TRANSFORMERS: Combiner Wars-Optimus Prime Movie

Prelude to Transformers Combiner wars: Short film

In 2016, Machinima Inc. and Hasbro Studios created an Internet-based animated series titled Transformers: Combiner Wars. After I finished the creative direction of the Pre-production of the Combiner Wars. I started to direct/produce Prelude short film. Before the premiere of the series. a set of four prelude videos was released that detailed some of the events. This is the story about Optimus Prime.

Client: Hasbro Studios, Machinima Inc.
Directed/Produced: Manabu Gaku Inada
Writer: George Krstic, FJ Desanto, Eric Calderon
Composite Artist: Tasayu Tasnaphun
Layout Artist: Kaichiro Terada
Monotone Shading: Angela Sung
Miniature Model: Charles Villacara
Year: 2016

Comic strip style early storyboard. Reminiscences of pre-war and Optimus Prime (And Megatron) sent into exile. Concept art by Manabu Inada

Animatics of Optimus Prime prelude. Line drawing by Kaichiro Terada. Graphic Art, Composite, and Edit by Manabu Inada.

The first scene from the film. Optimus Prime leads a solitary life, Show the scenery seen from a car window set the more personal tone.

Concept drawing of mechanical buttes. Concept art by Manabu Inada. Miniature model by Charles Villacara.

Concept drawing of Dead City. Concept art by Manabu Inada.

Dead City. Miniature model by Charles Villacara. Photo by Manabu Inada

Inside the building of Dead City. Line drawing by Kaichiro Terada. Shading by Angela Sung.

Optimus Prime encounters the old battlefield. line drawing/layout by Kaichiro Terada, Shading by Angela Sung, Art Direction, Color rendering by Manabu Inada

Background art work with 2D line drawing, and 3D miniature models. Drawing by kaichiro terada, Miniature model by Charles Villacara, Art Direction, Color rendering by Manabu Inada.

Optimus Prime with Autobots faces off with Megatron. 3D CGI Character (Foreground), 2D art (Middleground), and Miniature model (Background) are combined in the one scene. Character line drawing by Kaichiro Terada, Miniature model by Charles Villacara, Graphic Art/Composite by Manabu Inada.