stash BEST OF 2007 “Transformers: The Game” Game intro/trailer Game developer: Traveller’s Tale Activision Director: Blur Animation: Blur www.blur.com “Activision’s brief was simple,” says Blur CG Supervisor Dave Wilson of this epic clip for Transformers: The Game. “They gave us the key story points to hit, but they left us to our own devices to just come up with something cool. They wanted a montage style open to the game, and we were lucky to get Peter Cullen [the original voice of Optimus Prime] to narrate. “When you’ve got giant robots, transforming, flying through cities,
running on rooftops and generally beating the hell out of each other, the creative challenges aren’t that tough, the hardest part is keeping your own creativity somewhat in check, not something we like doing, so you don’t go way over budget “The transformers are quite intricate characters, all those moving parts can sometimes look like a mess of techy details, so hitting good poses and making sure the silhouettes read well was something we pushed hard for in the layout phase. You don’t want shots looking like a battle between amorphous masses of car parts.” Schedule: four months.