Marcelo Matere

Marcelo Matere (born March 14, 1979) is a Brazilian artist. He is a freelance artist for Hasbro who regularly works as a character designer, toy concept artist, packaging artist, and more. He has also done comic book illustration for 3H, Dreamwave, Titan Magazines and IDW, among others.
Packaging art
Armada
He also did the package art for Armada's Corona Sparkplug and Wind Sheer, but it is undetermined if these were published anywhere.
Energon
Cybertron
- Brimstone
- Evac
- Demolishor
- Downshift
- Cybertron Defense Hot Shot
- Leobreaker
- Megatron
- Galvatron
- Cybertron Defense Red Alert
- Galaxy Force Optimus Prime
- Optimus Prime (deluxe)
- Optimus Prime (gorilla)
- Optimus Prime (leader)
- Override GTS
- Primus
- Unicron (deluxe)
Universe (2003)
- Universe mini-poster
- Depth Charge
- Inferno
- King Atlas
Beast Wars Tenth Anniversary
Alternators
- 06. Autobot Tracks (bubble package)
- 07. Meister (bubble package)
- 10. Windcharger
- 12. Shockblast
- 13. Wheeljack
- 14. Decepticharge
- 16. Prowl (bubble package)
- 17. Autobot Skids
- 18. Sunstreaker
- 19. Rollbar
- 20. Ricochet
- 21. Optimus Prime
- 22. Mirage
- 23. Autobot Camshaft
- 24. Nemesis Prime
- 24. Decepticon Rumble
- 25. Ravage (Jaguar XK)
- 27. Rodimus
Star Wars/Transformers
- Anakin Skywalker/Jedi Starfighter (pencils)
- Boba Fett/Slave-1 (pencils)
- Chewbacca/Millennium Falcon
- Darth Vader/TIE Advanced Fighter
- Han Solo/Millennium Falcon
- Emperor Palpatine/Imperial Shuttle (pencils)
- Luke Skywalker/X-Wing Fighter
- Obi-Wan Kenobi/Jedi Starfighter
Transformers (2007)
Universe (2008)
- Optimus Prime (promotional)
- 25th Anniversary Optimus Prime
- Megatron (promotional)
- Prowl
- Sunstreaker
- Tankor
- Powerglide
Transformers Crossovers
Animated
Revenge of the Fallen
Timelines
Generations
Combiner Wars
Titans Return
Power of the Primes
Studio Series
- The entire '86 subline
Transformers Retro
Transformers licensing art
Toy design
Universe (2003)
- Roulette (head design)
- Shadow Striker (head design)
Beast Wars 10th Anniversary
Transformers (2007)
Robot Heroes
- All Robot Heroes figures
Transformers Crossovers
Universe (2008)
Generations
Power of the Primes
- Throne of the Primes (throne only)
Legacy
Legacy: Evolution
Character designs
Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)
Comic/story book art
Dreamwave Productions
- More Than Meets The Eye (G1) #4
- More Than Meets The Eye (G1) #5
- More Than Meets The Eye (G1) #6
- More Than Meets The Eye (G1) #7
- More Than Meets The Eye (Armada) #2
- Energon #30
3H Productions
IDW Publishing
- Spotlight Soundwave, Grimlock, Metroplex
- Megatron Origin #2 (select pages)
- Beast Wars Sourcebook #1, #2 (select pages)
- Maximum Dinobots (B covers)
- Spotlight: Metroplex interiors, cover A
- Transformers: Animated - The Arrival #2 (on "Whatever Happened To Whatisname?"),
- The AllSpark Almanac cover
- The AllSpark Almanac II cover
- War for Cybertron cover
- The Transformers: The IDW Collection: Phase 2 (#2–12 covers)
Harper Collins/Harper Entertainment/Harper Festival
- Transformers: The Movie Storybook
- Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: Rise of the Decepticons
- Transformers: Hunt for the Decepticons: Satellite Meltdown
Titan Magazines UK
- Transformers Comic issue 6 (Movie Jazz story)
- Transformers Comic issue 13 (Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4)
Hasbro
- Unit:E (pages 8–9)
Other
- Transformers Legends card line art (uncredited)
- Signature Series featuring Marcelo Matere
Convention Appearances
- OTFCC 2003
- OTFCC 2004
- BotCon 2005
- BotCon 2006
- BotCon 2007
- BotCon 2008
- BotCon 2009
- BotCon 2011
- BotCon 2013
Gallery
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It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it.
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Think a chiropractor's going take on his case?
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Taking backstabbing to another direction.
Fiction
Legends comic
A resident of the Legends World, Marcelo Matere was saved from a Zamojin invasion by Brazilian Transformers toys that revealed themselves to be real Transformers. Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two When his world was destroyed, Matere was evacuated to Cybertron of the G1 World. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2
Notes
- Matere first got involved with the Transformers brand when Dreamwave couldn't keep up with Hasbro's needs for art assets, leading Aaron Archer to look online for suitable contractors.[2] The first piece of packaging artwork he did for Hasbro was Armada Swindle.
- Matere was originally contracted to do 8 pages for Megatron Origin #4, which were drawn and submitted to IDW. However, apparently Alex Milne was also contracted to do those pages, and his versions were used instead.
References
- ↑ Matere's Tumblr
- ↑ "Marcelo came on cause I found him online, to fill that need, when Dreamwave couldn't keep up with that demand. We needed more people and he was very capable to kinda... do that style, and also is an industrial designer, which worked out even sweeter for us."—Aaron Archer, The Toy Armada, 2023/01/28
External links
Interviews
- Pages with image sizes containing extra px
- Creator stub
- Aligned designers
- Animated designers
- Convention guests
- Hasbro designers
- Generations designers
- Dreamwave Productions
- Illustrators
- Legends World humans
- Movie designers
- IDW Publishing
- Revenge of the Fallen designers
- Unicron Trilogy designers
- Universe (2008) designers





