Transformers: Prime Beast Hunters and Polygon Studios Gain Two Daytime Emmy Awards
Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 7:34AM CDT
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Meanwhile, "Transformers Prime Beast Hunters" won in two categories.
Yasuhiro Motoda was given the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation (Character Animator), with Jose Lopez honored with the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation (Character Design).
The full-CG "Transformers" animated series is based on the "Transformers" robot toy line, which marks its 30th anniversary this year. The previous season, "Transformers Prime Beast Hunters" was named the Outstanding Special Class Animated Program at the 39th Daytime Emmys.
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Posted by Dead Metal on April 3rd, 2015 @ 4:57pm CDT
It is kinda weird though, that season 1 and 2 are in full season boxes, while the much shorter Beast Hunters is in two volumes pretty weird.
The box designs are pretty cool too, even if not really uniform, far nicer than the Metrodome G1 boxes.
Posted by OptimalOptimus2 on April 3rd, 2015 @ 8:59pm CDT
Va'al wrote:Capitalism.
What about it?
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Posted by Lockdownhunter on April 4th, 2015 @ 6:04am CDT
P.S.Agent Fowler:"I can haz cheezburger!"
Ratchet:"What is a cheeseburger?"
Agent Fowler:(Falls into a deep sleep)
Ratchet:"Uh, never mind."
Posted by Sabrblade on April 4th, 2015 @ 8:26am CDT
I'd rather not.Lockdownhunter wrote:Just look at the CGI!
Posted by Lockdownhunter on April 4th, 2015 @ 11:06pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:I'd rather not.Lockdownhunter wrote:Just look at the CGI!
Why? I thought you liked the designs.(Remember when I said BH OP had one of the best Optimus designs and character and you agreed for the design part but not the character?)
Posted by Dead Metal on April 5th, 2015 @ 5:11am CDT
Lockdownhunter wrote:Sabrblade wrote:I'd rather not.Lockdownhunter wrote:Just look at the CGI!
Why? I thought you liked the designs.(Remember when I said BH OP had one of the best Optimus designs and character and you agreed for the design part but not the character?)
He's an RID fan now and saur about the negative reaction to its animation and it being compared to the vastly superior visuals and animation of its predecessor.
Posted by Lockdownhunter on April 5th, 2015 @ 6:34am CDT
Dead Metal wrote:Lockdownhunter wrote:Sabrblade wrote:I'd rather not.Lockdownhunter wrote:Just look at the CGI!
Why? I thought you liked the designs.(Remember when I said BH OP had one of the best Optimus designs and character and you agreed for the design part but not the character?)
He's an RID fan now and saur about the negative reaction to its animation and it being compared to the vastly superior visuals and animation of its predecessor.
Thanks!
Posted by Sabrblade on April 5th, 2015 @ 8:37am CDT
The designs are fine.Lockdownhunter wrote:Sabrblade wrote:I'd rather not.Lockdownhunter wrote:Just look at the CGI!
Why? I thought you liked the designs.(Remember when I said BH OP had one of the best Optimus designs and character and you agreed for the design part but not the character?)
It's the animation itself I was never fan of, with how it took precedence over story and characters in the eyes of the makers. Prettiness should never outweigh the more substantial factors.
Posted by Dead Metal on April 5th, 2015 @ 9:07am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:The designs are fine.Lockdownhunter wrote:Sabrblade wrote:I'd rather not.Lockdownhunter wrote:Just look at the CGI!
Why? I thought you liked the designs.(Remember when I said BH OP had one of the best Optimus designs and character and you agreed for the design part but not the character?)
It's the animation itself I was never fan of, with how it took precedence over story and characters in the eyes of the makers. Prettiness should never outweigh the more substantial factors.
I seem to remember you praising the animation for how especially Starscream was bursting with character, especially whenever his wings moved to show his mood.
And I guess the posts you made in this very thread, like the post you started the thread with, were filled with lies and did not actually express your feelings and views about and of the show?
Or do you only really like something when it's new? I noticed that when Rescue Bots got properly started you began praising it for being far better than Prime, tell me, will you leave Rescue Bots by the wayside and start speaking negative about that once the next show hits?
Posted by Sabrblade on April 5th, 2015 @ 9:18am CDT
Allow me to clarify. I do like some of the things that were done by the animators, such as those examples with Starscream you mentioned. Those were great. It's just... it's like that those were the only things that mattered more than anything else by the show's creators, that and the epicness, which caused most of the story and characters to fall by the wayside. There is still a lot to like about the show (Starscream being an obvious positive), and as I said, they did make it look pretty, but looking back on the show as a whole, there's a lot that could have been improved upon had the animation not taken so high a precedence as it did, especially in the first season (which I felt even back when that season was airing).Dead Metal wrote:Sabrblade wrote:The designs are fine.Lockdownhunter wrote:Sabrblade wrote:I'd rather not.Lockdownhunter wrote:Just look at the CGI!
