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I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao

[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]

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Helpful Links

Every single link I could possibly find about Transformers One, on and off the screen.

Brian Tyree Henry

POC Culture Interview

Essence Interview

LRM Online Interview

Pay or Wait Interview

CBR Presents Interview

Joint Interviews

ScreenRant Interview with Brian Tyree Henry and Chris Hemsworth

Transformers One' Cast Answer 50 of the Most Googled Transformers Questions

An Emerald City Interview With Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry

Transformers One Behind the Shot With Brian Tyree Henry and Josh Cooley

Featurettes

Making of Transformers One

Hollywood Insider

Paramount Movies

FilMonger Behind the Voices and Behind the Scenes

HeyUGuys Interview

Voices Behind the Bots

Josh Cooley

Josh Cooley Wants to Help You Understand Megatron Better

IndieWire Interview

nofilmschool Interview

Entertainment Weekly Interview

MPA Article

Film Pie Interview with Josh Cooley and Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Art U News Interview

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Quick PSA

No Plans doesn't mean Never Going to Make it

Just keep that in mind.

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I have made several posts showing what we can do RIGHT NOW.

If Skydance sees what Paramount’s been sleeping on?

They'd be IDIOTS to not pick it up.

Regarding the KCA Results...

It sucks that Transformers One didn't win any awards at the Kids Choice Awards. Especially after how many votes I put into it.

But you know what I'm not going to do?

Fall in despair over and give up any hope of this movie getting a sequel.

What I am going to do is keep up faith and continue to show love for this movie. Maybe it's pointless, and the sequel will never be made, but I would rather be optimistic than pessimistic. We need to continue to show this movie love and not toss it aside.

Remember What I said: No Plans doesn't mean Never Going To Happen

Do not give up.

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Transformers One Behind the Scenes

Animation, Music, and Sound, oh My! 🎆 🎼 🔊

Industrial Light and Magic was used for its rendering and real-time motion capture system, HELIOS, to set up performances on a virtual set. Anyone else, that would’ve taken weeks to set up, and ILM breeze through it in days, which allowed for even MORE creativity and emotional depth.

ILM also redesigned the faces so we’d capture all the bots’ emotions. Remember these iconic faces?

Yesh, all ILM.

The one responsible for making sure you instantly recognized any one bot’s silhouette? All because of Amy Beth Christianson. You can even still see them in blurry action sequences. Orion is more round, D turned Megatron is more square.

The silhouettes change over the course of the movie - D/Megatron’s becomes heavier and box like, Orion’s becomes lighter and straighter. Not just a visual, it’s part of their arcs.

That iconic scene with Alpha Trion showing them what happened during the Quintesson fight? ILM purposely made it look like Augmented Reality.

Ever felt like you were being pulled in at times to the world itself? All intentional. FX details and edge-to-edge S3D stereo depth were layered by SDFX Studios.

Any and all scenes involving mining and scenes with a lot of dialogue, Cinematographer Christopher Batty used virtual cinema techniques, camera rigs, and motion capture performances (sometimes even using suit mimicry) to make them feel lived-in and on purpose.

The art design uses Art Deco Shapes and G1 aesthetics, inspired by Floro Dery and Jason Scheier.

And saving the best for last:

Brian Tyler? The guy who did the music and score? He’s already done work for Transformers before.

Maybe you’ve heard of it?

Chris Hemsworth 🪓 🤖

Chris reached out to Peter Cullen, Optimus’ original voice actor, for advice on how to play Orion Pax. He knew people were going to be wary about someone besides Peter playing him, and said, “They’re right."

All of Chris' lines were recorded from his home in Australia with his kids watching, who even gave him feedback after every take.

Chris talked to Josh Cooley extensively about putting together what Orion Pax should sound like, nuance, spontaneity, and a clear difference from other continuities. You recall how Orion’s started off sounding young and brash before slowly moving towards the Optimus voice we know? Chris’ idea.

Brian Tyree Henry 🤖 💪

Brian is the only one in the cast to be nominated for an Anni Award for Outstanding Voice Acting.

