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SYM-BIONIC TITAN |OT| The King of Animation is back, and he brought GIANT ROBOTS!

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From the creator of Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and the original Clone Wars, Genndy Tartakovsky returns to animation
with Sym-Bionic Titan, a brand new show for Cartoon Network.

Trying to escape their war-torn planet, three aliens crash land to Sherman, Illinois; and try to fit in with Earth society. But the
enemies they left behind are trying to get them back, leading to major trouble when they invade Earth....

A weird mix of high school drama and giant robot battles, Sym-Bionic Titans continues Genndy's glorious track record of
amazing action and comedy. And it delivers.







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Episodes now air Saturdays at 9:30 AM on Cartoon Network.​





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OH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. :D
Been waiting on this for a while.
Now, he just needs to get around to finishing the Jack movie and it will be all good
 
Hellz yeah. I hope CN posts these up on their site in HD.

Does anyone know where I can find Genndy's Clone Wars shorts? Searching on amazon for 'Clone Wars cartoon' only brings up the new show.
 
El Sloth said:
Hellz yeah. I hope CN posts these up on their site in HD.

Does anyone know where I can find Genndy's Clone Wars shorts? Searching on amazon for 'Clone Wars cartoon' only brings up the new show.
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They are discontinued. :(

You might find them on Youtube, but they have a very short life span.
 
Edit: Nice! Thanks dude! I don't care how used they are as long as they work.


Willy105 said:
They are discontinued. :(

You might find them on Youtube, but they have a very short life span.
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What the hell! :(

I never understood why they didn't just get Genndy to do the Clone Wars show rather than use that damn ugly 3D. No offense to fans, from what I've watched of the show it's pretty decent, but damn if it isn't ugly.

Man, the Mace Windu short was so damn epic. It's what made me like the character and look forward to seeing him in action in episode III.
 
Nice job, OP.

I think I'll be watching this. It looks cool enough. I normally don't like mecha-based series such as Gundam, but I'll take a chance with this.
 
El Sloth said:
What the hell! :(

I never understood why they didn't just get Genndy to do the Clone Wars show rather than use that damn ugly 3D. No offense to fans, from what I've watched of the show it's pretty decent, but damn if it isn't ugly.

Man, the Mace Windu short was so damn epic. It's what made me like the character and look forward to seeing him in action in episode III.
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Yeah. No offense to Dave Filoni, he is a brilliant storyteller (Avatar Season 1), but Genndy should have been doing the show, since he was the one that sold it in the first place.

I think the 3D was just a reason to gather a bigger audience, since 2D shows were fizzling out back then. Which was a mistake, because Genndy's art style was not meant for 3D at all.
 
When I saw the bump about this during last week's Venture Bros I instantly got super excited. Won't be able to watch live, but DVR is ready to go.
 
Oh wow I never even knew that Genndy had returned, why did he leave to begin with? But aside from that this show looks amazing, definitely checking it out.
 
New feature on the show with Genndy Tartakovksy on Wired.

Ezalc said:
Oh wow I never even knew that Genndy had returned, why did he leave to begin with? But aside from that this show looks amazing, definitely checking it out.
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He didn't 'leave', he just didn't have a job. Around the mid 2000's, 2D shows were failing all over the place in the ratings, just like in movie theaters. Genndy is a 2D animator. So that's probably why he wasn't around.

He tried doing some new shows, like Korgoth of Barbaria, but they didn't take off (probably because they were also in 2D). The only real work he had was making anti-smoking TV ads, and doing storyboards for Iron Man 2.

Luckily, 2D shows and movies are making a (small) comeback.
 
Tartakovksy: Luckily, I am involved with the Samurai Jack feature with Bad Robot, which I think is great! We're currently in the writing and development phase. But for the past year or so I have been head over heels in love with Sym-Bionic Titan.

Wired.com: Why?

