Hasbro was showing off a brief promo reel of the new cartoon series coming in 2015 at the San Diego Comic Con 2014 Breakfast Event. The clip shows off the slick cel-shaded CGI of the new show along with the cast which includes Bumblebee, Sideswipe, a silver Autobot with a gold crest (Drift?) and the team’s new human companion. Not to mention – a vision of Optimus Prime in a pool of water.
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Stepper
It looks like if TFP was a Unicron Trilogy cartoon.
Vagabond Elf
Strongarm looks good. I hope we get a "realistic" Generations toy of her at some point!
The art style is pretty awful, in my opinion. I guess I'm just too old or whatever, but I much prefer something with clean linework and balanced proportions, not this weird, twisted, 40K looking stuff. :/
Still, as others have said, the real value is in the story and the characters. I'll watch the first couple episodes and see what they're like.
Raiju
Odd. With a (police) pickup truck alt mode, you'd think Strongarm would be bigger and taller than Bumblebee (muscle car and bot mode based heavily on the TFP Vehicon), fembot or not. Her head crest does reminds me of Smokescreen but her blue and white deco reminds me of Alternators/Binaltech Wheeljack.
Maximus Alpha
That's not Drift. It's Strongarm.
TFW10
This TP:RD looks like it has a combination of Cybertron/Energon/Animated styles mixed into it.
Is Drift a female?
Wild Eevee
I hope Smokescreen is in this.
Infosaur
Well we can argue back and forth on the animation and the art styles,,,
I'll reserve judgement until I see the writing.
Paxtin
Back at-cha.
Backpack
I almost never say this,but…… what ever dude.
MrReviewerGuy
Holy crap, Optimus is Mufasa!
Paxtin
It's only a home run though when it's actually done well.
And as I did say, TFA was a great show, with great characters and writing. It just had crap animation. Saying it was "limited" as if it were a style choice is an excuse for a lack of effort. TF Animated was, ironically, a really poorly animated cartoon, period. The writing and characters are what saved it.
Backpack
Animation is a little more than just frame rate. It's all about bringing characters to life. It's not fluid animation, it's limited…… for what it was, and what we've gotten in the past…… to me it was great.
…… and for the record I was talking about it being hand drawn …. aka not CG… being the home run decission.
Noisemaze
Override lol
femmebotfangirl
I hope you're right, that would be great getting a non-bike, more solid build fembot.
Edit: Oh its confirmed? Awesome! I am so watching this. Don't care about her height in relation to Bumblebee.
Paxtin
She is, but that still doesn't make her a hulking bot. It just means she's not thin and skinny like the typical fembot design.
Animated was never a home run hit, at least when it came to animation. TFA is still honestly one of the worst animated tf shows, despite being a great show in of itself. But the actual animation was awful.
And I mean the animation, mind you. Not the art style.
kaijuguy19
Strongarm's still bulkier then fembots like Arcee and Airachnid the end though.
Paxtin
That's the weird thing I find about this, the fact is that she doesn't really have that much of a "hulking body". Generally her body looks pretty average for most transformers. But because she's a fembot people are seeing her as being hulk'ish.
Like I said in another thread, I guess being called "Strongarm" doesn't help.
But honestly, next to Bumblebee in this show she actually looks almost petite:
Backpack
Style…. not bad.
CG…… not the best choice.
Animation….. not bad at all.
Given all the factors it seems to have turned out well. I like how the backgrounds tend to match the style. Makes for a less jaring look over all.
Yeah it's not the 2D hand drawn awesomeness home run hit out of the park greatness that was Animated……. but I can live with this for a while. Just hope they can tell a good story, be fun and interesting.
*edit*
After watching it a few more times….
That shot of Sideswipe heading for Strong Arm is really weird. Either she is way to tiny, or swipe is way to big. She looked to be about human size compaired to him.
Sideswipe running after that kid in the woods…… look at it. He takes a while to get his footing, slips a little. It's a great detail in the movement that most animation seems to miss.
IgnikaMarcus
That's what I meant by "same vein". The both throw away the standard feminine figure in favor of an imposing, hulking body.
Paxtin
Not quite as scary as strika, but definitely a strong looking character design then the usual female transformer.