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13 December, 2001
Justice League
Toon Zone spoke with producer Bruce Timm about the show. When asked about guest heroes on the show he answers, "Aquaman, The Demon, Metamorpho, Sgt. Rock, the Blackhawks, and, of course the JGA (no, that's not a typo)...am I forgetting anyone? If we get picked up for another season, we're thinking about another Aquaman story, and maybe one or two other "guest stars", but for the most part we're trying to keep the number of hero cameos down to a minimum....we've got SEVEN major players to deal with already, after all, lots of unexplored territory to work with... " Timm adds that they don't anticipate any heroes leaving the group.
Asked about the CGI opening to the show Timm responds, "Various things...first, I saw a preview of Ubi Soft's BATMAN VENGEANCE game about a year ago and was pleasantly surprised at how cool it looked--more like stop-motion than straight CGI--kinda like "Mad Monster Party" only with Batman and the gang! Second, when I storyboarded the titles, I realized that the opening slow-mo silouhette shot of the magnificent 7 would be really hard to pull off with traditional animation...also, I wanted to trick-out the lighting/rendering fx so that the titles would look more stylized than the actual show itself (something we've always done with our titles, going back to B:TAS)..one thing led to another, and we just went "O.K., CGI,let's give it a shot." My brother happened to know some the guys at Cantina Pictures; we met with 'em, were impressed by their demo reel, their enthusiasm and especially a test they'd done "on spec" to prove they could deliver what we wanted. It was touch and go there for awhile, mainly because of my own inexperience/ignorance of the whole CGI process, but overall I'm very pleased with the result. If we'd had more time and money, there are a few things I'd do differently, but for our first attempt at CGI, I think it's pretty dang cool. Would I do a whole show in CGI? Uh...no. Not yet. But maybe someday... "
Timms take on future seasons of Justice League? "Thrills, spills, chills...humor, horror,heroism and heart. For season 2, we're thinking about using Amazo, Despero, possibly the Crime Syndicate, possibly an earlier, more souped-up version of the Royal Flush Gang (more continuity!), DEFINITELY another Injustice Gang/Legion of Doom/what-have-you story. Amazo will almost certainly get a complete makeover, and will probably not even be called Amazo by the time we're done with him. For a split-second we considered pitting the JL against the All-O Squad--Amazo,Despero, Starro, Chemo and Bizarro--but decided that was too hokey even for US... "
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