The Visual Style of Batman: The Animated Series
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- Опубліковано 25 гру 2021
- I try to explain the epic and profound visual style of Batman: The Animated Series!
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Final Boss by Myuu
Hitchcokian by Sir Cubworth
Dark Alley Deals by Aaron Kenny
The New Order by Aaron Kenny
Monster At the Door by Sir Cubworth
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Batman Animated by Paul Dini & Chip Kidd, 1998 - Розваги
Man i miss this type of art in cartoons. It had so much depth like people actually lived and had lives in that show. Like the background buildings windows made me think “ i wonder what that person does for a job in that building “
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And the little details like Gordon pushing up his glasses or Poison Ivy turning the chair around and tilting on it. Little things like that
Me too excited for caped crusader rip Kevin Conroy!
Hands down the greatest art style in any animated media ever. Nothing even comes close.
yes purey american our own style , wish it was more appreciated but the kids prefer the more manga-fide style of art
The Superman and Justice League cartoons that followed it were exceptional too but nothing compares to Batman TAS. Best cartoon of all time.
@@EMMmaximino Really isn't the kids making that choice, it's the studios. Alot of the animation studios being hired are...Asian. Many of them being far more influenced by that art-style than western or american ones.
for you* This is probably my favorite style too. But I hate when people make sweeping statements like this. It makes Batman fans sound so stupid and small-minded.
Watch mono lmaoo
This style was a proper balance of....how can i put it....historic futurism. Past and Future that coexist but doesn't exist. Style very unique.
Reactionary Modernism
Retrofuturism
art deco?
This "children's cartoon" showed far more maturity and depth in character, story telling, designs and humanity than any "adult animation" ever made.
I'd say with the exception of some stand-out anime. Primal is also pretty good.
@@thesplendor8654 that’s fair, but anime isn’t really the same as what Americans try and call adult animation.
@striker8961 True, I suppose. Family Guy, South Park is probably more what comes to mind for a lot of American adults.
@@thesplendor8654I love both of those shoes! Makes me cry laughing every time 😂😂😂
Rest in peace Kevin Conroy! :(
That series is a treasure.
An excellent lecture, sir! Most informative and enjoyable. "Dark Deco" is an absolutely perfect term for this art.
i just love when there's some scenes with no music background for a bit w the characters talking. idk it makes me feel comfy and as a child i felt like im in there
Omg the in-between conversations without music are so underrated these days. Now it’s mostly just music and dialogue you can hardly here for let’s say a today horror movie.
30 years old and people still find topics about this masterpiece.cant wait for next year's new Batman animated series! 🦇
I love how they used black paper I can't stand how they got rid of it at around Batman beyond season 2
Good point. For me this show lost its aesthetic in season 4 when they changed the look of the characters. Thanks again for the comments London.
Best regards,
Schizofenik
But how they use it? Im curious about shadows and grain in this animation series.
The thumbnail being from Batman: Vengeance alone is enough for a like, but this is a great breakdown of BTAS's visual style. I think the reason it holds up so well is how it blends elements from throughout the 20th Century allowing it to be contemporary and historic simultaneously. Which at it's core speaks to the Batman character.
6:08 - 6:18/ GCPD Headquarters is another great example of this point. I always appreciated seeing that upshot of the Art Deco police building whenever it came on screen. Like a reassuring figure letting citizens know law and order must pervail. Shame it had to come crashing down in BATMAN BEYOND...😂
Watched this growing up in the nineties. Even my mum loved watching it with me. I didn’t understand how good it was at the time. I just liked Batman and that was just the cartoon version of Batman I knew.
My favorite animated show too! I always loved that every line of the art had a purpose, nothing was wasted. And of course the incredible stories helps support this style as well!
I am obsessed with the background art for Batman TOS.
This was so nice! Thank you for the video, mate. Really appreciate the work you put into it.
Love your video essays
Great video on a truly awesome animated series!!!
Your commentary on this great series is excellent. Will watch it again...several times. Thank you.
Hopefully Matt Reeves’ The Batman movie can have an iconic visual style for years to come.
Fingers crossed my friend. We can only hope. Thanks for watching.
Best regards,
Schizofenik
batman TAS is the GOAT, its superior all cartoons for all these reasons. each episode is a work of art. the art deco style is stunning, the music, the acting and the action and dialogs are just the best we are ever going to get.
This video is awesome!
The visual style of the show really made a great impact 🌃
This is an amazing video. Thank you very much!
Thank you for this video
Air brushing colors onto BLACK background sheets was amazing and unique at the time.
Great video. It's difficult for me to imagine a more appealing style for Batman than this cartoon. I love it!
Very well explained!! I'm subscribing
I appreciate you making this video
I have been trying to find this animation style for so long. Thanks for the video.
There is really no other cartoon like this, pure work of art.
It's better than anything by far today standards
"Almost Got 'Im" was my favorite episode. Such a cool idea.
Harleys vacation is funny as hell
Thank you for doing this video. I'm missing one video with info on all the art styles and influences. I think it's the one by DC bu thank you so much for this.
