Thundercats Tuesday - TC 124 -126, Ma-Mutt's Confusion, Shadowmaster, and Swan Song.

This week's Thundercats Tuesday, features TC# 124 - 126, and includes a personal milestone and highlight of mine.  TC # 125, Shadowmaster was my first scriptwriting assignment.  Plus, I got to design the new characters for the episode, including, of course the Shadowmaster character.  My original plot outline for the story was totally overwritten.  (I'll touch on that, later in this post)  Only the  smart editing of the talented Peter Lawrence, story editor, saved me from embarrassing myself.  I'm eternally indebted to producer, Lee Dannacher, and Peter for giving me the chance to write for the Thundercats.

Let's start with TC# 124 - "Ma-Mutt's Confusion.

The Babylonian Barbarian Boiler is my all time favorite Thundercat prop design.  The scene of Mum-Ra running back and forth with the bucket reminds me of the famous Disney's Sorcerer's Apprentice scene from Fantasia.

 TC # 125 - "Shadowmaster"

 The original plot for the Shadowmaster had enough story elements for three shows.  I introduced a parallel group of Thundercats-like heroes, in the ShadowRealm, called LightLancers.  The LightLancers were defeated,  and disbanded by the Shadowmaster, and their world plunged into darkness.  The lone dispirited LightLancer at first challenged Lion-O, but Lion-O enlisted him to defeat the Shadowmaster.  In doing so, The Lion-O helped the LightLancer regain his power to regroup his companions and restore the land.  This sub-plot was in addition to the main Claudus storyline.  So, yeah, there was no way this could fit in a 1/2 hour show.  Thanks goodness for Peter's editing.

 Brute the Shadow beast was an example of over designing a character.   The multiple heads was a little much for the time the Beast was on the screen.  I'm happy the animation team give it a shot.

 I always wondered if many Thundercats fans caught my homage to Star Wars with the final scene of the episode with Claudus and Jaga, just like the Darth Vader and Obi Wan shot at end of The Return of the Jedi.

TC # 128- "Swan Song"

Swan Song saw the return of Two-Time, the two-head robot, and his flying ship Domedown.

Only four more episodes to go.  But find some extra item to keep Thundercats Tuesdays going.  Enjoy.

Thundercats Tuesday - Return to Thundera Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5 (TC shows #112,113,114,115)

Here's this week's Thundercats Tuesday enter features Return to Thundera, Parts 2 - 5.  The production numbers for the shows are TC #112, 113,114,115.  All the five-parter episodes were written by Peter Lawrence.  You might note each Part had a different original title on the script's title page.  Again I shared design duties with other artists (as noted) and a lot of established characters were reused from earlier Thundercat episodes.  So, let begin.

TC #112 - Return to Thundera Part II -"Grune the Destroyer"

 

 

 

Here's a first pencil rough drawing.

 

 Then, this blue pencil drawing closer to the final.

Charr in the episode.

 

This is background design by artist Ray Shenusay.

An earlier pencil on tracing paper drawing by Ray Shenusay

We never saw a great full background shot of Charr's workshop in the show.

Another design drawing by Ray Shenusay

  

Here's my modest design for the New Cat's Lair construction hut.

 

Here is some prop items which bear show up in the show, but still have to be designed and drawn.

 

Here's Panthro using the small computer device.

 

TC #113 - Return to Thundera, Part III - "DomeDown"

Two-Time really came out great.  The animation by PAC was just fantastic.  His dynamic entrance is one of my favorite scenes in the whole series.

 

 

Another great exterior and interior design for Two-Time's ship by Ray Shenusay. 

You can see the animation studio may adjustment to the interior design.

 

Here the Wisker, exterior and interior, designed by Ray Shenusay.

TC #114 - Return to Thundera Part IV - "Free the Mutants"

 

This not only saw the return of the Mutants, but also Captain Bragg, Crownan and the Circus Train.

 

The special appearance by the classic Mandora is a real treat.

TC #115 - Return to Thundera Part V - "Home Again"

 

Only my Thunderians and Ma-Bat make an appearance.

So, that it for the five-parter.  They were always special events during the entire history of the Thundercats. Hope you enjoy these post.

Here's some extra artwork for five-parter.  Early concept drawing my Ray Shenusay for the new Cat's Lair.

Also for TC# 108 Jade Dragon, here are early sketches of my mine for Doji-Kage (the Mechanical war horse).

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