New Star Wars Cartoon: Star Wars: Clone Wars
 

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I don't know about you but the artwork lots pretty crappy!

Yoda's fine...but everything else...Nah.

ewwwwwww......thats looks worse than x-men evolution!

thinking the same...

I KNOW you just did not say that!!!! :evil:

duuuuuh did i say something else?!

xmen evolution is all wrong but im just a comic freak

Yeah in X-Men evolution there were all drawen like teenages! http://www.bugkid.com/xmenevolution/pictures/005.jpg http://www.bugkid.com/xmenevolution/pictures/010.jpg The Old X-Men cartoon was much better drawen!

we don't have X-MEN evolution in israel so i really don't know what are you talking about...

they should have called the show x-teens its barely a "evolution"

ROFLMAO! I can even draw better than that 8) Just another waste of space on TV now-a-days :roll:

And they both have blue lightsabers! Wait Wasn't Anakin's lightsaber green!?

I don't get it. Geoge Lucas could get anyone he wants to make this cartoon. Why did he choose this?!

Why not hire the people who made FINAL FANTASY and the Animatrix short "Final Flight of the Osiris" and go for realism! That would just be killer! Or heck, even ILM could do it! Sheesh!

Bad bad bad..... :(

I've known about this for months. The animation isn't that bad. I like it. It's the same style as Samurai Jack, and I really like that. The only thing I don't like is the fact that it's not an actual show. Just shorts that they're gonna play instead of commercials.

wow i hated the movie and im sure im going to hate this!

Personally I don't like the way Samurai Jacks drawed.
I mean if they got the people who animated the New Ninja Turtles cartoon it would be good. But they get the guy who did "Dexter's Laboratory" and "Samurai Jack"?

I don't think it looks bad at all!! Except for the weird witchy 2 lightsaber lady, thats kind of weird... :|

I like that style actually, it is kind of loose and not too constricted or uptight. And Anakin had a blue lightsaber, he got a green one later in the movie to fight Dooku, but later got a new blue, since Luke's is blue and thats Anakin's

cbq has it right. It's NOT a new show, it's a series of 20 cartoon shorts that will run during commercials, I believe they're about 2-3 minutes a piece. The shorts take place during the time period between Episodes II and III. The art is intentional, since they were going more for a short, stylized series of clips similar in look and feel to a comic book, rather than intense realism. It's like saying the art in the "Clerks" cartoon is lousy because it doesn't look exactly like Jay Mewes, Kevin Smith, Brian O'Halloran, etc. They're focusing more on getting the feel of the characters rather than making it look exactly like the movies.

Check out issue #70 of Toyfare for the full scoop. The first 10 episodes will run through November, and the last 10 will run through February. The story will focus a lot on Anakin, Obi-Wan and Mace, and a lot of important story points will come to light over the series.

I, for one, am gonna try hard to catch it. First episode is November 7, 2003 at 8pm.

Will they be on a specific channel? I want to see how this goes too.

Cartoon Network

news of this is not recent. And about it being a show, I do believe that when completed it will make an hour long + movie, though I'm not sure.

Ugggh, Kangaroo Jack the cartoon can't be too far away...

Yeah, and I suppose the old TMNT was "drawed" better, huh? :P

Are the characters even voiced by the same actors?

Actually when done it will be an hour or less.

Hopefully it will have plenty of Jar Jar Binks scenes.

LOL. The second I see Jar Jar in it is the second I stop watching it.

Yat another reason to hate what Star Wars has become

They better not screw up Chewie in ep 3, or there will be hell to pay!

Why hate it? It hasn't become anything. This is how Lucas wanted. He wanted a second trilogy, and that's what he's doing. He wanted to tell the story of the Clone Wars but couldn't make another movie to do it, so he did a cartoon. And incase you didn't know this is actually the third SW cartoon made.

I thought this was the fourth...

There was Droids and Ewoks. Am I missing one?

