Transformers: Prime (cartoon)

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Transformers: Prime is a computer-animated television series that premiered on The Hub on November 2010 with a five-part mini-series, which will be followed by a full season on February 11 2011.[1] There are 26 episodes scheduled for the first season[2] and another three seasons have been outlined by the screenwriters.[3]

The Canadian broadcast of the series will be undertaken by the youth networks affiliated with Corus Entertainment (YTV, Teletoon, Teletoon Retro, and Nickelodeon Canada). [4]

It will be "rightfully huge."[5]

Story

There will be toys of these guys, stop asking!

Team Prime lives on Earth as a pre-emptive measure against the return of the Decepticons, forming an alliance with three teens as Megatron returns having discovered a rare element that grants him rule of life itself. The show delves into what it is to be a Prime, and though part of the aligned continuity family with the War for Cybertron fiction, its Earth-bound setting is reminiscent of the live-action film series.[6]

Cast

Autobots Decepticons Humans
Main Cast
Others
Main Cast
Crew of the Nemesis
Others

James Remar and Gina Torres are also voicing parts.

Episodes

For further information, see: List of Transformers: Prime episodes

Season 1

  1. Darkness Rising, Part 1
  2. Darkness Rising, Part 2
  3. Darkness Rising, Part 3
  4. Darkness Rising, Part 4
  5. Darkness Rising, Part 5
  6. Masters & Students
  7. Scrapheap
  8. Con Job
  9. Convoy
  10. Deus ex Machina
  11. Speed Metal
  12. Predatory
  13. Sick Mind

Production

The show runners are Jeff Kline, Duane Capizzi, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Orci and Kurtzman's employees Steven Puri and Mandy Safavi are also listed as producers.[7] Additional production staff include principal character designer Jose Lopez and supervising director Dave Hartman.[8] Orci and Kurtzman explained the show offered them a better chance to delve into the Transformers' mythology than the live-action film series did.[6] For the show, Hasbro gave the producers a 400-page production bible that they had been working on since the movies, that combined elements of the most popular continuities.[9] Kline said they wanted the show to be very cinematic, with tension, suspense and danger (as marked by Cliffjumper's death in the pilot) as children are more media savvy than they were in the past. Regardless, they had be considerate as the show still had a broad audience.[10] Susan Blu was the casting director, but was replaced as voice director following a death in her family.[11]

According to Ken Christiansen, the show's design aesthetic was formed by Hasbro Studios hiring freelance conceptual artists like himself. The submitted artwork was given Lopez's staff to be examined, and they incorporated the ideas they liked best.[12] Polygon Pictures provided the CG animation, for which Digitalscape performed a recruitment drive for before the show began production.[13] Lopez said the animation would be a "groundbreaking mix of 2D animation and CGI".[14] Each character has three CG models: the robot mode, their alternate mode, and one for the transformation.[15] Lopez said the designs were personality driven, and that the 3D animation allowed them to go "crazy" with the transformation schemes. In contrast, the characters were given realistic textures,[16] and are subject to battle damage during episodes.[17]

Other staff members include:

Notes

  • Unlike most Transformers shows, episodes do not have an episode title card. Episode titles are from The Hub website.
  • The series has also been advertised as Transformers: Prime - The Animated Series.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Press release from The Hub
  2. ↑ Jeffreycombs.com
  3. ↑ My experience at Botcon 2010 at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort in Orlando, FL. blog post by Melvin L. Clermont
  4. ↑ Hasbro Studios and Corus Entertainment’s Kids Networks Reach Broad Animation and Live-Action Programming Agreement
  5. ↑ Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 34
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 LIVE! Transformers Prime Panel @ SDCC 2010, July 22, 2010
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 TFormers cast and crew announcement including Dwayne Johnson exclusive.
  8. ↑ TFormers BotCon 2010 Hasbro Studios Panel Coverage
  9. ↑ Collider transcript
  10. ↑ PGP January 2011 Q&A
  11. ↑ Tformers.com's coverage of the SDCC Transformers Prime panel, July 22, 2010.
  12. ↑ August 2010 blog post by Ken Christiansen
  13. ↑ Announcement on Digitalscape, also asking for job applicants.
  14. ↑ Jose Lopez speaks about Prime's animation style
  15. ↑ Cybertron.ca January 2011 Q&A
  16. ↑ ASM Geekly Rewind January 2011 Q&A
  17. ↑ Botcon 2010 Transformers Prime Panel Coverage
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