Ken Christiansen

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Ken Christiansen is a storyboarder and illustrator, who worked as a concept artist on Activision's Transformers video games, designing mass-produced bodyforms and drones for Traveller's Tales' Transformers The Game and Luxoflux's Revenge of the Fallen video games. He currently provides freelance concept artwork and designs to Hasbro, Inc. for the Transformers brand, along with other IP development.

Designs

You'll probably only remember this guy because of these.

Transformers: The Game

• Dropkick
• Dreadwing/Class Alpha drone unit
• Longarm
• Mixmaster
• Payload/Class Beta drone unit
• Scrapper
• Shockwave
• Swindle
• Sector Seven drone

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game

• Combaticons
• Dead End (character art)
• Generation 1 Megatron
• Generation 1 Optimus Prime
• Generation 1 Starscream
• Omnibots
• Protectobots
• Soundwave
• Stunticons
• Ironhide and Grindor's turrets

Books

• Transformers Vault: Prima
• Transformers: The Covenant of Primus

Toy concept work

Transformers (2007)

• First Strike Optimus Prime

Package art

Generations

• Platinum Edition Trypticon
• Platinum Edition Seeker Squadron
• Platinum Edition Armada of Cyclonus

IDW comic work

• The Transformers Continuum (cover only)
• Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots #1–#4 (cover only)
• Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters #1–#8 (cover only)
• The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #34 (30th Anniversary cover), Combiner Wars #1–#14 and Opening Salvo–Part 5 (Hasbro toy covers), Revolution one-shot (retailer incentive cover)
• The Transformers: Primacy #3 (30th Anniversary cover)
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye #34 (30th Anniversary cover), Revolution one-shot (retailer incentive cover)
• Revolution #1–#5 (retailer incentive cover A)
• Action Man Revolution one-shot (retailer incentive cover)
• The Transformers: Till All Are One Revolution one-shot (retailer incentive cover)
• G.I. Joe Revolution one-shot (retailer incentive cover)

Other comic work

• Unit:E (pages 18, 23)

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2009
• BotCon 2011 (artist's alley)
• BotCon 2016

External links

• Ken Christiansen's homepage
• Ken Christiansen's original blog
• Ken Christiansen on Instagram
• Ken Christiansen on Facebook