TMNT CGI Pilot

[DrxSlump]

Looks better than Nickelodeon's crap.

[Sailorsega]

Is that Casey and Raph fighting on top of Optimus Prime? Man this series would have been awesome.

[BiGJoEMo]

..actually I guess the cartoon that was on in like 2001 was supposed to originally be CG! Because these are scenes from the show!

[BiGJoEMo]

This looks like a test run of TMNT movie

[Matt17984]

for 2001, its pretty good for a pilot, animation wise. Looked like a lot of hidden potential.

[SonicUnderground316]

The design of the turtles and April look much better here than in the 2007 movie IMO

[JBOPatrick]

This looks better then what Nickelodeon is about to do. Way better.

[an1man1ac54l1f3]

@JBOPatrick Agreed! I REALLY hope Nickelodeon's up n coming TMNT show ends up like the one Warner Bros was gonna do! (try googling TMNT cartoon that never was to see what I mean)

[duderme]

@JBOPatrick Plot wise, I guess.

[retrobrian1]

pause at 2:50 the MIRAGE company is now in the trucking buisness

[Tulipstem]

I thought I would never see the day when Casey got a haircut. Now he just needs a wardrobe update...

[FlippytheMasterofPie]

Let's face it, back then CGI tech wasn't really good for TV due to a limited budget. Nowadays it's still not up to theatrical standards, but the technology has progressed enough that you get better images for a TV budget. I mean, just look at the preview for the upcoming Nickelodeon TMNT show and compare it to this. Technology sure has changed in only 10 years...

[WhiteLycan009]

Shredder looks like Shao Khan!! :D

[supercoolmario123]

@WhiteLycan009 ha he does



[benjamillion]

playstation cg movie worthy

[moesamuri]

This looks like crap

[TheSecretdahlia]

hahaha

[ChokeslamKing]

kinda looks like beast wars or sumfin.

[MikeyLover1998]

I understand why they didn't make this series!!!

I love everything TMNT, but after seeing this this is the only thing TMNT that I would't watch! AND THAT IS SURPRISING COMING FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sonbuhitsunei]

The hell...and this was supposed to come out in the 2000's? Looks like it'd be more at home in 1995.

[zeldamaster52]

hopefully the new nick cartoon will be better

[PuhKiller]

Where is Caseys hair?????

[PuhKiller]

"Turtle power. Auh." 

[Diggy22]

Reminds me of one of those old ps1 videogame intros. like the one in Tekken 3. :-D

[JMSvlogs]

okay so April was hot and not a pointless character, and Casey was straight from the fucking 1st movie! WHY DIDNT THIS WORK!?

[DustInTheWind64]

(1)Blood red shredder armor? Just no.

(2)Something seems wrong abot the turtles faces, I can't really describe it though.

(3)They kinda overkilled the vehicles. How many do they need? What about roof hopping?

Though keep in mind that I grew up watching the professional mirage 2003 version.

[Eszra]

This actually looked cute. April actually looked badass, but to real. And Caseys hair is to short for me. Also anyone getting a major 1987 meets Mirage vide from this.

Action and design mostly Mirage, but voice wise sound like 1987. Well Raph's sounds more like the live action tv series voice. Other then that it looks cute.

But boy am I happy it wasn't made. Thank god for 2003.

[twilight15617]

what happend to the pedestrians, were they vaperized?

[CaptainAshSpearow]

It's almost surreal that this was good for TV in 2001. Now they are making a CGI Ninja Turtles show, and they have the tech to do it right this time. My guess is it will be kind of like the TMNT movie, just on a lesser scale.

[sonbuhitsunei]

@CaptainAshSpearow nah, it would have been nowhere near good in 2k1 either- now, I'm pretty sure this doesn't reflect what the finished product would have looked like, but look at the animation we had in 2k1 by comparison- Shrek, Jurassic Park 3, Lord of the Rings (Gollum), etc- granted, those are movies, but yeah, there's no excuse for a final product looking like that, were it the final product! I'm glad they decided to go the animated route- it just lends its self much more to TMNT.

[bigmigs94]

O_O ...what did I just watch?

[Jenema2]

this is bacicly the 2003 serise in cgi

[Pringlesman]

Turtles fight with honor~

[ZiotheZero]

The Pilot should've ended around 3:52 - 3:55

[EmDizzle2K7]

it wasnt bad.. but the models they used for the turtles were poorly done.

