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8/6/2025, 6:46:43 PM
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>Does anyone know any actual DC business history here? One day did Warner Brothers look at their profit margins, and get some computers and were sufficiently impressed, they fired off 90% of their animation staff and hired a bunch of overworked teenagers to replace them or something?
It's largely the same staff, anon. Old guys had a hard time adjusting to digital, and to make matters worse often think digital is better and more free so they get hooked onto doing things. that aged terribly, like giving things this flat, dead lineweight.
And here's the other problem- Justice League has 7 heroes with different aesthetics that all have to share screen time and interact with a big universe that isn't just their own niches.
Batman and Superman TAS both had very definite design philosophies. Batman is dark,he's in a dark city, music is slow and deep. Superman is light, he's in a shiny bright city, his music is upbeat and brassy. They even nixed the BTAS/Fleisher inspired look for STAS to set it apart.
Now JL has to go to all these different settings, set up different characters, you need aliens, modern pedestrians,WWII soldiers, demons, and all sorts of new settings every other episode. You have a few leads who are sci-fi based, some that are modern day, street level based, and one that's fantasy based. As a result, everything ends up feeling generic to not feel out of place. You can remember a Gotham or Metropolis visual, but anytime you see a modern city in JL it's nondescript.
It's a more ambitious project than STAS, but it suffers for that.
>Does anyone know any actual DC business history here? One day did Warner Brothers look at their profit margins, and get some computers and were sufficiently impressed, they fired off 90% of their animation staff and hired a bunch of overworked teenagers to replace them or something?
It's largely the same staff, anon. Old guys had a hard time adjusting to digital, and to make matters worse often think digital is better and more free so they get hooked onto doing things. that aged terribly, like giving things this flat, dead lineweight.
And here's the other problem- Justice League has 7 heroes with different aesthetics that all have to share screen time and interact with a big universe that isn't just their own niches.
Batman and Superman TAS both had very definite design philosophies. Batman is dark,he's in a dark city, music is slow and deep. Superman is light, he's in a shiny bright city, his music is upbeat and brassy. They even nixed the BTAS/Fleisher inspired look for STAS to set it apart.
Now JL has to go to all these different settings, set up different characters, you need aliens, modern pedestrians,WWII soldiers, demons, and all sorts of new settings every other episode. You have a few leads who are sci-fi based, some that are modern day, street level based, and one that's fantasy based. As a result, everything ends up feeling generic to not feel out of place. You can remember a Gotham or Metropolis visual, but anytime you see a modern city in JL it's nondescript.
It's a more ambitious project than STAS, but it suffers for that.
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