Tommy Yune -
Anime
Convention Personality of the Week - August 12, 2007
At Fanime Con in 2000, the
audience at the opening ceremony was shown test footage from a CGI
animation intended for a future "Robotech 3000" project. The clip was
so silly that the audience nearly laughed the animation off the screen.
Was Tommy Yune listening to that rejection? That moment, as bad as it
seemed, was one of the key points for the revival of the Robotech epic.
The CGI test was dropped and never seen again, and Harmony Gold chose a
different path. Yune was chosen as the director of the Shadow
Chronicles animation, the newest part of the Robotech story. The CGI
was limited to spaceships and the rest of the show was done in the same
hand-drawn fashion as the original series. The new Robotech feature
went so far back to the series' roots that some of the writers of the
original Macross stories were called in to consult on Shadow
Chronicles. Fans got to follow the progress of the new feature at
convention panels, and it was released around the time of the second
New York Comic Con. Funimation, which released the feature, said it was
one of their top sellers, and there are plans for a second feature to
continue the Shadow Chronicles story. Yune must have done something
right.
At Fanime Con in 2000, the
audience at the opening ceremony was shown test footage from a CGI
animation intended for a future "Robotech 3000" project. The clip was
so silly that the audience nearly laughed the animation off the screen.
Was Tommy Yune listening to that rejection? That moment, as bad as it
seemed, was one of the key points for the revival of the Robotech epic.
The CGI test was dropped and never seen again, and Harmony Gold chose a
different path. Yune was chosen as the director of the Shadow
Chronicles animation, the newest part of the Robotech story. The CGI
was limited to spaceships and the rest of the show was done in the same
hand-drawn fashion as the original series. The new Robotech feature
went so far back to the series' roots that some of the writers of the
original Macross stories were called in to consult on Shadow
Chronicles. Fans got to follow the progress of the new feature at
convention panels, and it was released around the time of the second
New York Comic Con. Funimation, which released the feature, said it was
one of their top sellers, and there are plans for a second feature to
continue the Shadow Chronicles story. Yune must have done something
right.