You're probably right about there only being 3 instead of 4. For some reason I was thinking the Star Wars Holiday Special was animated...

we did have it in israel on cheneel 6(the funny part about it in TMNT old cartoon april works at cheneel 6 and in israel the show is on cheneel 6)

Part of the Holiday Special was animated--the cartoon with the first appearance of Boba Fett. Anyway, I like Samurai Jack a lot, and though the characted designs aren't my favorite, the animation as a whole is good. Tartakovsky handles action very well, and I can't think of a better Cartoon Network-related person to do it. The action will most certainly be good, and they're mixing in a couple of elements from the Star Wars comic series, which I believe is where that female dark warrior comes from. I'm a big Star Wars fan myself, so I can't wait personally. I wish that it were twice the length, though, so it would end up being a two-hour movie altogether. I'm sure that there will be a DVD release of all of them together soon after all of them air, though. In any case, they will probably be available for download, (however illegally) very soon following the airings. But take or leave the animation style, we all have our preferences, it will most certainly be good--and definitely to SW fans. I don't expect to be disappointed. Too bad that the movies' actors won't be playing the voices, but there we are. Actually, maybe we'll get Frank Oz at least.

oh man dont say that :evil:
thats just not right! :dead:

Hssn't become anything?! Its become an endless excuse for technology! True Mr Lucas wanted to do this, but he seems to care more for the tech. end than the story end. The origanal story may be great but the last 2 mnovies have sucked. I sat through ep 2 yesterday when it was on HBO, and it was the most boring thing they've done since Ep 1. Its become all about the visual effects and less about heart. And continuing it through cartoons is just going to contue the insult.
If it weren't for seeing the first 3 movies long ago, these 2 alone woul;d make me hate anything to do with Star Wars, the effects may not have been as technicly inovative by todays standards but aty least I give a damn what happens to the charters

Re: New Star Wars Cartoon: Star Wars: Clone Wars
 

Yep. Another way to totally mortify we who remember the OT from way back in the day. George Lucas has lost the touch I believe.

Yes, the atrocious Droids and the modestly successful Ewoks cartoon. I don't remember Droids so much because I just didn't like it. But at that time I was a kid who loved the Ewoks so I watch the Ewoks cartoon religiously on Saturdays. I haven't seen that cartoon in ages.

Man, a lotta people sippin' the Star Wars Haterade around here.

Let's be fair... if someone showed you pictures of I'unno, South Park or Dexter's Lab before it came out, would you think, based on still pictures of the art, that it's some amazing or funny or just plain GOOD show? (Well I honestly never watch Dexter's Lab but a lot of people like it) It's not fair to judge the quality of this cartoon show based on ONE picture of conceptual art. Like I said, look for the article in Toyfare if you want to know more, the story looks quite good and I'm honestly shocked at how much storytelling they're going to cram into these 3-minute animated shorts.

I wish the art was cleaner too but c'mon, at least give it a chance and see it in action before you leak on it. It's still months and months away. Besides, I don't think it would be practical for them to dump tons of money into the project seeing as how it's just a series of short animated clips. I'm sure if they were doing something along the lines of a half-hour cartoon series, or a 60-90 minute animated movie, that they'd have the most expensive and polished animation possible. But they're not, so they won't.

And we get to see lots of Force Powers and lightsabers underwater. That makes me giddy. :D

And I still don't see the hate on the last two flicks (even though Ja-Ja was annoying as piss). It's funny, I didn't even watch the entire trilogy until 1996 and I have more faith and interest in the new flicks than people who've been fans for 20 odd years. I do agree that there's a bit too much emphasis on the CGI and stuff, but like I've said before, I am a firm believer CGI should be used ONLY when necessary, but, well, you can see from flicks like Matrix that that aint happening. Personally, I'm waiting for Episode III to wrap up the trilogy before I judge all three new movies as a whole. It's fairly obvious I and II are backstory leading up to something bigger.

Oh man... I'm defending Star Wars... I'm such a nerd... :(

Let me clarify:

Original (OT) Trilogy - Good high quality entertainment. I prefer the original cuts over the Special Edition ones though. You could see Lucas' unnecessary over kill with CGI there. God I hate the dance number in Jedi he added.

Prequels and any Prequel relasted stuff - Very disappointing

Well, I disagree. I dunno why. I just think people's expectations for the prequels were WAY too high. That can be expected, though, when there's a 20-year buildup for them.

Lucas even said the story and everything for I-III wasn't as strong as the "classic" trilogy, that's why he made those first. It seems like Episodes I and II are mostly the buildup for Episode III more than stand-alone movies, and I for one am fine with it. To each their own I guess.