Beast Wars: Transformers

A CGI animated television series that debuted in 1996, serving as the flagship of the Transformers: Beast Wars  franchise. The series was set in the future of the "original" Transformers universe as a sequel to the first Transformers series.

The Beast Wars TV series was produced by Mainframe Entertainment of Canada; its story editors were Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio.

The show's CGI, though somewhat primitive by today's standards, was revolutionary by television standards of the time (and puts some later shows to shame). Mainframe's animators took pains to ensure their characters gestured and emoted in great detail, and the "camera" work often took creative advantage of the format's flexibility.

There are three Seasons of Transformers: Beast Wars comprised of 52 episodes

Transformers: Beast Wars premiered on Toonami in 1998 replacing The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest for just one week only. Only the last 5 episodes of Season one were shown.These episodes had never been shown on any American cable channel before this event.

Plot
Beast Wars opens at an unspecified time and place, where two warring factions of robots have crashed on a strange planet populated by animals like those on Earth. The planet abounds in mystery, with vast deposits of raw  energon and evidence of alien activity. The Energon forces the newly arrived Transformers to take on protective beast forms to shield themselves from the ambient Energon radiation. And so begin the Beast Wars...



Characters
Over the course of the series certain transformers were fuzed together forming Fuzors (i.e. Tigatron + Airazor = Tigerhawk). Also over the course of the series certain transformers changed into different animals, for example Megatron started out as a T-Rex, but later on changed to a dragon.

Maximals

 * Optimus Prime - Silverback Gorilla
 * Rhinox - Rhinoceros
 * Rattrap - Rat
 * Cheetor - Cheetah
 * Tigatron - White Tiger
 * Airazor - Peregrine Falcon
 * Tigerhawk - White Tiger/Peregrine Falcon
 * Skywarp - Bald Eagle
 * Depth Charge - Manta Ray
 * Dinobot - Velociraptor
 * Leo Prime - White Lion

Predacons

 * Megatron - T-Rex - Dragon
 * Scorponok - Scorpion
 * Blackarachnia - Black Widow
 * Tarantulas - Tarantula
 * Terrorsaur - Pteradon
 * Waspinator - Wasp
 * Inferno - Fire Ant
 * Starscream - Wasp
 * Ravage - Panther
 * Rampage - Crab
 * Dinobot clone - Velociraptor