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I dunno why, but I got it into my head to do vector-tracings of the various factions found in the Transformers. I'm a huge TF fan, so I already knew all of these existed and even had most in my personal files. But now I can resize them any way I choose ... no deterioration problems with vecotrs!

Added some Photoshop effects to make them more interesting to look at. Took three days in all.

These are all the various factions found in the TF series as well as some variants on the symbols presented. All are official in some way or another.

A cookie to any who can name them all!

Transformers copyright Takara

Edit: Welp, I just found an actual list of factions which makes having fun with this as a guessing game kind of a moot point. Of, well. The list has most of the interesting symbols and had I found it earlier I probably wouldn't have done this. Still, it didn't have all of them (yet) and I'll use their to fix whatever flaws mine have (as they were done off bad scans I found on my travells on the net).

1st row: Ancient Autobot (ehobby Blitzwing and 5 faces of Darkness), War Within Autobot, G1 Autobot, G2 Autobot, Transtech Autobot

2nd row: 123 Transformers Autobot, Gobots (Playschool) Autobot.

3rd row: Symbol shown in the G1 cartoon after Shockwave calls Megatron (some fans dub this "Ancient Decepticons and , in the end, why not?), War Within Decepticon, G1 Decepticon, G2 decepticon, Transtech Decepticon, G1 Toon Decepticon

4th row G1 Decepticon (shown on one picture of Galvatron done for some crap by the TV Magazine people), Galvatron't head from a DVD set (not a real "faction", but it's done in it's style, I like Galvatron, and it looks almost good .... 'sides Galvy is nutty enough to make the Decepticon's faction symbol his face. After all, Prime did it).

5rd row: Maximals (BW, BM)

6th row: Predacon BE, Vehicon

7th row: Brazil's Transformers (shown ont he logo instead of the G1 Autobot symbol), Cybertronian symbol (shown in the DW comic once and also in the Japanese G2 story, albeit drawn in a simplified manner), Dreamwave's Auto/Decpt icon mix (for Micomasters cover art).

8th row: Earth, Giant, Jungle, Speed planets.

9th row: Optimus (from the Brazil TFs), Gobots, Earth Defence Corps G1 Season 3 (as seen with ehobby Blitzwing), Dinobots, Mutants.

10th row: Malingus (TF Brazil), Quintesson (from ehobby Blitzwing, based on the dude who gave Optimus the answer to ridding Earth of the Hate Plague in season 3), Combatron, Blendtron / Unicron emmassary (identifies as such on ehobby Blitzwing), Unicron (from DW's Armada More than Meets the Eye comic), Minicon / Unicron (in TF Energon).

I'll probably add more that I've been given more to add later on.

Edit:
I feel the need to mention that, after seeing the work at the TF Wiki - [link] - I traced some of the symbols I made to match up with theirs.

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:iconpanda626:
well.... it errored the first time, lets do it again >.<

Row 1: unknown, G1 Autobot, G2 Autobot, Transtech Autobot, I know its a japanese symbol ^^;, Playskool Gobot's symbol

Row 2: unknown, G1 Decept, G2 Decept, Transtech Decept, G1 Decept, unknown

Row 3: BWars Maximal, BMach Maximal

Row 3: Predicon, Vehicon

Row 4: unknown, a fused G1 Auto/Decept

Row 5: Earth, Giglonia, Animatros, Speedia (GF/Cybertron Planets)

Row 6: unknown, Playskool Gobots, G1 Season 3 Earth Defence Corps!! Dinobots (out during Beast Machines), Mutants (beast to beast, out during Beast Wars)

Row 7: unknown, death's head?? O.o, Black Convoy/Scourge's Decepticon symbol from Carrobots/RID, Blentron, Unicron, Micron
:icongauntlet101010:
Hm. Not too bad. But you didn't get most of the really, REALLY obscure ones. Plus, just saying that one symbol is an Autobot/Decepticon mix doesn't count for much since that's obvious .... you gotta say where it's FROM. :P
:iconpanda626:
ok see.. >.> you only know the really REALLY obscure ones cause you found them...I've NEVER Seen that "heart" sigil

as for that fused one... I'd SAY its from one of the few faction switchers...but they switched, they never had a fused form, not that I remember

XP I still rock, Transformers is my favorite show
:iconquickman012:
ZING!

...says the Scarlet Speedster who only recognized the Autobots, Decepticons, and Dinobots symbols and took a wild guess on Unicron. >>;

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:icongauntlet101010:
Hah. No, those should be recognisable for people really, *REALLY* into TFs.

Well, in a week I guess I'll just out an say where the obscure ones are from.
:iconarmadilloman:
interesting :)

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:iconpanda626:
hehe

Guess what G, you forgot an offical symbol

the light blue "Wreckers" symbol which looks SIMILAR to the G1 Autobot, however it has a Hammer forming the nose (the handle of the hammer) and the forehead (the hammer head)

but I'm sure you know this ^^ I'm just explaining for those reading this topic that might not
:icongauntlet101010:
Well, my knowledge of the Marvel side is spotty. Honestly, when I looked at it, I figured it was just a badly drawn Autobot symbol. But I can see the hammer now. So .... maybe I'll whip one up sometime.

Still .... after checking some comics it looks like War Within had some that weren't drawn "badly" as I first thought. Although the preview uses the oficial G1 symbol.

I found a list (you mighta seen it by now) of the factions. Woulda come in handy since I was relying on bad scans to draw from. -_-;

Still, this has led me to make the most comprehensive and complete Galvatron article I've ever seen anywhere chonicalling the various steps used to make his design. Ultimately to answer one question:

Just why the HELL is the toy so different from the cartoon?
:iconquickman012:
This is Darth using Quick's laptop:

War With In...if I remember, had a lot of SUB-Factions, like the Ultracons and Dynobots (who yes, become the G1 dinobots)

I still have no freakin' clue about that Heart shaped symbol X_X

why the toy is different from the cartoon? well, the animation and toy models probably weren't synched up, and it'd take too much time to redo it and so they were sent into production. *shrugs*

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:icongauntlet101010:
WW had as many sub-factions as G1, but none of them had their own symbol. They made special "older" symbols for the 2 factions, but it didn't last past the first series and wasn't in the preview.

I wrote a list where everythign comes from. It's from Brazil's Transformers. They had this guy play dictator about what was what for Barzil's market. Made a whole SLEW of TFs based off the minibots, remade the Autobots into Optimus and the Decepticons into Malignuses. You know ho the regular Transformers logo has the Autobot insignia on it? Well, the guy relplaced it with the heart shaped symbol. If you squint you can tell it's a BIG abstraction on the Autobot's symbol. However, it's not for the Autobots, it's for the entire TF line, so it goes witht he "Cybertronian" symbol.

Obviously they didn't keep the models synched, but the question is where they went out of synch. Plus looking at the evolving designs is interesting.

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