He was no stereotype. “We so rarely get a chance to know how villains become villains. They usually don’t start off that way — this film allowed me to really peel back those layers.” This particular performance? Inspired by his own college experience at Morehouse.

He doesn’t believe in reducing villains into a caricature. “I never go into it experiencing it as that, ‘Oh, I’m doing something wrong. Actually, I believe that everything I’m doing is just, for the betterment of everyone around me. But I’m in a world that has told us we have to be this way and that we should color within these lines. And I’m like, ‘No, why do we have to do that?’

He recorded alone, with the exception of Josh reading Orion’s lines so Brian could give a natural reaction to them. He called it “checking his ego at the door”. tapping into raw emotion and physical effort—breathing, fighting sounds, crying—as if he were actually in front of the camera.

He transitioned Megatron’s voice naturally over the film, just like Chris – young and hopeful, then slowly towards angry and betrayed.

Keegan Michael Key 🤖🐝 ⚔️

All of Bumblebee’s dialogue? No voice modification whatsoever. That’s all 100%, pure Keegan.

Keegan’s not just a fan of Transformers now, he was back in the 80s too. Growing up in Michigan, he watched it after school whenever it came on.

Bumblebee’s overly talkative personality was a collaboration between both Keegan AND Josh Cooley, to set him apart from other continuities where he’s just a soldier or doesn’t talk.

Remember Bee’s little garbage robot friend A-A Tron? That was a reference to Key & Peele’s Substitute Teacher sketch, in which the teacher mispronounces Aaron as “A-a-ron.”

Apparently Keegan in the cast was the movie’s own Josh Gad/Olaf situation: Keegan was allowed and actively encouraged to improvise a lot of dialogue for Bee, and worked with Josh to determine the best lines to keep.

Oh yeah, and this:

Both Chris AND Keegan Michael Key did Orion and Bee's combat moves while doing their lines: kicking, punching, running, and jumping, to fully embody the fight scenes. Keegan was even reported being seen leaving the booth sweaty.

Use these in any way you wish.

Good luck.

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“Women don’t have rights in Iran, they are homophobic in Iran!”

A black woman’s dying body was used to incubate a fetus because the state said so and the Supreme Court, regurgitating debunked talking points, ruled that trans kids could be denied gender affirming care that is proven to save lives. Does that justify a foreign power bombing New Jersey indiscriminately? Like some of y’all don’t give a fuck about LGBTQ Iranians or women in that country because I never saw a people get free through just having their shit blown up

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my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

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hi. fuck ice. here is how you can help families affected by unlawful deportation

edit: and FUCK LAPD. here is how you can help bail out protestors who are in the trenches, facing mass arrests and putting their bodies on the line.

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What You Can Do Offline

Community Screening 🎞

Get in touch with a local theater or community center to get them to screen the movie

Know any local Transformer fan club? Work with them to raise awareness for both them and the movie

Local Businesses 💼

Theme Night: Find somewhere that will allow a Transformers themed event. Get creative with it- trivia, costume/cosplay contests, the ideas are only as limited as your imagination.

Promos: Offer discounts through these nights as incentive.

Local Media 📰 🤳

Extra! Extra! - Get your local newspaper or magazine to print your promotion. Talk about what it's for and what we hope to achieve.

Interview with a Fan: Track down a local influencer to get them to talk about the campaign and why it's important.

Take to the Streets 🛣

Paper is the New Data: Make posters and flyers and plaster them where they'll be seen.

Use Your Words: Learn and teach others how to talk to people about the campaign and our goal.

I'm Your Biggest Fan 🪭

No Transformers fan club? Make one yourself! Put together meetups to gather like minded people and make your noise louder.

Activities can range from screenings, discussions, and even merch sales.

Our mission is too important to only do on social media. We need to show Paramount and Skydance the REAL people who love this movie and want its trilogy told.

