Studio OX

Founded by Sugito Atsuhiko 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.

Artwork collections

Several resource books have been printed in Japan collecting large portions of Studio OX artwork. Transformers Generations boasted a large collection of both color and line art by Studio OX in both its original and Deluxe printings. Perhaps most comprehensive, though, would be Transformers Visualworks, which dedicated an even larger section to spotlighting the work of Studio OX.