He has worked on four “Transformers” films, beginning with the 2007 installment.ĭid this simplification of the design make it easier for the artists? Not exactly. “Instead of the upper arm being made out of 50 small pieces, it might be made out of three large panels supported by small parts,” said the visual effects supervisor, Jason Smith, of Industrial Light and Magic. The mechanics of the character were streamlined as well, rounding his edges more and reducing the parts to fewer, but still transformable, segments. (Think Brad Bird’s animated fable “The Iron Giant” with a little “E.T.” mixed in.) So they are larger and brighter and tell more of a story on their own than in the Michael Bay films. So he opted for a simpler look, one that focused more on the character’s emotional core than on his mechanical bells and whistles.īecause Bumblebee isn’t able to speak (his voice box was removed by a Decepticon), Knight saw the eyes as the place where the character could be the most revealing. Since this was a prequel, he wanted to hark back to the ’80s design of the original Transformers cartoon. Knight had a template of Bumblebee from the previous movies but was set on going a different way with him here. The emotional center is the relationship between Steinfeld’s character, Charlie, and Bumblebee, whom she discovers after acquiring him, in Volkswagen Beetle form, from her uncle’s scrapyard.
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