Mildly Horrific...
Am I the only one who finds this ThunderCats concept art to be mildly horrific?
I mean, granted, the cartoon designs aren't much better, but cartoons can get away with that. It's really kind of hard to do a non-animated cat person any kind of justice.*
*Excepting MAYBE that old Beauty and the Beast show, and even then, that was helped by the sweeping tone of the series. Not very applicable to this case.
I can't quite figure out why they don't just do a cartoon. The nostalgia folks'll go regardless, and maybe they can attract actual KIDS to the product.
(Art also visible here. I like the background stuff and ships, honestly, but the character design still makes me wince.)
I mean, granted, the cartoon designs aren't much better, but cartoons can get away with that. It's really kind of hard to do a non-animated cat person any kind of justice.*
*Excepting MAYBE that old Beauty and the Beast show, and even then, that was helped by the sweeping tone of the series. Not very applicable to this case.
I can't quite figure out why they don't just do a cartoon. The nostalgia folks'll go regardless, and maybe they can attract actual KIDS to the product.
(Art also visible here. I like the background stuff and ships, honestly, but the character design still makes me wince.)
posted by kalinara @ 7:22 AM
5 Comments:
At August 04, 2009 8:12 AM,
ARS said…
EWWWWWWW! Yeah not what I would hope for. But hey, I had no idea they were doing a Thundercats movie. So thanks for the info.
At August 04, 2009 3:06 PM,
Sea-of-Green said…
Ah, geez, it's just as I feared -- it's gonna look like Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS in space. :-\
At August 04, 2009 3:41 PM,
Saranga said…
That's awful.
(Word verification: slism. Sounds like a svillain.
At August 04, 2009 3:42 PM,
Saranga said…
Oh look, next one is catinger.
At August 04, 2009 8:13 PM,
Centurion said…
Playing Devil's advocate - but this is just concept art. I think the outfit works, thematically. I'm sure the make up effects would be a lot better than that, if they get the right people.
Then again, if the movie looked like those concept pieces, it would be a very risky movie for the studio.
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