[MrRoboshadow]

the shreder and fighting look good

the turtles ...................not so much

[JunTheBlackTulip]

BULLSHIT!! this sucks ass!

[JunTheBlackTulip]

BULLSHIT!!

[NeiyonSpyder]

Looks like we kno where ATLA got the idea of their Fire Nation symbol and im glad this didnt make it to be honest

[KizulEmeraldfire]

Michelangelo: "Cow-A-BU-" *muffled by Raph* "Mmf, mmf!"

Raphael: "Hey — we TALKED about that."

It seems that after the original cartoon, NOBODY seems to want to see that word make much of a comeback. xD

[Margui622]

@KizulEmeraldfire : Yes, but that "Cowabunga" word was, is, and will associated with Michelangelo forever. The 2003 series made a lot of references to the original series and other movies and series as well.

[MrLaserowy]

Well, they did have some nice ideas for a show, but the CGI looks like taken from Eifel 65 videoclip o.O

[jamocha101]

Okay, this confuses me; sometimes the CGI looks amazing, and other times it looks terrible, and seems to make blind people cry...

[SakuraCourageSolo]

Gah, the CGI is worse than crappy. Its atrocious. Still, one MUST admit that Shreadhead's new threats are pretty sweet lookin'...

[imxformed]

this looks horrible

[vampirera]

I think that's what became later the 2003 series we know (which of course wasn't cgi as we all know) :D

[TsukentoX]

People talking about how the visuals looked poor don't seem to realize that you DON'T put a lot of effort into a proposed pilot, otherwise you end up burning off money you don't have for something that might not even be greenlit.

The whole point is to propose a basic idea. It was to be a new TMNT in CG. That's all that's needed to get the point across.

[henkman00]

dissing the orignal and then expect me to like this?

dont talk down to your fanbase, even if the orginal show has the reputation of being just a comedy (witch it wasnt all the time)

[wheels85]

I didn't realize cgi was so bad in 2001. Then again, this probably wasn't a finished product. Like it says in the description, it was for a proposed show, so they wouldn't have bothered to do it 100%. It must have been produced in the first half of 2001. Pause at 4:52 and you'll see they had the WTC towers as part of the city.

[ElderOfMars]

Hopefully the Nickelodeon CGI series looks nothing like this.

[pumpkinking99]

when theya re on the road it looks like twisted metal

[Harmthuria]

CGI Turtles could be good, but it would have to better than this crap. If it isn't, it could easily be 15 - 20 years before anyone tries to make another show or movie again.

[drewmanallstars]

Man WTF is this shit now I know this aint my old school ninja turtles trying to go CGI

[Sheashay100]

2:26 Matrix'd

[lobomonlight]

--:THOESTURTLESAREWIMPS

[spacexploder]

april + martial arts = fail every time

[notpointed]

it does have a certain appeal but I'm glad they discarded it in favour of the 2003 cartoon

and I'm also glad CGI turtles were revived for the 2007 movie

[OSrubiks]

didn't they plan a CGI TMNTmovie on 2012 ??

[Sheashay100]

@OSrubiks DIDN"T?!?! whaddya mean DIDN"T?! YOu mean DON'T that, Right?!?! (eye twitches)

[OSrubiks]

@Sheashay100 my english is not the best sorry (switzerland)

but what i tried to tell is: i thought they would make a CGI animated TMNT movie in 2012... XD

( i hope it will be better than this crap )

[niceguy01]

@OSrubiks umm they did one in 2009 you didnt see it?

[OSrubiks]

@niceguy01 no i mean 2012... in a TV documentation they said a new CGI animated TMNT movie is comming up in 2012

you mean TMNT forever right ??... yes i saw it

[niceguy01]

@OSrubiks i herd they were going to do it like they did it i think it was in 93 94 where people dressed up like the ninja turtles expect there not going to have the different colors there all going to be in red before they had the colors to identify them.

[YoungBlckBeauty4ever]

@OSrubiks they acutally said in 2011 check their site

[OSrubiks]

@YoungBlckBeauty4ever yes i know ;) i misst that when i was posting the comments but thanks anyway ;D

[niceguy01]

@OSrubiks no it was in 2009 i think they came out witrh tmnt cgi i think they said in 2012 they would come out with one that was like first ones where people got in cotumes but it will be when they didnt have the different colors bands on them.

[Mitsuraga]

Seems they kept the Battle Shell design for 2K3.

