Fred Wolf Animation Quality

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Originally Posted by Vegita-San

The latter of which being the WORST episode animation of the entire series, IMHO.

This show had about 3 sets of teams.

A, B, C+ and C -.

I would say C+ would be shows like The GRybnx and Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady, or Son of Return of the Fly. the models are right, but they are super cartoony and fluid frames.

A, would be episodes like Big Break In. Shredderville....Turtles Turtles Everywhere, Turtles On Trial. All on model stuff....all drawn to proportion...nothing looking weird.

B would be stuff like Donatello's makes Time. Name That Tune. Menace Maestro Please. 4 Turtles and a Baby. stuff that looks close, but moves alot more fluidly and can be off model at times to the cartoony side.

The Rare C- stuff is shows like Turtle Maniac. Repeated scenes, oddly framed shots. bad looking animation all around.

See that's all good information however we have to remember different animation studios worked on different episodes. For instance Fred Wolf Dublin or France's animation was always worse than outsourced stuff. I would assume the above only applies if it was the same animation studio working on the show like Toei. Again I don't mind some of different animation quality like TMS work (e.g. Turtles on Trial) even though it's off model in colour and design but it's still not right and considering TMNT was in the exact same position as a lot of other independent studio cartoons I wonder how come those were consistent in design.

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

Even in season 1, there are some pretty noticeable differences between the look of the turtles when comparing episodes.

As mentioned elsewhere from what I heard A Thing About Rats was animated by Toei's C team while Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X was animated by Toei's A team.

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

Season 6 and 7 look consistent all throughout. Season 8 then changes the aesthetic completely but the look per season stays the same until the end of the show.

Agreed, Season 6 and 7 were pretty consistent to the style of Season 2 and CBS Season 4 episodes.