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Originally Posted by Blaster86
I can't remember which Animation house Toei was, I'll need to talk to the guy that knew all that stuff. There were three that worked on the original series. One was amazing (Call of the Primitives was their work), one was average, and one was horrible (They drew Optimus with the white back, responsible for most of season three and the abomination that was City of Steel).
I want my robots to be boxy. They're robots that transform into boxy vehicles. It doesn't make sense if they're bubbly and streamlined. That is just a difference in opinion of style, so I can't fault you for that.
One of the saddest things about the cartoon was that the best animated episodes had terrible stories (Unicron was made by an angry monkey in a lab!) While some of the best stories the cartoon managed to produce were so terribly animated that they became hard to watch (Galvatron amongst the cheering Decepticons when Cyclonus says they're going to rescue Galvatron in Five Faces of Darkness comes to mind, the Insecticons being used as stock Decepticons etc.)
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You'd recognize Toei as they did most of the episodes overall including the Movie. Basically it's the primary "good" animation house that you'd recognize from MTMTE, Dinobot Island, Atlantis Arise, The Golden Lagoon, The Return of Optimus Prime, and the Movie etc. along with about half of the entire show and generally dictated the overall look of the show as most people remember. They did GI Joe as well for Sunbow.
The bad ones were a Phillipine studio and AKOM, the Korean studio run by Nelson Shin who started directing the episodes and then opened his own animation studio for the fledgling Korean industry who couldn't really draw at that time. He's also the guy who animated the light sabers by hand in the original Star Wars and I think his brother Peter Shin and AKOM are the ones that now do Family Guy, American Dad, etc. and the company has matured a lot. AKOM was responsible for the abomination that was Five Faces of Darkness, Rebirth, and most of season 3.
It's still not clear who did Call of the Primitives, the designs look like Studio OX character sheets, people say it might be Tokyo Movie Shinsha.