Feature Film Animation
Transformers One
Industrial Light & Magic
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Transformers One is the first fully animated Transformers movie since the original 1986 classic cartoon and is the origin story of two arch-enemies who start out life as best friends.
The characters’ design, from their faces through to their gestures, took on a more humanoid form to support the emotive performances needed to bring director Josh Cooley's vision to life.
Character design in this universe was uniquely complex because all of the robots need to transform into vehicles. The four hero characters transform into three different bipedal robots and associated vehicles – and the design of these characters had to support their transformations.
The stylised realism we created on Cybertron is a blend of incredibly detailed hand-painted textures, highly saturated, complementary colour palettes, live-action style cinematic lensing and dramatic backlighting techniques. The intention is that it should seem like we went to an alien planet with a live-action film crew and shot our movie there.
All the animation in the movie is keyframe animation. Our Animators filmed themselves acting out the scene and then hand animated the performances using the main cast voice records as their central driving influence.
The film contains 95 minutes of animation across 1720 shots containing 251 characters, 94 props and 59 environments. 530 artists and production staff helped in its creation.
Crew
Frazer Churchill, Fiona Chilton, Corinne Teng, Feargal Stewart, Stephen King, Alex Popescu, Alex Fry, Paul Braddock, Francesco Sansoni, Brent Droog, Stevie Denyer, Evan Jacobson,
Ming Lau, Chris Bending, Elvin Siew, Katrina Tung