Transformers: Prime Director’s Commentary, Ep14 - Shadowzone
Note: Disc 3 (Ep14-20) only have one DVD commentary available, which kinda sucks, so this post only has Shadowzone
Shadowzone (Andy Pessoa, David Hartman, Mike Miles, Bumblebee plushie)
-Andy, Raf’s VA’s mom helped him with voice coaching and advice
-Bee’s lines are played a bunch throughout this commentary
-TFP is the first time Miles edited an entire series, every single episode, he previously edited GI Joe Renegade
-storyboard > animatic > shipped to animators > postproduction > approval by David Hartman > edited by Miles, edits out approx. 4-5 min > gets pass by David > sent to exec producer > mixing/audio > approval (all of this is 2-3 weeks at most)
-Andy’s fav episode is this and Scraplets bc of abandoned feeling, a la Dead Space, and zombies
-”Bumblebee, got any favorite episodes” “beeps” “No, from season one”
-episode had a lot of heavy color correction
-had issues with speed of motion with zombie Skyquake in relation to the humans and Autobots
-before coming onto the show, Andy had never watched much Transformers, besides the first movie (presumably Bayverse), but his brothers had a lot of toys and figures
-”How about you, Mike” “I was born in ‘83.”
-”When it comes down to it, due to time constraints, we didn’t get the time to build all these cool arms that we wanted, so we were just like, ‘let’s give [Starscream] a hundred missiles’” -Hartman on Starscream’s “spare arm”
-”so bee, want a hundred missiles on your arm next season?” (bee beeps enthusiastically)
-talks about “wallahs” ( i think? ) where after a session they do a bunch of background, unscripted lines or grunts, etc
-”Can you give us Andy Grunt No. 3?”
-”Dead silence, character all of a sudden starts breathing hard”
-”Bee, wanna do a wallah for us?” (BEE DOES A BUNCH OF DEMONIC DEEP TONE BEEPS)