Till All Are One

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Skydance Instagram Save Transformers One Trilogy Campaign

Handle: @skydance

Peak Posting Time Chart

Monday-Thursday: Pacific: 9 AM – 12 PM, Mountain: 10 AM - 1 PM, Central: 11 AM 2 PM, Eastern : 12 PM - 3 PM

Peak Reach: Pacific: 1 PM, Mountain: 2 PM, Central: 3 PM, Eastern: 4 PM

Friday: Pacific:9 AM – 12PM, Mountain: 10 AM - 1 PM, Central: 11 AM - 2PM, Eastern: 12PM - 3PM.

I Now Pronounce You Art and Tech 💒

Skydance is adamant on branding itself as tech driven studio that pushes the boundaries of what creativity can do with animation.

Content that shows off exactly that: behind the scenes content showcasing the movie's visual effects.

Go into detail about the work that went into it. Anything from the rendering to the fight scenes.

#Crossover 🔀

Skydance is in love with stories that can be told across multiple platforms, from movies to virtual reality.

The visuals were made by Industrial Light and Magic - from facial expressions, to cinematic shifts.

Transformers as a whole is ALREADY a multi platform brand: toys, comic books, TV series with rewatchability, video games. Transformers One is just the newest addition.

Transformers One gave us the origin story we've wanted for so long, and it delivered in both plot and visuals.

The movie was made WITH multimedia streaming in mind: RealD 3D, IMAX, Dolby Cinema, and 4DX.

University of UGC 🏫

Skydance THRIVES on user genetated content.

Fan Art/Cosplay: Make/do it yourself or repost with credit.

Animation: Tag and invite small time animators in the captions to make Transformers One storytelling into a reality.

#SkydanceChallenge: Take a page from their own hashtag challenge and use it for Transformers One: Make challenges, use the hashtags, tag Skydance, feature the top entries on your story/account, with the promise to tag Skydance in submissions.

What if Influencers and Creative Partners Had a Baby? 👶

Find someone in art or animation to co-opt a post about Transformers One and how under Skydance's influence, the animation and visuals for the unwritten sequels would be LEGNDARY.

Start soft. Show how much you love it, and how much you STILL love it.

Show it's workability across multiple platforms.

Make your visuals prompt real discussions with real people.

Call to action: Invite them to build something new and wonderful together.

We're not promoting for the sake of promoting.

We're making something new that shows off storytelling and aesthetics.

Exactly what Skydance is looking for.

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EMERGENCY PLEASE DON'T SCROLL: Help a disabled trans lesbian PoC with no income pay for necessities AND not become homeless as father lost his job

Sorry I know I just hit a goal, but I am now out of my antipsychotics and I need those to live as the side effects when I don't take them are life threatening... ;.; (I also don't have insurance, hence why the price is so high :c)

I also need to buy groceries!!!! Currently dad is keeping us housed with his savings but other than that, it's on me to get food for us and my therapy cat!

Please please find it in your heart to help me!!! I'm so sorry for always asking for help but I have nothing else and my dad is still job hunting... T_T Thank you to whoever reads this far... If you can't help, please reblog and don't tag as anything!! This is also quite urgent;;;

KFI

PPAL

86$/295$

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i hope luigi mangione is proven innocent & gets to sue a ton of companies for slander and win & i hope he gets enough money to rebuild his life and get any help for his chronic pain that he needs & i hope he’s able to disappear from the public eye entirely if that’s what he wants

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Look at this art by Miannao RIGHT NOW before I stomp you with my hooves

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If anyone ever asks me why fillers are important, I'm gonna point them to Transformers Animated.

Yes, really.

