 The Transformers have been given a new design that reflects their  alien origin. According to Lorenzo Di Bonaventura (qv), during the  design process, Optimus Prime was designed in CGI in his classic  boxy look (as seen in the 1984 series), but he looked "fake and  silly." So now, heavily stressed in their looks are advanced  kinematics, realistic engineering and thousands of body parts (which  all move during transformations and produce a better impression of  mass). The Transformers were created with a mix of groundbreaking  computer