Why? I thought you liked the designs.(Remember when I said BH OP had one of the best Optimus designs and character and you agreed for the design part but not the character?)
It's the animation itself I was never fan of, with how it took precedence over story and characters in the eyes of the makers. Prettiness should never outweigh the more substantial factors.
I seem to remember you praising the animation for how especially Starscream was bursting with character, especially whenever his wings moved to show his mood.
And I guess the posts you made in this very thread, like the post you started the thread with, were filled with lies and did not actually express your feelings and views about and of the show?
Or do you only really like something when it's new? I noticed that when Rescue Bots got properly started you began praising it for being far better than Prime, tell me, will you leave Rescue Bots by the wayside and start speaking negative about that once the next show hits?
As for Rescue Bots, I still love it, still watch it, its animation has gotten even better and more advanced with each season, I look forward to the rest of this season and season 4, and I still like it more than Prime and RID.
Posted by Dead Metal on April 5th, 2015 @ 9:35am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Allow me to clarify. I do like some of the things that were done by the animators, such as those examples with Starscream you mentioned. Those were great. It's just... it's like that those were the only things that mattered more than anything else by the show's creators, that and the epicness, which caused most of the story and characters to fall by the wayside. There is still a lot to like about the show (Starscream being an obvious positive), and as I said, they did make it look pretty, but looking back on the show as a whole, there's a lot that could have been improved upon had the animation not taken so high a precedence as it did, especially in the first season (which I felt even back when that season was airing).Dead Metal wrote:Sabrblade wrote:The designs are fine.Lockdownhunter wrote:Sabrblade wrote:I'd rather not.Lockdownhunter wrote:Just look at the CGI!
Why? I thought you liked the designs.(Remember when I said BH OP had one of the best Optimus designs and character and you agreed for the design part but not the character?)
It's the animation itself I was never fan of, with how it took precedence over story and characters in the eyes of the makers. Prettiness should never outweigh the more substantial factors.
I seem to remember you praising the animation for how especially Starscream was bursting with character, especially whenever his wings moved to show his mood.
And I guess the posts you made in this very thread, like the post you started the thread with, were filled with lies and did not actually express your feelings and views about and of the show?
Or do you only really like something when it's new? I noticed that when Rescue Bots got properly started you began praising it for being far better than Prime, tell me, will you leave Rescue Bots by the wayside and start speaking negative about that once the next show hits?
As for Rescue Bots, I still love it, still watch it, its animation has gotten even better and more advanced with each season, I look forward to the rest of this season and season 4, and I still like it more than Prime and RID.
I felt the exact opposite, it took me quite a while to get used to the animating and actually start liking it, to me it was too cartoony to be realistic and too realistic to be cartoony.
But I liked how the creators seemed to take pride in the show and respected it and the subject as much as the fandom did.
Not trying to start a fight here, it's just that I find it odd how you defended the show during its run-time whenever someone had something negative to say about it, and how it was better at things than previous incarnations. But now you seem to not like it as much as you claimed you did back then whenever someone who likes it says something negative about RB and RID, or the Japanese not-sequel.
Story and character wise I think it's fine, well save for the examples I brought up back then, like Optimus Prime, that guy took ages to actually start to make click.
But here's the thing, I prefer a cartoon show to have fantastic animation and an average story, than a better written show with animation that makes my head hurt.
But it'S good to hear that you're sticking to your guns on Rescue Bots.
Posted by PrymeStriker on April 5th, 2015 @ 11:14am CDT
Can't be bothered to watch it again right now, though.
Posted by Dead Metal on April 5th, 2015 @ 1:05pm CDT
PrymeStriker wrote:I've re-watched Prime four times over (that's not an exaggeration), and there's very little wrong with it. Especially for Transformers, the franchise where toys rock and cartoons blow rocks. Just one loose end, a "wasted" sub-arc and a bland Optimus Prime. This is a surprisingly low fault count compared to the rest of the franchise. For the most part, the writing was good and the characters were engaging and realistic. The animation quality was icing on the cake. I'm not going to call Prime the best series ever made (Avatar: The Last Airbender), but it's rather superior to those of the franchise that preceded it and possibly those that succeed it. Without giving this thread loading issues with all of the issues I chalk up with other Transformers cartoons, I conclude that Transformers: Prime is the most tolerable of Transformers media.
Can't be bothered to watch it again right now, though.
Neither would I had I seen it so many times, well actually I did see parts of the first season multiple times and I'm kinda sick of those parts now too.
Optimus is still one of the weaker points of the series, it took me a full season to warm up to his character, and almost two to like the design, then he got that ugly over-designed Fatimus design in Beast Hunters.
It's sad that it will take at least a decade till we see another series like this.
