‘Transformers One’ Gave Optimus Prime and Megatron a ‘Youthful Naivete’ in Their Origin Story

To make Paramount and Hasbro’s first fully CG-animated Transformers movie, Academy Award-winning director Josh Cooley (“Toy Story 4”) turned to Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects studio behind the franchise’s live-action movies.

The first challenge to making “Transformers One” was defining the overall look, which in this case involved a design philosophy that was more rooted in the original “Generation One” toys and cartoons than the live-action series.

VFX supervisor Frazer Churchill elaborates that it’s a “more simplistic look than the Transformers live-action movies, like humanoid faces and simpler lines. … Somewhere between animation and live action.” He adds that working with Cooley and production designer Jason

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