Tuesday, November 22, 2011

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 19

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 19 "Emperor Joker!" Directed by Ben Jones.

Yeah,this one makes my head hurt too. This background was designed in Google Sketchup by Hakjoon Kang and then painted by me in Adobe Photoshop. Oversees then built this as a CG background for the finished scene.







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B:TB&tB season 2 episode 19

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 19 "Emperor Joker!" Directed by Ben Jones.

The museum scene in this episode had some Easter eggs hidden throughout. On the left, you can see the original comics that the pictures were based on and on the right, those same covers given the Brave and Bold treatment. Click on the image for annotations.






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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 18

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 18 "Menace of the Madniks!" Directed by Michael Goguen.

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 17

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 17 by William Joseph Dunn
B:TB&tB season 2 episode 17, a photo by William Joseph Dunn on Flickr.

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 17 "The Mask of Matches Malone" Directed by Michael Chang.

For those of you who are reading this that are in the United States, you haven't seen this episode (on television at least). I guess until this is released on DVD in the States, this can be considered a Brave and Bold "lost episode". This episode was written by Gail Simone who is best know for her work on the "Birds of Prey" comic book series. The episode includes a musical number that Michael Jelenic  & James Tucker wrote the lyrics for and James storyboarded the scene himself.


So why wasn't the episode aired in the U.S.? The episode aired in Australia first and the musical sequence raised a few eyebrows once people started to blogging about it on the internet. Because of this, Cartoon Network reexamined the episode and thought in hindsight, the musical number might be a little too racy to air "as is". The musical sequence was then reedited and additional animation was generated for the scene. The newly edited musical number was submitted to the network and approved, but as of this writing, has not aired - for whatever reason. With the series finale airing next week (11/18/2011), I doubt it will ever air in the U.S..


What is really a shame is, because the episode hasn't aired in the U.S., Dynamic Music Partners (Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion and Lolita Ritmanis), who did an awesome job of scoring every episode of Brave and Bold, can not submit their work to the Emmys. To date, the only Emmy nomination Brave and Bold has ever received was for "Outstanding Music Composition for a Series" for the "Mayhem Of The Music Meister" episode.


Anyway, in case you wanted to see the scene that caused all the hubbub, look no further:
 



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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 16

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 16 "The Last Patrol!" Directed by Ben Jones.

In the teaser of this episode, we have the first appearance of Batgirl on Brave and Bold. The entrance on this background is a reference to one that was in the 1966 live action television show.



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B:TB&tB season 2 episode 16

B:TB&tB season 2 episode 16 "The Last Patrol!" Directed by Ben Jones.

Ben Jones is not only a fan of the original Doom Patrol, but also huge fan of Grant Morrison's run. So wherever possible, we snuck in references to Grant's run on Doom Patrol. If you look closely during the Paris scene, you can see "The Painting That Ate Paris" in the background.

One of the other places we were able to squeeze Morrison references were for the posters in carnival scene. Not all of these made the final cut of the show in the versions shown here however (mainly for legal reasons). The words "Flex Mentallo" were removed from his poster (I believe due to a now resolved legal dispute between DC and the family of Charles Atlas) and the poster for "The Austounding Clockwork Man" had to be removed altogether from the episode.

There were also plenty of Easter Eggs for fans of the original Doom Patrol series in the episode as well (such as a montage depicting recreations of vintage Doom Patrol covers).

Click on the image to see annotations.

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