Best of all, Johnson makes our favorite battling robots look alive! Just check out the massive gallery of pages and variant covers after these official details on the issue… Log in: View the complete Transformers India Project series.Transformers fans, get ready for a new golden age… Today we’ve got your first look at writer-artist Daniel Warren Johnson‘s Transformers #1 which honors the legacy of the Autobots and Decepticons while forging a new path with Skybound and Hasbro’s Energon Universe. “I will use this time to look up more Indian vehicles and work them into Transformers,” he says. And though, currently, he has taken a break from TIP to spend some time at home in Jaipur, he is looking to reboot the series in January 2017. Singh has so far featured some of India’s most popular and easily recognisable vehicles - Rajdoot and Chetak bikes, the Ambassador car, and the iconic Padmini Fiat. Read more: ‘I received lewd comments on Instagram’: 17-year-old graphic artist who sketched feminist goddesses Transformer Daddy’s Boy converts into a Scorpio jeep, and carries a hockey stick as a weapon to represent the road bullies of Gurgaon. Another Transformer - Daddy’s Boy - converts into a Scorpio jeep, and carries a hockey stick as a weapon to represent the road bullies of Gurgaon. That’s what I associate the vehicle with,” says Singh. ![]() “The Omni has traditionally been used to depict kidnappings, murders and heists in Bollywood films. So, for instance, while Shakti symbolises a mix of power and simplicity, the Omni Van Transformer, called The Abductor, is a villain, symbolising kidnapping, murder, and other sinister crimes. Yet, Singh’s designs go beyond the outer transformation - they also reflect the personality attached to each Indian vehicle. “It helped me design the transformation while keeping the overall design easily recognisable,” says Singh. To familiarise himself with the various automobile parts and the inner mechanism of the robots, Singh spent hours researching the assembly of each vehicle. His fascination with the vehicular transformation is evident - his sketches depict the complete process of a vehicle reconstructing itself into a robot. Transformers inspired by bikes Rajdoot and Chetak. “I thought of it as magic - a car that can unfold into a Transformer robot and back into a car,” says Singh. The ITP series, however, was a personal one for Singh - an ode to the original Japanese Transformer action figures he owned, growing up in his hometown, Jaipur. He freelances for gaming companies, and develops in-game art professionally. Singh has a master’s degree in gaming art and management from DSK International Campus, Pune - a college that provides graphic design-oriented academic courses. ![]() Uploaded on Facebook, Shakti is the one of the characters from Singh’s Transformers India Project (TIP) - an eight-part graphic series that depicts Transformers living as Indian machines - a Padmini Fiat and a Bhoomiputra tractor, to name a few. “Shakti is designed like a goddess because it transforms into a lorry - one of the defining vehicles of India, and the livelihood of thousands of truck drivers across the country,” says Singh. Read more: A graphic artist’s vision of Mumbai in 2098 is dark and dystopian The Transformer inspired by a Padmini Fiat. ![]() Stay tuned with breaking news on HT Channel on Facebook.
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