"Oh, he's lovely. I absolutely love working with him ," Younemura began. "He hasn't even been on super long, and he's already a super sweet, incredibly talented writer, so we're already having a blast over here, and I'm really excited for fans to kind of see what he helps bring to the table because it's amazing, he's a genius."
Of course, any big changes has the fan base hoping that the tone set forth in Season 1 will carry through to Season 2 into the next. ComicBook's Phase Zero podcast talked to Jake Castorena , supervising director on X-Men '97 , about the more mature elements that this series has managed to get away with. For the director, He argues that these changes and themes were present in X-Men: The Animated Series, all the way back in the '90s. So logically, the ground was already paved for them to continue that work there.
"But with that said, and what I appreciate about our crew and what we did, we have to give ourselves false parameters in every aspect," Castorena detailed. "We would love to put all these bells and whistles on the show's style, but that's a little too advanced for what the original series probably would have had. So we ask, 'Can we do this in a way they would have had to tackle it back then?'"
"For example, we have a way that we're working on water right now," the director added. "One of our vendors gave us an effects pass, and it was like, 'Oh, that's too clean. To do a painted card and then a two-frame cycle, that's just too advanced.' Then, we tried a low-tech approach, and it was like, 'Wow, this really works.' These kinds of false parameters only helped us to better achieve the feeling of the original show."
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