Marcelo Matere
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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.
Known design projects
[edit]Packaging art
[edit]Armada
[edit]He also did the package art for Corona Sparkplug and Wind Sheer, but it is undetermined if these were published anywhere.
Energon
[edit]- Alpha Quintesson
- Beachcomber
- Bulkhead
- Cliffjumper
- Demolishor (dump truck)
- Demolishor (KB Toys exclusive)
- Duststorm
- Galvatron
- Grimlock
- Mirage
- Omega Sentinel
- Omega Supreme
- Overcast
- Quickstrike
- Sharkticon
- Six Shot
- Sky Shadow
- Sledge
- Energon Starscream
- Energon Strongarm
- Swoop
- Terradive
- Treadshot
- Wideload
- Windrazor
It's also uncertain whether or not he worked on the Energon Volume 1 pack-in mini-comic.
Cybertron
[edit]- Brimstone
- Cannonball
- Demolishor
- Downshift
- Evac
- Excellion
- Galvatron
- Hightail
- Cybertron Defense Hot Shot
- Leobreaker
- Megatron
- Nemesis Breaker
- Optimus Prime (Deluxe Class truck)
- Optimus Prime (Deluxe Class gorilla)
- Optimus Prime (Leader Class)
- Galaxy Force Optimus Prime
- Override GTS
- Primus
- Quickmix
- Cybertron Defense Red Alert
- Unicron (Deluxe Class)
Universe (2003)
[edit]- Universe pack-in mini-poster
- Bonecrusher
- Depth Charge
- Fireflight
- Frostbite
- Hightower
- Inferno (Deluxe Class)
- King Atlas
- Long Haul
- Magna Stampede
- Overbite
- Autobot Ratchet
- Repugnus
- Scavenger
- Skydive
- Stockade
- Razorclaw
- Whirl
Dinobots
[edit]Beast Wars 10th Anniversary
[edit]Alternators
[edit]- 5 Autobot Tracks (bubble package)
- 7 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
- 26 Ravage (Jaguar XK)
- 27 Rodimus
Star Wars Transformers
[edit]Transformers (2007)
[edit]Universe (2008)
[edit]- Autobot Blaster (San Diego Comic-Con 2010)
- Megatron (Special Edition)
- Nemesis Prime
- Optimus Prime (Special Edition)
- 25th Anniversary Optimus Prime
- Powerglide
- Prowl
- Sunstreaker
- Tankor
Crossovers
[edit]- Captain America
- Carnage
- Hulk (tank)
- Human Torch
- Venom
- War Machine (stealth bomber)
- Wolverine
- Thor
Animated
[edit]- Freeway Jazz
- Atomic Lugnut
- Megatron (Deluxe 2-pack)
- Shadow Blade Megatron
- Oil Slick
- Optimus Prime (Deluxe 2-pack)
- Samurai Prowl
- Electrostatic Soundwave
- Roadbuster Ultra Magnus
- Waspinator
- Wreck-Gar
He also did the package art for Vortex Blurr, Mercenary Swindle and Fugitive Waspinator, but these toys went ultimately unreleased.
Timelines
[edit]Combiner Wars
[edit]Titans Return
[edit]He also did a preliminary version of Sovereign's package art based on Lube that ended up being used on a South African retailer's website.
Power of the Primes
[edit]War for Cybertron: Siege
[edit]
- 86-01 Autobot Jazz
- 86-02 Kup
- 86-02BB Kup (backdrop)
- 86-03 Blurr
- 86-04 Autobot Hot Rod
- 86-05 Scourge
- 86-06 Grimlock & Autobot Wheelie
- 86-07 Dinobot Slug & Daniel Witwicky
- 86-08 Gnaw
- 86-09 Wreck-Gar
- 86-10 Decepticon Sweep
- 86-11 Perceptor
- 86-12 Coronation Starscream
- 86-13BB Cliffjumper (backdrop)
- 86-14 Junkheap
- 86-15 Dinobot Sludge
- 86-16 Arcee
- 86-17 Ironhide
- 86-19 Dinobot Snarl
- 86-21 Ultra Magnus
- 86-22 Brawn
- Core Class Ironhide
- Core Class Autobot Ratchet
- Core Class Decepticon Rumble (Blue)
- Core Class Exo-Suit Spike Witwicky
- Core Class Autobot Wheelie
- 86-23 Autobot Ratchet
- Core Class Decepticon Frenzy (Red)
- 86-24 Junkion Scrapheap
- 86-24BB Ironhide / 86-20BB Prowl (backdrop)
- 86-25 Autobot Blaster & Eject
- 86-26 Dinobot Swoop
- 86-27 Brawn / 86-28 Autobot Ratchet
- 86-29 Bumblebee
- 86-30 Autobot Springer
- 86-31 Optimus Prime
- 86-31 Galvatron
- Matrix of Leadership (roleplay)
Dinobot Adventures
[edit]- Bumblebee
- Grimlock
- Lance the Raptor-Bot
- Optimus Prime (Dinobot Defender)
- Optimus Prime T-Rex
- Predaking
- Scale the Shield-Bot
- Dinobot Sludge
- Dinobot Slug
- Dinobot Snarl (Dinobot Striker)
- Dinobot Snarl (Dinobot Squad)
- Dinobot Swoop
Classic Heroes Team
[edit]- Bumblebee
- Grimlock
- Megatron (drill tank)