[MaverickXIII]

this would have been awesome all it needs is a better rendered version, the graphics here are terrible but given its a pilot, its understandable

[turcosoup]

hahahaha this is great!

[Nicksolo85]

I like the way the Shredder looks in this, but it would've been better if his helmet was like a black or dark gray color and the metal mask (if that's what it is like in every other incarnation I know) was light gray.

That's just my opinion.

The way the CGI looks in this, it kind of reminds me of some old Playstation 1 games. If I recall, there were a couple Playstation 1 games with CGI looking similar to this. I think 1 was Tony Hawk 3 which looks better on Playstation 2.

[ubas18472]

Interesting but I'm glad that they went with the new animated series. I think they did an awesome job with that. Even the cgi movie was good.

[SWATLEADER911]

It only looks so bad coz our eyes are used to hd etc now, in 2001 this would of looked really good

[TheMartianOddity]

I think this looks good! With a better resolution I think it'd look decent.

[d4rkbru5t3r]

A CGI Turtle? mmmm....nop. Welll the 2007 movie wasn´t so bad.

[TheZarablade]

it's a good thing they didn't go with cgi back then, it looks pretty bad...

[TheSamuraiSai]

this crazy shitty and stupid

[bladeofbattousai]

Wow, I'm actually glad they didn't make this. And I've been a fan since the 80s.

[Bowmaj21]

It reminds me of an intro to a really bad PS1 game!

You know, the type of games that have a cool looking intro movie, but the in-game graphics looked nothing like it, and the gameplay sucks ass too!

[buttmunch109]

heck the turtles look good but april looks like lindsay lohan....... thats kindw wiers but its good cgi

[MakiaLink]

hmmmm...well, the animation is definately lacking...I think it would just be better to stick to cartooning for the ninja turtles in television.

You can accomplish more action and facial expressions that way, without them looking so bulky...I know the cgi idea was successfull during the movie but it seems so uncessessary for a kids tv show.

[YugiohRequestedDuels]

I think a lot of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fans would love to watch a new live action movie.

I hate all of this alien stuff.. It's so lame how they try to make it so swords and a staff can take on alien technology.. Return to the roots of the Foot Clan and the Karate styles.

[hurricanesofhell]

whats the music from 1:00 - 1:20

[LostHisMarbles]

Hmm the lower budget cgi stuff still has that sort of slow inorganic look to it, as well as there often being much less 'stuff' in scenes. I think cartoon style animation is still better till that's overcome anyway.

[cinderheart12]

Ummm Leo is driveing Leo never drive's werd

[Stinger2578]

I'm glad they waited till 2002/2003 to actually remake/reimagine the TMNT - it was a much better show than this would've been.

That one even mixed in cgi for some of the elements.

[CyraxMD]

animation of turtles looks ritarded, it cant be done better?

[Kensei1234]

It's actually very good for a pilot

[SonicSnail95]

i stopped at :40

...

jesus that hideous... i sure hope this is fake... if not... that means someone from a LEGIT STUDIO (you know, one with MONEY) actually TRIED and THIS wass the result... let me reiterate... this was them... TRYING....

[Mnwthoutfear]

It looks like they didn't completely finish the animation... or the writing.

[awefuckit]

In my opinion, CGI VS. Live Action.. which one is better? Ok, you have a plastic toy coke can, or you have a real fuckin coke. Nuff said. On another note, where's the Heart in this new tmnt movie? It has no depth, and its funny looking. If you agree, cool, if you dont and you hate me now look at the first 3 words in my comment

[psychedashell]

No hatred mate. But you're being a bit short sighted. This is a pilot, a mockup before they render and pretty it up, its a could be rather than a final result.

They obviously chose the 2003 animation instead, so this was never more than a 3-D version of a rough sketch.

I love the live action movies, but the live action telly shows were rubbish.

[awefuckit]

Got you, but im not talking about no plot, Im talking about the movie

[psychedashell]

I like the 2007 movie, I think it sits more with the comics than the 80s cartoon. I love that.

More Raphael the way he was meant to be. Angry and a loner.

I think there's plenty of love in the 2007 movie, they even got Mr Miyage(Karate Kid) to voice Splinter, if I had one complaint about the movie it would be the rubbish game that came with it.

[RobbyMac217]

Actually, Splinter was voiced by a man named Mako. Pat Morita died about a year before the movie was even released.

