We are happy to welcome Toy designer, Illustrator, Story world builder, and creative lecturer Aaron Archer to TFcon DC 2017.

His TRANSFORMERS contribution as creative leader and partner touched all aspects of the brand for over 13 years. (including: Feature films, toy, video game, publishing, the ride, and animation projects).  Toy Highlights include, BW Dragon Megatron, Unicron Trilogy, Alternators, Mini-cons, TF Masterpiece, GI JOE Resolute, and Star Wars Jar- Jar toys.

During his career at Hasbro/Kenner, Aaron designed action figures for a variety of brands including Beast Wars, Star Wars Ep1, GI JOE, Batman Animated series,  Legends of the Dark Knight, Total Justice, Alien Resurrection, Jurassic Park 3, and many other classic toy-lines.

Aaron develops personal art projects and is active in the toy and entertainment industry.  Aaron shares his creative experiences and creation methods through speaking engagements and will seen in the 2018 Netflix Toy focused documentary The Toys that made us.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

The building elements of a Franchise

Join Aaron Archer (Former Hasbro Design VP) for this 2-hour workshop, as he shares his thoughts about the pros and cons of world building and franchise planning.  This workshop will help you look deeper into the forces that can shape franchises destiny.

Aaron will guide the workshop through various approaches and why some of your favorite franchises succeed or fail and by whose terms?  Attendees will participate in an interactive group brainstorm to workout their creative thought process.  We will discuss the real world issues that come up during development and how that impacts the final product.  Anyone with an interest in the creative process behind world building  (artist, writers) will find this an informative and entertaining workshop.

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TFcon is happy to welcome IDW Publishing colorist Josh Perez to TFcon DC 2017. Transformers fans will recognize his work from the pages of numerous Transformers (Robots in Disguise), More Than Meets The Eye and Transformers vs ROM comic books. He will be in attendance all weekend and offering prints and commissions to the attendees.

We are very pleased to welcome back artist Sara Pitre-Durocher to the TFcon DC 2017 guest list this year.

Sara is best known to fans of IDW’s Transformers series as the primary artist on the ongoing comic book Till All Are One. She will be attending all weekend and offering prints and commissions to attendees.

We are honored to welcome veteran voice actor Jack Angel to TFcon DC 2017 for a rare convention appearance.

The voices of Astrotrain, Breakdown, Cyclonus, Omega Supreme, Ramjet, Smokescreen and Ultra Magnus in the Transformers Generation 1 cartoon; he is also known to GIJOE fans as the voice of Wet Suit and Super Friends fans as the voices of Flash, Hawkman and Samurai. Mr. Angel will be taking part in Q&A panels and autograph sessions with the attendees of the world’s largest fan-run Transformers convention.

Jack Angel is presented by The Chosen Prime.

We are very pleased to welcome David Kaye to TFcon USA 2017. Transformers fans will recognize him as the voice of Megatron in Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon and Cybertron, as well as Optimus Prime in Transformers Animated. David will be taking part in Q&A panels and autograph sessions with the attendees of America’s largest Transformers Convention all weekend long.

TFcon is very pleased to welcome back Alex Milne to the TFcon USA guest list this year.

Transformers fans will recognize his work as the primary artist on IDW’s Transformers: More than Meets the Eye comic book and as well as the Transformers vs ROM series. He will be attending both days and offering prints and commissions to attendees all weekend long.

We are very pleased to welcome James Roberts the writer of the fan favorite comic book series Transformers More Than Meets The Eye and Transformers Lost Light to TFcon DC 2017. Mr. Roberts will be taking part in Q&A panels and autograph sessions with the attendees of America’s largest Transformers convention and will have select scripts available.

We are very pleased to welcome Neil Ross to TFcon USA 2017. Transformers fans will recognize him as the voices of Bonecrusher, Hook, Sixshot, Slag and Springer in Transformers Generation 1. Fans of the 80s will also remember him as Dusty and Shipwreck in GI Joe as well as Keith and Pidge in the original Voltron series. Mr. Ross will be taking part in Q&A panels and autograph sessions with the attendees of America’s largest Transformers Convention all weekend long.