throwbackblr:Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)When I started doingthe Batman Animated style, I did
throwbackblr:Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)When I started doingthe Batman Animated style, I did look at lot of his model sheets fromHanna-Barbera, and they weren’t very helpful to me. When I really started lookingat them I realized that even in his simplified animation drawings some of thecharacters would be really stylized and cartoony, but his human being figuresare just like his comic book figures. They’ve got so many subtleties to them.He didn’t exaggerate. His animation models really aren’t made for animation.Everybody may think they are, and he may have thought so, and animationhistorians may look back with fond memories on the Alex Toth-designedHanna-Barbera shows, but there’s a whole lot of subtleties in those shapes.Space Ghost’s head is a tricky shape to draw. It’s not astraight-against-curve, it’s a whole lot of curves that intersect, and if youget one of them off, he doesn’t look like Space Ghost. So I don’t consider Totha huge influence in that respect. Obviously, the overall feel of my Batman kindof has some of that Space Ghost type of feel, but it wasn’t like I had SpaceGhost designs out when I did it. It was kind of like me remembering what SpaceGhost felt like. I would be a better artist if I were more influenced by AlexToth. I wish I had one-tenth of his knowledge and talent, but I don’t.- Bruce Timm about Alex Toth’s Space Ghost -- source link