Animated not reflecting the style of the Movie?

[springah]

ahh, cool cool. i just dont see kids watching ugly-formers like we do.. kinda like Beast Machines.. my little cousins still complain that the Maximals turned ugly..

and hey, i dont read accents from text, how do they!?

[kup]

ahh, cool cool. i just dont see kids watching ugly-formers like we do.. kinda like Beast Machines.. my little cousins still complain that the Maximals turned ugly..

and hey, i dont read accents from text, how do they!?

youtube videos

[Robzy]

Why would alien robots completely unrelated to humans happen to have unnecessary human-like features, such as a humanlike face with nose, mouth, teeth etc. - the movie Transformers have mouthes, but they don't look like human mouthes!

G1 Optimus didn't have a mouth!!! As you said, the movie ADDED a mouth - looks pretty "human" to me!

It's in the same place as a human's mouth, and it serves the same purpose when speaking...

No teeth???? What about Megatron... he was given teeth...



I have no problem with "otherworldly" designs... just please make them look good!


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[GoktimusPrime]

Robzy: I said humanlike mouthes. Those mouthes, teeth etc. are far less anthropomorphic and more alien-looking than anything you'll see on humans. Especially when you see them moving with all those plates, gears, servos moving about each time they move their lips and ... not a tongue, but the gears and stuff inside their mouthes - to articulate consonants and vowels. That's not how a human mouth works. It looks similar, because obviously their articulating the same phonemes as we would to produce sounds in the English language, but there is also a distinct un-Earthly quality to the appearance and animation of those mouthes too. It's quite different from previous cartoons and comics where the mouthes are drawn and animated to look and move exactly the same as human mouthes would.

and hey, i dont read accents from text, how do they!?

You probably do man. When you read texts there should be an internal monologue inside your mind decoding all this text into verbal language... it should have some kind of accent (usually your own, so it may not be noticeable to you). And yeah, as kup said, the internet has plenty of video files. Audio too. It wasn't as if they just picked up Earth languages from reading books, they got it off the Internet which gives them access to a whole range of different media.

One interesting thing about Transformers 2 is that it looks like they will be going to different countries - I saw one behind the scenes video where all the street signs were in Chinese. It'll be interesting to see if the Transformers will be able to converse in other languages when they're outside of an English speaking region because they didn't say "We've learned English," they said, "We've learned Earth's languages through the World Wide Web" - so I'm assuming that they are fluent in every language that can be found on the Internet!

Although I do like how they use some Internet mannerisms that aren't so commonly used in real life, like when Optimus Prime said, "My bad." Hahaha.

I have no problem with "otherworldly" designs... just please make them look good!

Well "good" is a matter of opinion. What looks good to one person looks bad to another and so forth. I just like the fact that they look the least Earth-like of all Transformers that I've seen so far.

i just dont see kids watching ugly-formers like we do.. kinda like Beast Machines.. my little cousins still complain that the Maximals turned ugly..

Unlike Beast Machines, people liked the 2007 movie! (it was a commercial success and the toys did sell - BM on the other hand flopped and the toys shelf-warmed for yonkers)

[Robzy]

Robzy: I said humanlike mouthes. Those mouthes, teeth etc. are far less anthropomorphic and more alien-looking than anything you'll see on humans. Especially when you see them moving with all those plates, gears, servos moving about each time they move their lips and ... not a tongue, but the gears and stuff inside their mouthes - to articulate consonants and vowels.

Well... I guess you're definition of "human-like" mouthes is different to mine! Those who had 2 eyes at the top of their faces in between a nose-like form with a mouth underneath... that's not human-like?? Forget how it works from a technical POV, aesthetically that's the same layout as a human face.

Perhaps the best way to describe this is humanoid! Most movie TFs have a face (with typical humanoid features), 2 arms & legs and walk upright... hell, one of them even urinates!!!

There is also a distinct un-Earthly quality to the appearance and animation of those mouthes too.

Can you site any examples from any scenes? I seem to remember all movie characters with lips speaking the same way as any other animated character I've seen!

I do like how they use some Internet mannerisms that aren't so commonly used in real life, like when Optimus Prime said, "My bad." Hahaha.

Sorry, but that was almost the lowest point in the movie for me (beaten only by the urination "joke")! (Just my opinion)

Well "good" is a matter of opinion. What looks good to one person looks bad to another and so forth.

Um... yeah - nevermind! Of course it's a matter of opinion... and my opinion is that I don't like the movie designs as much as, say, G1 or Animated!

For example, I prefer the original design of G1 Starscream compared to the "ugly" movie design. (again JMO!) The movie ones may look "realistic", but I still don't prefer their designs!

I just like the fact that they look the least Earth-like of all Transformers that I've seen so far.

Fair enough!

[GoktimusPrime]

It's relative. I think the movie designs look the least humanoid/humanlike/anthropomorphic compared to other TF designs. The movie faces don't have the same "elasticity" of Transformer and human faces normally seen in cartoons and comics.

Forget how it works from a technical POV, aesthetically that's the same layout as a human face.

"I have no depth-perception!"

[Robzy]

"I have no depth-perception!"

Now, that's funny! I'd like to see him try to catch a ball!

[dirge]

Now, that's funny! I'd like to see him try to catch a ball!

...or juggle

[GoktimusPrime]

or clap. (^O^)

[STL]

or clap. (^O^)

or... I better not say it!