.  Both scale and proportions were often brutalized to horrific effect, while other pieces boasted more technically pleasing, dynamic action.

Studio OX's participation in the ''Transformers'' franchise was gradually phased out as the popularity of the series died down.  By the time of ''[[Transformers: Zone (franchise)|Zone]]'', nearly all [[story page]]s and magazine artwork was provided by [[Ban Magami]] with additional pieces of box artwork from [[Hidetsugu Yoshioka]] to round out the decreased page space.

==Artists==

Although not all members of Studio OX were properly credited when their work appeared in magazines or reprints, some did receive individual credits.  Here are a few of the known artists:

*[[Saitō Akihide]]
*[[Morifumi Naka]]
*[[Tsuyoshi Nonaka]]
*[[Shinya Ohira]]
*[[Atsuhiko Sugita]]
*[[Tokubiko Sugita]]
*[[Asao Takahashi]]


==Artwork collections==

Several resource books have been printed in Japan collecting large portions of Studio OX artwork.  ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' boasted a large collection of both color and line art by Studio OX in both its original and ''Deluxe'' printings.  Perhaps most comprehensive, though, would be ''[[Transformers Visualworks]]'', which dedicated an even larger section to spotlighting the work of Studio OX.

==Gallery==
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Image:DevastatorManga1.jpg|Devastatingly handsome.
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Image:Springerstudiooxcharactermodel.jpg|He never looked that good in the cartoon.
Image:GestaltTrioTVMagazine.jpg|Yeah, Studio OX had their ups and downs...
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''[[:Category:Images by Studio OX|Extended Studio OX gallery]]''</center>

==External link==

*[http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AAOX Studio OX at Wikipedia (Japanese)]
*[http://www.allspark.com/content/view/8453/37/ Comic Bom Bom coverage at TFPulp]

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