Editing The Transformers: The Movie (section)

===Production===
The film's budget was $6&nbsp;million, six times greater than that of the equivalent 90 minutes of the TV series. Shin's team of almost one hundred personnel normally took three months to make one episode of the series, so the extra budget did not help the considerable time constraints from the concurrent production of both the film and TV series.<ref name="Dormehl"/>

The Toei Animation vice president, Kozo Morishita, spent one year in the United States during production. He supervised the art direction, insisting the Transformers be given several layers of shading and shadows for a dynamic and detailed appearance.<ref name="anime">{{cite book|last1=Kōzō|first1=Morishita|title=Tōei Animēshon enshutsuka 40-nen funtōshi: anime "Doragon bōru Z" "Seinto Seiya" "Toransufōmā" o tegaketa otoko|date=2010|publisher=Ichijinsha|location=Tōkyō|isbn=9784758011860|pages=116–117}}</ref> Shin conceived of Prime's body fading to grey to show that "the spirit was gone from the body".<ref name="Dormehl" />

''The Transformers: The Movie'' was the final film featuring [[Orson Welles]].<ref name="Welles last">{{cite web|author1=The Associated Press|title=Welles' last role? Original 'Transformers'|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/welles-last-role-original-transformers-wbna19378720|website=TODAY.com|access-date=March 20, 2016|language=en|date=June 23, 2007|archive-date=March 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318233504/http://www.today.com/popculture/welles-last-role-original-transformers-wbna19378720|url-status=live}}</ref> Welles spent the day of October 5, 1985, performing Unicron's voice on set, and died on October 10. ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' reported that his "voice was apparently so weak by the time he made his recording that technicians needed to run it through a synthesizer to salvage it".<ref name="SlateWelles"/> He also read his lines so slowly that the audio had to be shortened to speed it up about eight percent.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.toplessrobot.com/2015/03/transformers_leonard_nimoy_optimus_prime_peter_cullen.php |title=10 Things We Learned From the 1986 Transformers Movie's Original Cast & Crew |access-date=October 9, 2023 |archive-date=September 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921022538/https://www.toplessrobot.com/2015/03/transformers_leonard_nimoy_optimus_prime_peter_cullen.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Shin said that Welles had originally been pleased to accept the role after reading the script and had expressed an admiration for animated films.<ref name="Dormehl"/> Shortly before his death, Welles told his biographer, [[Barbara Leaming]], "You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen."<ref name="SlateWelles"/><ref name="Welles bio">{{cite book|last1=Leaming|first1=Barbara|title=Orson Welles: A Biography|date=1995|publisher=Limelight Editions|location=New York|isbn=9780879101992|page=522|edition=1st Limelight|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlqsYy512WIC|access-date=March 20, 2016|archive-date=September 21, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921022535/https://books.google.com/books?id=KlqsYy512WIC|url-status=live}}</ref>