Video game art director of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen was longtime fan
Like many Oklahoma boys growing up in the 1980s, Justin Thomas played with Transformers, the action-figure robots that change into trucks, jets and other vehicles. Now 34, he is turning his boyhood fantasy into the art direction for the “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” video game.
After graduating from Edmond Memorial High School in 1993, Thomas attended the Art Institute of Dallas, focusing on computer graphics. Upon graduation, he found work in the video game industry, eventually working on the “Medal of Honor” and “Call of Duty” World War II franchises.
“I’ve been doing World War II games for longer than the U.S. was involved in the war, so I’ve got quite a bit of World War II knowledge rolling around up there,” Thomas said. “It was an absolutely incredible time. Some really great and heroic stories.”
Now living in Los Angeles, Thomas is the art director of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” based on the Michael Bay movie set for Friday release. The “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” video game will be released Tuesday. Thomas said several people working on the game were fans of the property and wanted to do it justice.
“The first and foremost thing that we concentrated on was getting the transformations right; really getting 
the feel of being one of those bots, one of those Transformers, this giant robot just kind of rumbling through the city,” he said. “The transformations are very fluid. … There’s lots of really quick activity. It’s almost like a parkour with these giant robots.”
Thomas visited the set of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” and pitched ideas to Hasbro for updating classic characters for the game.
“Who knows how much money my parents sunk into buying toys from them when I was a kid,” he said. “So, it’s kind of amazing. It feels like everything’s come full circle.”
By Matthew Price
From Monday’s The Oklahoman
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I think it´s a great movie, excellent animationand also the music of linking park with “new divide” in the end of the movie.the new autobots and deceptions so cool !!