[SonicSnail95]

they actually got mako to voice splinter. mr. myagi was played by pat morita

[psychedashell]

Watch the dvd with commentary, I think their firts choice was Pat, and he actually sung the lullaby as the turtles are eating breakfast. I haven't seen it in a while, but I was sure that's what they said.

[Margui622]

@psychedashell : In 2007 TMNT movie Master Splinter was not voiced by Noriyuki "Pat" Morita (Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid) he was voiced by a Japanese actor named Mako.

[psychedashell]

@Margui622 Watch the commentary. For the most part you're right, but they did get Morita, the lullaby that Splinter is singing the morning after the turtle's reunion was a recording made just before his death.

[Margui622]

@psychedashell : I'm confused now, I own the 2007 TMNT . I'm going to watch the commentary. Pat Morita was great as Mr. Miyagi.

[JtMills]

I dont see how this can be real, the animation is way worse than it should be for 2001. Everyone is mentioning Beast Wars, and I used to watch that back in 1999 and the animation was 10X better than this. Even Beast Machines was over by 2001, I think. This looks fanmade, and the only reason I believe it is due to the voice over. Like seriously, Spider-Man the movie came out the following year. How is this animation possible for 2001?

[sonic10shadow]

could be better the look kinda bulky to me

[wangchow09]

what the fuck! 3:10 really, is that even possible?!

[ZeroB4NG]

Well i guess for 2001 it would have been good.

April looks way better in this vid then the one they put in the TMNT 2007 Movie, the humans looked unreal anyway.

[lmckay023]

TMNT got the beast wars treatment, but with one problem, beast wars looked like u could reach out and touch it and this looks like a opening for an early ps2 game

[iamstillhiro1112]

That's Cam Clarke once again voicing leonardo. The rest of the actors are new.

[a1x0]

I really like the way the fighting moves look, specially Don's first ones...

[ReL2TM]

looks like a combo,of thge 2003 series,and the old 90's version. i like the voices!

[Nicksolo85]

On Twitter, Mirage Studios posted a tweet linking to breaking news which indicated Nickelodeon acquired the rights to TMNT and they will be making a new CGI show.

It also indicated that Paramount Pictures will be [or already is] working on a new TMNT film.

[oddooddod]

Not terrible for television caliber CG in 2001.

[Tystarr2k2]

As bad as this looked April and Casey looked pretty good. But still, the CG in the movie makes this pilot look terrible!

[LadyBurori]

lol the foot have mushrooms on their heads xD

[MrDeppness]

This would have mad an awesome film. Wow!!!

[batmanownsyourass]

So glad they didn't make this. CGI looks shitty.

[Mitsuraga]

@batmanownsyourass

Dude, it's pretty clear that the animation sequences were incomplete, but yeah, it probably would have sucked. Ah, well. Not like it matters, now.

[TSHIVOisALIVEO]

@batmanownsyourass it isnt that bad, the animation good, it only lacks detail and some revamping, it looks shitty cuz its a pilot, they probly wouldve done alot better if the show got picked up

[batmanownsyourass]

@TSHIVOisALIVEO They did, 10 years later. It comes out on Nick next year.

[TSHIVOisALIVEO]

@batmanownsyourass haha oh shit, had no idea

[GaseousSnake420]

weaksause

[nearyoualways1988]

lol there's a hole in donnie's chest at 1:22

[Holyyoshi]

lol at master splinter

[yeseg92]

i would have watched this, i think it looks good for 2001

[obcessiongal48]

This looks funny n good but i like the version we have now!! much better n much more serious than this. plus shredder looks sooo stupid in this version!!

[badboy09480]

this just looks lame...nothing like the TMNT cartoons

[Metalix01]

while i agree this is very beast wars esqe this was merely the pilot im sure it would of had alot of polish on the animation. and personaly i think that it would of been worth watching

[soultronx10]

I know this was a while back, but this look pretty bad. Like worse that Beast Wars.

[free2fleewithme]

time to get the shell outta here

[MrSiesses]

wtf is this?

[RexStyles]

short, fat, stumpy... I am so not impressed

[lovegerardbutler1987]

"TURTLE POWER!" SMACK! "OW!"

LOL!

[Wh3nYour3Strang3]

That's some kickass music in the background.

[nypad5]

omg twin towers.

hur hur hur i think im gonna cry

[edenfire]

Man this looks liks shit. By 2001, they could have done A LOT better.

[bmumble]

i agree... but i wish the new movie looked more like this, character-wise.... at least these LOOK like the turtles...

