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Thundercats Now Animated

Monday, June 11th, 2007 at 10:59 am by Jami

The idea of a live-action Thundercats movie is stupid. If I wanted to see Cats, I’d go to the Kennedy Center. Okay, so maybe the idea of Bobby Lashly as Panthro is all kinds of awesome. But seriously, a live-action Thundercats is bad juju.

Warner Brothers has heard the cries of the internets and confirmed that Thundercats will not be live-action but animated. Will it be 2D or 3D or a hybrid? I’m actually kind of sick of the 3D kiddie movies. Sure, I got to see most of them because that’s the kind of nerdy CG whore I am. But I’d like to see something along the lines of a Spirited Away or Howl’s Moving Castle that combines 2D character animation with 2D and 3D background work that’s subtle enough that you might not know the difference.

I won’t be surprised if this turns out to be 3D. CG hair and fur experts, get your resumes at the ready! I foresee a lot of furries in the future!

[Via FilmWad]

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One Response to “Thundercats Now Animated”

  1. AvatarNoah Gibbs
    Posted: Jun 14th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
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    Depends on their budget. 3D hair/fur is expensive, both to model and to render. You also need a good renderer to do shadows from it and other effects.

    Probably much cheaper to hand-draw if you’re dealing with a smallish budget, though a big studio (think Pixar, who developed most of the tools for hair stuff in Monsters, Inc) could do this well with work.

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