To date, for me, Autoboot Camp is easily a masterclass example of how to not just make a filler, but use it WELL.

what happened to 20 episode seasons ... why are so many tv shows just eight episodes now with some even just having 20 minute episodes ... pisses me off like what happened to filler episodes ... what happened to long lasting shows with massive fandoms and thousands upon thousands of fanfics… i shouldn’t be able to just sit down and finish an entire show in one sitting only to forget it ever existed a few days later…

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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Paramount Instagram Save Transformers One Trilogy Campaign

Instagram Handle: @paramountpics

Hashtags: #TransformersOne #TillAllAreOne #animationart #fanart #digitalart

Peak Posting Time Chart

Monday–Thursday: Pacific: 9 AM – 12 PM, Mountain : 10 AM – 1 PM, Central: 11 AM – 2 PM, Eastern : 12 PM – 3 PM

Peak Reach: Pacific : 1 PM, Mountain: 2 PM, Central: 3 PM, Eastern: 4 PM

Friday: Pacific: 9 AM – 12 PM, Mountain: 10 AM – 1 PM, Central: 11 AM – 2 PM, Eastern : 12 PM – 3 PM.

Visual Identity 🤖

Whatever you post, make all of your colors, designs, and filters consistent.

Got a preferred Transformer? Post in their colors!

Tagging #️⃣

Limit to 3-7, and only the ones used most consistently.

Tag Paramount themselves in the caption - don't go thinking hashtags are gonna cut it by themselves.

Mix it Up ⁉️

I know it's tempting, but try to not favor one type of post over the other.

Feed: Pictures with incredible detail, behind the scenes details, and fan art.

Stories: Make polls and Q&As here.

Reels: 15-30 second videos, dynamic visuals. No copying and pasting from TiKTok.

60/30/10

60% Value and Entertainment: behind-the-scenes, visual comparisons, character deep dives.

30% Community: Fans reacting in real time, poll results, UGC.

10% Promotion: Calls to action, announcements, even petitions.

When In doubt, Reach Out 🫵

Any comment you get, reply. Period.

Be friendly. Talk to them. Start a conversation about the movie and/or what you're doing.

Micro-Creators 🤳

Look for ones with 10K-50K followers.

Make any reposts or story mentions genuine. You're not a scammer, you're a real person with a real message and goal.

Optional: Broadcast Channel 📡

Create a group focused on Transformers One to share behind the scenes content, polls, and early art showcases.

We want Paramount to listen? We show up every single day, we give them the beautiful visuals they're hungry for, and save the captions for tagging.

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Save the Transformers One Trilogy Campaign Masterpost

This is your guide for how to reach out to both Paramount and Skydance.

Each social media’s name is a hyperlink to another post detailing exactly how to reach out on each individual platform, along with any tips I can pass along.

Petition

What You Can Do Offline

Behind the Scenes

Helpful Links

Paramount 🏔

The focus here is on showing them there is still room to grow with this trilogy. With proper marketing, it could go a long way towards making even more animated movies beyond it. Even now, fans are still talking, drawing, and writing for the movie we DID get. Lorenzo has already done all the heavy lifting for both sequels, giving it a clear minimized risk. Show them Hasbro pulling back means they can put the focus back where it should’ve been all along.

Twitter 🐦

Instagram 📸

TikTok

Facebook

YouTube ▶️

Reddit 😂

Bluesky 🦋

Skydance Animation/Skydance Media

This trilogy is exactly what Skydance is looking for: movies with a built in fandom, lore and stunning animation that can only get better with them at the helm. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura has already laid everything out. Working together turns the trilogy into the well oiled machine it was always meant to be. They have animation veterans such as Don Hall and Bruce Anderson.

If we can get them to look at the movie and all the visuals and agree Paramount made a mistake? They’d be idiots to not give it a second look.

Instagram 📸

Twitter 🐦

LinkedIn 👔

Facebook

YouTube ▶️

Reddit 😂

But please remember: No matter which platform you’re posting on, never forget that we are asking them to do something for us, after they’ve already put it on hiatus.

You don't bring people over to your side with bullying, namecalling or death threats.

You bring them over by showing how we are on their side, in all the ways that matter.

We as a fandom have time and time again shown up, no matter how good or bad the movie is.

Now we will do it again.

This is what got us the Bumblebee movie and Transformers Prime.

They don't need to reboot the franchise.

They need to see what they already have and give it the time and effort they couldn't with Hasbro lurking over their shoulders.

Good luck to all of you.

Till All Are One

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