New Nickelodeon Transformers Series Gains Storyboard Director

Nice to see we're getting some seasoned staff on this.

I want to comment more,but there is nothing to latch on to right now.Just the Autobot/Decepticon logo.

Ultra Markus wrote:here's a leak of what the show will look like

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What the French Toast? (Shout out to the Godfather Kevin Samuels)

No.

No.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!

I hope this is a joke, this looks like Star Trek Lower Decks, Teen Titans Go. This looks like Transformers Animated (2007 or something) only 5 times worse.

Well, Generations is doing epic and will go on for a long long time. I hope Netflix ups it's game, so far the visual style and animation are very good. But the story, pacing and 0 humor is making it an extremely dull series.

This is a joke right?

I really enjoyed Cyberverse, they could just continue that after the 2 planned animated movies.

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

noctorro wrote:Give us 2D cell animation, that actually has soul.

No one uses cels anymore. It's all digital nowadays.

He probably meant digital cells such as in The Simpsons. Yes the Occasional Gundam series as well as Young Justice are great examples of why 2D animation still looks great. Unfortunately we now live in this odd world where CG is actually less expensive to produce than 2D animation for some reason (although- yes- it's all done on computers)

Also yes, it appears the era of the 80's and 90's of having a good action show that appeals to both kids and adults no longer exists. Prior to the Pandemic, the movie industry made billions off riding the PG-13 rating, making films appeal to as many different demo's at once as possible. In animation however it seems to be only G/PG and R (not saying that Netflix WFC is R rated, but at DC you have Harley Quinn and pretty much all their animated films of the last 5-6 years are needlessly violent). They look amazing, but I'm not interested in gore/sex/violence just because "it can be done".

Even great CG shows such as Transformers Prime and The Clone Wars seem just not to exist anymore.

Yes, I know there's a lot of digital stuff like digital coloring in todays cell animation. I mean the 2d stuff like Gundam. I miss Gundam, such epic shows.

I think the west is looking toward Japan more and more, also with the rot in western comics (leftist politics).

Here's me sitting here still hoping for a 45 episode season of Transformers in the animation style of Gundam Wing and the seriousness of that as well. (never gonna happen)

noctorro wrote:This is a joke right?

Well, considering that it's three-year-old fanart from 2018 meant to parody ThunderCats Roar...

noctorro wrote:Yes, I know there's a lot of digital stuff like digital coloring in todays cell animation. I mean the 2d stuff like Gundam. I miss Gundam, such epic shows.

I think the west is looking toward Japan more and more, also with the rot in western comics (leftist politics).

Here's me sitting here still hoping for a 45 episode season of Transformers in the animation style of Gundam Wing and the seriousness of that as well. (never gonna happen)

Gundam still exists... in Japan, and has long since hopped on the CGI train as well.

Gundam Wing looks dated as all get out, nowadays, and I say that as one who still loves Gundam Wing. But I hold no delusions that it looks exactly like a 26-year-old thing from 1995, which is just what it is.

Sabrblade wrote:

noctorro wrote:This is a joke right?

Well, considering that it's three-year-old fanart from 2018 meant to parody ThunderCats Roar...

noctorro wrote:Yes, I know there's a lot of digital stuff like digital coloring in todays cell animation. I mean the 2d stuff like Gundam. I miss Gundam, such epic shows.

I think the west is looking toward Japan more and more, also with the rot in western comics (leftist politics).

Here's me sitting here still hoping for a 45 episode season of Transformers in the animation style of Gundam Wing and the seriousness of that as well. (never gonna happen)

Gundam still exists... in Japan, and has long since hopped on the CGI train as well.

Gundam Wing looks dated as all get out, nowadays, and I say that as one who still loves Gundam Wing. But I hold no delusions that it looks exactly like a 26-year-old thing from 1995, which is just what it is.

Gundam Wing is just dated period. I tried to watch it on Hulu and it's dull, boring, the characters suck, pretentious as hell and just painful to watch. The action is OK but nothing special.

