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TRANSFORMER FANS. RED ALERT!; Transformers Animated
Topic Started: Aug 5 2007, 04:49 PM (278 Views)
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26 episodes comin up in 2008

From what I've dug up, the show's supervising director will be Matt Youngberg (Teen Titans, The Batman), with Cartoon Network vice-president Sam Register as executive producer and Vincent Aniceto as line producer. Additionally, Beast Machines writer Marty Isenberg is returning to Transformers as the head writer for this series. Art director/lead character designer Derrick Wyatt (Teen Titans, Legion of Super Heroes) is creating a "brand new look" unlike anything seen in Transformers before. The series is being distributed internationally by Entertainment Rights.

If u guys look at my avatar, that's my experation towards this crap.

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Ah! I heard about this from my friend Damien.

I had no idea who was the supervising director or vice president, but this looks pretty cool. I'm glad they have Bumblebee and OP! I hope they have a killer plot. XD
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Love the idea of a new series, hate the art style.

Oh yeah. And Ghetto, your avatar scares me.
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As far as info goes on this series. What I've dug up is the following:

*The show will be set in Detroit in the future. Yes, the Autobots will at times be fighting human villains, but more often than not the human villains will be associated with the Decepticons in some capacity and the Decepticons-themselves WILL play a large role in the series.

*The Autobots will each have their own special “super power”. Think back to the Generation 1 cartoon and how Hound could create holograms or Mirage could turn invisible. It will be handled like that.

*There will be a smaller core cast of Autobots and Decepticons, but special characters will return every now and then. Sari, their human friend, will be portrayed less like the bossy human kid that tells super advanced alien robots what to do, and more like their planetary guide.

*The structure of the show will be pretty much the anti-thesis of how the Japanese handle Transformers animation. The Japanese typically handle Transformers cartoons in a “Dragonball Z” or “Naruto” sort of way. By that, I mean, they take 20 episodes-worth of plot and stretch it out to fit 52, with each episode leading directly into the next with lots of filler and at least five minutes of stock footage transformations per episode. Transformers: Animated will be the opposite of that. Each episode will be a self contained adventure (aside from the three-part opening miniseries and any other multi-part story arcs), but each episode will gradually forward the overall story arc of the season. Think of how Justice League Unlimited was handled. Each episode had a beginning, a middle and an end and could be watched islolated from the rest of the series, but each episode had elements which developed the story toward its eventual climax.

In short, their just revamping the generation 1 series we all grew up with. To tell ya'll the truth. I'm pretty piss off about this. I knew there was a new transformer series coming, but I was hoping for something different. Not just the old "Autobots vs Decepticons while saving humanity on Earth" plot. But what really ticks me off is that their replacing Spike Witwicky with a 9yr-old girl.
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While I'm very conflicted on the art style, I'm going to be frank. I'll take this over that CGI and traditional animation mixture crap we had to stomach with the last two shows anyday. Nothing is as bad as that. It looked like garbage.

I liked Armada's plots and the like pretty well. My main problem with that series though was that the kids got too much focus sometimes. Rad was the only one I thought was cool, Alexis was alright, but Carlos always seemed kinda pointless to me, Billy and Fred were funny though.

I did kinda like the bigger fights with the Transformers in that show though. Honestly, as much as I love Generation 1, there is simply no denying that half the time the battles amounted to both sides standing in line formation firing at one another. And they always seemed to be lined up by size too...

And I must admit something. I love the voice cast they have so far. They've pulled in some pretty awesome voice actors for this show, and that should help things a lot.

Im not sold on the art style at all, but I must admit I'm more hopeful for this then you Ghetto. XD
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Hi dl316bh, been meanin to talk to ya.
Anyways, I found some footage from comic-con on this, take a look.

transformersanimated.com

OK, I'll admit, after watching that it looks OK. But I think this is going to end up like Batman.

"The Batman"= OK "Batman: the animated series"= Great
"Transformers Animated"= OK "Transformers Generation 1"= Great

Ya see what I'm sayin. I just wish they would try something new with Transformers other then new animation style or new characters. Like the Beast Wars (I hate to admit it, but your right on the CGI animation dl316bh. It didn't work, but the series was great cause it was a continuation of Generation 1 the goals of the Transformers where somewhat different,other then find the Al-Spark, mini-con, or cyber-planet keys before the Decepticons get them.

