Remember, the complete run of Sym-bionic Titan is on iTunes. Maybe if we buy enough copies, we can get someone fired! (The show coming back isn’t that likely at this point. But there’s always revenge!)
Betcha ten to one Sedusa’s the only animated character in a children’s cartoon who attacked the hero with falsies.
Cartoon Network, Genndy friggin Tartakovsky deserved better than what you did to him.
Sym-bionic Titan, the complete series, is available on iTunes now. Get it while you still can.
Here’s a fun fact for you: many high profile cartoon shows in the 90’s, such as Disney’s “The Disney Afternoon” line-up and the family of Steven Spielberg humor cartoons (Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, etc.) had multiple overseas studios working on them. Disney had their own studios in Japan, France, and Australia, while Warner Brothers farmed animation out to studios all over the world.
The different studios often had wildly varying levels of quality. The fluidity and polish of this short suggests it was done by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, the studio that also animated the opening sequence.
This short was animated by Wang film productions in the Phillipines and Taiwan. They’re mainly defined by a general lack of adventure: they stick to model sheets quite well, but never really push expressions quite like TMS did.
No idea who animated this sequence, but it’s most likely Freelance Animators, in New Zealand. Their style generally lacked the polish of the Asian and American studios, and they had difficulty adhering to model sheets.
On another note, has there been a character in a children’s cartoon since Hello Nurse whose entire schtick is “tits”?
I frigging loved this show growing up. It ran on Nickelodeon before they started making their own cartoons. Nowadays, the entire series is available on DVD from SHOUT! Factory and on Netflix.
The 3-part Superman TAS episode, “World’s Finest”! It’s on the Volume Two DVD and was also packaged separately as “The Superman Batman Movie”. Nowadays you can get both pretty cheap!
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