Re: Reminder: New 'Wolverine and the X-Men" series starts airing 1/23/
I meant the painted backgrounds.
There are still plenty of shows that use 2D painted backgrounds, even if the "paint" is digital. Indeed, I'm sure this show used the same digital animation techniques that are standard today, since every show does.
I also didn't care for the sloppy 3D movement effects of like cars and stuff. The blackhawk helicopter animation was fine, but the cars andn Logan's motorcycle moving along twisting and turning roads looked bad.
Granted, the 3D animation is relatively crude. Which would be an issue of budget or skill on the part of the 3D animators.
But as you say, like something out of Batman Gothic Knights.
Err, I said nothing of the kind. For one thing, there's no show by that name.
The New Batman Adventures is sometimes referred to in fandom as
Gotham Knights, but not "Gothic." For another thing, I was citing that as an example of the best in American animation. And that show used little or no 3D vehicle animation, as far as I can recall.
You mean, that they've only aired a half-season of Spectacular Spider-Man?
26 episodes have been produced to date, and 13 have aired. In broadcast and story-structure terms, that is a full season, but in production terms it's half of the initial order.
Well, I do agree with you there about the character designs, at least for the human'esk characters, but Grievous is very well done.
It's not the designs I was complaining about, it's the walk cycles. Also, the facial models seem to be a little lacking in articulation so their expressions are limited; however, the animators often do a pretty good job of getting around that and making the characters suitably expressive. It's just those stiff walk cycles that are still a problem.
But I love the violence level on the Clone Wars. Never thought we'd seen people getting "run through" with lightsabers on the usually "child-friendly" Cartoon Network.
Well, CN is the network that allowed
Justice League and
Justice League Unlimited to get far more adult in terms of violence, death, and sexual innuendo than any previous DC Animated Universe show. And the supposedly kid-friendly
Batman: The Brave and the Bold has dealt rather frankly with death in its past two episodes. Not to mention that CN was the home of
The Powerpuff Girls, a show which took ultraviolence to an extreme (if parodic) degree.
Still, the kind of explicit onscreen violence shown in SWTCW -- like actually showing someone get stabbed to death on-camera -- would probably not have been permitted if not for Lucasfilm's clout. However, TCW does hold the violence within certain limits; the good guys are usually only seen killing droids or animals, and the most egregious stab-in-the-back killings have both been committed by villains.
I didn't get the chance to watch the first episode yet just episodes 5 and 8 but from the looks of those its pretty good.
