Headmasters Episode 5 "Rebelion on Animatros" Release Discussion

[Hikuro]

TRANSFORMERS: Headmasters Episode 5: Rebelion on Animatros
The beings of Animatros have been enslaved by Galvatron and his Decepticon Armies. It is up too Cerebros and his Headmasters team to stop the Decepticons at all costs with a little help from Rodimus Prime and the Monster bots. Only things wont be so easy as Daniel and Wheelie are kidnapped. Can the Autobots rescue their two comrades and save a race about to be the next conquered by Galvatron?

Written by Justin Devine
Script Supervision by Gabriel Jean
Edits by Brenton Eschman
Audio Mix: Grimbot
Directed by James Owings


CAST:
DAVID DIXON: Narrator
GABRIEL JEAN: Brainstorm, Dog
BRANDON WILLIAMS: Highbrow
JON BALES: Cerebros, Mindwipe, Cyclonus
ZACH DYER: Chromedome
BRENTON ESCHMAN: Hardhead, Hardtop Tortoise, Grotusque
DANIELLE MCRAE: Daniel
KENNY MCCOY: Wheelie
MATT CLARKE: Hare Raising Rabbit, Rubberneck Giraffe  
CASSA D.-JEAN: Gargantuan Gorilla, Arcee
HARRISON KING: Deer Stalker, Horny Toad
SCOTT D. HARRIS: Sabersword Tiger
STEVE HENEL: Lionicus, Repugnus
JAMES OWINGS: Rodimus Prime, Triple-Threat Snake
CURT PAGE: Galvatron, Skullcruncher, Railspike
SAMI SADEK: Weirdwolf
STEVEN PHILLIPS: Scourge
CHRIS HACKNEY: Prickly Porcupine, Gruesome Gator

YOUTUBE BROADCAST

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Transformer" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Transformer</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkK1_ZYgdyw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkK1_ZYgdyw</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAnkfiwfsHE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAnkfiwfsHE</a>


 LOW QUALITY VERSION
http://www.adaptationsgj.net/hikuro/Transformers%20Headmasters%20Episode%205%20LQ.wmv

HIGH QUALITY VERSION
http://www.adaptationsgj.net/hikuro/Transformers%20The%20Headmasters%20Episode%205%20HQ.wmv

[Cypherplex]

Man Youtube really effed up the volumes on there... I'll have to watch it again when the HQ is out. And part 1 is missing. I hope it's not because of a copyright violation with the opening credits song. It's possible, though I doubt it, since the song's a demo.

[Black Bumblebee]

Looks like part 1 is uploaded here:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCyqNpPi-bs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCyqNpPi-bs</a>

There are some odd volume problems, most notably when Pirate Lion is talking to his mentor and during the opening credits, but I enjoyed watching it all the same.

Looks like I got left off the cast list for Ferocious Tiger, but no worries, I mess up the cast lists all the time 

[Cypherplex]

I just copy pasted sorry.

[HadesVXC4]

High quality please... D8

[Hikuro]

I put up a low and high quality onto Gabe's FTP....but I can't remember how to get the links. He'll have to provide that.

[HadesVXC4]

*pesters Gabe* ;x

[Cypherplex]

I can't check from work, but the main root will be

http://www.adaptationsgj.net/hikuro/

James, could you provide the file names? I can't get to them until tonight With those two parts, the link will be available

[Hikuro]

There we go! Everyone enjoy! Now if we could only get Brandon to front page it

[Gryphman]

I just watched it. Lots of good people in this one. I hope those doing single episode characters keep coming back.

I say this about every time, but I love doing Mindwipe. He's just so damn fun. I really hope he gets more lines in the future.

Unfortunately, I think this needs to be re-edited. There's some serious sound issues. Some sounds are too loud, while others you can barely hear. There's some places where dialog is out of sync, and others get cut off.

[Hikuro]

Yeah, I'd of corrected most of it if it meant fast replies (no offense to anyone) there were some people I sent messages too who never got back to me. But seeing how I felt we were really more pressed for time, I went with the flow and made it work the best I could, mostly got permission on that too. Next episode will be pretty tight though, I'm working on the script a bit or at least the first draft. It's coming out pretty damn good. I just gotta think about how those characters were like in the american variation as they seem to be strangely different in japan.

[Cypherplex]

Yeah, the only one that doesn't americanise right is Chromedome though. The others can all work. Just keep Highbrow as a snob that uses big words for pompous purposes, Hardhead as a non texan Ironhide and Brainstorm as a neurotic Wheeljack.

I got lucky in french. Chromedome is described as a chivalerous character, so having him talk in archaic french and pretty much act like a BW Silverbolt on a coffee rush workes out well.

Piece of advice: with Wheelie rhyming his way through the series, ignore Weirdwolf's poetic disposition. It really doesn't work well and gets annoying. We did it in HM7 and I had the VA redo all the lines with new dialogue. Skullcruncher can get away with talking like a Dinobot, it works pretty good. Sadly, Mindwipe always ends up with the lesser ammount of dialogue, even in the tenth episode, where he has whole scenes to himself.

Cerebros isn't a pacifist here, though you can have him say stuff about not liking to fight all the time. He does in the end though, and becomes one of the best leaders the Autobots had. Zarak well... he's like a metrosexual Starscream... keep him oily and mysterious, it'll work well.

Cyclonus and Scourge... you gotta work with the animation. A lot of what the narrator says can end up in their lines, fleshing them out some more and making them useful, instead of clueless. Often when Cyclonus worries, he's animated as if he's in deep thought, so he's easier to keep in character (unless he's running away like a girl...). Scourge though... he's kinda like the 1960s Robin. He's there so Cyclonus doesn't talk to himself.

Arcee should be a tad easier, as the footage I'll be feeding you will be purged of as much of the submissive japanese woman postures that she is given. She's still a secretary compared to a warrior girl, but at least she doesn't keep bowing in servitude to Rodimus, which can help give a bit of bite to her dialogue.

Also, I'm removing every odd stuff that's removable or editable, like Brainstorm doing a christian sign (I'm looping footage so he keeps his flaps, but looses the very human behaviour), or the Decepticons playing poker (why would they like Earth culture?). I can leave them unaltered in English, but the scenes themselves usually serve no purpose, and you'll have to get them scored/sounded (In fact, the poker scene is there just to feature the Decepticon Headmasters, since the rest of the episode has nothing to do with them. Product placement in a 20 minute commercial, basically). So far, if the scene can't be edited or removed, scripting it so it makes sense is possible (like the Headmasters exercising in HM9... it's to keep the abilities they shared during the two previous cross-head-ons they did, so that the transtectors don't just revert back to their normal settings. this will help fix the fact that the chest meters are sometimes animated wrong (like they're accessing abilities learned through another's use of the transtector), and will ultimately serve to explain the... head formation of friendship... which sadly can't be edited out, it being a key factor to very important things in the series).

The Horrorcons are pretty spot on, and so is Punch/Counterpunch, so those won't be too much of a deviation from their american personas (though I do recommend making Punch a competent spy... not someone that proudly warns his "comrades" that his Autobot counterpart is nearby).

[Fyerman_34]

I just read all that and want my 2 minutes of life back!

[Cypherplex]

Guess you missed the part where my pompous ass was talking to Hikuro here. Or was I supposed to do that in private? Oh, my bad

[Motor_Master]

Very cool!  I didn't realize this ep was being released so soon.  I figured there would have been a call for some redos.

Now I can sit down and watch it