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Batman: The Killing Joke first official trailer
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Yeezus H. Christ
Banned
Pretty sure Young Justice had much better animation than this too, lol.
Hell, we can go back to JLU. You can make arguments about the art style, but the animation was apt.
Spiral Insanity
Banned
Hell, we can go back to JLU. You can make arguments about the art style, but the animation was apt.
Does this use some form of tweening? It looks like it... janky.
I made the gif from this video, at about 1:00. Looks to me like JLU always looked like.
Fudgepuppy
Banned
I wish WB just invested like 20mil on this, made it look fucking amazing and release it in theaters. I do think it would make a profit if WOM was good enough.
Nah, gotta rush the team movie to get to Marvel ASAP.
hikarutilmitt
Member
The gif is at a slightly different speed than the actual animation was, or at least t looks that way. So it's playing just sliiiiiightly too fast in the gif and comes out looking like it was tweened by a motion enhancing TV.
TBH, while it could look better in places, I don't think this looks that bad. If you pick out specific parts, yes, but overall it's not bad with what they have to work with. The preview they put on the disc with JL vs TT also shows how they went with the art style they did for it, since getting Bolland's art to animate would be nearly impossible or even look really off.
It's a similar reason why Fist of the North Star looks weird in the TV series but the movie, that was rather expensive to make, looks almost EXACTLY like the manga.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
WB and DC are already catching flak for making a straight-to-DVD movie of this. Giving it a bigger budget and releasing it in theaters would create a shit storm. And DC is already busy dealing with one right now.
BodiesWithoutOrgans
Member
We need to go back batman the animated series & JLU animation style
exmachina64
Banned
That's how I've felt about DC animation for years.
Again: I don't understand that sentiment. We had a lot of decent DC animation in the recent years. It was no Ghibli, but devil spank my ass with a spiked paddle, if most movies and tv shows didn't look good.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Netherscourge
Banned
Curious as to how they are going to handle the Joker and Gordon's Daughter in this movie...
Bobby Roberts
Banned
at 8fps
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
cereal_killerxx
Junior Member
I'm excited for this but confused about what continuity it falls under...?
They should just go all in and have him chasing the Joker across a series of repeating backgrounds.
Omegasquash
Member
This sounds like a great animated flick.
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Looks like it missing in-between. Man, what a shame...
I just noticed something.
I think a "Debuts on Netflix" feature sounds more classy than "Direct to video" at this point.
I wonder if it's in the cards to sell Netflix on some animated DC features, and possibly get a higher animation budget out of it? Because if direct to video stuff is only afforded this kind of budget and looks so god damn shitty, I'd rather not have it at all. It's a complete waste of Hamill and Conroy.
I think a "Debuts on Netflix" feature sounds more classy than "Direct to video" at this point.
I wonder if it's in the cards to sell Netflix on some animated DC features, and possibly get a higher animation budget out of it? Because if direct to video stuff is only afforded this kind of budget and looks so god damn shitty, I'd rather not have it at all. It's a complete waste of Hamill and Conroy.
BobTheFork
Member
I would listen to this in pure audio in a second.
Man a written radio play with Conroy and Hamill would be amazing.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Not a fan of Conroy.
exmachina64
Banned
I haven't been pleased with the animation quality of anything after Justice League Unlimited ended.
RichiRamjag
Member
Oh shit, I'm weak at that one lol.
OrlanisWorks
Banned
These two things are really terrible. The way the prison guard disappears into nothing along with the door makes him seem like he has some magical power to walk through surfaces. And Batman walking is weird. Maybe they slowed the animation down for that one?
Still, I'm looking forward to watching this even though the quality of animation ain't looking hot. I don't know what the budget is for this thing, but I know that there are animations from decades ago that look a lot better than what we see in this trailer. That's pretty sad.
Astral Dog
Member
To go from the Red Hood to this :/
It's a standalone movie.
Hylianhero777
Member
Young Justice looked super good. I just have to assume most people here didn't watch it, for how detailed the character designs were the animation was on point for that show.
Disappointing that the majority of DC's DTV stuff doesn't get the budget/time in the oven it deserves. If they actually marketed these they would justify the extra money.
hikarutilmitt
Member
Okay, seriously, I love YJ, I seriously, genuinely do. But that action cam moving all the freaking time any time ANY fighting is happening was annoying as hell. It crept its way into the DCAU movies and has been slowly working its way back out (thank god) but the fake motion blur and constant camera movement and all that is just annoying to watch in animation.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Because it was episode 200, the one that got wiped off the face of the earth after it had a portrayal of Muhammad.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
They already were almost nonexistent, that only were great because they had 10+ years experience making them.
This is even lower because of the R-rating.
GentlemanCrow
Member
Every new snippet of this they release is just so disappointing.
It's like they are asleep at the wheel - the team seem so numb during the talking heads of the behind the scenes. They can't be proud of this.
It's like they are asleep at the wheel - the team seem so numb during the talking heads of the behind the scenes. They can't be proud of this.
funkystudent
Member
The animation / art style looks like a fake batman cartoon you might see in another TV show doing a parody of batman.
Spieler Eins
Member
lol just seen this on IMDB. I don't get it. It's fucking Batman. How do they not get budget for one of the biggest brands in the world? It might not be live action, but this still seems crazy.
The animation already irritated me in Dark Knight Returns. No way I could ignore... this. I'm not interested in buying comics, so this is all a shame for me.
Now we're talking.
The animation already irritated me in Dark Knight Returns. No way I could ignore... this. I'm not interested in buying comics, so this is all a shame for me.
The animation looks pretty bad
Should've gotten Madhouse
Now we're talking.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
The Young Junstice style of animation would be fine but for The Killing Joke it should be doing some experimental crazy stuff. Like having two different animation studios working on it. Someone like Takeshi Koike directing this would be something revolutionary.
They went through a lot of effort to explain that they wanted to match the art style to the original artwork and how difficult that was. What a croc of shite that was.
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