Thundercats Tuedays - Show # 100 & 101

Today's Thundercats Tuesday features designs for Shows #100 - Exile Isle, written by William Overgard and Show #101 - The Key of Thundera, written by Matthew Malach.  Again design-wise, there were no major new characters as the show was near the end of the second season.  So I mostly designed props and incidental characters.  That said, some items like the Dragon heads in Show #101 played a major part in the story.

 Here's a image of Scooper, the Mechanical from another show.

Here's how the Dragon heads looked in the episode.

 Here's the separate animation cel levels. Start with the painted background and dragon body hold cel.

Next, is a tiny Lion-O in that blue bubble at the base of the stairs, a  tiny Mumm-Ra laying near the pillar on the left. and animating dragon heads.

 Next, is the animating dragon breath flames, to complete the shot.

I was surprised and delighted that The Dragon Hall and The Key of Thundera turned up again in the 2002 Warner Bros/Wildstorm comics Thundcats #1, along with some other elements I designed.  But. I'll save that for a future post. 

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Thundercats Movie At Warner Bros.

It seems Warner Bros picked up a option for a live action Thundercats movie. The idea of animated series has been knocked around (I was actually tapped to be a director on one of the attempts that fell by the wayside). This will make a lot of TCats fans happy, but time will tell if it ever makes it to the big screen. If it does, maybe the animated series will rise again.

Thundercats Roar at WB - AWN.com

Here's a live-action fan movie I just found on Youtube. It fun and well done.



I worked on the original Rankin/Bass series as Art director and secondary character designer, on the last thirty shows. I got to write two of the episodes, "Shadowmaster" and "Well of Doubt", (no...I don't get any money from the DVD's releases. So, don't ask!) I have some of the artwork on my website. Here's a couple of them below.




Thundercat still remains my favorite work experience. I'm happy to say I'm still in touch with the good friends I made at Rankin /Bass.

Thundercats HOO!!!