william-james88 wrote:Agent 53 wrote:I've said it before, I'll say it again, given the Human-Light (like the weight of a grain of sugar compared to a brick) nature of a Beast Wars Film, wouldn't it make sense for it to be a fully animated film, like the proposed Cybertron film? That's got to be cheaper and easier for them, and these days with animation they can get pretty close to reality anyway.
Yeah, thats the part I dont understand. Just make it animated.
Actually this confirms my suspicions from the beginning, and BW is only being used as a scapegoat of sorts. There is a big difference between really good Animation produced for TV (i.e. TF Prime), and cinema quality animation (Pixar, or say the first 3 minuets of the BB Movie).
Personally, though the series is approaching a decade old, I would have loved to see Predacons Rising Theatrically, I'm one of the few who saw the Clone Wars movie in theaters back in 2008, because I love animation, but the Box Office numbers don't lie. Though it was profitable by far, the lack of response from audiences deem it a flop to this day...
Animation for the first 3 minuets of BB probably were way more expensive than say...any 3 minutes of human characters with no effects shots.
The BB movie cost approximately 135M to produce, and has a run time of 114 minutes (I realize that includes credits) However, for the sake of argument, if you break that down evenly, that is roughly 1.18M per minute of screen time. If we then multiply that by 3 , you get 3.54M for that beginning 3 minute sequence. I'm just guessing, however, I wouldn't be surprised if the budget for that opening to be fully rendered was probably closer to 10M or more once it was all said and done.
So the problem of an all *animated* TF movie is not exclusive to BW, it is in fact the reason why we haven't had one up until now. Filming Humans on studio sets is obviously simpler and less expensive (On location cost is debatable, depending on the location). Of course, if you all think like me, and are perfectly good with a great *TV Quality* animated film, being released theatrically, then I'm sure it wouldn't be an issue, unfortunately I don't think Paramount sees it that way.