Feb 1 2008Padawan Ahsoka Tano is Your New Favorite Jedi
The redundantly-titled upcoming CG-animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, has a new character, and her name is just as hard to say as you'd expect--Ahsoka Tano. Described as "able to wield a lightsaber and pilot a spacecraft with great talent," she sounds like pretty much every other Jedi. At least she's hip to the popular fashion trends of today. The boots/tights/skirt combo is all the rage, particularly when paired with the cold gaze of apathy.
Full shot below the cut.
Padawan Ahsoka Joins the Star Wars Cast [Official Site]
Reader Comments
1. TMHS - February 1, 2008 1:48 PM
I'LL WATCH IT!
Looks a lot less stylized than the last cartoon which is good.
2. Bobeyo - February 1, 2008 2:10 PM
Still too stylized for me. And in trendy CGI which somehow makes it worse... perhaps because I still have some affection for traditional, hand-drawn cartoons, even if they are borderline-anime like The Clone Wars was. So when, Lucasfilm, are we actually going to get a show that's set during or after Episode III when all of thse ridiculous-looking colorful alien Jedi cartoon characters are being mercilessly gunned down and slaughtered? Now THAT I might watch.
3. The Beer Baron - February 1, 2008 2:10 PM
If Lucas has nothing to do with the writing, it will be a million times better than the new movies.
4. Stanley - February 1, 2008 2:13 PM
Apathy is right. This show appears to have the same shoddy aesthetic quality of a VeggieTales production.
5. Scooby - February 1, 2008 2:33 PM
Not stylized enough for me.
6. the_swee - February 1, 2008 2:41 PM
i'm gonna call her asshooker.
close enough?
7. Eddy - February 1, 2008 3:25 PM
Anakin doesn't get a Padawan. Somehow this bothers me, he's hardly mature enough to take care of himself. Also, don't you think she'd fit into the category of "Younglings I Must Kill"?
Also the long honored tradition of padawans belonging to masters of the same gender- the rare ones in the other situation tend to be a little strange. I mean, Siri and Ferus are pretty, er. Well.
8. george - February 1, 2008 7:47 PM
Only a numb fuck wouldn't want this cartoon to be stylized. Realistic CG looks like shit. Stylization is the only way to go. Unfortunately, instead of following the Clone Wars designs, they seem to have gone ahead and made the thing look like fucking Jak and Daxter, which is to say like shit.
9. Nikk - February 3, 2008 4:14 AM
She's of the same race as Shaak Ti. And judging by her saber color, she's a Jedi Master.
10. wendy - February 3, 2008 9:08 AM
So is this by Gendy Tartakovsky or however you pronounce the guys name? If so then it has a chance of being good.
As for the new jedi it looks like she was made in the city of heroes costume creator.
11. KC - February 3, 2008 12:39 PM
@9 Since when does saber color mean anything besides dark vs light?
12. c45j - February 4, 2008 3:49 AM
made in singapore.
13. Nikk - February 4, 2008 11:55 PM
@11 - Saber color has always meant something.
Yellow means Jedi Sentinel
Blue is Jedi Knight
Green is Jedi Master.
14. Munky - September 13, 2009 8:31 AM
I work in post production and my facility has had the opportunity to work on these titles (so far series 1-2) and the stylization works. The movement in the characters can seem a little mechanical at times (such as regular walking), but the action sequences are handled pretty well, and the production team does a pretty good job with ADR (basically, syncing dialog w/ lip movement) and the various languages spoken in the countries these are to be delivered (I've watched them in English, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish–though we handle more languages than that).... In addition, the CG skins used on models (everything in the program including the characters) have been textured and give it almost a painterly or weathered look.
As for the colors of the light sabers... It depends on whether it be motion picture, animation, or story... The books, which I've never read, would give the truest description (from what I know the only 3 colors were supposed to be red, blue and green). However, anyone who does a little research can find out that the movies required certain liberties be taken when choosing colors for the lightsabers in order to make them appear easily ON SCREEN... So take colors of lightsabers with a grain of salt. They aren't real anyway, even if we wish they were.