User blog:Savage Samurai/Optimus Prime VS Gundam Commentary Trivia


 * One toy of Optimus Prime was found late into research and it had armor specifically to help him survive a black hole (3:50).
 * Something Ben didn't know was that Transformers actually originated from multiple lines of toys.
 * While the chest beam was originally a weapon specifically designed to kill Unicron, Optimus has evolved to the point where he can fire a chest laser and they just really wanted to do something cool with the fight (6:50).
 * Some of the footage used for Gundam had only come out within the previous two years. For example, the Gundam Origins series had it's final episode air a month before the episode aired (8:05).
 * The 'increase size of beam saber' joke was Jerado's and someone else's.
 * One of  the issues with giant robot fights is the differing sizes of the robots (12:00). The examples Ben gives are Evangelion, Power Rangers, Gundam and Gurren Lagann. As such the problem lies with creating a fight in which, the size of the combatants isn't too disproportinate so as to properly represent the characters. They have a little leg room as this fight increases Optimus' size while still keeping him shorter but it's not to the point where they could've done that if the Gundam was 10 times bigger than Optimus.
 * In relation to the above issue, Optimus' size tends to vary in his own show so that did help this episode (13:20).
 * What was it like switching to Unreal Engine (13:55)? Christina says it was both hard and easy. They didn't have to send stuff off to composite it essentially allowing them to cut down on the rendering time from weeks to seconds. It was much easier to edit the environment for effect.
 * Christina made the Energon Axe (14:40). Allegedly in only 20 minutes.
 * Christina did 2D animation for 2 years. Upon finding it tedious and boring, she switched to 3D and has been doing that on and off for 2 years as well (16:00).
 * Alex made the explosion (16:45) but mainly did the after effects.
 * According to Sean, they went off-script because of Torrian's influence and lost a week's worth of work (18:30).
 * They also needed to go back and fix theGundam model because they forgot to fix it for certain shots i.e. certain shots depicted it with more weapons than it should have (19:10).
 * They had to get tricky with Optimus' transformation as they didn't have a model that could actually do that (19:40). Dave helped with that.