Studio OX

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 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 Zone, nearly all story pages 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: