{"id":11708,"date":"2015-09-02T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T19:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/cooketimm-when-i-started-doing-the-batman\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:02:02","slug":"cooketimm-when-i-started-doing-the-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/cooketimm-when-i-started-doing-the-batman\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11708 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/cooketimm-when-i-started-doing-the-batman\/attachment\/11710\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nu29y6DtwU1tijkw9o1_r1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/cooketimm-when-i-started-doing-the-batman\/attachment\/11712\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nu29y6DtwU1tijkw9o3_r1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cooketimm.tumblr.com\/post\/128200284820\/when-i-started-doing-the-batman-animated-style-i\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">cooketimm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When I started doing<br \/>\nthe Batman Animated style, I did look at lot of his model sheets from<br \/>\nHanna-Barbera, and they weren\u2019t very helpful to me. When I really started looking<br \/>\nat them I realized that even in his simplified animation drawings some of the<br \/>\ncharacters would be really stylized and cartoony, but his human being figures<br \/>\nare just like his comic book figures. They\u2019ve got so many subtleties to them.<br \/>\nHe didn\u2019t exaggerate. His animation models really aren\u2019t made for animation.<br \/>\nEverybody may think they are, and he may have thought so, and animation<br \/>\nhistorians may look back with fond memories on the Alex Toth-designed<br \/>\nHanna-Barbera shows, but there\u2019s a whole lot of subtleties in those shapes.<br \/>\nSpace Ghost\u2019s head is a tricky shape to draw. It\u2019s not a<br \/>\nstraight-against-curve, it\u2019s a whole lot of curves that intersect, and if you<br \/>\nget one of them off, he doesn\u2019t look like Space Ghost. So I don\u2019t consider Toth<br \/>\na huge influence in that respect. Obviously, the overall feel of my Batman kind<br \/>\nof has some of that Space Ghost type of feel, but it wasn\u2019t like I had Space<br \/>\nGhost designs out when I did it. It was kind of like me remembering what Space<br \/>\nGhost felt like. I would be a better artist if I were more influenced by Alex<br \/>\nToth. I wish I had one-tenth of his knowledge and talent, but I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><b>\u2013 Bruce Timm about Alex Toth\u2019s Space Ghost<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Learning to draw, learning to see, learning to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cooketimm: When I started doing the Batman Animated style, I did look at lot of his model sheets from Hanna-Barbera, and they weren\u2019t very helpful to me. When I really started looking at them I realized that even in his simplified animation drawings some of the characters would be really stylized and cartoony, but his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-32Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11716,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions\/11716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}