Transformer Animated sounds and looks good, just not good enough to make a forum about it.
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You just messed up. Never insult Batman regardless of what era. (Around Damien.)

XDD It looks pretty cool, I dunno if I would watch it or not. The animation does seem kinda simple.
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Well, I'm always around to talk to. I often wonder if I post too much. XP

No, I understand your worries. And I do wish they would do something new with the Transformers too. That's part of why I thought the whole Mini-Con thing from Armada was pretty cool. It was a retooling of an old concept that opened up a lot of possibilities. It's following series failed to capitilize on that much, though, as mini-cons were all but forgotten in Energon.

The Batman is a show that had a lot more problems then I think Transformers has to face. It was flawed in it's very execution, right down to the characters themselves. We'd see Bruce Wayne doing things he'd NEVER do (and I should know, being TBRS's resident Batman historian), origins would be tossed out the windows, the looks for the villains were terrible (with a couple exceptions, Mr Freeze and Killer Croc being the two biggest), the voices were bad, and the Joker was basically butchered.

Transformers Animated, however, probably won't be quite so flawed. We'll see with time. I just think we'd have to give it more of a chance. Until I see massive butchery and worrysome things, I'm gonna try to be optimistic with this.

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I make an exception for "The Batman" and the "Batman & Robin" movie. Those things are living proof that something can be so terrible even Batman can't save it.
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OK OK OK guys. I'm sorry for being on the negative train ya guys. I'll give it a shot when it comes out. I'm just tired of producers revamping stuff we all grew up with. It seems like lake of creativity. or something.

Here some example of producers WITH creativity.

Avatar: Last Airbender
Ben 10
Storm Hawks
Teen Titans
Danny Phantom (even though it sounds and looks like a Spider-man rip-off)
Samurai Jack (I miss that show)
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Heheh, Damien told me about this. I'm watching because I'm getting sucked into Transformers, and...well, just look at the cast! =3

Here's hoping it's not like Cybertron though. That series suuucks.
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Transformers AS eh? I was a lil unsure myself towards the begining of this thread, but I'm willing to give this a chance.

I'm hopin it won't be dissatisfactory, cuz I already ain't likin the animation. O.o
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^ I agree with craZy on the animation prospect.

If they are going to do another Transformers, they should've gone a bit more creative in the animation. Like 3D animation, man, if they turned Transformers into 3D that would be the show that would bring all 3D cartoons to their knees.

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Bleh. Japanese company's tried that with Energon and Cybertron. They paired CGI Transformers with traditionally animated kids and backgrounds. It looked terrible and put me off on anything resembling that route for the future.

If they did a series entirely in CG like Beast Wars, however, it could work. But it would need strong writers, because I'm sorry, if they don't have that, the series could have the best animation money could buy and it'd still suck.
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Aug 9 2007, 09:57 PM


If they did a series entirely in CG like Beast Wars, however, it could work. But it would need strong writers, because I'm sorry, if they don't have that, the series could have the best animation money could buy and it'd still suck.

Well, they were going to to that once. Ya see, after the Beast Machines line ended, Hasbro planned a follow-up series called Transtech.
The Transtech concept was a line intended to take Transformers to their most futuristic. Hasbro commissioned sets of designs from Draxhall Jump. The series was supposedly to bring back some of the characters who died in Beast Wars along with some characters from the original 80s cartoon show, all in new, techno-organic bodies, though with vehicle alternate modes instead of the animals used in Beast Machines. Many concept sketches and even a few toy prototypes were made, Concept sketches/prototype toys have been seen for Blackarachnia, Cheetor, Depth Charge, Megatron, Nightscream, Optimus Prime, Scavenger, Shockwave, Silverbolt, Soundwave, Starscream and a new character called Immorticon. There were also rumors of a Transtech Dinobot.
But Hasbro scrapped the idea in favor of bringing Car Robots to their markets as Transformers: Robots in Disguise, in which the same The Predacons (mechanical animals) and Maximals (cars)fight for the fate of humanity in 2027 or some other crappy future.
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