ILM tells IndieWire about innovating a handmade animated look influenced by the '80s cartoon series for 'Transformers One.'

The camera is constantly swiveling and the violence — assault-weapon lasers, booming cannons, light torture, martial arts crunching moves, beating a rival with their own amputated limb and

There’s more than meets the eye at the box office this weekend. Paramount and Hasbro’s “Transformers One,” the franchise’s first fully animated film since 1986, has made $3.36 million in Thursday previews at the box office.

The director Josh Cooley narrates a sequence from his film.

As origin stories go, director Josh Cooley's breezy, action-packed genesis tale reintroduces Optimus Prime, Megatron and the rest of the Transformers gang, without any pesky humans hanging around the edges of the frame to muck things up.

"It's a great kind of tragic arc–a Shakespearian arc–and I knew if we could sell that friendship in the beginning, it would [payoff for audiences] knowing that it's not gonna last." But seeing where these characters end up is just the bottom end of the sandwich,