They had a reputation of saving money whenever they possibly could, which is why not just animation is re-used constantly in TAS to a ridiculous degree, but animations of characters are regularly just slightly changed to turn them into “new” characters. Someone else shared a meme this morning with the “transporter chief” that was basically Scotty except they replaced the hair and gave him a giant ridiculous mustache.
TAS’ advantage over other Filmation shows was having a handful of TOS actors and TOS writers working on it. The rest of them? The voices and the writing are pretty much all terrible.
Most of the TOS cast was on board, I think only Walter Koenig didn’t participate. As for other voices, most of those were done by TOS castmembers with James Doohan in particular having several non-Scotty roles.
Are there star trek magazines from the time complaining about it?
All someone had to do was see the Filmation logo and know they were in for a rough ride in terms of animation.
Yeah the animation isn’t great, but the stories! Also not great.
Their backdrop/environment artists, on the other hand, did some nice work.
Some of the Spock focused episodes were good. IDK about the rest because that’s all my friend made me watch, lol.
A project I would love to see is using all the same vocals and music, but setting them to far better animation, while keeping it relatively campy.
That would be awesome!
Did they have a poor reputation compared to other animation studios?
They had a reputation of saving money whenever they possibly could, which is why not just animation is re-used constantly in TAS to a ridiculous degree, but animations of characters are regularly just slightly changed to turn them into “new” characters. Someone else shared a meme this morning with the “transporter chief” that was basically Scotty except they replaced the hair and gave him a giant ridiculous mustache.
TAS’ advantage over other Filmation shows was having a handful of TOS actors and TOS writers working on it. The rest of them? The voices and the writing are pretty much all terrible.
Most of the TOS cast was on board, I think only Walter Koenig didn’t participate. As for other voices, most of those were done by TOS castmembers with James Doohan in particular having several non-Scotty roles.
Makes me think of these three distinct creatures from three distinct planets
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mechanized_sentinel
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Maravel_dragon
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Swooper
Using video game mob logic with marginally different skin/clothes.