Make IDW style drawings please! I am tired of the child-like style that are so popular now in the TV shows...

 

OMG! Wander Over Yonder was freakin' EPIC! If those guys get a chance to do Transformers they will not disappoint I predict.

 

I'd like, just once, for Hasbro to take another shot at GoBots and see how many of the "I want something diffrennnnnt!" fans have a seizure.

 

You realize that IDW style is literally impossible to animate on a TV budget right?

 

I don't think he means the level of detail, just the more realistic proportions and less cartoonish features.

Really, TFA got cartoony style right the first go around. I either want any new show to return to that style, or not try for another, likely inferior, cartoony approach. I would also like a show where the animation style extends beyond just simple designs. How characters move, what the backgrounds look like, and mood lighting are just as important to animation as character designs.

 

I'd dig it. if it was done well. obviously something just being different wont make it good automatically, but it sure as hell would at least peak my interest.

 

I disagree, I adore Animated but I think there are many other ways to to a cartoony style, there's a ton artists (Owl-Robot and CyRaptor from deviantart come to mind) whose designs are cartoony, unique and overall fun. I want that back in transformers. I wan FUN. I want crazy designs that transform in weird way to cars and planes (while still having vehicle kibble in robot mode), I want more fun and unique vehicle modes instead of everyone just being a samey looking sport cars with maybe a trunk in there I want to be excited about a design aesthetic again.

That's also incredibly true but is ofteno verlooked because in this fandom character designs are the most important because they mean toys.

I'm rewatching Samurai Jack now from ep1 to the finale next week and it's amazing how the bitching sound design is like 70% of my enjoyment of the show. Unfortunately I don't think they let people skilled enough near Transformers anymore. That would require money and Hasbro in general doesn't want to spent money or effort anymore on Transfomers. They think that the band name will sell itself just by being Transformers.

I mean they tried to launch a WHOLE TV STATION just on promise of a Transformers show...and a boring one at that.

 

Hope something more similar to Transformers Prime

 

The rumors floating around suggest that it's an animated version of the Generations line, post-POTP. It will likely look more like the Sunbow era in appearance than like shows like Steven Universe or similar shows.

 

Cowboy Bebop was possible! the art style for the spaceships was just amazing!

X-MEN TAS was possible too! Nowadays companies will try to sell you the most hideous cartoons and unfortunately people will like it....

 

Hmmm... I see... Well that is ok! But I really don't like that art style... But that's just me!

I want a "realistic approach" a more "mech" design

Godzilla the animated series was SO GOOD, the proportions were realistic and the amount of detailing was alright.

I want something like that in a transformer cartoon!

 

My ideal series would be art done along the lines of a modern Gundam or Macross series at least detail wise.
Or at the very least Tf Animated styles designs, but cleanly and fluidly animated like the Japanese opening.

 

Cowboy Bebop is a 20 episode single series made almost 20 years ago. The industry changed. Besides compare the screen time of ships to screen time of humans.

Not even Japan animated mecha anymore more and more shows are going for CGI instead. It's too complicated, take too much time and there's not the budget for it. Hell in the majority of anime (and cartoons) cars are CGI too.

 

That make me sad...

It seems to be a good solution!

 

Isn't advancing technology supposed to make the same quality easier and cheaper? Two kids in a garage should be able to pump out a Marvel/Sunbow episode once a week nowadays. It's incredible that the golden age of animation (high frame rates, painted backgrounds, orchestral soundtracks) was back in the 1930s, when dinosaurs and Studebakers roamed the earth.

 

Excepts it's not. Technology for animation now is completely different than technology for animation back then. Animation, ANY animation takes times and man power regardless of technology, technology can help speed up the process but it can't do EVERYTHING.

I'm not adequate enough to talk about it tho, it's not my field but we have two animators in this very thread that can easily debunk the insanity of this claim.

LMAO because that wasn't animation for TV dumb dumb. All of the Looney Tunes and Tom&Jerry cartoons from the 30's and later were done for THEATER. That's also why there's a fuckton of guns and racist humor and celebrity jokes that no kid would get, kids weren't the audience adults were. hey would show those old cartoon before the movies. They had bigger budgets that literally every TV cartoon now. Hell soldier used to watch Mickey Mouse shorts and Hitler used to do Disney fanart. Hell soldier used to watch Mickey Mouse shorts on the front and Hitler used to do Disney fanart.

When Disney suggested for them to do a full animated movie everyone though he was INSANE.

The "cartoons are for kids only" mentality didn't start until the late 70s and 80s when they became commercials for plastic shit and companies figured out they can just shitout whatever because kids, being kids, have no standards since they haven't experience enough fiction in their life so they can cheap out on evertyhing.

 

Shorts played before the actual movie that was supposed to be the main attraction "dumb dumb." Many were done during wartime with ridiculously scarce resources as well. The work was so undervalued that few cels survived the decade because management had them washed and reused after filming. Yeah, I followed Leonard Maltin's work on the subject as well as others like John Kricfalusi of Ren&Stimpy fame.

Besides, I've animated five minutes of footage all by myself, which is five minutes more than just about anybody in this fandom, so I know all about what kind of work is involved.

 

We literally have TWO professional animators in this very thread. Learn to read.

You are literally doing the animation equivalent of wanting a 300$ 3rd party collector's figure in retail for 10$.

 

Oh god no!!!!