eyes with pupils

[METALHEAD]

I like it, cant wait for the new toys and show~!

[maryshine]

Originally Posted by Scandia

I do not mind. In fact, I wish the 2k3 Turtles had always had pupils.

Ditto! I love it!

[TheUltimateShredhead]

Hmm.... Where have i seen those guys before?

[Aelia]

Well...I like it. However, I still would prefer if we would only see their eyes when they are maskless.

[Sage Ninja]

do you guys want want the the boys to have diffrent colored irisess or not? It looks like they are all gonna have greeen eyes in the new season.

[Scandia]

I would very much prefer slightly different colored irises indeed.

[Ra]

Originally Posted by Aelia

Well...I like it. However, I still would prefer if we would only see their eyes when they are maskless.

Agreed. It looks good on them, but I'm more of a fan of the pupils-showing-only-when-mask-is-off style. Probably because I love how many expressions you can capture with the face, even without pupils. Eyes can express a lot of character though, so I'll be interested in how this translates onto screen.

[Warhorse]

Irises different colors. Or maybe just follow what the movie started and give Leo, Raph and Don brown eyes and Mikey the blue.

[TerranigmaFreak]

I don't mind the pupils, but I'd much rather they get rid of the pupils and spend the lines on refining their faces a bit more. Getting rid of the pupils work better for continuity and saves time and money on drawing them.

[Jelly Bean]

I won't completely mind the simplicity in their faces just so long it's not to much and that they compensate by having good shadowing over their features like they did in earlier season. That and they don't make their hieghts so radically diffrent.

[Donatello]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

While the animation is more streamlined and won't look as good as Seasons 1-5 did, the designs themselves are pretty nice.

agreed.

i don't mind it being streamlined, when Batman: TAS did it, i didn't mind.

that being said, the changes in design kind of remind me of the changes in design from TMNT the first movie and TMNT II. which was a turn for the worst. Bigger eyes, cuter, cleaner characters.

The trend worries me

[Cowabunga Carl]

The eyes don't bother me really. Like others at first they did but as I've looked at them they have grown on me. It would be cool if they all did have different colored eyes.

[Drtooth]

I'm gonna just take a leap and say, it depends on how it looks in animation. It may look better, it may look worse. I just can't judge them until I see them in motion. And ten to one odds says it will be slightly jarring at first, but most of us will get used to it.

[Evilsherbear]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

I'm gonna just take a leap and say, it depends on how it looks in animation. It may look better, it may look worse. I just can't judge them until I see them in motion. And ten to one odds says it will be slightly jarring at first, but most of us will get used to it.

I agree. You can't judge the animation based on the character designs. Also, they're plenty of "streamlined" shows that had great animation, like Batman: Beyond, and the new Spiderman cartoon that's out right now.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Evilsherbear

I agree. You can't judge the animation based on the character designs. Also, they're plenty of "streamlined" shows that had great animation, like Batman: Beyond, and the new Spiderman cartoon that's out right now.

But you can certainly judge the character designs based on the character desgins, great animation dosen't make a hideous character look good. When they streamlined Batman TAS and made it The New Batman Advenutres it wasn't a problem, but some of the character designs were fu**in terrible, Bruce Wayne is the ugliest cartoon character ever (then you had the Scarecrow who was down right awesome.)

It's a matter of preference and it's not a big deal. I love the fact that they had no pupils in seasons 1-4 but it wouldn't have killed the show if they did. FF would have been fine with pupils, but that would have been another thing for people to say "I hate FF because..."

[Evilsherbear]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

When they streamlined Batman TAS and made it The New Batman Advenutres it wasn't a problem, but some of the character designs were fu**in terrible, Bruce Wayne is the ugliest cartoon character ever (then you had the Scarecrow who was down right awesome.)

It's a matter of preference and it's not a big deal. I love the fact that they had no pupils in seasons 1-4 but it wouldn't have killed the show if they did. FF would have been fine with pupils, but that would have been another thing for people to say "I hate FF because..."

No question Batman Animated Adventures had some god awful character designs (Catwoman WTF?!) but at least it was animated well.

I think the new character designs for TMNT are pretty good overall (yes I like the pupils), the only designs I had a problem with were April (looks too young) and Casey (too clean cut looking). After all is said and done though, I'm all about the story. If the plots are good, I'll watch it.

[Jelly Bean]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

But you can certainly judge the character designs based on the character desgins, great animation dosen't make a hideous character look good. When they streamlined Batman TAS and made it The New Batman Advenutres it wasn't a problem, but some of the character designs were fu**in terrible, Bruce Wayne is the ugliest cartoon character ever (then you had the Scarecrow who was down right awesome.)

Bruce Wayne was fine, I thought the way the screwed up a beautiful character design like Poisen Ivy and made her look like a weed was unforgivable. In fact all the girls got messed up, they went from having realistic portures and curves and contours to being pointy stick figures with sharp little boobs. And all of a sudden they had rubbery faces with no detail and really wide, black lipped mouthes. They onely thing that saved the show for me was the good story telling, and thats all I'm really looking forward to. I still have high hopes for the turtles pupils or no pupils.

[silverdragon]

I liked them with no pupils but am willing to give pupils a go, besides Donny and Mikey look so cute!

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Evilsherbear

I agree. You can't judge the animation based on the character designs. Also, they're plenty of "streamlined" shows that had great animation, like Batman: Beyond, and the new Spiderman cartoon that's out right now.

I didn't like the Spider-Man designs at first (I had a major issue with the dialated irises), but after I got used to them, I really started to dig what they had done.

When they streamlined Batman TAS and made it The New Batman Advenutres it wasn't a problem, but some of the character designs were fu**in terrible, Bruce Wayne is the ugliest cartoon character ever (then you had the Scarecrow who was down right awesome.)

And for some reason, Joker looked like Freakazoid with Gambit's eyes. And then there was the "The Batman" designs which I never cared for (Catwoman especially, but I eventually warmed up to the Joker).

Then again, I kinda liked the more angular FF Turtles BEFORE they hit animation, and the animators took the designs and made them look even flatter. And it wasn't flattering at all.

And what the shell was up with Hun having a kitty mouth?

[Evilsherbear]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

I didn't like the Spider-Man designs at first (I had a major issue with the dialated irises), but after I got used to them, I really started to dig what they had done.

The guy who did the character designs? He's on DA, and I'm a big fan of his, so I'm bit biased

Originally Posted by Drtooth

Then again, I kinda liked the more angular FF Turtles BEFORE they hit animation, and the animators took the designs and made them look even flatter. And it wasn't flattering at all.

And what the shell was up with Hun having a kitty mouth?

I agree with you on that. The animation just didn't feel right at all for FF.

Hun w/kitty mouth FTW! I'm only bothered by his odd proportions (gorilla arms ).