Green Lantern Animated Series Teaser Trailer!
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In other DC animation news, Cartoon Network has rejected the pitch for the new Batman show James Tucker was developing for them. It's been revealed that it was going to follow a storyline loosely based on No Man's Land and its aftermath. Coran Stone was hired as the character designer and he passed along the news that the pitch was rejected by CN as being too dark. He also posted one of his design pics:
It's not clear yet whether CN is still moving ahead with a new Batman show, albeit with a different approach, or if they've shut development down altogether.
It's not clear yet whether CN is still moving ahead with a new Batman show, albeit with a different approach, or if they've shut development down altogether.
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Yes, The Brave and the Bold is ending. Production was shut down after 65 episodes were made.
Yes, The Brave and the Bold is ending. Production was shut down after 65 episodes were made.
Oh wow. That concept art is wonderful. That would have been a great series.
Although there are still ten episodes that remain unaired on US television. New episodes resume on Cartoon Network on September 16.
@Out of My Vulcan Mind...you wouldn't happen to have a link with the story would you?
Yeah, the US still has unaired episodes (although a few of them have been released on iTunes). The whole series has aired in the UK.
Here's a link to the DeviantArt page in question. Coran Stone initially posted this message (I can't see it anywhere now, though, but perhaps I just don't know my way around DeviantArt well enough):
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@Out of My Vulcan Mind...thanks dude!
I think that Sept 5 premiere date is wrong. Not sure what the right one is.
I'm sure if it is incorrect that a proper date will show up. That did sound a tad bit early to me which made me excited lol. I was thinking this wouldn't premiere until Oct.
Six minute preview...not sure if this was the same one shown at NYCC or not but I am excited! The animation reminds me of "The Incredibles".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44W2s7W1P8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44W2s7W1P8U
Finally have a premier date...this Friday night.
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Having watched "Transformers Prime" it reminds me more of that style.
The first preview looked like "The Incredibles" to me. It just needed some jazzy background music.
But am I the only one who thinks it looks like total ass? I was watching some first-season ReBoot from 1994 last night, and while this might have some smoother edges and motions to its CG models, ReBoot's designs were more imaginative, its camera work far more dynamic, and landscapes and characters much more detailed. That 6-minute preview has rocks, more rocks, a few dark rooms and characters that are far less impressive than even ReBoot's binomes.
But it isn't just this - I've watched some Transformers Prime and Clone Wars clips online, and it's pretty much the same story. Sure, CW has some rather detailed models and all-around high-def animation, but all three of these shows seem to have exclusively grubby, somber looks, with a continuous parade of homogenous rumble-deep voices, where explosions provide the only real shows of color. If that's how today's kids are taught to imagine adventure stories, I feel sorry for them.
Yeah they're using this animation style a lot nowadays, and despite being CG it stll looks cheap as hell to me.
Plus Timm's characters were already incredibly stylized to BEGIN with. Making them CG just makes them look like a bunch of plastic action figures. The complete lack of detail in the surroundings (which obviously wasn't a problem with The Incredibles) isn't helping matters either.
Plus Timm's characters were already incredibly stylized to BEGIN with. Making them CG just makes them look like a bunch of plastic action figures. The complete lack of detail in the surroundings (which obviously wasn't a problem with The Incredibles) isn't helping matters either.
I wonder why Cartoon Network can't show this and Young Justice at a later time, say 8 p.m. Surely, it's not like all viewers are going to be 13 and under and have to be in bed by 9 o'clock. 
I've stopped watching Young Justice for this very reason.
I've stopped watching Young Justice for this very reason.
I'm reserving judgment until I see a whole episode on my TV, but my impression so far of the CGI is similar to the comments above -- it looks too smooth and plastic. And yesterday I read a Newsarama interview with producer Giancarlo Volpe that pretty much confirmed one of my concerns about doing a show like this in 3D CGI -- the fact that it limits the number of distinct characters, settings, objects, etc. you can use because each one has to be created as a digital model. Which seems unfeasibly restrictive for something like Green Lantern, which should have the freedom to show anything, to feature wildly different characters and vistas and gadgets and ring constructs every week. I do think traditional animation would've made more sense for this.
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