So yeah what episodes do you think were animated the best and which ones do you think were animated horribly?
For me some of the best animated episodes are:
Mumm-Ra Berbil
Spitting Image
Mumm-Ra Lives parts 3-5
Thundercats Ho!
The Mountain
A few others whose names I can’t remember
Why? Good character designing, actual good anatomy, nice backgrounds, nobody’s bodies look weird and their heads fit their body sizes.
as for one of the worst
Mumm-Rana
Lion-'O’s Anointment part 5: Trail of Evil
The Transfer
The Demolisher
Why: Horrible character designs, bad anatomy, awful animation, bodies that look swollen or extremely creepy, also heads don’t match up with body sizes. Balloon animal muscles.
I pretty much agree with your list. Generally, most of the first 40 or so episodes were really well drawn and animated (Exodus, Safari Joe, Trouble with Time, Ghost Warrior etc.)
One episode which “doesn’t fit the bill” is probably “The Terror of Hammerhand”. It wasn’t badly animated, but the overall look of the characters was a bit too different from the usual designs.
Towards the end of the first season, the quality started to go down, with episodes having poor “flat” drawings and choppy animations (Superpower Potion, Eye of Beholder).
For the later seasons, in-between the 5-parters there were plenty of badly animated episodes. I remember in “Catfight” there are many scenes in which Panthro looks really fat! :00
with those awful episode I mentioned there’s only a few frames here and there that have actual good animation. They are usually close ups of the thundercats faces and a very brief segment of mumm-ra here and there. I don’t understand why they got lazy later on in the series but it’s glaringly obvious.
Fair enough, but you can always have a quick look before starting a thread. I wouldn’t think the thread was that old that the conversation couldn’t have been continued.