[thewhochilipeppersU2]

april o'neil looks frie ky in this one and at 2:49 that look's just the same like a level in the 2003 video game thet I have.

[gearboxhpc]

it does look fan made but to be fair, it IS a pilot (aka rough draft). I'm happy to see that we got the 2003 cartoon as a result of this.

[NPChilla]

I'm actually glad this didn't get made - it looks so self-indulgent.

Still, at least the Turtles look likable in this video as opposed to the hideous ones in the current cartoon.

[bobbyhill19899]

imagine all the people being killed from the helicopter shooting the roof

[middledistanceproduc]

Now, this looks like the 'new' spiderman series, love the style of animation, great vid =]

[BandakaKush]

I wish this show got made into a series.

[Nicksolo85]

I welcome the idea of a TMNT cartoon aimed at adult audiences.

It should either be regularly animated or CGI.

I think that Shredder should have a costume similar to the one in this and the Foot Ninjas should have costumes similar [but not 100% precise] costumes to the ones from the 1st and 2nd live action TMNT movies.

To be honest, I think the turtles look better with their pupils showing when they have their masks on.

[amn1088]

Glad it didn't go 3d. Used to spend Saturday mornings at work watching the current series. Good times.

[Ryofire]

At least this included Shredder.

[thekidfan1]

it looks homemade

[Ryofire]

Yea I could see that.

[drummaster157]

this is cool i wouldve wacthed it

[wolfguy23]

so what happened to this, IceDemonz?

they decided to change it into the TMNT show that's owned by 4Kids?

[WalkingTiger]

Far better character designs than the show we *did* eventually get...  The TMNT's look far more muscular, Casey and April look *human*, not like beanpoles, and Splinter doesn't look freakish... All the martial arts look actually *realistic*, and overall the character designs look like you could really *see* them, rather than cartoons, like the show we did eventually get...

[wwef1234]

gotta say thats a cool logo

[metalhed247]

Does she say the F word @ 2:38?!

[Pumablues2525]

I have to say, I like Caseys design. It was one of the things I didn't like about the new turtles. He was too skinny. He should have been built. Casey without muscles is like Raph without a shell.

[mcmuffin315]

like 70% of this show was made into a cartoon show back when i was a kid

[luigifire101]

RED SHREDDER?

[DumbandDumber94]

CGI doesn't look that good

[turtlefansaskia]

Who's Making the song? DJ tiesto?

Sounds great!

[sonicspeed011]

Why didn't they make this?

[bjakabjs11]

"COWABUNG--!!"

"---HEY! we talked about that!"

[VasciousX]

The ending was hillarious!!!

"COWABUNG."

No we already talked about that!

[NPChilla]

Good job it wasn't made - it looks so self-indulgent.

[luigi370]

This show would've kicked ass.

[ExecuteRobot]

what's the name of that trailer-narrater guy who's in everything?

[elevadon]

don lafontain

[dragondisaster]

This show had so much potential, but I think they reused some ideas for the 2003 series

[tantrumania]

not some but all :)) this became a basis of the 2003 show..

[VoxHouseStudio]

I should add that the out of sync audio track doesn't help anything either.

[VoxHouseStudio]

The animation and designs may not be perfect but people seem to be overlooking the key word "PILOT" here.. Pilots are rarely as polished as the final product. To me the human characters in the recent movie suck ass and are far too reminiscent of rubber looking characters like the Incredibles.. I like the more realistic style chosen here. The weakest elements here were the non mo-capped animations, and the shader could have used a bit of tweaking probably as well as the expressions/faces.

[m4rkg1]

That can't be 2001 it's so low quality rendering

[TheInfoBlast]

DON LAFONTAINE!!!!

[SpaceManTez1015]

Wow...I'm suprised MTV didn't pick this up..Right up their alley...

[heine71]

Was this for the now gone Kids WB?

[CodyRicheson]

Haha, it looks like a cinematic sequence from an early PS2 game.

[Fike2308]

Totally.

[mikebud420]

is this for their latest movie or their latest series??? you can tell it's just a demo but i'm really curious.

[DeAthWaGer]

thank god you can read the "info" section. Put down the bong, bud.

[shayanrozikamran]

this should've been a movie!!

[yamiyugifangirl]

.........audio's off....that's all i got

[LonelyNovember]

Is it me or were half of the elements in this recycled for the 2003 show?

[orospucocugushizenn]

recycled :)

Could have been cool. It's kinda oldschoolish so I like it. Ofcourse needs way better graph