Fantastic X-Men 97'

2024.05.14

 

The X-Men animated series, which first aired in 1992, contributed greatly to my taste for superheroes and superpowers. In addition to this work, watching , animated series, and , I believed that I would be able to do great things. All millennials will have similar memories. Therefore, great interest is bound to be focused on . reunites the heroes from our childhood and introduces them to the next generation.

 

 



 

 

 

Production company of and


 


 


In any animation work, the topics that always come up are animation and art style. was produced by Studio Mir, a studio that I had always wanted as a production company.


 


Studio Mir is a Korean animation studio located in Seoul and has several representative works. The most famous work is , a sequel to .


 


Studio Mir also produced the wonderful Netflix animation series . The reason why I desperately wanted Studio Mir to become the production company for the animated series is because of another Netflix production, .


 


Here I quote something I wrote in 2021. “An incredibly high-quality animation reminiscent of Nickelodeon’s and Dreamwork’s . It makes me imagine that the reboot of the animated series would come out with exactly this art style.”


 


 


 


 


 


Classic style & modern visuals 

 


 

 

 

Coming back to the present, I can't help but be happy that my dream has become a reality. Studio Mir originally had a distinctive art style, but this was not highlighted in . Instead, it reproduced the art style of the 90s animation series as much as possible while adapting it to Mir's animation style.



As a result, the look was created exactly as you would imagine when the characters were converted into visuals suitable for 2024 standards. However, Studio Mir proceeded without paying attention to strange rules that existed in 90's animation such as punches not being allowed to appear in fight scenes. From the first episode, you can see Cyclops, the X-Men's team leader, coolly punching his enemies. In the past, fight scenes had to be toned down to only use optical blasts.

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