The Clone Wars

by **shadokp** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:32 am

I was wondering if anyone was watching this new CG series. It is fascinating to see what the series is doing and how it is doing compared to The New Captain Scarlet. Similar to NCS, there are fans of Star Wars who don't like it either the entire look or the fact that they are covering the Clone Wars years.

Anyhow, The Clone Wars is pretty good and fits right into the Star Wars Universe. It is handled well on the Cartoon Network and has been given a green light for a second season.

My comparison to NCS continues with the animation, While some of the ship animation is excellent, the person animation is cartoonish, by design and the movements are also cartoonish. It is amazing how the animation for the 2005 NCS is still better than the 2008 Clone Wars series. Granted, they have more episodes and it probably doesn't cost as much as Scarlet did per episode but I kind of get mad when people praise the animation when NCS was so much better.

I think The Clone Wars would have been better if more realistic but I still enjoy it a lot.

It would seem that NCS would fit perfectly in the Cartoon Network's line up, maybe right before The Clone Wars. I think it would do almost as good as Star Wars as a lead in!!

KP

by **James. C** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:01 am

I enjoy it alot, and Lucas did quote he deliberately made them cartoonish "Like Supermarionation characters"

by **MMK** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:10 pm

shadokp wrote:It is amazing how the animation for the 2005 NCS is still better than the 2008 Clone Wars series. Granted, they have more episodes and it probably doesn't cost as much as Scarlet did per episode but I kind of get mad when people praise the animation when NCS was so much better.

I think The Clone Wars would have been better if more realistic but I still enjoy it a lot.

Bearing in mind that I haven't seen The Clone Wars series :oops:

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NCS may have set a 'standard', possibly, for the animation. The makers of the Clone Wars series obviously wanted to make it better.
And, possibly, more money was put into NCS to make it as life-like as they could... for example, character movements.

If I get the chance to watch the Clone Wars, I'll probably get out an NCS DVD and watch that instead :wink:

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