Now I generally hate prequels more than sequels but Gundam Origin was a beautiful, moving, smart, and for the most part works extremely well and the same with Gundam Unicorn.

Transformers is now a little girls comedy.

Its name is Transformers: EarthSpark - https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1493706937577394178

Watch the teaser clip in the link.

There is also a few art pieces on Instagram:

We were supposed to have a new Transformers cartoon for kids this year but had heard very little from it since the initial announcement. Well, now we have our first look at the animation style and designs thanks to a short clip and some stills. We see the bots that are adopted by a human family, they appear to be new characters. We also see Bumblebee for a split second in the clip along with Optimus Prime and Elita 1. The designs are said to be new but that Optimus resembles the evergreen look he has had across different media for years.

We should be getting a toyline for kids to accompany this new show this year too. Lots of fun new stuff coming to the Transformers brand. I know my kid is excited, let us know if yours are as well.









Here is the clip: https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1493706937577394178

Looks interesting, i can dig it

This is the first time since Beast Machines that I'm immediately excited for a new CGI Transformers cartoon based solely on its art style.

This looks immensely fun!


All of the following people are also involved with this show:

https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/1493711577509502979
https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/1493714048243937283
https://twitter.com/americanninjax/status/1493708275908370432
https://twitter.com/EatherStar/status/1493708383722950656
https://twitter.com/marvinnator_/status/1493709226711011328
https://twitter.com/glytchbot/status/1493709658363547648
https://twitter.com/ayehdeluxe/status/1493710168990752768
https://twitter.com/jumblinjack/status/1493710817455271936
https://twitter.com/Steven_Avalos/status/1493711008271155209
https://twitter.com/greychen_/status/1493711391370330112
https://twitter.com/Cee_Willy/status/1493711768220143618
https://twitter.com/ChunksTheMighty/status/1493712522297286656
https://twitter.com/SalvadoRPG97/status/1493712942205833216
https://twitter.com/Dinolich/status/1493713642864332803
https://twitter.com/TheNazzaro/status/1493716846142394371
https://twitter.com/Duecenage/status/1493717050568495104

Nick Roche's involvement makes me even more excited for it

I think...this could actually be pretty cool. I am excited that they appear to be featuring at least a few new and original characters.

Elita One?Cool!

Since this cartoon is on Nickelodeon,I hope that some of staff from TMNT 2012 can work on this.

Day 778 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

-Optimus's face looks...off, he kinda looks like he was stung by a bee.
-Is that an Elita design with actual kibble? And they said it wasn't possible...
-OOH, a new bike character with a SIDECAR? Those are rare, literally the only one I can think of is Samurai Prowl, hopefully we get some good figures of these designs.

There's some interesting looking stuff here, curious to see how it turns out.

TFP & TMNT 2012 were the best toons from that time even for an old bloke like me to LOVE. Both still aged very well. They're well scripted, with spot-on voice acting, top notch animation and CG sets designs. Nothing on them say "cheap." There are precious few TV series that I'll rewatch, these 2? Oh yeah.

The TFP (and early Bayverse) years were the height of TF toys in terms of engineering complexity. Which is the single most important factor why I came back into TF collecting in my late 30's.

These OP & Elita-1 designs are not that great -- too Evergreen and angular. But the new characters looks much better. Still it's early days so designs might change. If this new 2022 show is anywhere near TFP in quality, I'm SUPER excited and willing to support it with my time & wallet.

My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

cloudballoon wrote:TFP & TMNT 2012 were the best toons from that time even for an old bloke like me to LOVE. Both still aged very well. They're well scripted, with spot-on voice acting, top notch animation and CG sets designs. Nothing on them say "cheap." There are precious few TV series that I'll rewatch, these 2? Oh yeah.

I would add MAX STEEL 2013 but not for the second season,Maybe THUNDERBIRDS 2015.The more i think about all these shows,the less i like them.Oh and TMNT is very ugly and dumb to me.

