
A Thundercats.ws Exclusive courtesy of forum member LiarDice Films. You may remember that there was a Thundercats live action/CG hybrid film in the works a few years back. You may also remember that some concept art and test footage from that project leaked out.
Again, thanks to forum member LiarDice Films, we have some new exclusive production art from the cancelled Thundercats Movie. The art is by Dave Bullock, an artist and animator who has worked on Transformers: Prime, Teen Titans, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and many other projects. In this post you will find original concept art for Lion-O, Cheetara, Tygra, and Panthro, as well as some story board layouts.
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Cancelled Thundercats Movie Concept Art and Storyboards
Everyone who complains about the designs from the new show should take a good, long look at these and consider themselves lucky. I would've hated it.
Dave said that he worked for a while on these ideas and then the plug was pulled! He didnt even get paid by WB afterward. Its seems they then took Daves storyboards and Charlie Wens Lion O concept and made the leaked trailer
Looking back at the test footage it's easy to see the influence design-wise this almost movie had of the reboot.
I might be in the minority but i actually like the feel and overall asthetics of the test footage trailer. It maybe be a bit corny but i love that almost dark reboot feel.
Almost like when Chris Nolan took over the Batman returns/Darknight franchise.
I didn't mind most of the visuals. But I thought it made Lion-O look kinda like an idiot. And I hated the design of the sword. One thing the new cartoon got right is keeping the sword mostly the same. There are a few changes in it, but not that much.
They aren't horrible, but I'm glad to know these were the very initial designs, rather than anything that could have been put into a finalized product.
These are great designs, thanks for sharing
Btw, looking around a little, there are some more storyboards at his Deviant Art Gallery ( DaveBullock's deviantART Gallery ), 12 in total.

And a color version of Lion-O:
Cool designs but I like the new ones more.
I kind of like the designs.