- Megatron (crocodile)
- Optimus Primal
- Optimus Prime
- Starscream
Transformers Retro
[edit]Comic Edition
[edit]Legacy: United
[edit]- Omega Prime
(Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus with Autobot Bluebolts and Cerebros)
Other Generations (2025)
[edit]
Toy design
[edit]Universe (2003)
[edit]- Roulette (head design)
- Shadow Striker (head design)
Beast Wars 10th Anniversary
[edit]Transformers (2007)
[edit]Robot Heroes
[edit]Transformers (2007)
[edit]- Generation 1 Series
- Movie Series
- Bumblebee / Barricade
- Autobot Jazz / Decepticon Frenzy
- Autobot Ratchet / Megatron
- Optimus Prime / Blackout
- Armor Bumblebee / Starscream
- Ironhide / Bonecrusher
- Protoform Jazz / Decepticon Brawl
- Optimus Prime / Scorponok
- Ironhide / Dispensor
- Allspark Bumblebee / Starscream
- Battle Jazz / Megatron
- Optimus Prime / Barricade
Universe (2008)
[edit]- Beast Wars Series
- Generation 1 Series
- Autobot Hound / Blitzwing
- Sunstreaker / Galvatron
- Arcee / Decepticon Rumble
- Autobot Blaster / Thrust
- Ironhide / Kickback
- Perceptor / Hardshell
- Snarl / Sharkticon
- Ricochet / Predaking
- Prowl / Laserbeak (unreleased)
- Victory Saber / Dessaras (unreleased)
- Beast Machines Series
- Cheetor / Tankor
- Optimus Primal / Jetstorm (unreleased)
- Robots in Disguise Series
- Optimus Prime / Megatron (unreleased)
Revenge of the Fallen
[edit]- Bumblebee / Long Haul
- Mudflap / Rampage
- Optimus Prime / Blackout
- Sideswipe / Sideways
- Autobot Skids / Megatron
- Autobot Springer / Starscream
- Ironhide / Mixmaster
- Jolt / Ravage
- Chromia / Megatron
- Ratchet / Barricade
- Battle for the AllSpark
(Decepticon Brawl, Bumblebee, Megatron, Optimus Prime, Autobot Ratchet, Sam Witwicky, Starscream)
- Battle of the Fallen
(The Fallen, Ironhide, Megatron, Jetpower Optimus Prime) - Desert Devastation
(Constructicon Devastator, Mudflap, Autobot Skids, Captain William Lennox) - Shanghai Shootout
(Demolishor, Optimus Prime, Sideswipe, Sideways, Autobot Skids & Mudflap)
Crossovers
[edit]Universe (2008)
[edit]Power of the Primes
[edit]- Throne of the Primes (throne only)
Legacy
[edit]Rise of the Beasts
[edit]- Beast Combiners
- Beast Mode
Age of the Primes
[edit]Character design
[edit]War for Cybertron (DS)
[edit]Rise of the Beasts
[edit]Comic/story book art
[edit]Dreamwave Productions
[edit]- More Than Meets The Eye #4, #5, #6, #7 (interiors)
- More Than Meets The Eye: Armada #2 (interiors)
- Energon #30 (interiors)
Image Comics
[edit]- Genesis: The Art of Transformers (select pages)
3H Productions
[edit]IDW Publishing
[edit]- Infiltration #0 (partial BotCon exclusive cover)
- Infiltration Cover Gallery (republished #0 cover)
- Spotlight issues:
- "Soundwave" (interiors; B and RIB covers)
- The IDW Collection Compendium, Vol. 1 (republished "Soundwave" issue)
- "Grimlock" (interiors; A and RI covers; unused third cover)
- Spotlight Volume 3 TPB (recycled "Grimlock" third cover)
- "Metroplex" (interiors; A and RI covers A)
- "Soundwave" (interiors; B and RIB covers)
- Megatron Origin issues:
- #1, #3 (B covers)
- #2 (pages 12–19; B cover)
- #4 (B cover; unused pages)
- Beast Wars Sourcebook #1, #2 (select pages)
- Animated: The Arrival issues:
- Maximum Dinobots #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 (B covers)
- Maximum Dinobots TPB (reused #1 B cover)
- The AllSpark Almanac volumes:
- The AllSpark Almanac (cover)
- The AllSpark Almanac II (cover; reused Animated packaging art)
- The Complete AllSpark Almanac (cover; reused Animated packaging art)
- All Hail Megatron Volume 3 TPB (Throttlebots art as bonus material)
- Ironhide #1, #2, #3, #4 (A and RI covers)
- The IDW Collection #1, #3, #4 (republished Megatron Origin and Spotlight issues)
- War for Cybertron (cover)
- The Transformers issues:
- Robots in Disguise issues:
- How to Draw Transformers Prime (cover)
- More than Meets the Eye #4, #5, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #13, #14, #15, #16, #29 (RI covers)