Tartakovksy: It's been the most challenging project I have ever done. But hopefully it will be the most rewarding. After Clone Wars, I thought we had reached our plateau, as far as quality goes. But there are certain sequences and episodes from Titan that I think have gone far beyond anything we've done in the past.
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Sunnuva bitch, HYPE x10.
 
First review!

Sym-Bionic Titan changes this trend dramatically, somehow embracing and re-contextualizing the tropes he once mocked, and Tartakovsky turns the mech (and those that pilot it) into the kind of hero audiences have come to expect from him: amazingly cool.
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What I can say is that 99 percent of the time, it's not just a good cartoon, it's an awesome and radical cartoon.
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In short, even with all the amazing new talent that Cartoon Network has cultivated over the years, Tartakovsky still stands as one of the greatest living animators. Seeing him employ everything in his (and anyone else's) arsenal at once without skipping a beat cements that fact.
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I guess if I have a criticism, it's that it is very, very homage laden, to the point where it gets to be hard to call it all that original at points. I mean, when the show isn't calling to mind one of Genndy's own classic works, it very often seems referential to another series or film.
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Now, I'm not sure if this is going to be a hit. It's an outstandingly realized, exhilarating series, but it's so good I have to wonder if people are going to be a little overwhelmed by it. However, even if it only lasts a season, it'll be best the season of animation on Cartoon Network in half a decade or more.
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Watched it at 8 (EST) here, and it was fantastic. Great return by Tartakovsky and I'll be watching it for sure each week. Lots of great animation the whole way through, and although the CGI stuff did irk me slightly, they did a really good job of integrating it with the rest of the show, so I won't complain.

Feels so good to have a Tartakovsky show back on the air. :D Now I can only hope it'll be a hit.
 
Oh man, just watched this today with my son and daughter. I didn't realize it was Tartakovsky's baby until I read this thread. The animation/style felt so familiar, but I couldn't place it. So glad to see it's his project and hope it does well.
 
joeyjoejoeshabadoo said:
Is Brian Posein (sp?) the robot?

The show was fantastic. The animation looked great and the action was awesome. I also dug the humor.
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Yep, that's him. When I heard him speak I had to check on wikipedia. Great choice. He's got a cool sounding voice.
 
Very, very, very cool show.

I, too, was kind of worried about the character designs, but they work pretty well in principle (especially once it's explained that the big, nerdy guy -- Newton -- is actually the robot).

They also seem to be sticking with a pretty big heart/body/mind theme, and if you pay attention to the main characters, they each symbolize one of those things, which is presumably why they work so well together.
 
Pilot was pretty damned cool. That local city got fucking decimated :lol

Willy105 said:
New feature on the show with Genndy Tartakovksy on Wired.



He didn't 'leave', he just didn't have a job. Around the mid 2000's, 2D shows were failing all over the place in the ratings, just like in movie theaters. Genndy is a 2D animator. So that's probably why he wasn't around.

He tried doing some new shows, like Korgoth of Barbaria, but they didn't take off (probably because they were also in 2D). The only real work he had was making anti-smoking TV ads, and doing storyboards for Iron Man 2.

Luckily, 2D shows and movies are making a (small) comeback.
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Erm... number of things.

He was the animation director on Korgoth, not the creator or main director. And what does 2D have to do with anything? Adult Swim doesn't shy away from it. Metalacalypse was picked up around the same time Korgoth was in the pipeline. There isn't a very clear story behind Korgoth's lack of pickup, but it seemed to mostly have to do with money and timing.

He didn't have much produced during the last several years, but that doesn't mean he wasn't working. He went off and tried to get a feature film career going. He was developing a live-action Astro Boy for Sony, then he was developing The Power of the Dark Crystal. He helped launch Orphanage Animation Studios (now Viking Animation Studios) in 2005 which he says has a variety of shows and feature films in development, including one about vikings. He's writing and developing the Samurai Jack animated film for Bad Robot Productions.

He's been busy, just on things that didn't pan out or haven't yet materialized.
 
Tartakovsky also said the current order is 20 episodes, so we've got at least 19 more to enjoy :D
 
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