Storyboard

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Storyboards are, for lack of a better term, pieces of art that are used in movies or television shows to give the crew working on it a visual for how scenes are going to play out. This is used to help frame the scene's camera and get a basic idea of how scenes are to play out; when a piece of dialogue is said, what visuals are shown happening in the scene and the general frame of the scene is determined by it's storyboarded version.

Some scenes never make it past the storyboard phase, however; scenes like the image of Mirage blasting Bombshell to the right are sometimes completely cut from the final version of an episode or movie. These are usually because of pacing, time constraints or changes to the script which neccessitate the removal of certain scenes. For example, the scenes of Wheeljack being alive after the Battle of Autobot City were cut when it was decided he would die in the battle.

These "deleted scenes" will usually end up on home video releases of the movie as a bonus feature to entice buyers if they were far enough into production.

Available storyboards

Example of a Marvel Productions storyboard cover

The Transformers (cartoon)

Season 1

• Unproduced title sequence
• More than Meets the Eye, Part 2 Act I
• More than Meets the Eye, Part 3 Act II samples
• Transport to Oblivion Act II samples
• Roll for It Act III
• S.O.S. Dinobots
• The Ultimate Doom, Part 3 Act III
• Countdown to Extinction Act III
• Heavy Metal War

Season 2

• Unproduced title sequence
• Autobot Spike Act II
• City Of Steel
• Attack Of The Autobots
• The Immobilizer
• Atlantis, Arise!
• Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2 (Additional Material insert)
• Blaster Blues
• The Secret of Omega Supreme
• Sea Change
• Aerial Assault
• Cosmic Rust

Season 3

• Chaos
• Webworld Act III

The Transformers: The Movie

• Finalised sequences 1-31

Gallery

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  From City Of Steel. The next 8 pages have been removed from the set...
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  After the deleted pages, we resume the produced episode.
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  Some artists liked to use more than one panel to create a large panoramic image.
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  From Sea Change. Where possible, some artists saved time by copying the background layout drawing directly on to their boards.
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  From Cosmic Rust. Storyboard directors and producers would sometimes scale down larger shots to save money.

External links

• Index of storyboard galleries for The Transformers and The Transformers The Movie at the Sunbow Marvel Archive