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Transformers One director Josh Cooley explains two significant ways the animated prequel is different from Michael Bay’s live-action Transformers movies. The latest installment serves as an origin story for Optimus Prime, Megatron, and the beginning of the ancient conflict between the Autobots and Decepticons.
While speaking with Variety, Colley emphasized how Transformers One‘s setting and the characters’ fighting styles are the two biggest differences from Bay’s movies. Check out Cooley’s comments below:
Well, the fact that this is animated already makes it very different. And also being that “Transformers One” takes place on another planet, we can have different looks immediately. So being able to push the look of it, and also not having to, as with the live-action ones, to have everything look like it’s 100% there, 100% real. If you put a real person in our movie, they won’t line up, because that’s not the goal. So it allowed us to simplify some things and make things a little bit clearer. Sometimes, especially when robots are fighting, and they’re in a similar size, it can be hard to read. So I wanted to make sure that with ours, the color really pops so you can tell who is who right away.
Also, the fighting style. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian, who worked on all of the live-action films as well, were showing me how they would use motion capture to bring in some fight experts. It actually made me decide that’s not what I want to do, because it had the feeling of two people in suits fighting each other. So I decided that we needed to utilize the ability to transform as a way to attack and defend. And I loved thinking about what can make this film different from anything that’s ever been done before.
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Source: Variety
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