The Robot Designs In Transformers ONE Look…

Welcome to my thoughts on the BACKLASH to the TRANSFORMERS ONE designs in the Official Trailer. Stay Calm, Stay Optimistic. I go through the design language of the Transformers throughout the years.

TRANSFORERS ONE PLOT SYNOPSIS:
This is the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. In the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, TRANSFORMERS ONE features a star-studded voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi with Laurence Fishburne and Jon Hamm.

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[JasonScheier]

I immediately disconnect from the souls of the characters when their eyes are fully emissive. the pupils really enhance the personalities of the characters and make us see deeper into what their emotional reactions are.

[MrTragedious]

I think the designs and face looked really good, but they aren’t that uncanny.

[leaderoftheautobots]

I really have no problem with these designs. I mean I think that the design for Elita-1 looks like a random person drew Arcee from memory but it's not too bad, and I'm a big fan of D-16's design with the black helmet.

[christianparrish]

I really have no problem with these designs.

[Frozen_Death_Knight]

Personally I think it's the hard edged lips and overly round features that make them all look like handsome Squidward in CG. I think the best CG designs for the faces are the ones with next to no lips like the Prime versions. In 2D/celshaded the lips don't become so pronounced because of the lack of shading on the upper lips, so they blend in with the face much better. The hard edges on the cheekbones are also much softer than the lips, which contribute to them standing out a lot more.

That said, I'll let the movie designs be judged more fairly after the movie is released to see if I warm up to them. I still remember Transformers Prime being very criticised for its art direction based on early test footage by having no face masks for certain characters and overly expressive face designs like on Starscream, yet nowadays the art and animation are some of the most praiseworthy aspects of the show. As an OG fan of G1 I appreciate how much TF One is seemingly taking inspiration from that era by having more blocky designs and reintroducing the 80s aesthetic with a modern flare to new children. Alpha Trion, Starscream, Shockwave, and Soundwave honestly looked great in CG, so at worst the art and animation can be a bit of a mixed bag when we've had time to reflect on the movie's quality.

[EpsilonZolton]

having an iris is kinda important to tell where a character is looking without moving their entire head

like a couple of the shots have characters looking into the camera (mostly d-16/megatron) but their entire face isn’t pointing at the camera so with a solid color eye it seems they are looking off screen

so yeah it just comes back to visual expression really

[MistressSoundwave]

I can’t believe we are nitpicking eye designs now.

I like the designs as they are. They are
expressive and convey emotions.

I just want this movie to do well so can get the whole damn trilogy.

[RialVestro]

I don't have a problem with the designs. I think the only thing that might throw people off are the people who only know the Transformers live action movies seeing them with solid faces for the first time but for anyone who's actually been a fan of the franchise before 2007 or even watching the cartoon series that have been around since then, we've always seen Transformers looking like this. Though the faces with the panel lines so it looks like they can realistically emote instead of having one solid plate of metal that moves like squishy skin is the one thing I wish they kept from the live action designs. I don't want Megatron's ugly live action face, the Decepticons usually had terrible insect like designs that I hated but the Autobots usually didn't look that bad... except for Bumblebee who never really had a proper face. Bumblebee just always looked like the after math of Optimus ripping someone's face off.

[johnskylark]

You know, this trailer hits sooo far from what we're used to with Transformers, I was on the dislike side at the start, but I'm not about holding grudges, it's growing on me, and I'm now looking forward to this movie 😉

[annikafanpage]

I think what we all were expecting was a full movie of what we seen in the first 5 mins in the movie bumble bee, a war for cybertron sort of thing with no humans.

[chrismuhn]

I noticed 2 things with TF 1 posters u should one is the eyes as u said but the other is the fact that Optimus, Elita 1, Bumblebee all have smiles on there face while Megatron is scowling

[spacepiratecaptainrush]

I got no problems with the designs, I remember people complaining about Transformers Prime because there was no nose. end of the day some people will winge about it not being the same as some other thing but they forget that it's not some other thing. Prime isn't G1 or the 2005 IDW comics or the games etc. let One be it's own thing and let it succeed or fail based on it's own merits as a story.

[grantlauzon]

Something interesting I noticed is that none of them are painted. They're anodized. Their metal is kinda rough and since they don't have a clear-coat they have a deep metallic look without being so shiny that they blend into dark backgrounds. Their color is also readable in all lighting.

[waterho]

They look like the Marvel Comic's Designs so that's pretty awesome

[RiotEK]

Personally IMO, it’s the collective animation aesthetic of everything that we’ve seen in the movie.

The sequences in the trailer with action were actually alright and remind me of TFP, but the sequences of the main four on the surface in particular just looks like the Croods 2 but with an Earthspark reskin. I’ve been told, and hoping that it’s true, that the tone of the movie moves from a kids comedy to a gritty conflict. (They said it’s going to be a trilogy, so it will be a prolonged transition)


But everything else looks fine. Except for maybe Brian Tyree Henry’s performance as Megatron (nothing on him, I’m assuming he did his best with what he was given), the one line with “Why did you bring jetpacks?” Just said to me that D-16 is a black adolescent teenager (I do not mean it in the wrong way), because of his mouth animation throughout the trailer, but that scene in particular when it showed his teeth when he finished talking (same way my black friend’s mouth moves when he talks).

The design and shape of the transformers is fine, even though I was expecting a slightly deviated version of the War For Cybertron look (since I heard that animation studio would be on this project), but it looks alright; will attract the kids nicely.

I did have to explain to my friend why they would be using a CGI/Bayverse transformer style:
“The amount of money spent on that alone would be enough to pay for a middle aged, middle class citizen’s mortgage and buy them 2 new houses in this economy.”

[meadowfeather]

When I draw my transformers, I do the optics in a solid color, Butttt, add depth to them, add some lighter / darker colors to make a nice fade. Then I surround the pupil in my lightest color, and it turns out great.

[milkiassamuel]

I really like these designs precisely because these are the younger versions of these classic characters. I especially like Megatron/D-16's design; before he became Megatron, we knew it, and I liked how it references his original design with the yellow eyes and black helmet. I also really like Elita 1 and Optimus's designs. I really don't get why people complain about the face designs. I feel like it looks good, and while Im no animation expert, I think the facial designs look relatively good and allow them to emote pretty well. Ive always been a bit confused about whether different eye colours truly represent what faction a Transformer belongs too, such as if you have blue eyes your an Autobot but red eyes means your a Decepticon and sometimes it gets confusing whether or no that's the canon or not and it can get rather inconsistent to understand

[BioNichole]

I'm going to be totally honest, those edits of Megatron with the solid eyes instead does not feel like an upgrade to me. It feels like a downgrade and that's not any insult to the editor! He did an excellent job making that adjustment, but if anything it just makes me appreciate the modern eyes more. The facsimile of a pupil adds to the personable effect on the face and makes the characters more relatable. Nowadays I think solid eyes work more for heartless and menacing characters like Airachnid, or when a character has a solid visor like OG Soundwave, Grimlock, and Battletrap—or even the singular dot like Shockwave, and by extension Whirl. As such there's still a place for solid color eyes in modern iterations, but the technology has advanced since the 80's to not need to keep it around.

[dragnemperr]

Have yall seen their faces in the G1 Cartoon? Some are damn near nightmare fuel.

[sfsinfinity]

This was like one of the first movie with those types of faces. And I can give credit to them for making the faces not uncanny. Bravo, TF ONE team :D