- More than Meets the Eye Box Set (cover)
- Windblade: Volume 2 #2, #3 (RI covers reused from Combiner Wars packaging art)
- The IDW Collection: Phase Two #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12 (covers)
- Deviations (regular cover)
- ROM #3 (RI cover)
- Revolution: Transformers one-shot (regular and Local Comic Shop Day exclusive covers)
- Revolution: Transformers TPB (reused one-shot regular cover)
- Lost Light #6, #10 (RI covers)
- Optimus Prime #11, #16 (RI covers)
- Optimus Prime Volume 4 TPB (reused #16 RI cover)
- Transformers (2019) #17, #29 (RI covers)
- Shattered Glass II #1 (pages 2–3, 5–6, 8, 10, 12–13, 16–20; RI cover)
HarperCollins Publishers
[edit]- Transformers: The Movie Storybook (interiors)
- Revenge of The Fallen: Rise of the Decepticons (interiors)
- Adventures of Transformers Animated (republished Rise of the Decepticons)
- Roll out and Read Adventures (republished Rise of the Decepticons)
- Hunt for the Decepticons: Satellite Meltdown (interiors)
Titan Magazines
[edit]- Transformers #6, #13 (comic pages)
- Adventures Volume 1, Volume 2 (republished #6 and #13 comics respectively)
Little, Brown and Company
[edit]- Dark of the Moon: Autobots Versus Decepticons (interiors)
- Dark of the Moon: Bumblebee's Best Friend (interiors)
- Ultimate Storybook Collection (republished both books)
Fun Publications
[edit]- Timelines fiction:
- Vol.2 #1 (select pages)
- Vol.2 #2 (Bug Bite profile art for Diamond Edition)
- #8 (BotCon Edition cover)
- #10 (Diamond Edition cover)
- "Foundation and Wreckage Part 1: Deadly Aim" (cover)
- Collector's Club magazine:
- Animated fiction:
- Moving Violations (Team Stunticon poster)
- The Stunti-Con Job (interiors)
- The Return of Blurr (one panel)
Hasbro
[edit]- Unit:E (pages 8–9)
TakaraTomy
[edit]- Legends comic (cooperated with)
Transformers licensing art
[edit]
Other work
[edit]- Transformers Legends card line art (uncredited)
- Signature Series featuring Marcelo Matere
- Graphic design on the personal sigils for the Thirteen in the Power of the Primes franchise.[3]
Convention appearances
[edit]- OTFCC 2003
- OTFCC 2004
- BotCon 2005
- BotCon 2006
- BotCon 2007
- BotCon 2008
- BotCon 2009
- BotCon 2010
- BotCon 2011
- BotCon 2013
- BotCon 2016
- HasCon 2017
- Hasbro Pulse Con 2024
- San Diego Comic-Con 2025
Hasbro Pulse livestream appearances
[edit]- January 21, 2026's The Origins of Transformers: Age of the Primes | SDCC Artist Roundtable | Hasbro Pulse on YouTube, with Mark Maher, Eric Siebenaler and Ken Christiansen.
Gallery
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It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it. -
Think a chiropractor's going take on his case? -
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Taking backstabbing to another direction. -
Fiction
[edit]Legends comic
[edit]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
[edit]- 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.[4] 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
[edit]- ↑ Matere's Tumblr
- ↑ Transformers Panel at Hasbro Pulse Con 2024 with Ben MacCrae, Evan Brooks, Mark Maher, Marcelo Matere, and Nate Purswell.
- ↑ "Spotlight: Marcelo Matere" panel at TFNation 2025
- ↑ "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
[edit]Interviews
[edit]Categories:
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- Creator stub
- Aligned designers
- Alternators packaging artists
- Animated packaging artists
- Beast Era packaging artists
- Convention guests
- Hall of Fame creators
- Hasbro designers
- Hasbro packaging artists
- Generations designers
- Generations packaging artists
- Legends World humans
- Movie designers
- Movie packaging artists
- Revenge of the Fallen packaging artists
- Unicron Trilogy packaging artists
- Universe (2003) designers
- Universe (2003) packaging artists
- Universe (2008) designers
- Universe (2008) packaging artists
- Timelines packaging artists
- Inkers
- Cover artists
- Pencillers
- Colorists