This new one doesn't look highly original,i have no particular interest.

I like the black white and sky blue color scheme a lot.

ZeroWolf wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

And only after a small alien invasion by the Velgrox forced their hand, even.

The streak continues... (as in not making a great first impression). The last TF show I really was excited for at first glance was TF Prime. But I'm not going to hate on this new show. I'll just put this in the "Not for Me" category, which will probably be a regular thing moving forward.

Still, I'll give it a chance. I've had so many disappointments in the last few years. However the new CG MOTU show on Netflix was a shock in that I actually enjoyed it, so anything is possible.

nope

Looks pretty good so far. And it's nice to see Elita-1 will be getting more love.

Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

That new show looks also NEW and FRESH.
I'm looking forward to it.

Not sure if it's just the shots or whatever but that Optimus Prime looks very...low quality, compared to the other designs anyways, it looks flat and detailess.

Hope the show is entertaining at least.

It looks decent enough, the designs of the Earthsparks (that's what I'm going to call them until we know what their proper name will be) are cool, and the "Wow, you're a Transformer!" line in the teaser suggests that humans in this show already know what Transformers are and they're perhaps publically known, which is a nice idea. Optimus does look a bit out of place among the other designs, like he came in from a completely different show, but I'm guessing this is intentional to hammer in that the Earthsparks are their own unique breed of Transformer by making them look radically different from Cybertronians. Still, it's a shame the show seems to be using the Evergreen designs again instead of something more unique.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Yes.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

The lack of humans in Cyberverse was due to budget constraints. Hasbro gave them such a small budget that gradually got bigger over time, but the makers had to fight tooth and nail just to get a few seconds of screentime for a single human child seen that one season 1 episode with the roadside billboard.

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

And only after a small alien invasion by the Velgrox forced their hand, even.

Also Car Robots/RID 2001. If I recall correctly, only the token human (and his father once they rescue him from the Predacons) ever finds out who the Autobots are.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Yes.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

The lack of humans in Cyberverse was due to budget constraints. Hasbro gave them such a small budget that gradually got bigger over time, but the makers had to fight tooth and nail just to get a few seconds of screentime for a single human child seen that one season 1 episode with the roadside billboard.

Pretty much. Also, they didn't feel they could do the usual B-plots that come with human sidekicks given their runtime. Which makes it especially weird that the show even bothers to go to Earth in the first place; at least Beast Wars had the excuse of being in the distant past before humanity existed.

MaximalNui wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

And only after a small alien invasion by the Velgrox forced their hand, even.

Also Car Robots/RID 2001. If I recall correctly, only the token human (and his father once they rescue him from the Predacons) ever finds out who the Autobots are.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Yes.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

The lack of humans in Cyberverse was due to budget constraints. Hasbro gave them such a small budget that gradually got bigger over time, but the makers had to fight tooth and nail just to get a few seconds of screentime for a single human child seen that one season 1 episode with the roadside billboard.

Pretty much. Also, they didn't feel they could do the usual B-plots that come with human sidekicks given their runtime. Which makes it especially weird that the show even bothers to go to Earth in the first place; at least Beast Wars had the excuse of being in the distant past before humanity existed.

Yeah, all the action could have taken place and stayed on Cybertron. Because for the shiz these robots stir up, it's eerie to never, ever see anyone flee in panic, not a cop in sight, and the military is on strike or something. I could look pass the lack of sidekicks. But NO ONE?

Shudder...

As if the bots has landed on THAT Earth:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

Why not look at Cyberverse. That was a CG show and it had a huge cast of characters. In the end, it will all depend on the story. As you said, a small (or big) cast doesn't spell out how good a show will be.

william-james88 wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

Why not look at Cyberverse. That was a CG show and it had a huge cast of characters. In the end, it will all depend on the story. As you said, a small (or big) cast doesn't spell out how good a show will be.