Agree on Avatar, it still kicks ass today, but there is a strong contester to that position in the form of Gravity Falls.
Posted by Sabrblade on April 5th, 2015 @ 2:53pm CDT
Though, most of the stuff I defended were against those whose criticisms seemed a bit too harsh, as though their expectations were too high or were just ragging on the show for the sake of it.
However, now that we got RID, I'm starting to see more people complain that its too different from Prime simply because it isn't as dark and violent as Prime was, claiming that that makes RID an "kiddie" inferior product to the "Gritty And Mature(TM) Prime Cartoon". If this attitude I'm seeing keeps up, the Prime cartoon's gonna be on its way into entering the territory of being "overrated", which I don't want to see happen.
Posted by PrymeStriker on April 5th, 2015 @ 10:25pm CDT
#PhilosophyofCartoonsMovement2015
Posted by mattyou on April 6th, 2015 @ 8:46am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Wonder why season 3 is in two volumes instead of a boxed set.
Season 1 was released in five separate volumes previously and Season 2 has just been released in four separate volumes, the box sets are just those volumes collected together. I expected Season 3 will get a box set once the two single volumes are released and perhaps if/when Predcons Rising gets released too.
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Posted by Va'al on June 27th, 2016 @ 8:19am CDT
Format: Box set, Import
Studio: Imports
DVD Release Date: August 12, 2016
ASIN: B01HJRMTZA
Posted by Sabrblade on June 27th, 2016 @ 9:10am CDT
Posted by Rodimus Knight on June 27th, 2016 @ 9:50am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on June 27th, 2016 @ 9:52am CDT
Maybe the packaging is special or something.Rodimus Knight wrote:This seems awfully expensive for the complete series in this case.
Posted by o.supreme on June 27th, 2016 @ 10:46am CDT
Even at full prime right now on Amazon:
Blu Ray S1=40, S2=40, S3= $16, PR=14 Total: $110.00, better than the MSRP for this set, though likely upon release, this set will be closer to $100, so who knows....But I cant imagine what sort of extras would warrant a double-dip, I'm perfectly happy with what I have.
What I would like to see from S!F
Scramble City (*hopefully on the TFTM 30th anniversary release*)
Zone
Full Series sets:
Beast Wars II
Beast Wars Neo
Car Robots/RiD (If S!F can negotiate with Saban to get Power Rangers, they can surely get this...)
Transformers GO!
Rescue Bots Season Sets
Posted by Sabrblade on June 27th, 2016 @ 10:50am CDT
Except Saban doesn't have RiD. Disney bought it from Saban, Saban didn't buy it back, so now it's in Disney's ownership limbo.o.supreme wrote:Car Robots/RiD (If S!F can negotiate with Saban to get Power Rangers, they can surely get this...)
Posted by o.supreme on June 27th, 2016 @ 10:55am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on June 27th, 2016 @ 10:56am CDT
Saban bought all of Power Rangers back from Disney (including the Disney Era seasons), but not RiD.o.supreme wrote:But didn't Disney own the Saban portion of Power Rangers as well?...I just thought there was some way they could work it out. If not then I'll stick with the Malay RiD set I have, but it would just be nice to have a North American release.
Posted by o.supreme on June 27th, 2016 @ 11:00am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on June 27th, 2016 @ 11:10am CDT
Yeah, the shows Saban bought back from Disney were Digimon, Power Rangers, Masked Rider, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Mystic Knights, TMNT: The Next Mutation, and (according to Wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt) Shinzo. But RiD remains in Disney's limbo.o.supreme wrote:Wow that is too bad...Strange...I assume Saban bought back most if not all of their live-action series stuff based on sentai? Now Disney has this thing they have absolutely no interest in promoting, perhaps they don't even realize they have. Hopefully in time however, kind of like TF:TM, Hasbro will actively try to get the rights back.
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Posted by Silverwing on December 13th, 2016 @ 8:28pm CST
ToaLeePrime wrote:Gosh, that water color of Prime is gorgeous! I'd love to have that framed on my wall!
Heartily seconded!
Posted by danielmelendez33 on December 16th, 2016 @ 4:29pm CST
The drawing of Jose Lopez seems to me an excellent work! Try to do the same drawing in microsoft paint!
My regards to Jose Lopez
Bye!
Posted by Kurona on March 9th, 2017 @ 6:58am CST
-Young, brash hotheaded kid appeal newcomer
-Despite this has a lot of skill and experience
-Hinted at becoming a Prime
He's basically the same character archetype without all the superficial qualities. I don't know what happened in production; maybe they really wanted to keep the name Smokescreen, maybe they didn't want to turn off people who hated Hot Rod from the 1986 movie, maybe they literally made an original character and it just -happened- to be what an aligned version of Hot Rod would be... I dunno. This dude's Hot Rod to me.
