Could 'Babylon 5: The Animates Series' be the way forward? Posted in: Opinion, Preview, streaming, TV, TV | Tagged: babylon 5, j. We are also told that JMS had been hinting about possible Babylon 5 plans elsewhere on his Patreon group. So bear all that in mind, maybe, just maybe, it might give JMS' tweet some more context. Franco Rosso’s incendiary Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but the New York Film Festival deemed it too controversial, and likely to incite. By all means view this as gossip, even another bit of speculation – and dismiss it accordingly, but that's the gist of what I was told about why the request for the original 3D models was made a few months back.' WB is apparently pretty keen to do this – which isn't too surprising, but I'm not going to get into all that complete horse hockey about someone at the studio hating the show and how they will never do anything new with B5. How far along in the development process was also unclear… the requested 3D models are for their animators to use as a starting point to create their own thing – there are no plans for anyone from the original team to be involved, at least not at the time this was all said. I've no idea if any of the original actors would be brought on for voice work, no idea what 'style' these animations will take, and don't know what time period or stories they might touch on.

There's not a lot of details, and as mentioned the details vary ever so slightly as he was talking to different people but the upshot is WB want to do some animated material set in the B5 universe, movies were mentioned, a series of them was mentioned (perhaps one or two a year). Someone wanted to get a close look at them basically. The beasts of prophecy written about by Daniel in his book and John of the book of Revelation. The models were requested for reference purposes only. Turns out that was the behind-the-scenes guy himself doing that, uploading high-resolution re-renders of the CGI to YouTube after he 'just got access to some of the assets a few years back and decided to re-render a few shots to see how they looked without all the conversion do-da which royally screwed with that genuinely important and groundbreaking work from the Foundation Imaging crew.' And as a result he learned more on what was being sought and why, 'the bottom line is the request from JMA about getting hold of the original 3D models was NOT to do a proper remaster of the show.

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