Ping Magazine has a nice interview with Alex Kubalsky, an Australian who moved to Japan in an attempt to get a job designing toys (and almost didn’t pull it off). Despite the intricate transformations, Kubalsky doesn’t use computers for his designs, but instead documents the whole multi-step changes out on graph paper.

His smirking Bumblebee design is cute.

Transformers’ Toy Design [PingMag.jp]