Looks like it might be a pretty good series, even with the Disney style of animation that'll take some getting used to.
New Star Wars animated show "Rebels" coming fall 2014
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Hopefully like Clone Wars the animation will get better and better over time.
I hope so too. It doesn't look bad, just....different. Disney-ish. After six years of The Clone Wars you get used to a certain look to the animated Star Wars universe.
That would be animation budget or the lack of it compared to TCW.
No, I think it's just a difference in design style. Most animated shows these days choose to look different from one another, to design their characters and worlds in distinctive ways. Ideally, you can look at a given character and instantly know what show it's from because of its characteristic design sensibility.
Yeah, I wasn't much interested in the Clone Wars CG show, but did always respect their intentionally blocky, Thunderbirds-esque character designs, and am not yet sold on these rounder specimens. 'Course, I love the ReBoot characters designs, and they had rounded features, but for some reason - maybe the fact that they shied away from using any skin tones that real humans have - they looked better than what I'm seeing here so far.
No I think there is a noticeable lessening of quality. The telling part isn't the characters, but the ships. Compare the level of detail of the Star Destroyer in that trailer to the Republic & Separatist cruisers in TCW. It's like night and day.
Incidentally, I think I figured out where they got the shorter, squatter TIE Fighters for this series:
Which makes me think the X-Wing may look somewhat like this as well, if we ever see it.
Oh I get where they got it from, it's just odd to see it in motion. I notice the proportions of the ISDs are a little off too. I wonder if it is purely a stylistic choice or if they're meant to be early models of what we latter see in the films? I guess if an X-Wing shows up looking just like that then it'll almost certainly be an early model since the shape of the engines are quite distinct from the movie version.
The sad thing is, the stormtroopers and droids in that show look just as realistic as those from the prequels.
I wish there weren't any Jedi involvement - I guess lightsabers are what sells, though.
The trailer released yesterday made the show seem at least vaguely interesting. But i wasn't a fan of The Clone Wars, so i'm wary of any similar ventures. At least this time i won't waste the cost of a cinema ticket to find out i really don't like it.
And I'd rather the Inquisitor be a human officer or agent instead of a Pau'an (what happened to all that "the Empire is xenophobic and harbors a bigoted, anti-extraterrestrial agenda" stuff we read about all these decades?), but I suppose it's nice to see one of the more interesting Prequel aliens get reused in a later time frame. At least he's not a species we'd already seen a hundred or more times before.
Meh. Maybe so. It makes the Empire seem more rigid, prejudiced and sinister as an organization, but if they wanted to jettison that....I guess it's out of our hands.
Yeap, that's about it. bbye COMPNOR.
The idea that the Empire was strictly xenophobic never felt right to me. I mean it's a big galaxy with a history that includes a thousand generations of Republic rule across a million worlds. You'd think things would be pretty cosmopolitan. If nothing else humans would be collectively outnumbered a trillion to one, which seems to make an all human military an untenable idea.
IIRC the only indication of this in the films is just one line in ANH (the detention block scene) and the fact that every imperial officer and trooper we see is human. The abundance of humans in the military can be accounted for by the idea that the bulk of the troopers are still clones.
The officers are a bit a a problem, but I'm willing to overlook it for the same real world practical reasons I overlook that the vast majority of rebel soldiers being human. Indeed, I'm pretty sure until RotJ, *ALL* the rebels we saw were humans and even then, the total non-human rebels only amounted to just Ackbar and Nien Nunb.
IIRC the only indication of this in the films is just one line in ANH (the detention block scene) and the fact that every imperial officer and trooper we see is human. The abundance of humans in the military can be accounted for by the idea that the bulk of the troopers are still clones.
The officers are a bit a a problem, but I'm willing to overlook it for the same real world practical reasons I overlook that the vast majority of rebel soldiers being human. Indeed, I'm pretty sure until RotJ, *ALL* the rebels we saw were humans and even then, the total non-human rebels only amounted to just Ackbar and Nien Nunb.
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