2014 Merchandise & Miscellaneous News Archives

January 31, 2014: Making the Superman 75th Anniversary Animated Short

75th Anniversary Animated Short Voices From Krypton has posted the third part in a series of behind-the-scenes interviews with the people behind the 75th Anniversary Superman Animated Short. Here's an excerpt from their interview with director, storyboard artist and producer Jay Oliva...

    Q: I'm actually impressed you got everything you managed to in two minutes of animation.

    JAY OLIVA: Originally I don't think they wanted to do the black-suited Superman; they wanted to go to Bruce's version from the animated series and then Alex Ross' Kingdom Come. I was, like, "No, we have to do the black suit. And the mullet!" To me, that was the era of the black suit Superman. Then, of course, it goes into Superman Red and Superman Blue. I actually opened the door for them, because when I put the Back Suit through, Bruce said, "If you're going to do Black Suit, you might as well do Red and Blue," and he was right. So we came up with this thing where Black Suit Superman explodes and then the split turns into the Red and the Blue, so the narrative rides visually. Even if you know nothing about the characters you can connect the fact that, oh, Superman came back and, oh, he's two different guys. And then of course that transition leads us back to the classic of the Bruce Timm version.

Read the complete interview at VoicesFromKrypton.net



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