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. In the past decade he's primarily known as a prolific concept and packaging illustrator on the Generations mega-franchise.
Designs
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Transformers: The Game
[edit]Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game
[edit]The followings entries below were revealed on his Instagram page in April 2022, these characters were conceived for a post-ROTF video game in anticipation that Luxoflux would continue the series. Unfortunately Luxoflux was disbanded in 2010 by their parent company Activision, leaving the development to another studio (which is also a subsidiary of Activision), High Moon Studios.
- Junkion Warriors
- Grimlock
- Cyclonus
- Springer (sketches only)[1]
Books
[edit]Packaging art
[edit]Platinum Edition
[edit]- Armada of Cyclonus 3-pack (Cyclonus, Scourge, Decepticon Sweeps)
- Autobot Intel Ops (Autobot Blaster, Eject, Ramhorn, Perceptor)
- Dinobots set 5-Pack (Grimlock, Dinobot Slug, Strafe, Snarl, Slog)
- Insecticons 3-pack (Insecticon Bombshell, Kickback, Skrapnel)
- Decepticon Triple Changer 2-pack (Blitzwing, Astrotrain)
- One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall 2-pack (Optimus Prime, Megatron)
- Planet of Junk Clash 3-pack (Autobot Hot Rod, Wreck-Gar, Junkion Scrapheap)
- Rise of Rodimus Prime 2-pack (Rodimus Prime, Galvatron)
- Seeker Squadron 3-pack (Ramjet, Dirge, Thrust)
- Trypticon (with Full-Tilt and Brunt)
Generations
[edit]Combiner Wars
[edit]- "Combiner Hunters" 3-pack
- Air Raid
- Alpha Bravo
- Protectobot Blades
- Decepticon Blast Off
- Brawl
- Breakdown
- Cyclonus
- Dead End
- Decepticon Dragstrip
- Firefly
- Protectobot First Aid
- Autobot Hound
- Protectobot Hot Spot
- Ironhide
- Mirage
- Motormaster
- Decepticon Offroad
- Optimus Prime
- Battle Core Optimus Prime
- Onslaught
- Prowl
- Protectobot Rook
- Scattershot
- Silverbolt
- Skydive
- Smokescreen
- Protectobot Streetwise
- Sunstreaker
- Swindle
- Trailbreaker
- Decepticon Vortex
- Wheeljack
Titans Return
[edit]- Hyperfire & Blurr
- Autobot Teslor & Brainstorm
- Autobot Stylor & Chromedome
- Furos & Hardhead
- Xort & Highbrow
- Vorath & Mindwipe
- Fracas & Scourge
- Decepticon Revolver & Six Shot
- Grax & Skullsmasher
- Monxo & Wolfwire
Toy concept work
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Transformers (2007)
[edit]Generations
[edit]Titans Return
[edit]Power of the Primes
[edit]- Elita-1 (new tooling only)[2]
- Evolution Rodimus Unicronus (new tooling and deco only)[3]
- Evolution Nemesis Prime with Nemesis Pax and Decepticon Giza (accessories only)[4]
War for Cybertron: Siege
[edit]War for Cybertron: Earthrise
[edit]- Arcee (Robot Mode only)
- Doubledealer (Robot and Bird Mode only)
- Quintesson Judge
- Quintesson Pit of Judgement 5-pack (Quintesson Judge, Quintesson Prosecutor, Quintesson Bailiff, Kranix)
- Scorponok with Lord Zarak
- Sky Lynx
- Trip-Up & Autobot Daddy-O
War for Cybertron: Kingdom
[edit]- Battle Across Time Collection
Buzzworthy Bumblebee
[edit]Legacy
[edit]The Last Knight
[edit]Collaborative
[edit]Botbots
[edit]- Very early design exploration for "BotBot Kiosks," the concept that would evolve into Ruckus Racer vehicles.
Transformers Trading Card Game
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IDW comic work
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Unit:E (pages 18, 23)
Convention appearances
[edit]- BotCon 2009
- BotCon 2011 (artist's alley)
- BotCon 2016
- 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, Marcelo Matere and Eric Siebenaler.
Gallery
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References
[edit]- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc0N6oZuPKq Instagram post by Ken Christiansen on 4/26/2022.
- ↑ "Bot mode, Combiner mode to form Elita-Infin1te, and her new jet mode. Drawn over the molds of PotP Starscream, here's what I came up with to inspire the final product."—Ken Christiansen, Facebook, 2018/06/14
- ↑ "I designed the new head and chest emblem, and gave the Power of the Primes Rodimus a new color scheme. So I'm mostly taking credit for someone else's work, I did the redesigns over the great Emiliano Santalucia's original designs for Rodimus"—Ken Christiansen, Facebook, 2018/06/12
- ↑ "Here's the final concept designs I turned in for Giza, the Dark Saber and the Cannon Gauntlets (front view and back cap view). The new head was already selected so I didn't get a crack at it, like I did for Rodimus Unicronus."—Ken Christiansen, Facebook, 2018/07/17
