Green Lantern: The Animated Series
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The DCAU is gone, they're not going back to it. That ended what five years ago? And this show will be targeted at new young fans who see the movie and don't know anything else about Green Lantern.
As for the recent batch of DC movies... none of them have any continuity with each other, save SB Apocalypse which was a direct sequel to SB Public Enemies.
As for the recent batch of DC movies... none of them have any continuity with each other, save SB Apocalypse which was a direct sequel to SB Public Enemies.
Neither were Mr. Freeze or Clayface before Timm & Co. got their hands on them.
I'm hopeful about this show. If that teaser image is any indication, it looks like this will be very reminicent of the DCAU look. And it'll be nice to see Hal Jordan finally get his due, animation-wise.
They'll save that for one of the feature length Direct to Video releases.
This sounds like fun. Next to Superman, GL is my all-time favorite superhero character.
Bruce Timm said himself that the DCAU is in "suspended animation" last year. He hasn't ruled out any future DCAU productions, for all we know he may decide to make GL:TAS a part of the DCAU.
Which is why I said "Universes", also Superman: Doomsday could be apart of the Superman/Batman continuity, I couldn't find any contradictions and Superman references his funeral in S/B:PE.
^ No all of those films except "Public Enemies" and "Apocalypse" are separate stories and don't take place in the same universe. Despite what Timm has said the DCUA is pretty much dead. It ended with the "Justice League Unlimited" episode "Destroyer". Anything else unless specifically stated otherwise is not part of the DCAU. Fans really need to let go...
Here is concept art and the test footage that was shown at NY Comic Con this past weekend.
http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/joshw24/news/?a=23762
Here is concept art and the test footage that was shown at NY Comic Con this past weekend.
http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/joshw24/news/?a=23762
Bruce Timm specifically said at New York Comic Con that it isn't in the DCAU. It's in its own continuity.
Edit to add: Bruce Timm made a correction on the Toonzone forum. Jamie Thomason is voice director on Young Justice, while Lisa Schaffer is voice director on Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
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I sense no suckage in this new project...me like.
I'm looking forward to this. Huge GL fan here!
I've become a little wary of Bruce Timm. While he did some very good stuff with Batman and Superman over ten years ago, his stuff since then ... not always my cup-of-tea.
I wonder if he'll continue to use Dynamic Music Partners (Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis, & Kristopher Carter) as his main go-to composers on nearly everything he's done since Superman:TAS. I'd prefer it to be like "Batman: The Animated Series" where mutiple new and talented composers get work and a broader pallet is thus created, while maintaining an overall sound.
I wonder if he'll continue to use Dynamic Music Partners (Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis, & Kristopher Carter) as his main go-to composers on nearly everything he's done since Superman:TAS. I'd prefer it to be like "Batman: The Animated Series" where mutiple new and talented composers get work and a broader pallet is thus created, while maintaining an overall sound.
And neither does the concept art that Admiral Young just posted a link to. Look at the proportions on that Hal Jordan model. The wide shouldlers, wedge-shaped torso and square jaw that Hal is drawn with is very reminicent of the DCAU look.
I honestly don't see how you're getting The Incredibles out of what's been posted, unless it's because they both have CGI backgrounds.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
I hope that I'm around to see this.
Bruce Timm said The Incredibles is one of their influences in working on the show in terms of CG animation that goes for a cartoony look rather than a realistic look. Of course that doesn't mean the cartoony designs are going to be exactly alike.
If you can't see The Incredibles influence, I honestly don't know what to say because all the art so far screams it to me.
But, then again, across the board I'm not a fan of Pixar or Dreamworks CGI.
Since the early '80s. The last American TV animation studio to produce its animation in the United States was Filmation Associates, whose last TV series ended in 1988. By that time, everyone else was using Asian animators. And even Filmation outsourced its Zorro series overseas.
Not Andrea Romano? That's surprising.
Andrea is busy still with voice directing of the DTV movies.
She's also already working as voice director on The Legend of Korra, so between that commitment and the DC Universe movies she probably didn't have time to fit in another series.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
I like Pixar fine, but I think that the Pixar art style belongs with Pixar in Pixar movies/TV shows, and not with characters from DC or Marvel comics. As I said above, I'm stoked for this show, but not for cartoony Pixar animation used to animate DC or Marvel comics characters.
