Watch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ First Fight in ‘Mutant Mayhem’

Narrating the sequence, the director Jeff Rowe stated that it’s “the first time that we get to see them fight or be crime fighters in the way that the Ninja Turtles traditionally are. And we really wanted to make them not good at it upfront.”

The characters bumble round and take blows, however finally considerably discover their groove on this scene that makes use of the animation fashion itself as an example a number of the mayhem. The smoke, as an illustration, is 2-D animation positioned on prime of the 3-D animation to create a scribbled, hand-drawn high quality.

Rowe stated his crew seemed on the work of the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, finding out animation that concerned scratching on the movie adverse, in an effort to “create something that was chaotic and not traditionally beautiful in the animated sense.”

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