Forum - View topicNEWS: Animatrix's Studio 4°C to Animate New ThunderCats
|
Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penguintruth
 Posts: 8467 Location: Penguinopolis |
|
|||||||
|
A new Thundercats show seems pretty cool until you realize there are a group of people that exist now that didn't back when it was airing.
Furries. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
Peroxid
 Posts: 210 |
|
|||||||
|
Dear Studio 4ºC
Please go back doing japanese stuff that we all love so much. Thank you. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
|
|||||||
|
I just popped in the first disc to see if I could add any more of the Japanese credits. unfortunately - they have condensed the entire animation staff down to 8 people, without any specific job roles.
While the original was conceived of written in America it did have an anime "feel" to it - if I can find one of the upskirts of Wilykit the animators snuck in you'll see what I mean 
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
Mushi-Man
 Posts: 1537 Location: KCMO |
|
|||||||
|
Hahaha this made my day. Of all the series that could be remade they pick Thundercats. Then again, it's not like it was an awful series. In fact I enjoyed it quite a bit growing up. And I suppose we are in an 80's pop culture boom. People are all excited to remember the old cartoons like G.I. Joe and Transformers, so why not Thundercats?
That said, why Studio 4C? This is such a random pick for what seems like it's suppose to be a mainstream child's cartoon. It's no secret that Studio 4C likes to be really weird and out there. I wonder how they'll handle this series. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
Onizuka666
Posts: 266 Location: U.K |
|
|||||||
|
@Pandadice and Peroxid
The fact that Warner is funding this series shouldn't be frowned upon. Sure, japanese studios making regular anime for us is fine, but when so many fans are not buying anime and supporting the market enough, more of this kind of stuff is going to happen. Any elitist ideas of what is and isn't anime are pointless. So its not anime if Warner are funding it? Get over yourselves, that's pure bs. Frankly, I'm happy about this. Thundercats was a cool series, that hasn't aged that well. With better writing, animation etc, it can be improved upon in many ways. On top of that, its a great payday for Studio 4oC, who will no doubt earn twice or three times as much money, if not more through this project for Warner. That I'm sure will make them happy, with the shrinking anime market in such a state. Work is work. I think Warner moved on this project, because of Disney/Marvel's upcoming Wolverine and Ironman anime series, which will know doubt earn them much sales. Previous anime ventures have done well for Warner too. After the 7 part debacle that was Halo Legends, I'm glad that a proper series is being worked on this time, by one studio (yep, HL would have been so different if it had been done this way). The coincidence of the TC writers death is very shady though, especially considering he was technically homeless. Lets hope Warner give his siblings something good from this new series. Something nice to look forward to in 2011. Now if someone would remake The Visionaries, I'd be over the moon. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
JuicyB
Posts: 278 |
|
|||||||
This comment pwns pretty much anything that could conceivably be said about this series. No amount of "ironic" geek nostalgia can counteract the horror. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
GWOtaku
 Posts: 678 |
|
|||||||
Eh, it's no more random or strange than Topcraft animating the original cartoon.
Hahaha. Somehow I doubt the original series escaped their notice to begin with.....fortunately it's pretty easy to ignore a fringe like that. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
enurtsol
 Posts: 14796 |
|
|||||||
|
Hahaha, the Robot Chicken revisions aren't enough?!
Bring on the Lunataks! 
The crew that would later become Studio Ghibli? 
Shall we quote the great Geek Hierarchy Chart again?
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
KabaKabaFruit
 Posts: 1878 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba |
|
|||||||
|
Maybe this time, we'll finally know what a Samoflange is.
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
LordRedhand
 Posts: 1472 Location: Middle of Nowhere, Indiana |
|
|||||||
Nah it's not really confusing when you consider that Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network are owned by the same company, so it's more like one branch of the company "We're remaking a show, play it on your network." and the other going "Yeah, sure we'll get right on that." It's happened before with things like Justice League and Duck Dodgers so gasp doing it again shouldn't be a shock. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
GWOtaku
Posts: 678 |
|
|||||||
Yep. Topcraft had a beautiful relationship with Rankin/Bass while it lasted, really. In fact my personal favorite results of that isn't Thundercats at all but rather Flight of Dragons and The Last Unicorn, both of which I own on DVD now. Some don't like it, but I also have nostalgic memories of The Hobbit. Good times. Also, nice chart. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
nightjuan
 Posts: 1473 |
|
|||||||
The Flight of Dragons is (finally) out on DVD? I must have been living under a rock at the time...but that's something I've been looking forward to, if mostly out of pure nostalgia. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
Ai no Kareshi
 Posts: 561 Location: South Africa |
|
|||||||
CG does indeed count as animation. However, there's a certain demographic (of which I am a part) to which the distinction is all but vague. I love anime, I'm open to Western animation, but for some reason CG of any type generally fails to amaze me. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
Strike Freedom Meister
 Posts: 28 |
|
|||||||
|
Why is everyone down on how Thundercats holds up? Compared to Spongebob Squarepants, 6teen, & the other crap on Cartoon Network, Thundercats art work blows them away. Infact, many of the anime's today still take their art cues from Thundercats. I think for a cartoon done for the mid 80's, Thundercats still holds up graphically to the cheap & artless American cartoons of 2010.
When Toonami re-aired Thundercats, it became popular again and has lead to this new anime really shows how well the show holds up. If it was utter crap, we wouldn't even waste a breath on it. Sure it was corny at parts but I appreciated the moral lessons included with each episode. It would be nice to have an anime we can show our young kids again without feeling compromised as a parent. Even my folks still watch my Thundercat DVD's with my kids, because of how good the anime still holds up today. And Yes, I consider Thundercats an anime. It maybe an American idea, but it's artistry comes from Japan. The formula wouldn't have worked using American art. |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
reanimator
|
|
|||||||
I don't know about that... I mean Masayuki is helping Hideaki Anno on Eva movies, so I'm not sure he has time for it. Since Studio 4℃ is involved in it, I have feeling that at least it'll have great action animation and razor sharp character designs. BTW I really didn't like recent animation character concept designs seen on various animation related sites. |
||||||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group