YOUR DESTINATION IS READY

As stated in my previous journal entry, the germ of an idea that has now become this gallery of Cybertron-related images originated many years ago -- in late 2003 -- with the acquisition of my first piece of screen capturing equipment.

Eventually, in January of 2010, the work began in earnest, almost on a whim. I spent a few weeks looking through only the episodes with readily apparent Cybertron content and initially identified, captured, and edited 156 images. Around April, I decided to check a second time and discovered, with the skills I had developed working on the first batch, that I could by then edit some of the more challenging backgrounds (more characters in the foreground to remove, for instance) and up the count to 269. At that point, I was still skipping some of the less interesting shots, which I opted to include when, in May, I took a third shot at the series as a whole. The number of backdrops rose to 366 and I once again thought I had reached the end of the line.

Finally, over the course of July and August, I pored through the episodes one more time, eventually including everything related to Cybertron, such as Paradron, the parallel Transformer world that is essentially an idealized version of the original, the mausoleum from DARK AWAKENING, whose architecture is certainly endemic to Cybertron and also provides a counterpoint to the Decepticon crypt seen in STARSCREAM'S GHOST, and even the Cybertronian city scape that began to take shape in CITY OF STEEL.

I hoped I might make it to 400 and even 500 shots, but I never expected to reach 720! I think the number is perfect -- it is even divisible by the total number of deviations possible per page.

View the gallery here.

Once again -- enjoy!