Holy shit. Holy shit.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2002-11-13 11:39pm

http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=13807

I hope this is true.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-11-13 11:42pm

What would the canon status be for something like that?

Hey, speaking of such, what is the canon status of the Holiday Special and the two Ewok films, anyway? I know the Droids and Ewoks TV series are official.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-13 11:43pm

HOLY CRAP! I'd watch it. I'm mildly concerned, though, because ST and Wing Commander didn't do well as cartoons, but I'd definitely watch it, even if it sucked. After all, I AM watching some of each week's Enterprise episodes.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2002-11-13 11:44pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:What would the canon status be for something like that?

Hey, speaking of such, what is the canon status of the Holiday Special and the two Ewok films, anyway? I know the Droids and Ewoks TV series are official.

The Holiday Special is not top level canon, since it obviously doesn't fall under George's vision. It's either official canon or possibly (hopefully) apocryphal; I'm not sure if Lucasfilm recognizes it.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2002-11-13 11:45pm

Master of Ossus wrote:HOLY CRAP! I'd watch it. I'm mildly concerned, though, because ST and Wing Commander didn't do well as cartoons, but I'd definitely watch it, even if it sucked. After all, I AM watching some of each week's Enterprise episodes.

Sure it might suck, but the idea of getting hours of new, official visual insight into the Star Wars universe gets me thrilled.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-11-13 11:49pm

Of course, they'll have to sign on Curtis Saxton as a technical advisor.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-13 11:54pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Of course, they'll have to sign on Curtis Saxton as a technical advisor.

God willing.

Holiday Special is official. Recent statements made by a journalist for SW: Insider appeared to indicate that the Ewok TV series is moving towards canon, but I think it's still very safe to classify it as official.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-11-13 11:56pm

This could have positive and negative effects.

Positive:

A STAR WARS CARTOON ABOUT THE CLONE WAR!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Negative:

The unrealistic physics in cartoons could screw up a lot of calculations in Star Wars if it is considered a canon source. Like the effects blasters and/or lightsabers have on things.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-11-14 12:15am

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:The unrealistic physics in cartoons could screw up a lot of calculations in Star Wars if it is considered a canon source. Like the effects blasters and/or lightsabers have on things.

How can it be considered canon when GL isn't producing it himself? It might be quasi-canon, but that means it can't contradict something from the films. Besides, a cartoon depiction of "real" SW events would be like a cartoon depiction of, say, D-Day in real life. Obviously inferior to film footage.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-11-14 12:21am

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:This could have positive and negative effects.

Positive:

A STAR WARS CARTOON ABOUT THE CLONE WAR!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Negative:

The unrealistic physics in cartoons could screw up a lot of calculations in Star Wars if it is considered a canon source. Like the effects blasters and/or lightsabers have on things.

This is however likely our only chance of seeing a BDZ, and given the limitd time frame of cartoons, well..

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-14 12:31am

Darth Wong wrote:
IRG CommandoJoe wrote:The unrealistic physics in cartoons could screw up a lot of calculations in Star Wars if it is considered a canon source. Like the effects blasters and/or lightsabers have on things.
How can it be considered canon when GL isn't producing it himself? It might be quasi-canon, but that means it can't contradict something from the films. Besides, a cartoon depiction of "real" SW events would be like a cartoon depiction of, say, D-Day in real life. Obviously inferior to film footage.

Excellent points. And of course, no one was considering it to be canon. Not even B&B.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-11-14 12:35am

So then what good is it other than the "YAHOOO!!!!" purpose?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-14 01:17am

Hmm. I wonder what the target demographic will be. And whether that will affect the quality.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-14 01:22am

Sea Skimmer wrote:This is however likely our only chance of seeing a BDZ, and given the limitd time frame of cartoons, well..

I like this idea....

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-11-14 02:51am

If this follows through, I just really hope that the character designs and animation style doesn't suck, like a lot of American cartoons these days. It should also have a good number of key-frames.

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2002-11-14 04:55am

I was just thinking about a Clone War cartoon the other day. This is what I'd like to see.

The animation would be CGI
Episodes would be a hour long, and each one would flow into the next.
Not over kiddified
It would come out befor Ep. 3
And,
the last episode of the cartoon would end where Ep.3 starts.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-11-14 06:39am

AND BASEDELTAZEROOOOOOOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry.

ViciousMink · Post by **ViciousMink** » 2002-11-14 11:00am

Oh, this should be very good! I'm rather excited about it. If it's done in the same style as Roughnecks -- that is, with regards to the CGI -- only with a bit more polish, then this could make for a very large interest in such productions.

And as a soon-to-be-unemployed computer animator, I am very much liking the idea of many computer animation projects needing animators and modellers very soon.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-11-14 01:59pm

Ugh, no CG for characters. In fact, I'd prefer it if they sparingly used CG in the series (not including computer-colourization, of course), and rely on traditional cell animation.

TV CG is really quite poor when it's used for everything. To make it look good requires the number of episodes to be reduced for production time.

I'm just hoping it wont look like any of the WB cartoons, or some stuff on Cartoon Network. Some is just garbage, animation-wise.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-14 03:36pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Ugh, no CG for characters. In fact, I'd prefer it if they sparingly used CG in the series (not including computer-colourization, of course), and rely on traditional cell animation.

TV CG is really quite poor when it's used for everything. To make it look good requires the number of episodes to be reduced for production time.

I'm just hoping it wont look like any of the WB cartoons, or some stuff on Cartoon Network. Some is just garbage, animation-wise.

I'm thinking something like Blue Sub #6, where you have CGI Acclamators and cartoon troops. I like that combo.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-11-14 05:43pm

Exactly. The same thing is done most of the time in Tenchi Muyo! GXP.

When done well, it's a good look.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-11-14 06:45pm

I know this is not the best example, but how about Reboot? That show was cool. I thought they did a good job on it.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-14 06:59pm

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:I know this is not the best example, but how about Reboot? That show was cool. I thought they did a good job on it.

Yeah, but it took them years to turn out only three seasons, didn't it?

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-11-14 06:59pm

It did? Oh well. lol

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-14 07:02pm

Yeah, I remember watching Reboot as a kid, but I never caught a glimpse of seson 3 until I was almost 16.