Turns out the reference I used for Reedman a while back had his anatomy inaccurate, so I redid him with the actual concept art as a guide;
There were a bunch of other assorted doodles on the page not related to Reedman, so I blacked it out to avoid distracting from the actual attraction. Below Reedman is, again, an idea of how heād look from the side; Albeit slightly skewed, otherwise you wouldnāt see anything because of how thin Reedman is.
Something that bothered me about Reedmanās design was his gaping red eye and how it was blatantly perpendicular to the rest of his body, and should thus give his location away. Even with my Nizziverse take, thereās still a fully three-dimensional cylinder that his tape is wrapped around, and that defeats the purpose of an infiltrator thin enough to slip through any openings if his head canāt follow.
So, I opted to remove the cylinder. When Ravage deploys Reedman, he fully unravels a long strip of magnetic tape that curls itself into a roll at the front, acting as a āheadā when itās really a hollow ring. The actual glowing eye is, again, on the side of the tape, meaning it actually faces forward and Reedman is still invisible when viewed from the side.
Fun fact! He seems to have pedipalps that he uses to carve away at the glass in the film, rather than his actual arms. Pedipalps are basically mouth mandibles that in Scorpions, have evolved to act as full-on arms, so given the more insectoid motif given to Decepticons, particularly in Revenge of the Fallen where Reedman appeared, it felt appropriate. Alas, in the Nizziverse Reedmanās āpalps canāt carve into anything, since heās a lot softer and less sharp due to his redesign. Dude is quite the abstract art piece.
