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[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles] Picked up through season 3 already!
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A while back, Nickelodeon bought up the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lock, stock, and barrel. They've rebooted the franchise and the one-hour series premiere airs Saturday morning, September 29, at 11 AM EST. There was a preview of the first half hour that aired on 9/28. It was actually really good. It had some genuinely very funny comic beats and it's not insultingly dumbed down, even if it's aimed at a younger crowd. The art style is CG animated, with a distinctive Teen Titans-esque anime wink every now and again. Overall, it's very smooth and the stylized art style works. The voice acting is very solid, with the cast being as follows:
Leonardo - Jason Biggs
Raphael - Sean Astin
Donatello - Rob Paulsen
Michelangelo - Greg Cipes
Opening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYrkWRzJ4QUTrailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK8EOD9buLcI urge you to give it a try. Lots of nods to previous incarnations. And, yes, Rob Paulsen was the voice of Raphael in the original cartoon.
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Also I like the white eyes look on them a lot better, I wish they looked like that all the time.
Season 2 is so much better than 1 it's unreal
I do not understand the detractors at all
hmmmmmmm
that animation looks...
not good and really cheaply done
that opening and trailer did not give me a lot of hope for the animation or voice actors
It was quite entertaining. I'm really looking forward to checking out the full premiere tomorrow morning.
Actually don't mind the intro song to this though.
Like, I'll have fun watching it with my son, but it isn't like Adventure Time, where I'm gonna watch that with or without him.
They definitely suffer from not being able to show any sort of fighting in the show. 90% of the time they use their weapons is to throw them at a machine.
Mostly it looked just pretty bad, but some of the shots looked really stylized, and I'm wondering if maybe it's just a really terrible trailer.
I mean, the 2007 movie was actually pretty decent, but the advertising made it look terrible.
It would help if I had television.
God I love Guy Gardner
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This show is okay, gonna DVR it from now on
I see the hand-drawn parts in the opening for character names, and it looks way better than the CGI stuff.
as far as I'm aware it has a higher initial cost to make models and environments and such, but once that's done it's way cheaper than traditional animation
This sounds like an endorsement
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i endorse
the lighting
Guy Gardner is the greatest Green Lantern
Ah well
Anyways, yeah, the 2003 series was fucking amazing and it'll be hard to top
Also, why do the theme songs of TMNT get considerably worse with each iteration?
Chuck Lorre, besides being the shitbag that created Two and a Half Men, composed the theme song for the original TMNT series
You can watch it on the web:
http://www.nick.com/videos/ninja-turtles-videos
Click "Full Episodes"
Pretty much! Making a 3D model definitely takes more time than a standard drawing, but once they've finished the model and give it all of the various animations (Walking, talking, interacting with things, etc) it can be reused for whatever they need it for and it costs next to nothing.
It's definitely the "new thing" that many networks are doing, as well.
There are a bunch of really crappy looking CG cartoons based on older franchises.
It's like another era of Hannah Barbera, where it's just one really cheap cartoon after another coming out.
I've seen Winnie the Pooh, Garfield, Mickey Mouse, and others, and to be blunt they all look like utter shit compared to the older cartoons.
the orignal will always have a special place in my heart
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The Dontello voice is really throwing me for a loop since its the original Raph voice.