Batman? Anyone?

Astrocloud · Post by **Astrocloud** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:31 am

http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/Movi ... night.html

I imagine that it's not going to be posted there for much longer. It's the new 2.5 D Animated Batman movie.

It has some extremely good renderings.

Check it out.

chucky · Post by **chucky** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:19 pm

Holy flying rodents! ...mVm

squarebox · Post by **squarebox** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:59 pm

yea, Batman: Gotham Knight was awesome!
i just saw it a couple days ago...
a couple of them look like the same style as the Animatrix, but i can't find out who animated it...
i found on some random site that they hired some Japanese company to animate it for them...
i'd love to know if its all hand drawn or what they used to animate it, because it looks great!

NightmanGX · Post by **NightmanGX** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:06 pm

It WAS directed by the people who made the AniMatrix.

squarebox · Post by **squarebox** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:22 pm

oh badass, who directed both of them? i looked on IMDB and it has different names for the directors on the two movies? does IMDB have the wrong information?

Springymajig · Post by **Springymajig** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:36 pm

Animatrix was done by many different directors but the main production studio involved was Studio 4C, a name you should DEFINITELY take note of! Founded by a bunch of independent animators including Koji Morimoto (who directed Beyond on Animatrix, as well as Noiseman Sound Insect, and co-created Magnetic Rose from the Memories anthology) they have since made two amazing feature films, Mind Game (a mind bending, surreal story like nothing else you'll ever see) and Tekkonkinkreet (an intensely beautiful film about juvenile delinquents in a fantasy Japanese city, the first ever anime film to be directed by an American, Michael Arias, who was the sort of... digital director for Animatrix).

I cannot wait to see Gotham Knight, I haven't heard of any of the directors but Studio 4C are pretty consistently good, and I love Batman, so I'm sure it's great

Springymajig · Post by **Springymajig** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:51 am

Well I just saw these. Pretty cool stuff. I didn't think any of them we're amazing but I wasn't disappointed. I like how there's links between all the shorts.

The first one is A LOT like Tekkon Kinkreet, and no wonder, it was directed by the animation director/character designer for Tekkon.