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You think they could have come up with an actual series. You didn't hear it from me, but if this is successful and all parties are happy with the product, there is a slight chance there may be an animated Star Wars series a few years down the road. you got to wait around to see them and sit through other stuff you don't care about just to get your Star Wars fix. |
I must be the only person on the face of the earth who doesn't like this guy's work. I think looks cheap, like a flash animation or something thrown together in after effects.
Of course, the only other option would have been more CGI, which for some reason seems to work a lot better for other people than it does for Lucas anymore. Would be cool if these segments were done by several different artists, with each one doing their own story arc in their own style. |
As a card-carrying member of the "Luca$ is Killing His Own Creation Society", I really couldn't care less about <B>Star Wars</B> right now, but I'm thrilled to see anything new from Tartakovsky. I would imagine they can do some really interesting and stylistic things with the shorts, although at first glance, I'd rather have a full series. I'll definitely tune in for this.
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No not only one Jason, my sister and I can't stand that animation either. We call it lazy animation, but your description about being like chessy cheap flash program hits on nail more.
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I think that artwork looks bad
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Originally posted by Jason I must be the only person on the face of the earth who doesn't like this guy's work. |
I'm having a mixed reaction to this.
Yeah it would be cool to see an animated Star Wars series. But stylistically I'm not sure if Gendy Tartakovsky's "style" is right for Star Wars. I think more the style of the new He-Man series might be more appropriate. I'm also not crazy about the format they've chosen. Twenty 2-3 minute shorts? They could have easily done six half hour episodes and aired them on a weekly basis. |
Well if this intended to sell more toys kenner already has my $$$$$$$ since I really buy more Star Wars toys than any other collectable. I'll reserve judgement until I actually SEE the shorts. I do like Samurai Jakc and Dexter though.
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Folks, though I'm not sure what it means personally, I hear tell of a saying that it's not the length of something, but how you use it.
Just think, we won't have needless exposition scenes, we won't have little cappers that finish with "And knowing is half the battle", we won't have anything but 2-3 minutes of pure Star Wars. And anybody who thinks Samurai Jack's animation is cheap is blind as a bat. It's expressive, colorful, inventive, full of life, etc, ad nauseum. I'm very glad to see this coming. |
What I would really love to see would be an animated series based on the post-ROTJ novels and comics, that pulled all of the storylines into a single coherent continuity/canon. Something nice and long like the Batman animated series... sixty episode/half-hour seasons.
And then after that was finished, they could fill in some gaps on the prequel trilogy in a similar manner. But that's just me. |
I think it will be cool. One of my favorite artist, Michel Gagne, is doing some special effects work on this.
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Originally posted by zero Well if this intended to sell more toys kenner already has my $$$$$$$ since I really buy more Star Wars toys than any other collectable. I'll reserve judgement until I actually SEE the shorts. I do like Samurai Jakc and Dexter though. |
Originally posted by Josh-da-man No. There is another. |
Looks like there's a set date and time now.
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthrea...threadid=74392 TheForce.net is reporting that the latest issue of Toyfare Magazine is sporting an article on the new Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon series, coming to Cartoon Network this fall. Star Wars: Clone Wars will be a series of twenty animated shorts that will air on Cartoon Network in beginning this fall. The article reveals that the premiere date is 8pm (ET) on November 7th, 2003, and throughout the month of November, a total of ten episodes will air. The remaining ten are scheduled to air in February 2004. Star Wars: Clone Wars continues the saga where the live action feature film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones left off - at the beginning of the Clone Wars, an epic civil war that pits the old Republic against a vast separatist movement led by the forces of evil. Each episodic short will be two to three minutes in length and will air exclusively on Cartoon Network at regularly scheduled times during the network's regular programming beginning later this fall. Clone Wars will be produced at Cartoon Network Studios by a team led by Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory. As Clone Wars unfolds the valiant Jedi Knights lead the Republic's Clone Army against many new and ruthless adversaries across the galaxy. These new characters, epic battles and intricate stories will add an exciting new dimension to the Star Wars saga. The series is expected to be collected on to DVD in time for the release of the sixth, and final, Star Wars movie in 2005. |
Originally posted by Pac-Rat As Clone Wars unfolds the valiant Jedi Knights lead the Republic's Clone Army against many new and ruthless adversaries across the galaxy. These new characters, epic battles and intricate stories will add an exciting new dimension to the Star Wars saga. Mordred |
Originally posted by Amadeus Up until this point i never heard of it,but that picture of R2-D2 and C3PO looks kinda gay. |
Originally posted by Mordred Someone explain to me how a 10 episode series encompassing 20-30 minutes of actual runtime is going to have epic battles and intricate stories (plural!?). Average 2.5 minutes each. EQUALS 50 minutes |
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When do the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoons air?
