Transformers Animated (franchise)
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Transformers Animated is the latest television-supported Transformers franchise, which began in January of 2008. The latest re-imagining of the Transformers brand brings a highly dynamic and stylized look to the toys and fiction.
The franchise consists of the following components:
The cartoon began with a 3-episode mini-movie, first aired on Cartoon Network on December 26th 2007, that is being followed by a full 13-episode season, which started airing in January. The toyline, however, will not be hitting stores till summer of 2008, due to the ongoing popularity of the movie toys.
The series has adopted a new visual art style and form of storytelling which has not been used before in Transformers. The changes in design were created in an attempt to attract the modern youth viewer. The new art style incorporates a more "organic" feel to the Transformer characters. This style of art and character movement was introduced to emphasize dramatic movements and to allow the animator to express more emotion than in previous series.
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