Prime remains one of the best TF show ever IMO. It had a very small cast too.

So are the silver bots like protoforms or something? In the clip we see one turn into that red quad copter, and in the still images we see a red bot that clearly turns into the same vehicle.







Noticed that only the kids have that one glove which seems to connect them with their bots. I'm guessing the taller one is the motorcycle.

So far I like it, it's better than I was expecting from a new show on Nick. Really thought we would be getting some goofy comedy show or something.

Emerje

MaximalNui wrote:Also Car Robots/RID 2001. If I recall correctly, only the token human (and his father once they rescue him from the Predacons) ever finds out who the Autobots are.

Not quite. The Autobots of that series kept their base's location secret, and they remained in vehicle mode when operating in the field during non-combat situations, but when it came time to engage the Predacons in open combat, they had no qualms with showing their robot modes to human civilians. They just followed a protocol system more rigidly than in most other series. Episode 3 even had a train dispatcher identify Optimus Prime by name (in both language versions) as though his existence was known to some civilians.

Though, Armada and Cybertron both had Optimus want to hide the Autobots' existence from humans as much as possible.

The fact that two of the guys who worked on that god awful Rise of the TMNT show are working on this gives me no hope.

Yes Ciro who worked on TMNT 2012 is also working on it but my point stands

Autobot_Benz wrote:The fact that two of the guys who worked on that god awful Rise of the TMNT show are working on this gives me no hope.

Yes Ciro who worked on TMNT 2012 is also working on it but my point stands

I've actually read more comments about how the people who worked on ROT-TMNT gave them good vibes on the show than otherwise so this is interesting to read in comparison.

The big plus point for me so far is new characters.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

Is that just because part of it is set on modern day Earth ? I usually find a lack of humans to make most shows better, ( most notably Beast era shows) but Cyberverse just wasn't for me, and it wasn't because of a lack of humans.

o.supreme wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

Is that just because part of it is set on modern day Earth ? I usually find a lack of humans to make most shows better, ( most notably Beast era shows) but Cyberverse just wasn't for me, and it wasn't because of a lack of humans.

No humans makes sense in the right setting.
But when there's an actual WAR waged by extraterrestrials on Earth soil and not a single human delegation or army show up to intervene, it's there that my suspension of disbelief reach its limits.

Gotcha . There's a whole subset of Pixar fans that are disturbed by the Cars franchise wondering where all the humans went. I guess it's kind of like that

-Kanrabat- wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

Is that just because part of it is set on modern day Earth ? I usually find a lack of humans to make most shows better, ( most notably Beast era shows) but Cyberverse just wasn't for me, and it wasn't because of a lack of humans.

No humans makes sense in the right setting.
But when there's an actual WAR waged by extraterrestrials on Earth soil and not a single human delegation or army show up to intervene, it's there that my suspension of disbelief reach its limits.

Like I said, Hasbro gave the Cyberverse people no budget for humans. Aside from the little kid they managed to sneak into one scene in season 1, at least season 2 had that montage of offcreen humans capturing video footage of the Transformers fighting on Earth, and the bits where Optimus and Megatron would address humanity via transmissions. The Decepticons even had a following of human sympathizers on the Internet, with some mourning the loss of Starscream and angry over the Autobots killing him (as Megatron falsely claimed).

Though, we know the real reason the show had to be set on Earth: The backstory lore that Hasbro pushed on the Cyberverse people says that Earth is the planet the AllSpark landed on, so the show had to take place there until the AllSpark was found.

More combat footage is seen in this Hasbro corporate reel video.

The uniform-wearing human woman is also seen using a laser gun of her own.

https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1494363619622064137

o.supreme wrote:Gotcha . There's a whole subset of Pixar fans that are disturbed by the Cars franchise wondering where all the humans went. I guess it's kind of like that

Not really.
In Cars, it's the Cars world.
In Cyberverse, the robots are in the human world. They mention humans several times and even broadcast messages to the human populace... yet no one show up. Ever.

