ComicBookMovie and ComicBook.com caught up with Amy Johnston (voice of Maxima) and Eric Calderon (co-creator of the series) to have a chat regarding Machinima’s Transformers: Combiner Wars webseries.
CBM: How did you get involved with Combiner Wars?
Amy Johnston: “I got involved with Transformers: Combiner Wars through Bat in the Sun whom I had worked with previously on their show “Super Power Beatdown”.
CBM: How did you find the right voice for Maximia?
Jonston: “Maxima was described to me as a strong female character who had a relationship wtih Windblade so I made sure to give her strength and passion yet retain a femininity about her.”
CB: Is there a challenge that’s inherent to doing [a web series] like this?
Eric Calderon: The great thing is, both Machinima and Hasbro, they have never used that word with me. They said “You are making a series.” They always put it at a higher level, and the show is budgeted, and distributed in a very sophisticated way, that to me, is not like a webseries at all.
So I think about this as an adaptation, I just go “Hey, it’s my job as a creator to make the best work I can” and I don’t think about “Oh it’s only for this category so let’s have fun”, I want to tell this combiner wars story, and I’m going to tell it in 40 minutes. That’s almost a movie, so I really treat it like that. There’s act breaks, there’s a solid structure to the character development, there’s resolution. That’s what I’m worried about.
Read the full interviews here: Amy Johnston | Eric Calderon
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