*NEW* Spider-man Cartoon on MTV now!!

[guyver01]

Check it out.. it's like anime meets CGI..

first two episodes are on now.

it's kinda weird... kinda cool


http://www.mtv.com/onair/spider-man/

 

[NewSc2]

on.. MTV?

 

[guyver01]

yep..

caught me by surprise.. found it by channel surfing.

 

[guyver01]

Peter Parker is voiced by Doogie Howser, M.D.'s Neil Patrick Harris , MJ Watson by singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb and Harry Osborn by Beverly Hills, 90210's Ian Ziering.

 

[sash1]

/me just watched this show.

Pretty cool. Probably will watch a few more episodes to see whats up. Kinda weird that it's on MTV. Only good show on MTV was Clone High, but that got taken off

~Aunix

 

[Storm]

I caught it while channel surfing also. Its not bad. I agree with you guyver a little wierd but cool.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Storm
I caught it while channel surfing also. Its not bad. I agree with you guyver a little wierd but cool.

Yep, that basically sums it up. I'll give it a couple more episodes, and see where it goes; it has the capacity to be good, but I'm worried that MTV might end up "polluting" it. Either way, the animation is definately good, another Mainframe classic.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

i really need cable service.......

 

[Rufio]

dude it is a sweet cartoon!

 

[draggoon01]

it's jet set radio.

kinda odd how they they develop cell-shading to look like cartoons, but now they use it to make a cartoon.

i wonder how much they save by doing it that way

 

[ViRGE]

Not a heck of a lot I imagine. A lot of rendering time is spent with lighting, reflections, etc, which cell-shading doesn't really skip.

 

[Swag1138]

Its written by Brian Michael Bendis, who is the best comic writer in current times. Hes got like 4 books that hes writing now, and is continually getting them out on time, unlike some OTHER writers *ahem*kevinsmith*ahem*

If you like the cartoon, Id suggest you start checking out some of his work on Ultimate Spider Man

 

[draggoon01]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Not a heck of a lot I imagine. A lot of rendering time is spent with lighting, reflections, etc, which cell-shading doesn't really skip.

well, i was thinking more along the lines of money. because they don't have to pay artists to redraw the same characters doing slightly different things, or doing stuff from slightly different angles.

the rendering would just use electricity and time.

once they have all the world and characters modeled, how much effort does it take to animate them?

 

[KokomoGST]

Originally posted by: draggoon01

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Not a heck of a lot I imagine. A lot of rendering time is spent with lighting, reflections, etc, which cell-shading doesn't really skip.

well, i was thinking more along the lines of money. because they don't have to pay artists to redraw the same characters doing slightly different things, or doing stuff from slightly different angles.

the rendering would just use electricity and time.

once they have all the world and characters modeled, how much effort does it take to animate them?

To animate models? Very little effort (a la Reboot's early days) but to animate them WELL... that's an entirely different story. ILM took a lot of time to get their digital characters down... same with Square Pictures in FF:Spirits Within. Even Wetaworks did a very good job, but after seeing Matrix Reloaded, time and effort doesn't always = good results.

Seems like they made a decent effort with the Spiderman cartoon... even though there's a lot to the show I don't like... it seems too "MTV hip" to me. It's not the regular ol' Spidey I grew up with reading comics...

EDIT: BTW, compared with overseas CG cartoons, Mainframe is doing a better job... compared to Run=Dim at least. They're completely pwned by more high budget projects like ProjectIG's Ghost in the Shell series.

 

[draggoon01]

Originally posted by: KokomoGST

Originally posted by: draggoon01

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Not a heck of a lot I imagine. A lot of rendering time is spent with lighting, reflections, etc, which cell-shading doesn't really skip.

well, i was thinking more along the lines of money. because they don't have to pay artists to redraw the same characters doing slightly different things, or doing stuff from slightly different angles.

the rendering would just use electricity and time.

once they have all the world and characters modeled, how much effort does it take to animate them?

To animate models? Very little effort (a la Reboot's early days) but to animate them WELL... that's an entirely different story. ILM took a lot of time to get their digital characters down... same with Square Pictures in FF:Spirits Within. Even Wetaworks did a very good job, but after seeing Matrix Reloaded, time and effort doesn't always = good results.

Seems like they made a decent effort with the Spiderman cartoon... even though there's a lot to the show I don't like... it seems too "MTV hip" to me. It's not the regular ol' Spidey I grew up with reading comics...

EDIT: BTW, compared with overseas CG cartoons, Mainframe is doing a better job... compared to Run=Dim at least. They're completely pwned by more high budget projects like ProjectIG's Ghost in the Shell series.

what was wrong with matrix reloaded? there were things that i didn't like, but i tend to attribute that to seeing it on the big screen, magnified and all.

 

[SpiderX]

I'm digging it of course being the fan that I am. But I don't really think Doogie Howser has the right voice for Spidey.

 

[Blain]

Anyone know where I can get a pop-up blocker for MTV?

I tried to watch The Real World the other night, and the Spiderman pop-ups drove me crazy. :| They spaced them just seconds apart.

 

[codeyf]

Originally posted by: Rufio
dude it is a sweet cartoon!

 

[sash1]

Originally posted by: Blain
Anyone know where I can get a pop-up blocker for MTV?

I tried to watch The Real World the other night, and the Spiderman pop-ups drove me crazy. :| They spaced them just seconds apart.

Me too!! Haha!

It made me almost not want to watch Spider-Man. Every 5 seconds he'd pop up and look at the time he's on. I wanted to shoot him

 

[JoeKing]

simpsons just recently went over to CG. It looks to be the future of cartoons.

 

[Justin218]

I just saw an episode, I liked it.

 

[mchammer187]

didnt like how how electro just transformed and got his powers buy punching the neon sign come on

that is rediculous even in a world where mutants exist

the animation is good though

i did like the 2nd episode though

 

[djheater]

I'd rather have Aeon Flux back.

 

[mchammer187]

Originally posted by: djheater
I'd rather have Aeon Flux back.

bleh

why do the men look like manly WOMEN and the women look manly as well

reign the conquerer was inspired by aeon flux and i dislike that too

i cant get over the animation style

 

[ViRGE]

I just caught the second set of two episodes. It's definately influcenced by its intent to be run on MTV, so it's not completely true to the comic book, but it's still a good show, so I'll take it.