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Thundercats Opening

Man, the Thundercats opening was pretty bad ass. Constantly flowing imagery, explosive transitions and liberal use of energy beams combined with a wicked soundtrackâ€â€?well, that’s motion graphics gold!

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All right, so technically it’s all cel animation, but I’d argue that it qualifies for motion graphics just the same (further muddying my already vague definition of the field).

Posted on 31 August 2006 |

13 thoughts on “Thundercats Opening

  1. Dude,
    I think you are depressed or going thruogh some kind of crisis. After the long-ass soby post the other day and now this… common man whats up bro…..
    “explosive transitions and liberal use of energy beams..”
    just read and look at what you are posting yourself man…. i think you have lost it. Perhaps you really want to go to journalist school or something…..

    As for this crap, its a cartoon show from a while back, everyone has fond memories of the past bro, but dude, common…..

  2. Dude, thanks for posting this!!!! One of my unrealized dreams (till now) was to be able to watch this thing frame by frame!! Now I can go on and get a life!

  3. Shows like Thundercats were heavily inspired by the Japanese animation style of series like Voltron and Speed Racer. Shows like thundercats totally inspired the mograph of the generation.

    Video games and thundercats make good friggin mograph.

  4. Hi All,
    Now it must have been because I cycled 10 miles to work this morning but i almost had a fit watching that. I loved it as a kid. Definately getting old. classic explosions (Michael Gagne’esque)and some properly good perspective shots.BO!

    O./

  5. I agree. Points taken off for unneccessary use of a glam rock guitar solo. However this is classic, thanks for the post – great bit of nostalgia.