Posted by Sabrblade on March 9th, 2017 @ 9:27am CST
And Cheetor. And Side Burn. And Wedge. And Hot Shot. Etc. etc.Kurona wrote:So is it just me, or is Smokescreen basically Hot Rod?
Well, let's also not forget that, at the time, Hasbro didn't yet have the name "Hot Rod" back like they do now, hence all the Hot Rod toys of the time being called "Rodimus".Kurona wrote:He's basically the same character archetype without all the superficial qualities. I don't know what happened in production; maybe they really wanted to keep the name Smokescreen, maybe they didn't want to turn off people who hated Hot Rod from the 1986 movie, maybe they literally made an original character and it just -happened- to be what an aligned version of Hot Rod would be... I dunno. This dude's Hot Rod to me.
Though, if one were to consider the rest of the Aligned media from back then (which was when the old Hasbro brand team was still around and pushing for people to acknowledge the games, books, and comics as well as the cartoons), there already was this guy from the War for Cybertron games:
This guy was obviously meant to be the Hot Rod of the games, but since Hasbro didn't have that name back yet, the games called him "Hot Shot" instead. Why they did this instead of calling him "Rodimus" is because, according to Aaron Archer at the BotCon 2010 Activision panel, the name "Rodimus" didn't fit with the story of the games and, at the time, Hasbro was wanting to tell the story of how the character would become "Rodimus" (alas, they never got to tell this story before the old team was switched out the current team).
Though, the unofficial short story "Bumblebee at Tyger Pax" (written by Alex Irvine, author of the Exodus and Exiles novels) did feature the character during the WFC era already bearing the name "Rodimus", but that the story was unofficial. However, the Retribution novel, which was official, did also feature the guy going by the "Rodimus" name, so he did at least exist with that name at that point.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to get to with all this WFC Rodimus talk is that, since the old Hasbro team was trying to push for every piece of Aligned media to go together, maybe they requested the show to not use Rodimus for the new young Autobot character in the show due to his already having been in the games and because of his then-upcoming role in a novel that would place him on Optimus's team in the ancient past.
Although, according to the Prime season 1 DVD/Blu-Ray audio commentaries, Smokescreen, rather than Cliffjumper, was originally going to have been the Autobot who died in season 1, and his death would have been in the finale instead of Episode 1. IMO, I think this was for the better because, while I still hated Cliffjumper's cheap death, Smokescreen got to live and become awesome for it. He's the best Autobot character in the show, just for his being the sole Autobot on the main team who actually enjoys what he does (Wheeljack does too, but it took him forever to become part of the main cast instead just a guest star).
Posted by PrymeStriker on March 9th, 2017 @ 3:50pm CST
Posted by o.supreme on March 9th, 2017 @ 4:03pm CST
PrymeStriker wrote:In the end, he learns that his real place is to be just a good cog in the Autobot machine. It actually sets his arc apart from Rodimus for me because he didn't just achieve Prime status in the end, rather, he realized that he's not entitled to become the greatest thing since..
That's one of the things I really enjoyed about Smokescreen's character. He learned humility, at least to a degree. I still recall the line from Predacons Rising about asking "who made him leader" referring to BB with just a slight touch of resentment.
But all that aside, I myself am a bit taken back, as I've heard comments from some that assert that the writers were pandering to "geewun fans" who hated Hot Rod/Rodimus and making Smokescreens outcome the way "they always wanted"
For the record, as a fan of the original series, I never hated Hot Rod or Rodimus Prime. Sure he wasn't as cool as Optimus IMHO, but I had no desire to see him die, or even be replaced. In my mind Optimus was gone forever, and I had to accept the change (prior to obviously adverts of TROOP in late 86/early 87).
The fact that Smokescreen's life didn't follow exactly the path he may have wanted, was what warmed me up to him by the end of the series. Also, since the aligned continuity is still going, who's to say Smokescreen wont achieve some great status in time? I'd love to see his current status revealed as well as the rest of the crew from TFP related at some point in RiD15, whether that happens or not remains to be seen.
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Posted by o.supreme on March 21st, 2017 @ 9:30am CDT
TBH, I don't see younger people as lazy at all (well some are, but that can be said of anybody-middle-aged, older etc...) . One of my co-workers is 15 years younger than me, and is really good at what he does. The problem is, he does think a little too much of himself. Now not to toot my own horn, but I've NEVER been that prideful. To be fair though, I'm not going to use him as the label for all people his age, I know everyone is different. Whether he will humble with age or not remains to be seen.
With the case of the fictional character of Smokescreen in TFP however, I thought he did develop well over time. But honestly in looking back over the course of TFP, I can't say there was a single character I didn't like. Miko was probably closest -but seeing my daughter laugh at her antics endeared me to her somewhat, kind of like Sari in TFA. Had I not had kids, I would have hated both those characters simply based on their annoyance factor.
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