At Marvel Animation

On Friday, I rambled through Marvel Animation's Glendale Studio. My timing was great, since half the crew was at Comic-Con, but be that as it may ...

One of the staffers who WAS there told me: We hope to have three series rolling by the end of the year, and then maybe a fourth after that. ...

I watched work being done on Hulk and also a new Avengers, which they announced in a coastal community to the south:

... Marvel announced they are going to transition “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” into a new animated series called “Avengers Assemble.” The new cartoon will be based on the universe from the Marvel Studios movie franchise. ...

Modeling animation franchises after their block-buster cousins sheathed in visual effects and live-action seems like a smart move to me. Synergy!

And the Marvel Animation Studio, recently created, continues to fill up with artists. (Industry-wide, more unionized animation artists, writers and technicians are working than at any time since the nineties.)