I'm glad to see they are involving human's again on earth, I just hope they do it more in line with G1 or TF Prime, where they add to the story but don't take over the story like they did in the unicron trilogy.

-Kanrabat- wrote:No humans makes sense in the right setting.
But when there's an actual WAR waged by extraterrestrials on Earth soil and not a single human delegation or army show up to intervene, it's there that my suspension of disbelief reach its limits.

For me, with Bayformers, it was the opposite. I grew up with Toho films. Humans are there to scream, run away and/or be ineffective military fodder. That normally ends up doing one of the two former options. Being active participants in an Alien war, which uses technology far more advanced than our own? I don't buy it for a second. Let alone when our technology can harm a giant alien robot

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:No humans makes sense in the right setting.
But when there's an actual WAR waged by extraterrestrials on Earth soil and not a single human delegation or army show up to intervene, it's there that my suspension of disbelief reach its limits.

For me, with Bayformers, it was the opposite. I grew up with Toho films. Humans are there to scream, run away and/or be ineffective military fodder. That normally ends up doing one of the two former options. Being active participants in an Alien war, which uses technology far more advanced than our own? I don't buy it for a second. Let alone when our technology can harm a giant alien robot

In the Bay movies, the Army was glorified and overpowered.

But in Cyberverse, they could at least have shown the humains TRY to resist a bit. Even if in the end, they can't do shizz. À la Godzilla.

I haven't seen Cyberverse. Aside from [falling asleep] watching Siege, the last Transformers series I watched was Prime. Tapping out a few episodes into Season One. As I didn't like the amount of human involvement nor, the designs of the Transformers themselves (barring Soundwave).

But the first time the army killed a Decepticon in Bayformers, it raised an eyebrow. When they kept doing it... eyes rolled heavily.

-Kanrabat- wrote:But in Cyberverse, they could at least have shown the humains TRY to resist a bit. Even if in the end, they can't do shizz. À la Godzilla.

No. They could not. As I have told you twice already in this very thread, they had no budget, whatsoever, to do anything with humans. As I told you the first time, they had to fight tooth and nail just to get mere seconds of screentime for that one little kid in that one scene in that one episode of season one.

There were no other onscreen humans besides that brief cameo because there was no money to afford them. Hasbro gave them the barest minimum of a budget to work with. That's why the majority of Decepticons on Earth in the first season were just color-swapped Seekers.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:But in Cyberverse, they could at least have shown the humains TRY to resist a bit. Even if in the end, they can't do shizz. À la Godzilla.

No. They could not. As I have told you twice already in this very thread, they had no budget, whatsoever, to do anything with humans. As I told you the first time, they had to fight tooth and nail just to get mere seconds of screentime for that one little kid in that one scene in that one episode of season one.

There were no other onscreen humans besides that brief cameo because there was no money to afford them. Hasbro gave them the barest minimum of a budget to work with. That's why the majority of Decepticons on Earth in the first season were just color-swapped Seekers.

The point is NOT about the budget. Who care about the budget? Humans were not even mentioned, nor suggested. That's wack.
Also, there's lots of animations on Youtube made by independent creators. Often, people being alone with barely any Patreon money. They do incredible things. "No budget" is no excuse. The animators could have used so many ways to represent some human interaction even if the humans would only have been shadows behind a screen. No need for Disneyesque crowd shots or the like. Just being creative with what you have.

If the creators have the talent, restrains in budget means nothing. But if the creators are only there to cash a paycheck, of course they will only make the minimal efforts required.

BTW, the creators of the infamous High Guardian Spice claimed the Budget issues as a final excuse for their abysmal failure. For some reasons, the public didn't buy it.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Humans were not even mentioned, nor suggested. That's wack.

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Plus, who do you think that Earth city that the Nemesis is parked next to in that lattermost video belongs to? Squirrels?

Not even 5 minutes out of 4 seasons.
Seriously?

At that point, yeah, that city is Squirrel City.