Rick & Morty Turn into Batman in New Grownup Swim Bumper

The cartoon duo of Rick & Morty certain do get round. During the last decade, the multiversal duo have develop into extraordinarily widespread, thanks partly to popping up in movies, live-action, video video games, and different forms of animation. The subsequent universe they’ve jumped to? None apart from the DC Animated Universe, type of.

Not too long ago, Grownup Swim launched a TV bumper that includes Rick and Morty within the type of the intro for Batman: The Animated Series. And it seems to be…fairly good, really? From begin to end, it actually commits to the bit as a lot as it may well in underneath a minute. Seeing Rick & Morty characters in a cleaner artwork type positively makes the present look extra distinct and attention-grabbing, ditto its theme when completed in Danny Elfman type.

The bumper was directed and govt produced by Aron Fromm (who already works for Grownup Swim as an editor on Smiling Mates) and animation studio Open the Portal. In an interview with Animation World Network, Fromm and OTP inventive director David Braun defined they’d met key BTAS author Paul Dini final 12 months at a screening of Fleischer cartoons. When Grownup Swim contracted them for a Rick & Morty promo, the duo went with the basic present partly as a result of it was “one of many greatest influences on our work,” mentioned Braun. “Many a person has tried and didn’t recapture the magic of the unique sequence, and we love a problem.”

Regardless of the way it could appear, the pair pressured this bumper is at present only a one-off and never some herald of one other Rick & Morty spinoff. Nonetheless, Fromm admitted he can simply think about an “elaborate and gothic” trailer for a hypothetical sequence, which he thinks may final a minimum of 40 episodes. Stranger issues have occurred, significantly on Batman’s finish, so perhaps don’t rule it out simply but.

You possibly can learn AWN’s full interview with Fromm and Braun, which additionally goes into nailing the bumper’s design and the evolution of animation, here.

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