Marcelo Matere

Comando em ação

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

Packaging art

Armada

Energon

Cybertron

Universe (2003)

Dinobots

Beast Wars 10th Anniversary

Alternators

Star Wars Transformers

Transformers (2007)

• Power Hook Optimus Prime/Fire Blast Optimus Prime

Universe (2008)

Crossovers

Animated

Timelines

• Blurr

Combiner Wars

Titans Return

Power of the Primes

War for Cybertron: Siege

• Firedrive

Studio Series^[2]

Dinobot Adventures

Classic Heroes Team

Transformers Retro

Comic Edition

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Toy design

Universe (2003)

Beast Wars 10th Anniversary

Transformers (2007)

• Cyber Stompin' Bumblebee

Robot Heroes

Transformers (2007)

Generation 1 Series

Movie Series

Universe (2008)

Beast Wars Series

Generation 1 Series

Beast Machines Series

Robots in Disguise Series

• Optimus Prime / Megatron (unreleased)

Revenge of the Fallen

Crossovers

Universe (2008)

• Dinobot

Power of the Primes

• Throne of the Primes (throne only)

Legacy

Rise of the Beasts

Beast Combiners

Beast Mode

• Beast Mode Bumblebee

Character design

War for Cybertron (DS)

Rise of the Beasts

Comic/story book art

Dreamwave Productions

• More Than Meets The Eye #4, #5, #6, #7 (interiors)
• More Than Meets The Eye: Armada #2 (interiors)
• Energon #30 (interiors)

Image Comics

• Genesis: The Art of Transformers (select pages)

3H Productions

• Universe #3 (select pages; B and D covers)

IDW Publishing

• 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)
• 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:
  • #1 (B and RI covers)
    • Animated: The Arrival TPB (reused #1 B cover)
  • #2 ("Whatever Happened To Whatisname?" pages; B cover)
  • #3, #4 (A covers)
  • #5 (A and Free Comic Book Day exclusive covers)
    • The Adventure Continues! Volume 1 (reused #5 A cover; unreleased)
• 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:
  • #16, #17, #18, #19, #20 (A and RI covers)
    • The Transformers, Volume 3: Revenge of the Decepticons TPB (reused #16 A cover)
  • #21, #25, #27, #29 (A covers)
• Robots in Disguise issues:
  • #1 (A, B, C, D and RIA covers)
  • #4, #5, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #13, #14, #15, #16, #24, #27, #29, #57 (RI covers)
  • #40, #41 (RI covers reused from Combiner Wars packaging art)
• 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

• 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

• Transformers #6, #13 (comic pages)
  • Adventures Volume 1, Volume 2 (republished #6 and #13 comics respectively)

Little, Brown and Company

• 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

• 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:
  • #13, #15, #68 (character profile art)
  • #43 (cover; reused art for Transformers I.Q. #1)
  • #56 (reused art for Transformers I.Q. #14)
• Animated fiction:
  • Moving Violations (Team Stunticon poster)
  • The Stunti-Con Job (interiors)
  • The Return of Blurr (one panel)

Hasbro

• Unit:E (pages 8–9)

TakaraTomy

• Legends comic (cooperated with)

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Transformers licensing art

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Other work

• Transformers Legends card line art (uncredited)
• Signature Series featuring Marcelo Matere

Convention Appearances

• 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

Gallery

Fiction

Legends comic

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

• 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.^[3] 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

External links

• Marcelo Matere - Illustrator
• Marcelo Matere at DeviantART.com
• Marcelo Matere on Instagram

Interviews

• Interview at TFW2005.com