Thanks; can't wait for these, they should be pretty cool.
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Toad -
The first of 10 chapters will debut Friday, November 7 at 8p, 10p & 12a. For the following 2 weeks (Monday-Friday) two episodes will air per day; the previous day's chapter plus a new episode at 8p. The second batch of 10 should debut in March '04. |
That's a painful wait.. :(
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TEASER TRAILER
Trailer 240x180 (0.6 mb) http://http://download.theforce.net/...tease1-web.mov Trailer 320x240(1.5 mb) http://download.theforce.net/clonewa...warstease1.mov |
There's also summaries of the first 10 episodes over at Toon Zone (spoilers, naturally):
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?p=961826 |
If my Tivo will pick them up as "programs", then I'll record/watch them.
Otherwise, I'll wait for the DVD. |
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Clone Wars - mini eps. Weeknights 8 PM
Well, tonight was the first episode. Pretty good overall, but 5 minutes is just too damn short. Nice style -- very obviously Tartakovsky (sp?) -- but still noticeably different from his other shows.
Also, unlike Lucas, they show you can do a lot without a lot of unnecessary expository dialogue. Least it'll be every night instead of just 1x a week. Also, they'll be viewable on the official website the day after airing. http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/index.html |
I thought it was fair; just wish it was longer. :)
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I agree.
How many of these are there gonna be...? |
10 more, I believe. I think they play each weeknight at 8:00pm (EST) for the next two weeks.
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Well, from the email, I'm getting the impression of -- every weeknight for.....a month or more possibly? I mean, I guess they figure it's not a problem if someone misses because it'll be so readily available -- really good idea. Hopefully that also means that they'll have a ton of them. I mean, a week = roughly 1 normal episode, so perhaps 4+ weeks for approx. 2 hrs?
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Originally posted by Toad 10 more, I believe. I think they play each weeknight at 8:00pm (EST) for the next two weeks. edit -- looking at the site now (that I linked to but didn't visit) - Toad's partially correct. 10 episodes now and 10 new ones this spring. 20 total. |
It was pretty neat just to short. Hopefully this will launch some more Star Wars cartoon and live action series.
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Not bad. Whoever they got to do Obi-Wan's voice did a great impression of Ewan McGregor.
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Damn! I missed the damn thing. I fell asleep due to being worn out from work.
Also, unlike Lucas, they show you can do a lot without a lot of unnecessary expository dialogue. |
Perhaps Lucas can view Episode III as 240 five minute shorts then...
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Originally posted by Rogue588 Perhaps Lucas can view Episode III as 240 five minute shorts then... |
d'oh!
I meant 24, of course :p or I was testing you... yeah, that's it.. |
It was interesting.
I think they did a good job with the animation, especially Anakin and Obi-Wan i thought the skin on Palpatine's face looks like it's about to fall off. They drew him weird I thought. |
Originally posted by MrX It was interesting. I think they did a good job with the animation, especially Anakin and Obi-Wan i thought the skin on Palpatine's face looks like it's about to fall off. They drew him weird I thought. |
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