Great content 👍🏾
I work in fashion. This and Edward Gorey's masterpiece mystery are my core inspiration. I was born in 1991 and these shows formed me.
great video!
Great video. 🎉
The visual team of Rudomski and Timm are as iconic as Danny Elfman's score and Hamill, Conroy and Sorkin in their respective roles
Rest in Peace, Kevin Conroy. Perhaps you should do some sort video honoring his contributions to the Batman.
Gotham City was originally modeled after 1940s New York City, in fact I think in the first few comic books it was actually just set in NYC itself. The stylized 1930s art deco look of the city in this cartoon thus resonates so naturally with the viewer. Bruce Wayne is a tough guy, but he's not an 80s action hero tough guy, he's not Jet Li or John Wick, he's a 1940s tough guy, and so are guys like Bullock and Gordon. The hard-boiled detective archetype, good with their fists and living according to a code. And the high technology computers, etc., living inside art deco-skinned machines was genius, seems like that's been copied many times since the 90s in media such as Archer, with that confusion about exactly which decade the setting is supposed to be. It all fits so perfectly in B:TAS.
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Dark Deco please Comeback!
I saw this as a kid, it's still with me. Was si cool looking. I'm glad I watched it as it came out in real time.
Amazing video. Maybe you could also talk about the visual style of Superman: The Animated Series, inspired by 1950s-60s sci-fi.
Best art style
Fantastic video and exatcly what I was looking for!
I fucking LOVE this fucking show. It is absolutely the BEST most comics accurate screen depiction of Batman. I Fucking just love it to pieces.
I still pray for the day we get either a live-action or big-budget animated film that leans into the look of Batman: TAS.
That's what I'm talking bout and I wish U GooD Luck 4 Yor Future!! 😮❤👍
Great Video. Kinda related to the video but the way Gotham City looked in the Videogame Arkham City, I wish it looked like that in Arkham Knight...
With all the Tall Buildings...
Still I can't complain too much with what we got
This issue of mixing the old with the new is very interesting...my house is like this, I'm from 2000 and my parents are from the 60s. I still live with my parents but I'm getting ready to leave, and here is furniture from the 90s. and pictures too, until 2019 we used tube TVs at the same time as we had Asus and Samsung cell phones.
Great video! I’ll never understand why the creative team ditched this visually amazing style and title cards for the boring style starting in the 3rd season. I’ve heard some of their reasons, usually amounting to “more fun” or “let’s brighten it up”. Bleh.
I have loved and love the "batman the animated series " I have full collection of seasons and am waiting for April for "the Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City Lego " set, the style just conveyed so much passion and craft toward making the city feel like one being, shows don't come close this day I'm afraid?
And one of the saddest moments was when Keven Conroy passed away as I really wanted to meet my batman at a comic con... he is and always will be Batman
In Todays Era, we have to much Self-Aware, Sitcom, Anime, and Teen Slice of Live. What we need is a More Cinematic, Artistic, Stylish, Vintage, Serious, Adult and German Expression Theme Show like Batman TAS. Batman Caped Crusader please don't Failed your Great Great GrandFather.
I Hope the New Series, Batman: Caped Crusader would adapt more of Noir, Cinematic, Indie, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Vintage, and More Art Style to make the series Modern yet still Old Fashion, Bruce Timm and Matt Reeve please do it, and yeah... J. J. Abbrams maybe with Lighting.
Does anyone know the correct order to watch episodes, because wikipedia says one thing and reddit other?
is there a list of series that uses this style? searching for a series from my childhood, where there is a worldgouverment that sits in south America, somewhere where the incas and may have lived. Thanks in advance!
7:34 bye bye
I have tge blu ray box set. I lilove it but by season 5 the look of some of the characters changed and not horbyhe better. And suddenly a jnr Robin character. Did I miss a disc or what?
Well, I was a kid of good taste then 🙂
The animation style in my marvel universe series would be an combination of:
YOUNG JUSTICE
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE
AVENGERS: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES
HULK VS WOLVERINE
AVENGERS CONFIDENTIAL: BLACK WIDOW TO PUNISHER
FANTASTIC FOUR: WORLD’S GREATEST HEROES
FUTURE AVENGERS
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN
MY HERO ACADEMIA
ULTIMATE AVENGERS
If only the real NYC had remained this way.
I think I prefer Gotham City having Gothic architecture because it matches the name and aesthetic better and it rolls off the tongue well, in other words, it’s fitting. I hope Batman Caped Crusader goes for Gothic art this time.
why does he have tissues at his desk tho 😂
Chong Li vs Tong Po
In my opinion, call this masterpiece of a show a "cartoon" is like calling the Mona Lisa a "'picture".
They ruined the show when they adapted the newer animation style. Some of the characters look like stick figures. What they did to Catwoman was abhorrent.
Greatnesss,thanks,be blessed,saved and all in Jesus shalom
Batman 2004 series also had cool sceneries