Josh Nizzi

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He's AWESOME.

Josh Nizzi is a freelance concept artist. A native of Champaign, Illinois, Nizzi is well known among Transformers fans for his Movie concept of 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 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. This eventually lead him to doing concept art for multiple blockbuster films, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, where his best known designs are the Hulkbuster armors.

His Long Haul design was the first to be approved from any of the artists, and Nizzi was also responsible for Jetfire, the powered-up combined form of Optimus Prime and the redesign of Megatron. For Dark of the Moon, Nizzi continued Megatron's evolution, as well as designing Shockwave, Soundwave and Laserbeak, the Wreckers and Dreads...pretty much everybody except Wheeljack and Brains.

He also designed the King, which he considers to be the best design job ever. Period.

Design work

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

• Jet Optimus
• Jetfire (Body and initial face design, seen on ROTF Leader)
• Megatron
• Long Haul
• Arcee (Head)
• Rampage (Head)
• Sideways (Head)
• Soundwave (Initial head design, seen on ROTF Deluxe)
• Dynasty of Primes
• King

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

• Megatron
• Shockwave
• Driller
• Soundwave
• Dino (Head)
• Leadfoot
• Topspin
• Roadbuster
• Crankcase
• Crowbar
• Hatchet
• Steeljaw

Transformers: Age of Extinction

• Optimus Prime
• Grimlock (Beast mode)
• Slug (Beast mode)
• Two Head
• KSI Boss
• Creator hand

Transformers: The Last Knight

• Megatron
• Barricade (Body)
• WWII Bumblebee
• WWII Hot Rod
• Nitro Zeus (Body and initial head design, used on toy)
• Infernocon
• Onslaught
• Berserker
• Bulldog

Prime 1 Studios

• Premium Masterline Optimus Prime
• Premium Masterline Megatron
• Premium Masterline Soundwave & Laserbeak
• Age of Time Superior Optimus Prime
• Age of Time Superior Megatron
• All Prime 1 Artprints
• Museum Masterline Power Master Optimus Prime
• Museum Masterline Megatron Overlord

Comic covers

IDW Publishing

• Transformers: Destiny
  • Transformers: Alliance #1, #2, #3, #4
  • Transformers: Defiance #1, #2, #3, #4
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen #1, #2, #3, #4

Gallery

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Extended Josh Nizzi gallery

Notes

• 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. The design was later used as an inspiration for Tomahawk in the 2010 Transformers toyline.

External links

• Josh Nizzi's twitter account
• Josh Nizzi's website/online portfolio
  • Gallery of Revenge of the Fallen work
  • Gallery of Dark of the Moon work